MAAPT SPRING Meeting 2006

APRIL 29, HAMLINE UNIVERSITY, ST. PAUL

This MAAPT meeting will be held in room 11 of the Robbins Science Center, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota. A campus map, driving directions, and a list of local hotels and restaurants can be found at http://www.hamline.edu/visitors/index.html by clicking on the appropriate links in the upper left corner. Since it is a weekend, attendees may park in any lot, even those that say "permit required."

For lunch, we will go through the regular line in the cafeteria. The cost will be $6 per person. The business meeting will be held immediately after lunch.

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PROGRAM

7:45 – 8:15 Coffee and Registration

8:15 – 8:30 Physics Accreditation for Science Educators at Hamline University

Andy Rundquist, Hamline University

8:30 – 8:45 Implementation, Analysis, and Assessment of On-Line Teaching Evaluations

Jerry L. Artz and Andy R. Rundquist, Hamline University

8:45 – 9:00 Nitrogen and Noble Gas Content in Solar Wind Samples from the Genesis Spacecraft

Jacob Simones* and Russell Palma, Minnesota State University, Mankato

9:00 – 9:15 Surface Analysis of Genesis Spacecraft Samples

Jeffrey Burkett* and Russell Palma, Minnesota State University, Mankato

9:15 – 9:30 Simulating Bragg Diffraction

Morgan LaMoore* and Brian Batell, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

9:30 – 9:45 TITLE

Tim Young, University of North Dakota and David DeMuth, University of Minnesota, Crookston

9:45 – 10:00 The UMM Maser Monitoring Program

Gordon McIntosh, Anne Hayes, and Gustav Rustan, University of Minnesota, Morris

10:00 – 10:45 Coffee break and poster session

Refurbishing a Homebuilt Langmuir Film-Balance

Erik T. Lundberg*, Benjamin L. Stottrup, Augsburg College

Correlation of R Cassiopeia's Silicon Monoxide Maser Properties

Anne Hayes* and Gordon McIntosh, University of Minnesota, Morris

Determining the Orbital Period of R Aquarii

Gustav Rustan* and Gordon McIntosh, University of Minnesota, Morris

Astronomical Imaging of Variable Stars - Instrumentation and Calibration

Ryan Kalmoe* and Kristin Kearns, University of Minnesota, Morris

Serious Games and CyberCamp 2006

Pete Border, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and David DeMuth, University of Minnesota, Crookston

10:45 – 11:05 Promoting Women's Participation in Physics

Invited presentation, Laura McCullough, University of Wisconsin, Stout

11:05 – 11:25 Networking and mentoring women in physics: Local approaches to a universal challenge

Invited presentation, Melissa Eblen-Zayas, Carleton College

11:25 – 11:45 Cracker-barrel discussion on the recruitment, retention, graduation of women in physics departments

11:45 – 12:00 Interfacing and establishing a lab station for optoelectronic measurements of OLEDs.

Steven K. Besser* and Hai-Sheng Wu, Minnesota State University, Mankato

12:00 – 12:15 Study of the magnetic susceptibility in intermediate-valence materials

Eric Raymer*, Katheryna Tykhanska and Igor Kogoutiouk, Minnesota State Univ.,

Mankato

12:15 – 12:30 Using the Audio Input for Data-Taking in an Online Physics Lab

Pete Border, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch and business meeting