Directions from Philadelphia Int'l Airport to Samson West Place, University of Pennsylvania

Samson Place West
3650 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Directions to The Inn at Penn from the Airport

The Inn at Penn
3600 Sansom Street
University City
Philadelphia, PA

800-809-7001
http://www.theinnatpenn.com/

Directions to City Tavern

138 South 2nd Street at Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

215-413-1443
http://www.citytavern.com/

Directions and map to The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute
222 North 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

215-448-1200
http://sln.fi.edu/

Directions to the American Philosophical Society from Samson Place West

104 South Fifth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386

215-440-3400
http://www.amphilsoc.org/

2:00 — 3:00

3:30 — 5:00 PM

Old City Philadelphia

6:00 PM

Registration

6:45 PM

Presenters Meeting

Houston Hall
Bishop White Room

7:00 PM

Informal Reception

Houston Hall
Bodek Lounge

8:30 — 10:00 PM

Local Chapter Meeting, Legal Action Committee

Houston Hall
Bodek Lounge

7:00 AM — 5:00 PM

Registration Open

Logan Hall
Schneidman Lobby

7:00 AM — 5:00 PM

Book and Merchandise Area Open

Logan Hall
Schneidman Lobby

8:20 AM

Welcome and announcements

Shawn Carlson

8:30 AM

Science at the McCarthy Observatory

Monty Robson

9:00 AM

Science Off the Cutting Edge,

Mark Streitman, Inexpensive Handheld Instruments

9:30 AM

Earthquake Precursor Experiments: Exploring Mysterious

Sam Stanifer Earthquake Preparation Physics with Amateur Built Sensors and Data Networks

10:00 AM

Secrets of Guerrilla Scholarship

Sheldon Greaves

10:30 AM

How to Get Your Book Published

James Levine

11:30 AM

LUNCH BREAK

12:00 PM

Special Presentation: Benjamin Franklin Citizen Scientist Award

Shawn Carlson

12:05 PM

Distinguished Lecture: Permian Track ways: 250 Million Year Old Window Into Earth's Past

Jerry MacDonald

1:00 PM

Distinguished Lecture: How to Win the Ig-Nobel Prize

Marc Abrahams

1:30 PM

Chronic Fatigue, Dysautonomia, and the Development of a Novel Treatment

D.M. Lindsay

2:00 PM

A Short Driven Foucault Pendulum

John Dooley

2:30 PM

Experiments and Historical Science

Kevin Kilty

3:00 PM

BREAK

3:30 PM

Collecting, Processing, Archiving, and Sharing Real-Time

Joseph DiVerdi Data in an Inter-Networked World

4:00 PM

Why Scorpions Eat Their Young

John Lighton

4:30 PM

ELVIS-- Data acquisition and instrument control from

Jeff Steele, National Instruments

5:15 PM

OPEN

6:00 PM

Load Bus

Inn at Penn. 3600 Samson Street

6:30 PM

Dinner

City Tavern, 138 S. 2^nd Street.
Special Presentation by Jack Horner: Dinosaur Eggs and Citizen Paleontology

7:45 PM

Load Bus

City Tavern. 138 S. 2^nd Street

8:00 PM

Astronomy Presentation

Franklin Institute
222 N. 20^th Street

10:00 PM

Load Bus

Franklin Institute
222 N. 20^th Street

10:30 PM

Return to the Inn at Penn

3600 Samson Street

7:00 AM — 3:00 PM

Registration Open

Logan Hall
Schneidman Lobby

7:00 AM — 8:30 AM

Poster Session Setup

Houston Hall
Bodek Lounge

7:00 AM — 3:00 PM

Book and Merchandise Area Open

Logan Hall — Schneidman Lobby

8:30

How amateur scientists and students can validate remote-sensing satellites using simple ground-based instruments

David Brooks

9:00

Tax Options for Citizen Scientists

Richard Fragale

10:00

Visual Microscopy Workshop (TWO HOURS)

Andrew M. Bowen

Noon

LUNCH BREAK

12:30

Notes from the Benjamin Franklin Mini Series

Ron Blumer, Muffie Meyer