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Opportunities to present your research at local or regional conferences and events  Fall 2018

American Physical Society (APS) Prairie Section meeting

• This meeting features research talks by faculty and students.
• This may be held on a weekend in November, please get more information on the site given below.
• https://www.aps.org/units/psaps/index.cfm
• http://www.aps.org/meetings/meeting.cfm?name=PSF17

Illinois section of the American Association of Physics Teachers

• The ISAAPT sponsors two conferences each year.
• The fall meeting is directed towards high school teaching, and will be held at Illinois State Univ. in Normal, IL, on October 26 and 27. This will be a joint meeting with the Wisconsin section.
• The spring meeting features a Student Research Symposium, and will be held at College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn, just west of Chicago), date TBD
• Fall 2019, Joliet Junior College (joint with the Chicago section)
• Spring 2020, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• http://www.isaapt.org

2018 LSMCE Annual Conference

• The 2018 Annual LSMCE Research Conference, will be held October 19, 2018, at the Ivy Tech Culinary and Conference Center , and is hosted by IUPUI and Ivy Tech Community College and sponsored by the NSF. The location is in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• • Students, faculty, and administrators actively involved with Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) are encouraged to submit their research or scholarly work.
• https://twitter.com/InLsamp
•  Also see http://lsmce.org/
• See Dr. Araya for more information about this conference.

Argonne Undergraduate Research Symposium

• For undergraduate students, this is typically held in November.
• Argonne National Laboratory skipped this event in 2015. The website does not yet have information about having this event in 2016. 
• http://www.anl.gov/education/undergraduates/undergraduate-symposium

Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP)

• The 2019 conferences will be held Friday, January 18 through Sunday afternoon, January 20, 2019
• https://www.aps.org/programs/women/workshops/cuwip.cfm

2018 SACNAS The National Diversity in STEM Conferences

• The 2018 SACNAS Conference will be held October 11-13, 2018, at the Henry B. González Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.   (Oct. 12 is WIU’s Fall Break day.)
• The Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science has been active since 1973.
• http://www.2018sacnas.org/

Meetings in spring 2019

• Honors Council of the Illinois Region - Feb. – date & place TBD
• Graduate Research Conference - early March in the WIU Union
• APS March Meeting - March 4-8 in Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC), Abstract Submission Deadline: October 26, 2018
• APS March Meeting - April 13-16, 2019  Denver, CO Venue: Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Abstract Submission Deadline: January 7, 2019
• Science Research Day will be held on the first Friday of April here at WIU. Last year it was in the Student Recreation Center but may move.
• Illinois State Academy of Science - April 5 & 6 at Bradley University
• Undergraduate Research Day - WIU Union ballroom - third Wed. of April
• ISAAPT - College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn) - date TBD

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