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APS‐AAPT meet in New York

JAN 01, 1971
Both society’s schedules include an increased number of papers at the joint meeting next month. Sessions on the future of physics and on funding will be featured.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3022512

Marian S. Rothenberg

More papers are scheduled for the joint American Physical Society—American Association of Physics Teachers meeting in New York this year than for each of the two previous meetings. The meeting, to be held 1–4 February at the New York Hilton, will probably be better attended than its organizers originally expected; if the number of contributed papers is any guide to attendance, then cuts in funds will probably not keep as many physicists from participating as was earlier believed. According to William W. Havens Jr, executive secretary of the APS, a rush of contributed‐paper abstracts descended on the APS office at the deadline date.

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Marian S. Rothenberg. PHYSICS TODAY.

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