Plenary Talks

Three exciting plenary sessions are planned for the APS April Meeting. There will be three talks by prominent speakers in each plenary session.

Plenary Session I: Kavli Foundation Session

100 Years of Cosmic Ray Physics
Saturday, March 31
8:30 p.m. - 10:18 a.m.
Regency Ballroom VI-VII

History of Cosmic Ray Physics
Alan Watson (University of Leeds)

Plasma Physics of Cosmic Rays
Ellen Zweibel (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

AMS and Cosmic Rays
Sam Ting (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Plenary Session II: 2011 Nobel Prize Session

Monday, April 2
8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Regency Ballroom VI-VII

2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Saul Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Adam Riess (Johns Hopkins University)

2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Frank Wilczek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Plenary Session III

Tuesday, April 3
8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Regency Ballroom VI-VII

The Most Liquid Liquids
Krishna Rajagopal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Global Groundwater
Zheng-Tian Lu (Argonne National Laboratory)

Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project
Judith Curry (Georgia Institute of Technology)