Cosmology, Strings, and Particle Physics

For more than thirty years the New York State Section of the American Physical Society has been organizing semi-annual symposia on timely topics in Physics, intended for the non-specialist. The Fall 2000 symposium will be held at the State University of New York at Buffalo: past symposia were held at SUNY at Buffalo in 1974, 1981, 1987, and 1993.

The format of the meeting will consist of three one-half day sessions devoted to each of the three topics, Cosmology, Strings, and Particle Physics. In each session we plan to have one introductory/tutorial talk, to be followed by several topical talks.

The symposium, jointly sponsored by Buffalo State College and the University at Buffalo, will be held on a Friday afternoon and all day Saturday in an academic setting on the suburban Amherst North Campus of SUNY at Buffalo, which is a short ten-minute drive from Buffalo International Airport and 12 miles from scenic Niagara Falls. The fall colors are expected to be at their best driving to and from Buffalo on Interstate 90 or the Queen Elizabeth Way in late October. Convenient accomodations with a range of prices will be available at the Buffalo Marriott and several other motels clustered around the Maple Road entrance to the Amherst Campus.

Further details will be provided in the first bulletin, which will be mailed in early May.

The conference intends to attract specialists and non-specialists, including students at the graduate and undergraduate level. Financial assistance will be available to help students attend the symposium.

TALKS ONLINE

SPEAKER	TITLE	TRANSPARENCIES / SLIDES
Persis Drell, Cornell	The Compelling Questions of Particle Physics and what the Future Holds	POWERPOINT
Gia Dvali, New York University	Gravity in Infinite Volume Extra Dimensions	GZIPPED PS,    PDF
Eanna Flanagan, Cornell	The accelerating Universe: theory and observations	GZIPPED PS,    PDF
Laurie Littenberg, Brookhaven	CP-Violation in Rare Kaon Decay	GZIPPED PS,    PDF
David Lowe, Brown	Strings and Black Holes	POWERPOINT
Steve Manly, Rochester	First results from the relativistic heavy ion collider program	GZIPPED PS,    PDF
Ue-Li Pen, Toronto	The case for dark matter in cosmology	POWERPOINT
Judith Pipher, Rochester	A Window on Cosmic Birth: Exploring our Origins with the SIRTF and NGST Space Missions	POWERPOINT
Cyrus Taylor, Case Western	An Introduction to String Theory	GZIPPED PS,    PDF
Mark Trodden, Syracuse	Large Extra Dimensions : Concepts, Constraints and New Directions	HTML SLIDESHOW
Frank Wolfs, Brookhaven	Evolution of the Universe	POWERPOINT
Eric Zimmerman, Columbia	Our Current Understanding of Mass and Mixing in the Neutrino Sector	GZIPPED PS,    PDF

POSTERS:

NYS-APS members may submit posters on topics of the symposium. Poster presenters please alert the local committee in advance of your intention to submit a poster contribution.

LOCAL COMMITTEE:

Ulrich Baur, Physics, University at Buffalo; Richard Gonsalves, Chairperson of Physics, University at Buffalo; Michael DeMarco, Physics, Buffalo State College. Patricia Meider / Marlene Kowalski, Secretaries, Physics Department, University at Buffalo.

NYS SECTION APS OFFICERS:

Chair Rich Galik; Vice-Chair Gianfranco Vidali; Secretary/Treasurer Carl Shepard; Council Advisor Carolyn MacDonald.
Executive Committee: Phil Batson, Steve Duclos, Enrique Galvez, Sean Gavin, Dan Hays, Jim Napolitano, Jay Newman, Stacie Nunes, James Owens, Robert Pompi, William Standish.

LOCATION:

All sessions will be held a University at Buffalo Amherst Campus, in Knox Hall Room 20. Directions to Amherst and a campus map will be mailed with Registration confirmation.

ACCOMODATIONS:

	# of Rooms	Price	Release Date
Buffalo/Niagara Marriott 1340 Millersport Highway Amherst, NY (716) 689-6900	10 Rooms	$89.00	9/29/00
Holiday Inn Hotels of Buffalo 1881 Niagara Falls Blvd. Amherst, NY (716) 691-8181	15 Rooms	$109.00	9/21/00
Motel 6 4400 Maple Road Amherst, NY (716) 834-2231	10 Rooms	$40.00	10/1/00
Hampton Inn Buffalo/Amherst 10 Flint Road Amherst, NY (716) 689-4414	10 Rooms	$69.00	9/18/00

PARKING:

A parking sticker will be mailed with the registration confirmation. Parking areas will be indicated on the map accompanying confirmation.

SOCIAL HOUR:

A social hour will be held in the banquet room of the Marriott Hotel from 6:00 - 7:00 pm. A cash bar will be provided.

BANQUET:

A banquet will follow in Ball Room 1,2,3. Please see the registration form and check your meal choice and pay the appropriate fee.

REGISTRATION FORM:

PDF Format: registration.pdf.

Please complete and mail with check made payable to "APS-NYSS" to

Pat Meider or
Marlene Kowalski
Department of Physics
SUNY at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-1500