APS leadership has convened the March Meeting Task Force to examine how we can continue to provide optimal experiences for all participants, better respond to the emerging needs of various communities involved, address future growth, and connect people and speakers around the world.
Susan Coppersmith of the University of New South Wales and Barbara Jones of IBM Research - Almaden serve as Task Force Co-Chairs.
Throughout its existence, the APS March Meeting has continued to grow, largely organically, in size, complexity, and cost. Starting in 2017, attendance has increased at more than 10% per year. While this speaks to the success of the March Meeting, such growth has also created challenges. For example, the number of oral contributed sessions cannot easily be accommodated in most convention centers. Also, the growth of APS membership and its APS units, as well as the evolution of physics itself, has created increased demands for invited sessions. Together, these issues have created tension among the participating APS units.
In order to convene a must-attend meeting, provide optimal experiences for all participants, better respond to the emerging needs of the various communities involved (especially students and early-career scientists), address issues of future growth, and accommodate new technologies to connect people and speakers around the world, APS needs to open-mindedly examine a range of issues related to the March Meeting. Questions to be addressed include:
Susan Coppersmith
Co-Chair
University of Wisconsin /
University of New South Wales
DCMP, DQI, DSOFT, GSNP, PSAPS
Barbara Jones
Co-Chair
IBM Almaden
DBIO, DCMP, DCOMP, DMP, DQI, DSOFT, GMAG, FDI, FIAP, FWS
Pinar Akcora
Stevens Institute
DPOLY, SNYS
Scott Anderson
The University of Utah
DAMOP, DCP, DLS, S4CS
Daniel Arovas
University of California, San Diego
DCMP, SFW
Richard Averitt
University of California, San Diego
DCMP, DLS, DPB, FHP, FIAP
Kenneth Breuer
Brown University
DBIO, DFD, DSOFT
Kenneth Brown
Duke University
DAMOP, DQI, SESAPS
Todd Brun
University of Southern California
DAMOP, DQI, FEd, FHP, SFW
David Cahill
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
DMP
Lincoln Carr
Colorado School of Mines
DAMOP, DCMP, DCOMP, DCP, DFD, DQI, DSOFT, GSNP, FEd, S4CS
Patrick Charbonneau
Duke University
DCMP, DCP, DSOFT, GDS, GSNP
James Chelikowsky
The University of Texas at Austin
DCMP, DCOMP, DMP
Siu-Tat Chui
University of Delaware
SMAS
Brad Conrad
Society of Physics Students
DCMP, FECS, FEd, SESAPS, SMAS, SNES, SNYS
Daniel Cox
University of California, Davis
DBIO, DCMP, DCP, DPOLY, DSOFT, GPC, FDI, FIAP, FOEP, FPS, SFW
Michael Flatté
University of Iowa
DCMP, DLS, DMP, DQI, GMAG, FHP, FIAP, SPAPS
Krista Freeman
University of Pittsburgh
DBIO, FECS, FHP, FOEP, FPS, SOH
Margaret Gardel
University of Chicago
DBIO
Jason Gardner
Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory
FECS, FIP
Michael Gordon
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
FIAP, SNES
Stephen Hill
Florida State University
DCMP, DMP, GMAG, SESAPS
Michelle Johannes
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
DCOMP, DCP, DMP, GERA, GMAG
James Kakalios
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
DCMP, DMP, FEd, FIAP, FOEP, FPS, SNYS
Matt Kim
QuantTera
FECS, FEd, FIAP, SFW, SNYS, S4CS
Maria Longobardi
BAQIS
DCMP, GDS, GMAG, FECS, FIAP, FIP
Wolfgang Losert
University of Maryland, College Park
DBIO, DSOFT, GDS, GSNP, FEd, SMAS
Allan MacDonald
The University of Texas at Austin
DCMP, DLS, SNYS, STX
Cristina Marchetti
University of California, Santa Barbara
DBIO, DCMP, DPOLY, DSOFT, GSNP, FIP, FOEP, SNYS
Ernesto Marinero
Purdue University
DBIO, DCMP, DMP, DPOLY, GERA, GMAG, GMED, FIAP, SOH
Brad Marston
Brown University
DCMP, DFD, GPC, GSNP, FOEP, FPS, SNES
Laurie McNeil
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
DCMP, DMP, GPER, FDI, FEd, FPS, SESAPS
John Mitchell
Argonne National Laboratory
DCMP, DMP, GMAG, SPAS
Ilya Nemenman
Emory University
DBIO, GDS, GSNP, SESAPS
Ivan Oleynik
University of South Florida
DCMP, DCOMP, DCP, DMP, GSCCM, FIAP
Jesús Pando
DePaul University
FDI, FIP
Mark Pederson
The University of Texas at El Paso
DCMP, DCOMP, DCP, DMP, FEd, FIP, FOEP, SMAS
Dvora Perahia
Clemson University
DPOLY, DSOFT, GSNP, FPS
Stewart Prager
Princeton University
FPS
William Ratcliff
National Institute of Standards and Technology / University of Maryland, College Park
DCMP, DMP, GDS, GMAG, FIAP, SMAS
Jie Ren
Merck
DMP, DPOLY, DSOFT, GDS, GSNP, FECS, FIAP
Brian Schwartz
City University of New York
DCMP, DMP, FED, FHP, FIAP, FOEP, FPS
Annabella Selloni
Princeton University
DCMP, DCOMP, DCP, DMP
David Simmons
University of South Florida
DPOLY, DSOFT
Gary Slater
University of Ottawa
DBIO, DPOLY, DSOFT
Antoinette Taylor
Los Alamos National Laboratory
DLS, DMP, S4CS
Craig Taylor
Colorado School of Mines
GERA, FOEP, S4CS
Matthias Troyer
Microsoft
DCMP, DCOMP, DMP
Eric Weeks
Emory University
DCMP, DFD, DPOLY, DSOFT, GSNP, FDI, FEd, FOEP, SESAPS
Renata Wentzcovitch
Columbia University
DCMP, DCOMP, DCP, DMP, FIP, SNYS
Wojciech Zbijewski
Johns Hopkins University
GMED, FIAP
Timothy Zwier
Sandia National Laboratory
DCP, DLS
Hunter Clemens
Director of Meetings
Lee Bullis
Manager of the Executive Office