- MAP has started a mailing list on Google Groups. Invitations were sent out, however, if you did not receive one, you can go to the Google Groups page and request to join. Google Groups is free, easy, safe, and spam free.
- --- Fall 2008 Meeting ---
- Current MAP Officers
- Meeting Minutes
- Membership Application Form (pdf)
- Constitution and Bylaws
- Newsletter for October 14, 2008 (pdf)
- The History of MAP
- Resources
- Outstanding High School Teacher Award
NEWS-- UM A number of professors at the University of Mississippi were looking forward to the turn on of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, where they are performing experiments to search for Higgs bosons, dark matter, and other exotic states at these new and high energies. The program has been delayed for 6 months due to a fault in the accelerator superconducting magnets train. Dr. Lucien Cremaldi and Dr. David Sanders recently visited CERN, where they heard the news first hand.
-- MSU to hold teacher training workshop for teaching physical sciences in the middle school classroom June 2-27 - MORE INFO...
-- MSU will also host a professional development workshop in industry education. This workshop is designed to help connect education with industry to better prepare students to enter the modern work force. MORE INFO...
-- At the recent MAS meeting in Olive Branch there were several very good papers presented by students from physics departments in our state. READ MORE...
-- Rainwater Observatory News Rainwater Observatory near French Camp has added a .65-meter Ritchey-Chretien research telescope. The telescope is housed in a 6-meter automated dome and operated from a heated/airconditioned control room. Rainwater is located in one of the six dark sky sites east of the Mississippi River.
Instrumentation includes an SBIG 1001 CCD camera, a Mallincam integrating video camera, an SBIG 402 self guiding spectroscope, and a 10 megapixel digital SLR modified for astrophotography. It can also be used visually and has an AstroPhysics refractor attached.
The facility is available for use by students, teachers, and amateur astronomers as part of the Los Cumbres Global Telescope Network. A guest bunk room and showers are available, as are 14 other telecopes, including the largest in the state, a 32 inch. For more information or to schedule a visit, call Jim Hill at 662-547-6377 or from the web site at http://rainwaterobsservatory.org