Preview: the New York meeting

Applications of physics and new directions in teaching—these are the emphases in the joint meeting of The American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers. The four‐day meeting, which takes place from Monday 29 January through Thursday 1 February in New York, will include APS sessions on air quality, transistors (organized with the Society of Physics Students), laser fusion, air–sea interactions, nuclear physics in medicine, technological perspectives for solid‐state physics, applications of solid‐state physics, and liquid crystals; AAPT has scheduled sessions on computers in physics teaching, multimedia teaching, new programs for two‐year colleges, critiques of and improvements on the Keller plan, and outstanding new programs in secondary schools. And the two societies are jointly sponsoring a discussion of those parts of the “Bromley report” the report of the National Academy of sciences Physics Survey Committee) that deal with general education, as well as a session on nonprofessional courses that relate physics and society.