Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
University of Southern California
January 19-20, 2008

Conference Schedule

Saturday January 19, 2008

9:30 am - Breakfast & Registration (SLH 100)

Morning Session

• 10:00 am - Welcome & Introductions
• 10:30 am - Keynote Address (Video Conference) - Mildred Dresselhaus, MIT (HNB 100)
• 12:00 pm - Trapping Atoms with Light: From Pinholes to Quantum Computers - Katharina Gillen, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

1:00 pm - Lunch (Upstairs Commons)

Afternoon Session (SLH 100)

• 2:00 pm - Career Panel
  • Jason Thalken, Sr Business Analyst, Countrywide Bank
  • Michelle Povinelli, Stanford University
  • Steven Byers, Pillsbury Law

• 3:30 pm - Lab Tours
• 4:45 pm - Break
  
• 5:00 pm - Novel Physics with Ultracold Fermions - Doerte Blume, Washington State University
  

6:30 pm - Dinner (Davidson Confernce Center)

Sunday January 20, 2008

9:00 am - Breakfast (SLH 100)

Morning Session (SLH 100)

• 9:30 am - From Physics to Nanophotonics - Michelle Povinelli, Stanford University
  
• 10:30 am - Break
• 10:45 am - Student Research Talks
  

12:00 pm - Lunch (Tommy's Place)

Afternoon Session (SLH 100)

• 1:00 pm - Women in Physics - Amy Cassidy, University of Southern California
  
• 2:15 pm - Physics-ly Female: A Woman's Guide to Physics Grad School - Bonna Newman, MIT
• 3:15 pm - Break
• 3:30 pm - Two-Time Physics: The Unified View from Higher Dimensional Space and Time - Itzhak Bars, University of Southern California
  
• 4:30-5:00 pm - Closing & Evaluations

All sessions will take place in SLH 100, unless another location is noted.
Tommy's Place is in the basement of Toppings Student Center.