PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY AT THE MILLENNIUM

A symposium for Stony Brook Physics and Astronomy Alumni, Faculty, Students, Staff, and Friends

State University of New York

Stony Brook, June 16-18, 2000

SAC stands for the Student Activity Center, a new facility in the center of the campus.  Much of the meeting will be held there.  The SAC occupies a renovated building which some of you knew as "old biology" or possibly as "Central Hall."

FRIDAY JUNE 16, 2000

1 - 2PM         Registration  (SAC lobby)

OPENING SESSION    (SAC auditorium)     Chair: Gerald Brown

4:45         Refreshments and Tours (ESS Lobby)
6:15         Cocktails (ESS Lobby)
7:00         Dinner (SAC Lobby)
8:00         Special Colloquium (SAC Auditorium) "Exploration of the Outer Solar System" Carolyn Porco (1974)(U. of Arizona)
9:00         A Little Night Music (SAC Lobby)

SATURDAY JUNE 17

8:30        Continental Breakfast (SAC Lobby)

PLENARY SESSION    (SAC Auditorium)   Chair: Janos Kirz

10:30 Coffee Break (SAC lobby)

PLENARY SESSION   (SAC  Auditorium)   Chair: C. N. Yang

1:00        Lunch (SAC lobby)
2:00        Topical Sessions A (ESS classrooms) 3:30        Break, refreshments (ESS Lobby)
4:00        Parallel Sessions B  (Physics and ESS locations) 6:00       Cocktails (ESS Lobby)
7:00       Banquet (SAC Lobby)
              After Dinner Talk -- "Science, School Science, and Public Science" Gerald Wheeler (1972) (National Science Teachers Association)

SUNDAY JUNE 18

8:30        Continental Breakfast

PLENARY SESSION   (SAC  Auditorium)   Chair: Philip Solomon

11:00         coffee break (SAC lobby)

PLENARY SESSION   (SAC  Auditorium)  Chair: Philip Allen

1:10           Official end of meeting;  Box Lunch and Social