AN OPEN WORLD OF PHYSICS



SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2001



HARRIMAN HALL, SUNY STONY BROOK



PROGRAM

8:30 - 9:00 Pastry and Bagels
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome
9:10-10:05 Maurice Goldhaber
(BNL)
A Closer Look at the Elementary Fermions
10:05-11:00 Michael Nieto
(Los Alamos)
Pioneer 10: From the Mass of the Photon to its Acceleration Anomaly
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:25 Wit Busza (MIT) Colliding Nuclei at Ultra-relativistic Velocities
12:30-2:00 Lunch
(Student Activities Center)
2:05-3:00 Jainendra Jain
(Penn State)
The Story of Fractional Charge in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
3:00-3:55 David Goldhaber-Gordon
(Stanford)
Interference and Spin in Quantum Dots
3:55-4:25 Coffee and Cookies
4:25-5:20 Alan Guth (MIT) Inflation and the Accelerating Universe
5:20-5:30 Closing
6:00 Dinner
(Student Activities Center)


DINNER

The celebration continues with cocktails and dinner at the Student Activities Center, starting at 6:00.


REGISTRATION

Please register as soon as possible, so that we may make arrangements with the caterers. This can be done simply by notifying us by email at matesich@insti.physics.sunysb.edu. We will try to accomodate all interested participants, but we request you to register by October 1.

A registration fee of $85 is payable by cash or check. Checks should be made out to SBF 284100, and mailed, as soon as it is convenient, but in any case to arrive by October 1, to

Open World of Physics
C.N. Yang Inst. for Theoretical Physics
SUNY, Stony Brook 11794-3840
Attn: Doreen Matesich

We regret that we will be unable to accept credit cards. Tickets for the evening program alone will be available at $60 (checks to SBF 284100), and should be purchased through the above address by October 1. If you can't come to the evening program, but would like to join us for the conference, lunch and breaks, the registration is $25.


LODGING INFORMATION

We have reserved a block of rooms at the Holiday Inn Express, Setauket, NY (631-471-8000, or 800-HOLIDAY). Please make your reservations early. For questions about other arrangements, please feel free to inquire from the organizers at matesich@insti.physics.sunysb.edu.


GETTING HERE

Any participant who has questions about, or needs, local transportation, should get in touch with the organizers as early as possible, by email, at matesich@insti.physics.sunysb.edu.

Link for Directions to the Stony Brook Campus

Direct link to Campus Map
Harriman Hall and the Student Activities Center are in squares D4 and D5. Because October 7 is a Sunday, parking should be readily available at the nearby lots in squares C4 and C5 of the map.