Re: Links to San Antonio talks

[Rick Tarara <rbtarara@SPRYNET.COM>]

We should all realize what Mike is starting here:

Imagine that the AAPT establishes a web page where contributors can post
abstracts that link to web pages with the full content of their work.
Imagine that these contributors offer an e-mail address for questions and
actually respond to such.  We have now cut 3 days from the Summer meetings
(and most of all the Winter and Spring meetings).  We also have reduced the
Announcer to about a dozen pages.  We probably still need a day or so for
workshops (at least those whose presenters aren't clever enough to place
them on the Web), a brief session to hand out awards, a session to see all
kinds of neat demos that we will never get around to building (or never get
to work) back at our home institutions, and of course we need a night or two
to go hoist some root-beers with old and new friends.  Still, we have
eliminated all those lecture-like talks which we know (because we have been
told ad-nauseum) are all but worthless in terms of pedagogy.  Put the awards
ceremony and demo session on streaming video, enlighten those workshop
presenters about the wonders of the Web and we can save ourselves (or our
institutions) big bucks each year since we won't have to move from our (new
$400) office chairs.  We will, alas, miss the root-beer.

;-)

Rick

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----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Moloney <moloney@NEXTWORK.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 3:57 PM
Subject: Links to San Antonio talks


> I have put up links to several talks given at the San Antonio meeting (see
my home page
> below).
>
> Magnificent or not, they are seven, all working, and include two invited
talks. Several are
> hyperlinked so going to the talk can take you to several other neat
places.
> I hope to add more talks as folks contact me, and as a couple of link
problems are
> straightened out.
>
> If I have missed putting your talk on the list, send me its URL and up it
will go.
> --
> Mike
>
>
> Mike Moloney, Dept of Physics & Applied Optics, Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology
> (812) 877 8302    http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~moloney