Tuesday
Conference Reception
A reception will be held in the Wexner Center for the Arts from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be served. This will be free to conference attendees and their accompanying persons. You will have time to visit with old friends and explore The Ohio State University's center for the contemporary arts. The mission of the Wexner Center is to present the leading edge of the arts of our time...and to encourage the creation of daring new works for the future.
Wednesday
Ohio Amish Tour
A trip to one of the largest Amish settlements in the United States. The tour will depart from Holiday Inn on the Lane at 7:00 AM and return at approximately 6:00 PM. The cost is $48.00.
Town Meeting
Wednesday, August 9 at 7:30 P.M. at McPherson Lab room 1000.
HEPAP is organizing a town meeting to discuss the future of HEP in US.
The meeting will commence with the following five 15-minute presentations:
| Fred Gilman (Carnegie Mellon University): | HEPAP Planning Process |
| Mike Turner (University of Chicago): | NRC Committee on Physics of the Universe |
| Jonathan Dorfan (SLAC): | Perspectives on the Future of HEP |
| Maury Tigner (Cornell University): | Perspectives on the Future of HEP |
| Mike Witherell (Fermilab): | Perspectives on the Future of HEP |
Thursday
Tour and Lunch in Worthington, Ohio
A tour of Worthington, a historic suburb of Columbus. The tour will depart from the Holiday Inn on the Lane at 10:30 AM and return at approximately 3:00 PM. The cost is $30.00.
Conference Dinner
The conference dinner will be held at the Center of Science and Industry (COSI) in downtown Columbus. The architect of the newly-rebuilt COSI, Arata Isozaki, best known in the United States for his museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, describes COSI as one-half "tradition and past" the other half "innovation and the future." Bus pickup for COSI will be on North College Road across from the Arps parking garage. The first bus will depart for COSI at 5:30 PM and the last bus at 6:00 PM. On the return trip, the last bus will depart at 10:00 PM from COSI to the campus area. The cost of the dinner and transportation is included in the registration fee.
Friday
Longaberger Company Tour
Visit the world's largest manufacturer of handmade, hardwood, maple baskets in the United States. The tour will depart from Holiday Inn on the Lane at 9:00 AM and return at approximately 4:00 PM. The cost is $50.00.
Public Lecture
Professor Brian Greene (Columbia University) will give a free public lecture at 8:00 PM in the Mershon Auditorium on Space and Time since Einstein:
During the last hundred years, progress in theoretical physics has resulted in a dramatic upheaval in our understanding of space and time. In this talk, which presumes no background in physics, these advances will be described and visually illustrated using computer animation.
Professor Brian Greene received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He joined the physics faculty of Columbia University in 1996, where he is currently a professor of physics and of mathematics. He has lectured at both a general and a technical level in more than twenty countries and is widely regarded for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory. His book, The Elegant Universe, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four months.