The Chicago Section of the
American Association of Physics Teachers

A Science Chicago Partner

 

NEXT Section Meeting will be Friday - Saturday, October 26 - 27, 2012 at Joliet Junior College   the call for contributed presentations is OUT and is at       http://helios.augustana.edu/isaapt/f12/isaapt.html

 

Additional info on the meeting is also there.

 

PLEASE NOTE that as this is a joint meeting, abstracts are DUE on October 12!!

 

 

Thanx to Carl for hosting a great meeting in Harvey last spring !!

Fall 2010 Section Meeting was Saturday, November 20, 2010 at IIT, in conjunction with the second meeting of the APS Prairie Section (Nov 18 – 20, 2010); featured speaker(s) & workshop(s) included:

Stephen J Lind, Trane Acoustics Lab, La Crosse, Wisconsin

NTIPERS: Research-Based Reasoning Tasks for Intro Mech.

  Meeting info is at:  https://sites.google.com/site/chicagoaapt/ .

 

Thanx to Mel Sabella & company for hosting the Spring 2010 meeting Saturday, April 24 2010 at Chicago State

Spring 2010 Meeting Info here.

THANX to Joe Kozminsky who hosted the Fall 2009 Meeting at Lewis Univ., Romeoville on Saturday, October 24, 2009

Program for the fall 2009 meeting

 

 

Spring 2009 Meeting was at Glenbrook S. HS 

April 18, 2009 hosted by John Lewis -- Thanx, John !!

  Program for Spring 2009 Meeting

 

 

THANX top all who helped with the Winter AAPT Meeting, which  was HERE IN CHICAGO, February 2009 --

 Especially thanx to Gordon Ramsey,

and for organizing the Chicago Demo Team, to Tom Senior !!!

 

 

Fall 2008 Section Meeting was at Crystal Lake S. HS hosted by Scott Beutlich

Program from Fall 2008 Meeting

 

Spring 2008 Meeting was Saturday, March 15, 2008

at Harper College, Hosted by Deb Damcott

Meeting Program from Spring 2008

 

OTHER NEWS:  Inaugural Meeting of the new APS bPrairie Sectionb -- was held November 12 - 14, 2009, at the University of Iowa -- NEXT PSAPS meeting will be here in Chicago at IIT in Fall 2010.  Check out the website at http://www.aps.org/units/psaps/index.cfm

 

                   ADVANCED LAB INSTRUCTORS:  There is now a new organization to address YOUR needs specifically, the bAdvanced Labs in Physics Associationb (ALPhA) -- which is a stand-alone organization, but will be working closely with APS & AAPT -- hot item will be followup regional conferences from the  Topical Conference on Advanced Labs that preceded the Summer AAPT Meeting in Ann Arbor in 2009. 

Membership in ALPhA is only $10 (same low price as memberhip in PIRA !!).  For more info contact Paul Dolan (P-Dolan@neiu.edu) or ALPhA President Gabe Spalding (gspalding@titan.iwu.edu).

OR check out the website at http://www.advlab.org

 

Program for Fall 2007 meeting

Thanx to Jan Dudzik, & co. for hosting the

Fall Section meeting on Saturday, November 10, 2007

at Naperville Central HS

 

Program for the Spring 07 Meeting is here

 (PS -- AAPT has a new logo -- will appear soon on this page, when I dare delete the old one!)

                                                          Program from the Fall 2006 meeting.

 

Congrats to new officers for 2008-09: (Ok, canbt officially put this here until we actually have the elections!)

 

Spring 2006 Section Meeting was at Chicago State University, hosted by Mel Sabella & Sam Bowen on Saturday, April 1, 2006 (no foolinb!) Guest Speaker:  Gary Gladding head of the PER group at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.  http://www.csu.edu/ChemistryAndPhysics/cs-aapt2006/

 

Joint CSAAPT/ISAAPT Fall 2005 Meeting was held at Riverside-Brookfield High School October 28-29, 2005.  The program is on the ISAAPT website at http://www.isaapt.org

 

Program from Spring 2005 Meeting

 

Program from the Fall 2004 Section Meeting

 

Program from the Spring 2004 Meeting



Other previous Meetings:  
Saturday, March 13, 2003 at Argonne
Saturday, November 8, 2003 at IIT; Host:  Porter Johnson

Saturday, March 29, 2003 at Northeastern Illinois University;  Hosts:  Paul Dolan & Joe Hermanek

IMSA, Nov. 2, 2002; <<Spring 2002>>; joint meeting with Illinois Section at Joliet Junior College, Oct. 26-27, 2001; Niles West HS, March 24, 2001; IIT, Nov 11, 2000; joint meeting with Illinois Section at U of I, April 14-15, 2000,  Oct 6 1999 NEIU ,Oct 31 1998 New Trier H.S., March 14 1998 at Argonne, Nov. 8 1997 IIT, April 26 1997 North Park University , Spring '96 , Fall '95

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Sad News:  Our friend & colleague, Bill Conway, Passed away on May 15, 2003.  The phenonema that he shared with us will live on.  Bill is certainly sharing his talents & good humor with the great physicists & educators who came before us.  He will be sorely missed by all.

