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Revisiting FermiLab

Outstanding Advisor and Chapters

On the Set of The Big Bang Theory: One Geek of the Week's Experience

Spotlight on SPS Outreach

Using Lasers to Probe Nearly Everything

Elegant Connections in Physics: History of Big Bang Cosmology, Part 9: The Accelerating Universe, Dark Energy, and Einstein's Enigma

SPS at Meetings

A Bright Idea

About the Cover
Laser Fist Bump
Photographer David Gray, who’s photograph “Fist Bump” graces the cover, loves using lasers and other light sources in his photographs as it gives him a way to see light in a completely different way. More...

Photo by David Gray
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Editor
Dwight E. Neuenschwander Southern Nazarene University

Assistant Editor
Kendra Rand

Editorial Assistant
Tracy Schwab

Production & Print
Karol Keane

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SPS President
Toni Sauncy
Angelo State University

SPS/Sigma Pi Sigma Director
Gary D. White

SPS/Sigma Pi Sigma Assistant Director
Thomas Olsen

AIP Member Societies:
American Physical Society
Optical Society of America
Acoustical Society of America
The Society of Rheology
American Association of
      Physics Teachers
American Crystallographic
      Association
American Astronomical
      Society
American Association of
      Physicists in Medicine
AVS, The Science and
      Technology Society
American Geophysical Union

Other Member Organizations:
Sigma Pi Sigma
Society of Physics Students
Corporate Associates

SPS American Institute of Physics

LRO Takes Flight

Laser Fist Bump: Taming Photons Since 1960
In this issue, we continue our celebration of LaserFest not only with a laser fist bump, but also with an examination of how SPS members are actually using lasers in their research (see page 10). Plus, there’s a follow-up on outcomes from the 2008 Sigma Pi Sigma Congress; features on SPS awards, meetings, and outreach; a behind-the-scenes look at the sitcom “Big Bang Theory,” and much more. More...

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