FPS Sessions at APS March Meeting 2016

March 14-18 • Baltimore, MD

Monday, March 14 • 2:30 p.m. (with History of Physics)

Session C14: The Author in Dialogue: Steven Weinberg's "To Explain the World"

Chair: Joe Martin, Michigan State University
Room: 310

Speakers: Steven Weinberg, Reflections of a Whig Physicist
Gerald Holton
F. Jamil Ragep, To Explain Copernicus: The Islamic Scientific and Religious Contexts
William Thomas, The Diagnosis of Error in Histories of Science
Jennifer Ouellette

Monday, March 14 • 2:30 p.m. (with Division of Biological Physics)

Session C55: The Physics of Epidemics

Chair: Walter Beyerler, Sandia National Laboratories
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6

Speakers: Victoria Davey, Mitigating Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Charles Macal
Timothy Lant
Michael Washington, What do Public Health Officials Expect from Modelers During a Response to an Epidemic or Outbreak?

Thursday, March 17 • 8:00 a.m. (with Division of Biological Physics)

Session R55: The War on Cancer: Physics Enters the Fray

Chair: Arian Pregenzer, Sandia National Laboratories
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6

Speakers: Anna D. Barker, Why is Physics Important to Cancer Research?
Robert Austin, Evolution, Physics, and Cancer: Disrupting Traditional Approaches
Krastan Blagoev, Physics Insights into the Nature and Structure of Cancer
Chris Adami, Information, Physics, and Cancer
Michael Graham Espey, The National Cancer Institute's Physical Sciences - Oncology Network

Thursday, March 17 • 11:15 a.m. (with History of Physics)

Session S14: The Iran Nuclear Deal: Physics, Physicists and the Historic Agreement

Chair: Micah Lowenthal, National Academy of Science Room: 310

Speakers: R. Scott Kemp
Ernest Moniz
Gotz Neuneck
Anton V. Khlopkov

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