Zone 16

This spring 2010, our SPS chapter her in Prescott, Arizona will be hosting the annual zone meeting for Zone 16. This meeting will be held on Saturday, March 27th but we'll be having a meeting and greet on the night of the 26th. The registration cost will be $20.

Our Address is:
3700 Willow Creek Rd.
Prescott, Az 86301

In Our Zone

Here in Arizona we have:

Arizona State Univversity
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (That's Us!)
Northern Arizona University
University of Arizona

Next door to us in New Mexico:

Eastern New Mexico University
New Mexico Highlands University
New Mexico Institute of Mining & Tech
New Mexico State University
University of New Mexico

And just to the south of New Mexico, in that little bit of Texas:

University of Texas, El Paso

The Plan

So here's the tentative schedule... So far. Updates to be made as soon as they're figured out, please stay tuned.

Friday March 26th

6 pm - Meet and Greet BBQ at our Pool ramada Volleyball game!
9 pm - Open House at the Observatory

Saturday March 27th

8 am - Brief introduction of the day's events
8:20 am - Breakfast
9:00 am - Guest Speaker: Dr. Tim Callahan - abstract at the bottom
11 am - Lunch
11:15 am - Outreach talk from Stacy DeVeau who works in the Arizona NASA Educator Resource Center here on campus. (How to reach your community)
11:30 am - Break
12 pm - Zone Meeting
2 pm - Break
3 pm - Student Speakers (We have several students - from ERAU - talking on what all projects that they are currently working on. If any students from other schools would like to join in or for more information, please send an email to any of the Current Leaders or our Advisor. Each talk is only 10 minutes, and does not have to go into full depth of the project.)

Depending on how many students speak, this will be the end of official events, and off to dinner.

Much later:

9 pm - Movie, if anyone wants to join in, you're most welcome to. We'll be playing a movie in our mini theater.

Dr. Callahan's Abstract:
Equivariant Bifurcation Theory and Pattern Formation
Many systems exhibit the striking phenomenon of pattern formation, the process by which an initially spatially uniform state loses stability to a state with a characteristic length scale: a pattern. The variety of systems that undergo such a process is if anything even more striking, and ranges from fluid dynamics to geology to neurology to nonlinear optics to video feedback to embryonic development. The ubiquity of such patterns can be explained by equivariant bifurcation theory, which uses group-theoretic methods and the symmetry of the problem to make predictions that are independent of the model. I will present an introduction to the theory and the mathematical tools it employs.

Local places to stay at are Here Any questions, concerns, comments, please feel free to call or email:

Dr. Quentin Bailey
(928) 777-3932
baileyq@my.erau.edu

Candice Brown
browncm6@gmail.com