2023 Día de la Física
(NSHP)
October 28th, 2023
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Portland State University
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General meeting sessions at SACNAS:
Thursday, Oct 26, 2023
1:45 – 3:00 PM PDT
All Hands on Deck! Bringing together different perspectives and disciplines to address ocean challenges and opportunities
Speaker(s): Eric Wade Alecia Septer Janet Nye Sarah Weisberg Melva Treviño-Peña Stephanie Caddell Lauren Zane Olivia Bonilla Mariah King Satya Sullivan
Heliophysics – a Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding our Solar System
Speaker(s): Robert Albarran Katherine Garcia-Sage Yeimy Rivera Juan Alonso Guzman
3:30 – 4:45 PM PDT
How to Navigate the Path from Community College to an Astrophysics Ph.D.
Speaker(s): Nicole Cabrera Salazar Miguel Montalvo Hernandez Kiersten Boley Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Advancing STEM in the area of Particle and Nuclear Physics
Speaker(s): Edmundo Garcia-Solis David Ernst Jethro Gaglione
organized by NSHP
Planetary Science Missions – an Interdisciplinary Approach to Exploring our Solar System
Speaker(s): Alexandra Matiella Novak Jorge Nunez Claudia Knez Delia Santiago-Materese
Friday, Oct 27. 2023
2:30-3:45 PM PDT
How we can win the clean energy revolution using Chemistry, Materials Science, and Physics
Speaker(s): Mario Borunda Yolanda Vasquez Luz J. Martinez-Miranda
organized by NSHP
4:15 – 5:30 PM PDT
STEM Workforce Training at DOE National Laboratories
Speaker(s): Brandi Toliver Igor Slowing
It takes a village to unlock the Universe: a spectrum of contributions to multi-messenger astrophysics with gravitational waves
Speaker(s): María José Bustamante-Rosell Emmanuel Fonseca Carmen Menoni Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz Corey Gray
Agenda for Día de la Física
2023 Día de la Física
all times Pacific Daylight Time
Saturday
October 28, 2023
8:00 a.m – 4:30 p.m.
PROGRAM
8:00-8:25 meet at Convention Center – locate green PSU umbrellas with PSU Physics graduate student guides
8:10 group-1 board MAX Green Line @ Convention Center
8:29 group-1 exit MAX train @ PSU (SW Mill) walk to Hoffmann Hall
8:30 goup-2 board MAX Green Line @ Convention Center
8:53 group-2 exit MAX train @ PSU (SW Mill) walk to Hoffmann Hall
MORNING SESSION IN HOFFMANN HALL – Portland State University
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome & Breakfast: NSHP Organizers & Portland State leadership
9:30– 9:50 Plenary Talk I – Dr. Mario Diaz, UTRGV
A Time Domain Astronomy STEM ecosystem in South Texas
9:50 – 10:10 Plenary Talk II – Dr. Steve Villanueva, NASA
10:10 – 10:30 Plenary Talk III – Corey Gray, LIGO
A Gravitational Wave Runs Through It
10:30 – 10:50 Plenary Talk IV – Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Director of the Office of Science, DOE
10:50 – 11:05 Break
11:05 – 11:25 Plenary Talk V – Dr. Andres La Rosa, PSU
My scientific journey driven by curiosity
Near-field Acousto Characterization of mesoscopic fluids
11:25 –11:45 Plenary Talk VI – Dr. Erik Sánchez, PSU
Developing Affordable Research Tools in Physics at PSU
11:45 –12:05 Plenary Talk VII – Dr. Jay Nadeau, PSU
Small, Sparse, Sluggish, and Strange—the Challenges of Imaging Extraterrestrial Life
12:05 – 12:25– Deanna Marshall, AIP/SPS representative and Dr. Paola Rodriguez Hidalgo, Physics & Astronomy REU representative
12:25 – 1:00 Lunch
Lunch served in large foyer area of Hoffmann Hall
12:50-1:00 Group Assignments and Schedule Explanation
AFTERNOON SESSION IN SCIENCE RESEARCH & TEACHING CENTER
1:00 – 4:00
Participants will be divided into groups that will visit physics laboratories at Portland State University and also engage in three parallel sessions. Participants will also be able to visit our sponsors in the exhibit area to talk about URE and graduate school opportunities.
Parallel Sessions
- Applying to REUs
- Preparing for Grad School
- Meet the NSHP Board
4:00- 4:15 Group Picture
4:15- 4:30 Closing Remarks
4:30 Return to Convention Center