TWENTY THIRD ANNUAL
SUMMER PHYSICS INSTITUTE
BATES COLLEGE
JULY 25-30, 2010

Sunday July 25

3:00 - 5:00 Check in at Adams Hall [1]
5:45 - 6:45 Dinner at Commons [2]
7:00 (339Carnegie) Introductions, program overview,, Ice breaker [3]

Monday July 26

8:00 - 8:15 Home room (announcements, concerns, etc) (339 Carnegie) [4]
8:15 - 9::00 biographies [(Oppenheimer, groves, Teller [5]
9:00 - 11:45 Ralph, the Showman, Part 1 [6]
1:00 - 4:00 A guest, Renee (Coombs) Sweeney introduces us to simulations [7]
7:00 - 8:30 Uncle Mike solves your favorite problem [8]

Tuesday July 27

8:00 - 8:15 Home room (announcements, concerns, etc)
8:15 - 9:00 Biographies Seaborg, Lawrence,, Glaser
9:00 - 11:45 Mikey part deux
!:00 - 4:00 Earl's show & tell [12]
6:00 - 8:30 Silent auction [13]

Wednesday July 28

8:00 - 8:15 Home room (announcements, concerns, etc)
8:15 - 9:00 Biographies (Meitner Hahn, Strassman, Frisch, Fermi
9:00 - 11:45 Bernhardt I [ 11]
1:00 - 4:00 Bernhardt II
7:00- 8:30 Bernhardt III

Thursday July 29
8:00 - 8:15 Home room (announcements, concerns, etc)
8:15 - 9:00 Biographies (Becquerel, the Curies, Chadwick)
9:00 - 11:45 Ralph returns
12:30 2:00 Travel to Newport
2:00 - 5:00 Visit Evolo, a company dealing in wind power and photovoltaics [9]
6:00 Dinner at Lobster Trap in Winslow [10]

Friday July 30

8:00 - 8:15 Home room (announcements, concerns, etc)
8:15 - 9:00 Biographies (Urey, Feynman, SZilard
9:00 - 11:30 Mikey's last problem

 

 

 

These annotations accompany the numbers in boxes [0]

[1] See the map at http://www.bates.edu/wentworth-adams-hall.xml We check in at building #74
Wentworth Adams
[2] A short walk from Adams

[3] Something to get you thinking
[4] If you miss breakfast, coffee & muffins arrive at 9 AM.
[5] Participants are asked to prepare a biography of an assigned Scientist
[6] Ralph started his teaching career when Kennedy was President.
[7] Presented by Renee Sweeney, a teacher from Westfield MA
[8] Problem solving techniques
[9] A start-up company worth seeing
[10] e think the "Trap" will satisfy every palate
[11] We are happy to present Dr. George Bernhardt of UMO
[12] Earl retired from teaching this year . He will describe to you certain artifacts that he plans to give away at auction the evening
[13] Every boy gets $200 in " Earl bucks" to spend on some good stuff

 

Note A This agenda does not show break time.
Note B Every evening we adjourn to the dorm for refreshments. While there is no charge for snacks, a $10 fee is charged for ice to keep things cold.