From quarks to quasars: major spring physics meeting

College Park, MD, March 28, 2001-----The theme for the American Physical Society (APS) Spring Meeting is "quarks to quasars," in reference to the wide scope of subjects to be covered, extending from the very smallest size imaginable, the so called Planck scale at which space itself is thought to break down, right up to the scale of the universe as a whole. In between come a lot of other issues as well, such as missile defense and climate change, which will be represented on the program. The Spring Meeting, taking place April 28 to May 1 at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC, located at 9th Street and New York Avenue, is the second of the two national meetings held each year by APS. The first was the recently concluded March Meeting in Seattle. The first two days of the meeting do fall on a weekend, but science journalists will have to reconcile themselves to this since we expect to have some important press conferences on these days.

WEBSITE AND PRESSROOM

The official Spring Meeting website is http://www.aps.org/meet/APR01/baps/index.html Click on "epitome" to see the meeting program, including abstracts. Complimentary press registration will allow science writers to attend all scientific sessions. If you wish to come, please fill out and return the form at the end of this release. For out-of-town science writers, you should know that the hotel reservation deadline is nigh: see http://www.aps.org/meet/APR01/apr01hou.pdf.

Here is information relating to the press operations at the meeting: ---The meeting pressroom will be located in the Renaissance Hotel, room 18
---Press conferences will take place in room 19
---Pressroom hours: Saturday April 28-Monday, April 30: 8-5. Tuesday, May 1: 8-12.
---Pressroom phone numbers: 202-962-4214
---Pressroom fax number: 202-962-4212
---Breakfast and lunch food will be available in the pressroom Saturday-Monday; breakfast only on Tuesday
-a press conference schedule will be issued in several weeks.

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SCIENCE WRITER REPLY FORM

APS 2001 Spring Meeting

Send or fax to: Ben Stein
AIP, Media and Government Relations
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740-3843
Fax: 301-209-0846
E-mail: bstein@aip.org

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For more information contact Phillip Schewe,
301-209-3092, pschewe@aip.org, or
Ben Stein, 301-209-3091, bstein@aip.org,
at the American Institute of Physics, or
Randy Atkins at the American Physical Society,
301-209-3238, atkins@aps.org.