Mark your calendars for July 25-28 in Albuquerque, New Mexico for NPA-19. This is the official NPA-19 call for papers. Actually, we’ve received about 25 submissions already, so are well underway toward a great conference. 2012 promises to deliver the best effort yet for the NPA, with lots of new volunteers to edit the proceedings, provide tech support with the new website, administer the conference, and promote the NPA. Following the success of our collaboration with the Electric Universe community at NPA-18 in College Park last summer, we will hold NPA-19 side by side, but separate from TeslaTech's Extraordinary Technology Conference 2012 (http://www.teslatech.info/ttevents/prgframe.htm). We expect the 400+ attendees at Tesla Tech to discover the charms of the NPA, as we encounter their universe of independent physics.
Working at a furious pace over the past few months, David de Hilster just released the beta version of the new NPA website (http://www.worldnpa.org/site), which will incorporate all the details for NPA-19 (http://conf19.worldnpa.org/). Powered by de Hilster’s new Groupum software, the site allows many functions absent in the old. You can form committees and interest groups, vote for officers or NPA policy, post articles using WordPress, submit abstracts and papers directly to the site, where multiple editors can work on it simultaneously, etc. Remember that the NPA site is for dues-paying NPA members only, not automatically for everyone in the World Science Database. Therefore, you will need to get your dues current through the end of July before submitting to NPA-19. Hopefully the process will be easy to navigate, but Dave Smith and David Harrison have volunteered to help if you really get stuck using the new site. Please do not contact David de Hilster or me (Greg Volk) for tech support.
Please take time to read the Guidelines on the Proceedings page, and use the template for proper formatting. To save editing time, please insert your new text into a copy of last year’s paper, and make liberal use of Word’s format painter. On the website, first create your abstract, and then submit it for NPA-19 (two separate steps). If you find this process challenging, go ahead and send your abstracts and papers to me (the.volks@comcast.net), as in the past. Please read the papers of other authors and offer helpful suggestions on how to improve them.
This year we will not have a separate “Public Day”, as we did for the past two conferences, but ongoing displays throughout the conference. This freer form will allow people more time to wander about, and see all the cool experiments and models. Please let me know if you’d like to display something at the conference, so we can save you a spot. In addition to NPA displays, Tesla Tech will also host quite a number of tables to visit. And you can drop in on Tesla Tech presentations at an NPA discount.
Consider volunteering to make NPA-19 a success: in administration, promotion, website support, tech team, VIP hosting. Of course, volunteers to proofread and edit will always be appreciated, making the proceedings the best it can be. Please let us know if you can help out. It’s gonna be a great conference.
Mark your calendars for July 25-28 in Albuquerque, New Mexico for NPA-19. This is the official NPA-19 call for papers. Actually, we’ve received about 25 submissions already, so are well underway toward a great conference. 2012 promises to deliver the best effort yet for the NPA, with lots of new volunteers to edit the proceedings, provide tech support with the new website, administer the conference, and promote the NPA. Following the success of our collaboration with the Electric Universe community at NPA-18 in College Park last summer, we will hold NPA-19 side by side, but separate from TeslaTech's Extraordinary Technology Conference 2012. We expect the 400+ attendees at Tesla Tech to discover the charms of the NPA, as we encounter their universe of independent physics.
Working at a furious pace over the past few months, David de Hilster just released the beta version of the new NPA website (http://www.worldnpa.org/site), which will incorporate all the details for NPA-19 (http://conf19.worldnpa.org/). Powered by de Hilster’s new Groupum software, the site allows many functions absent in the old. You can form committees and interest groups, vote for officers or NPA policy, post articles using WordPress, submit abstracts and papers directly to the site, where multiple editors can work on it simultaneously, etc. Remember that the NPA site is for dues-paying NPA members only, not automatically for everyone in the World Science Database. Therefore, you will need to get your dues current through the end of July before submitting to NPA-19. Hopefully the process will be easy to navigate, but Dave Smith and David Harrison have volunteered to help if you really get stuck using the new site. Please do not contact David de Hilster or me (Greg Volk) for tech support.
Please take time to read the Guidelines on the Proceedings page (http://www.worldnpa.org/site/proceedings/?proceedingsid=1), and use the template for proper formatting. To save editing time, please insert your new text into a copy of last year’s paper, and make liberal use of Word’s format painter. On the website, first create your abstract, and then submit it for NPA-19 (two separate steps). If you find this process challenging, go ahead and send your abstracts and papers to me (the.volks@comcast.net), as in the past. Please read the papers of other authors and offer helpful suggestions on how to improve them.
This year we will not have a separate “Public Day”, as we did for the past two conferences, but ongoing displays throughout the conference. This freer form will allow people more time to wander about, and see all the cool experiments and models. Please let me know if you’d like to display something at the conference, so we can save you a spot. In addition to NPA displays, Tesla Tech will also host quite a number of tables to visit. And you can drop in on Tesla Tech presentations at an NPA discount.
Consider volunteering to make NPA-19 a success: in administration, promotion, website support, tech team, VIP hosting. Of course, volunteers to proofread and edit will always be appreciated, making the proceedings the best it can be. Please let us know if you can help out. It’s gonna be a great conference.
