Ontario Association of Physics Teachers Annual Conference 22 - 24 May 2003   Conference Program Thursday 22 May 2003 3:00 - 7:00 Registration Lobby of Elgin Hall 5:30 - 6:45 Barbecue Grad Club Patio, Middlesex College 7:00 - 9:00 Workshops Click here for details of the Workshops 9:00 pm Dan Falk The Quest for the Theory of Everything PAB Room 123   Friday Morning 23 May 2003 7:30 - 8:45 Breakfast Elgin Hall 8:00 - 1:00 Exhibits Physics & Astronomy Room 123 9:00 - 1:00 pm Poster Session Walls of the Physics Building Session One --- Physics & Astronomy Room 137 --- Chair: Richard Holt 9:00 - 9:05 Welcome Vida Ghaem-Maghami, President, OAPT 9:05 - 9:10 Welcome Michael Owen, Associate Dean, Faculty of Science. 9:10 - 10:00 Jerry Battista What's a nice Physicist like you doing in a hospital? 10:00 - 10:15 Blaine Chronik Neat Examples from Medical Physics 10:15 - 11:00 Exhibits & Refreshments Physics & Astronomy Room 123 Session Two  --- Physics & Astronomy Room 137 --- Chair: John Landstreet 11:00 - 11:15 Raymond Kennedy An ISU that lasts the whole Semester 11:15 - Noon Aaron Fenster Medical Imaging in 3-Dimensions and Higher Noon - 1:30 Lunch Campus Cafeterias Noon - 1:30 OAPT Executive Meeting PAB 123C 1:30 - 4:30 Tours Click here for details of the Tours 6:00 - 6:30 Banquet Reception Elgin Hall 6:30 - 8:00 Banquet Elgin Hall 8:00 - 9:00 Banquet Speakers David and Jean Surry 9:00 Observatory Cronyn Observatory   Saturday 24 May 2003 7:30 - 8:45 am Breakfast Elgin Hall Session Three --- Physics & Astronomy Room 137 --- Chair: Aaron Sigut 9:00 - 9:05 Welcome Michael Cottam, Chair, Physics & Astronomy 9:05 - 9:55 Pedro Goldman Physics Education in Canada 9:55 - 10:05 Ernie McFarland & Tom Kehn Seeing Infra Red 10:10 - 10:25 Glenn Wagner The Force Concept Inventory 10:25 - 10:30 William Smith UOIT welcomes OAPT in 2004 10:30 - 10:55 Refreshments   Session Four --- Physics & Astronomy Room 137 --- Chair: Jeff Hutter 10:55 - 11:25 Richard Epp Underpinnings of Relativity & Quantum Physics 11:25 - 12:15 John Twelves The Physics of Law Enforcement: Analysis of Traffic Accidents 12:15 - 1:30 pm Lunch Elgin Hall Session Five --- Physics & Astronomy Room 137 --- Chair: Ernie McFarland 1:30 - 2:00 Shawn Bulloch Conceptual Physics 2:00 - 2:15 William Dykshoorn Simulating Physics Using Computers 2:15 - 2:30 Bernard Conway Measuring the Marathon 2:30 - 2:45 George Argenti Tribes 2:45 - 3:05 Joanne O'Meara What can I do with a Physics Degree? 3:05 - 3:45 Jim Hunt Kinematic Illusions and the Precedents of Motion Pictures 3:45 - 4:00 The Great Give-Away   4:00 Patrick Whippey Thank you for coming.

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