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First time at an AAPT meeting<br />
Welcome to the 2015 AAPT Winter Meeting in San Diego! Everyone at AAPT hopes you fulfill<br />
all the goals you have for attending this meeting. To help you plan your meeting activities, the<br />
following information and suggestions have been developed.<br />
• Being at your first National Meeting can be a lonely<br />
experience if you don’t know anyone. AAPT members<br />
are friendly people, so do not hesitate to introduce<br />
yourself to others in sessions and in the hallways. It<br />
is fun and rewarding to establish a network of other<br />
physics teachers with whom you can talk and share<br />
experiences. This is especially true during lunch and<br />
dinner.<br />
• Area Committee meetings are not only for members<br />
of the committee, but also for friends of the committee.<br />
You are welcome to attend any Area Committee<br />
meeting. You should be able to find one or two committees<br />
that match your interests. Their meeting times<br />
are listed on page <strong>14</strong> in this guide. Area Committee<br />
meetings are often relatively small and are a great<br />
place to meet other people with interests similar to<br />
yours.<br />
• Be sure to attend the First Timers’ Gathering from<br />
7–8 a.m. Sunday in Seabreeze 1-2. It is a wonderful<br />
way to learn more about the meeting and about AAPT.<br />
• Awards and other plenary sessions have distinguished<br />
speakers and are especially recommended. Invited<br />
speakers are experts in their fields and will have half<br />
an hour or more to discuss their subjects in some<br />
depth. Posters will be up all day and presenters will be<br />
available during the times indicated in the schedule.<br />
Contributed papers summarize work the presenters<br />
have been doing. You are encouraged to talk to presenters<br />
at the poster sessions or after the contributed<br />
paper sessions to gain more information about topics<br />
of interest to you. Informal discussion among those<br />
interested in the announced topic typically will follow<br />
a panel presentation, and Topical Discussions are<br />
entirely devoted to such discussions.<br />
• Be sure to make time to visit the exhibits in the Exhibit<br />
Hall in Harbor Island Ballroom. This is a great place to<br />
learn what textbooks and equipment are available in<br />
physics education.<br />
6<br />
WINTER MEETING<br />
JANUARY 3-6<br />
2015<br />
SAN DIEGO, CA
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