U.S.A.

For further information related to American events, contact the Coordinator:
 Mr. Vinaya Sathyasheelappa
American Physical Society
One Physics Ellipse, College Park
MD 20740, USA
Email: sathyash@aps.org

Useful links:
www.physics2005.org
SPS Planning Festivities for 2005 WYP
www.physics.niu.edu/~frontier
www.aapt.org
www.pira.nu
www.physics2005.org/events/einsteinathome/index.html
www.geocities.com/musesreview/contest2.html

Events:

  • Einstein@Home
    Search the galaxy for pulsars. By downloading a fun and educational screen saver, you can contribute to gravitational wave research and help physicists analyze real gravity wave data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).

  • Physics on the Road
    Universities and museums around the country will be expanding their touring programs in 2005. They'll have special Einstein content and you can track which programs are visiting your area through this website.

  • Physics Enlightens the World
    In the World Year of Physics 2005 as many people as possible should get the feeling to be part of a great physics community spanning the whole globe. "Physics enlightens the world" is an endeavour to achieve just that: A world-wide relay of light to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Albert Einstein's death on April 18, 2005.

  • Physics Across the World
    International Poster Competition A poster competition for students aged 10 - 16 years to mark the World Year of Physics in 2005. Students can create their own colourful posters to show how physics applications makes their lives better and has a positive impact on their everyday lives.

  • AIP, SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma events
    The American Institute of Physics is celebrating the World Year of Physics in a number of ways through its student organization The Society of Physics Students and the physics honor society, Sigma Pi Sigma. Join in the fun with physics undergraduates at your local college campus as they sponsor science demonstration events or see what's cooking on the newest AIP History Center website. Click here for more information on Sigma Pi Sigma and the American Institute of Physics.

  • Einstein: the man and his legacy
    Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Einstein's "Miracle Year" Saturday & Sunday October 22 - 23, 2005 at the New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York City.
    Join astronomer ANDREW FRAKNOI and physicist ALAN FRIEDMAN for an illustrated
    weekend-long exploration of Einstein's astonishing concepts of space, time, and the atom. The emphasis is on ideas, not equations. Astronomical images from Earth and space, and science demonstrations complement the lectures.
    No prior knowledge about science is required.The presenters specialize in explaining abstract concepts in everyday language. The fee is $95 for the two-day program, and includes a resource guide to the best science and fiction books about Einstein's work.
    For more information and to register, go to the course web site:
    www.nyscience.org/einstein or call (718) 699-0005 ext. 338.
    This program is co-sponsored by the New York Hall of Science, The New York Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library and The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library.

Classroom Projects

  • Reduced Gravity Experiments
    High School Teachers, Research in Freefall with NASA Climb aboard NASA's flying, reduced-gravity laboratory and run your high school classroom's physics experiment.

  • PhysicsQuest
    In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's 'miraculous year' of 1905, and coincidentally, also the 50th anniversary of his death in 1955, APS invites middle school students from all across the United States to solve a mystery. The solution to that mystery reveals the location of a treasure somewhere in Princeton, NJ where Einstein taught and continued to do research for the last 23 years of his life. Can your class solve the mystery?

  • Measure the Earth with Shadows
    Eratosthenes first measured the diameter of the Earth with an ingenious technique using just sticks, shadows and a little mathematics. Now students, collaborating with others in distant schools, will combine their efforts to recreate this experiment on the largest scale ever attempted.

  • United States Physics Talent Search
    Are you the next Einstein? You never know without trying! To start, why not participate in the WYP 2005 Physics Talent Search? You can earn Talent Search points by visiting a physics lab, making a poster, writing a play, or doing a physics experiment in your school's science fair. If you earn 10 points, you earn the right to be called a "United States Physics Talent." For more points, who knows? You might become one of the United States "Physics Young Ambassadors.

Events in McNeese State University in Lake Charles LA

  • Super Science Saturday for middle school children April 16, 2005 with a Physics Theme celebrating Einstein's contributions. We are also have 2 WYP 2005 events on Thursday, May 5th.

  • Open House in our Physics Dept. during the day

  • speaker and reception that night. The talk is entitled..."The Wider
    Contributions of Einstein and Art, Culture, and Society."

  • for more informations, contact Pr. Joan Vallee
    Email: jvallee@mail.mcneese.edu • tel: 337 475-578