On-Line Guestbook for Dr. Bill Conway

 

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Present Officers and Council Members:

Carl Martikean, President for 2011-12

      Thornton HS, Harvey                             

      c.martikean@mchsi.com

Joseph Kozminski, Vice-President

      Lewis University

      kozminjo@lewis.edu

Paul Dolan , WebMaster/Secretary, Nominating Committee
Northeastern Illinois University,
Dept. of Physics,
5500 N. St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
Work: (773) 442-5785  Cell (312) 758-0476    
FAX: (773) 442-5710
P-Dolan@neiu.edu  <or> liquidhelium@hotmail.com

Debby Lojkutz, Treasurer, Past President
Joliet West HS
401 N. Larkin
Joliet, IL 60435
Work: (815) 727-6950
FAX: (815) 744-3070
Home: (630) 964-6603
Email: dlojkutz@jths.org

Ted Gotis, Representative - Two-Year Colleges
Oakton Community College
Dept. of Physical Science 
1600 E. Golf Rd.
Des Plaines, IL 60016
Work: (847) 635-1796
FAX:  (847) 635-1764
tgotis@oakton.edu

Gordon Ramsey, Nominating Committee
Loyola University Chicago, 6525 N. Sheridan
Chicago, IL 60626
Work: (773) 508-3540
FAX:  (773) 508-3534
E-mail:  GPR@hep.anl.gov

John Lewis, Representative - High Schools
Glenbrook South High School
4000 W. Lake
Glenview, IL 60025
Work: (847) 486-4614
Home: (847) 824-7097
Email: jlewis@glenbrook.k12.il.us

Martha Lietz , Section Representative, Past President, CPDU honcho
Science Department
Niles West High School
5701 Oakton Street
Skokie, Illinois 60077
(847) 568-3656 Voicemail
(847) 568-3949 School Fax
E-mail: marlie@niles-hs.k12.il.

Ann Brandon, Section Representative Emeritus
Joliet West HS
401 N. Larkin
Joliet, IL 60435
Work: (retired)
FAX: (815) 744-3070
Home: (708) 756-2635
Email: brandon3912@juno.com

Mel Sabella, President for 2009-11
Chicago State University
Chicago, IL
E-mail:  msabella@csu.edu

Scott Beutlich, Past President (2008-09)
Crystal Lake South HS
Crystal Lake, IL
Phone:
FAX:  ()
E-mail:  sbeutlich@d155.org

Joseph Hermanek, NEIU (retired), Past President (2007-08)
11121 Ave G
Chicago, IL 60617
Cell: (773) 474-2752
FAX:  ()
E-mail:  jhermane@wowway.com

Jan Dudzik, Past President, (2006-07)
Work:
FAX:  
E-mail:  

Maria Udo, Past President (2005-06),

      Loyola University Chicago, 6525 N. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60626
Work: (773)508-7723
FAX:  (773)508-3534
E-mail:  mudo@luc.edu

Nick Drozdoff,  Past President (2004-05)
New Trier HS
385 Winnetka Avenue
Winnetka, IL 60093
Work: (847) 784-6722
E-mail:  drozdofn@newtrier.k12.il.us

John Carzoli, Past President (2003-04)
Oakton Community College
Dept. of Physical Science 
1600 E. Golf Rd.
Des Plaines, IL 60016
Work: (847) 376-7042
FAX:  (847) 635-1764
E-mail: jcarzoli@oakton.edu

Laura Nickerson, Past President
Beaver Country Day School
E-mail:

Pete Insley, Past President
Columbia College Chicago
Science/Math Dept
600 S. Wabash
Chicago, IL 60605
Home: (773) 283-0528
FAX: <none>
E-mail: peterinsley@att.net

Porter Johnson, Past President
BCPS
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL 60616
Work: (retired)
FAX:
E-mail: Porter.Johnson@iit.edu

Roy E. Coleman, Treasurer Emeritus
Morgan Park H.S.
1744 W. Pryor Ave. Chicago, IL 60643
Work: (retired)
Email: coleman@iit.edu

Tom Senior, Past President
New Trier High School
Work: (retired)
FAX: (815) 455-0039
Home: (847) 501-6400
Email: tomseniorphysics@yahoo.com

John W. Milton, Past President
DePaul University
Dept. of Physics
2219 N. Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
Work: (retired)
FAX:
Home: (847) 298-9215
Email: jmilton@depaul.edu

Christopher J. Chiaverina, Past President, Past National President
New Trier High School (Retired)
385 Winnetka Avenue
Winnetka, IL 60093
Work: (847) 446-7000
FAX: (815) 455-0039
Home: (815) 455-0399
Email: FIZZFORFUN@aol.com

Nominating Committee: Paul Dolan , NEIU
                                         Gordon Ramsey, Loyola University Chicago  
                                        Maria Udo, Loyola University Chicago
                                         Joel Hoflslund, Chicago State University

        


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