The APS March 2016 meeting will be held March 14-18 in Baltimore, Maryland.

FOEP Invited Session, APS 2016 - Baltimore

Session ID: L34
Room: 337

• How to interact with Congress about science by Raymond L. Orbach
• How to organize a World Renowned Science Festival by Marc Schulman
• How to write a scientist based biography for the public by Joel Shurkin
• How Physics World reaches out in a digital age by Matin Durrani
• Physics in a Brewery by Jérémie Palacci

March Meeting 2016

What: Staged reading of the new science play No No Nobel by the playwright and science historian David Cassidy

When: The APS March meeting in Baltimore on Wednesday March 16 at 8 p.m.

Where: At the APS Conference Hotel, exact room location will be listed in the APS Bulletin

Who: The reading will be performed by the Baltimore Improv Group

Sponsors: The Forum on the History of Physics and the Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public

Produced by: Brian Schwartz, Brooklyn College and the Gradate Center of the City University of New York

Synopsis:

In Biology, what discovery is considered the most important breakthrough of the 20th century?

In Chemistry, what pattern development enabled chemists and physicists to understand the nature of and ultimately the atomic physics of the elements?

In Physics, what experiment and theory in nuclear physics led to the most important journalistic story of the 20th century?

In Cosmology, what theory was developed that enabled the understanding of the now named Big Bang theory and the evolution of the universe?

In Science Education, what graduate student made a most important observation and ultimate the identification of a remnant of a supernova explosion?

Attend the staged reading of the play No No Nobel and find out what unifies all the above questions.

A talkback with the playwright David Cassidy and the director, Mike Harris will follow the performance.