An estimated 5,000 talks will be delivered.

The APS March Meeting is traditionally a showcase for important fundamental physics and also the kind of practical research that shows up -- five, ten, twenty years later -- in the productive labor-saving devices we take for granted, technology such as the high-speed, high-density microchips in computers; superconducting components in medical imaging and wireless communications; quantum-well lasers in CD players and grocery scanners and in sensitive detectors of aerosols and antigens.

This confluence of good physics and handy technology is reflected in the roll of March meeting press conference topics of recent years, including spintronics, carbon nanotubes, MEMS machines-on-a-chip, arrays of micromirrors for steering billions of phone calls and DNA-based circuitry.

These subjects are now or soon will be making their way into the marketplace.

What next?

Here are some of the subjects on which papers will be delivered at this year's March meeting: Bose-Einstein technology; LED's; fuel cells; terahertz imaging; complexity; diamagnetic levitation; helium in aerogel; thought-controlled machines -- and much more.

(Editor's Note: Details on the scientific programs can be found at this URL. As usual, UniSci will be reporting on selected presentations as they are made.)

[Contact: Ben Stein, David Harris]

07-Feb-2002