Speakers have been set for the plenary lectures at the 2009 APS April Meeting, which, despite its name, will be held May 2-5 in Denver, Colorado. The theme of the 2009 April Meeting is “New Eyes on the Universe: 400 Years of Telescopes.” The plenary lectures will be exciting and informative, featuring a broad range of distinguished speakers.
APS 2009 April Meeting
Saturday, May 2
8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Peter Michelson, Stanford University,
First results from Fermi/GLAST Kent Paschke, University of Virginia,
What have we learned using the CEBAF microscope to study hadronic matter? Joan Centrella, NASA/Goddard,
Merging black holes Monday, May 4
8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Alexander Zholent, LBNL,
Next generation microscopes for the study of matter Robert Rosner, Argonne National Laboratory,
Nuclear Energy Richard Muller, University of California, Berkeley,
A physicist evaluates the terrorist threat Tuesday, May 5
8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Paris Sphicas, University of Athens, Greece,
The LHC James Cronin, University of Chicago,
Nature’s highest energy messenger: Pierre Auger Observatory Raymond Fonck, University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Recent Highlights in Plasma Physics on the Path to ITER