Natural Philosophy Alliance NPA Conference Website 18th Annual NPA Conference Every two years, the NPA conference has been held somewhere in the eastern United States. This year's conference will be held July 6-9, 2011 at the University of Maryland, College Park. The Beautiful Campus of University of Maryland Live Conference Attendee Stats Participants: 111 Abstracts: 96 Abstracts: Absentia 37, In Person 59 The NPA Welcomes the Electric Universe! The NPA Welcomes the Electric Universe! The NPA is extending a warm welcome to the Electric Universe group who will be attending the NPA's 18th conference including some 10 speakers. We welcome all of you and look forward to a great interchange of ideas during the 4 days of our conference! Paper deadlines Paper Deadlines Here are the quick list of deadlines for accepting papers for the 18th NPA conference: 1. February 15, 2011: Abstract deadline 2. April 1, 2011: First draft deadline 3. May 15, 2011: Final draft deadline Click here to get a template for the paper and read the guidelines. Call for Papers Call for Papers Without doubt, the NPA-17 conference held last June in Long Beach, California set new and higher standards for the NPA, in the quantity and quality of papers submitted and presented, in the breadth of topics discussed, in attendance, particularly of NPA newcomers, in acknowledgement of great work by independent scientists through the NPA's Sagnac Award, and in the success of its first ever Public Day. Thus, though it will be bold to claim that NPA-18 will surpass NPA-17 on every front, we unabashedly declare that it will. Whether or not you attended NPA-17, you won't want to miss NPA-18 at the University of Maryland, College Park this July 6-9. Thanks not only to the growth of the NPA through the World Science Database, but also due to cooperation with people interested in the electric universe paradigm, attendance should more than double in 2011, approaching 200 attendees. More people will hear your presentations than ever before. The format for NPA-18 will resemble that of NPA-17 in Long Beach, featuring concurrent presentations in two lecture halls all day Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, work group meetings Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, the John Chappell Memorial lecture Thursday evening, the Sagnac Award banquet Friday evening, and Public Day on Saturday. We recommend that you arrive Tuesday evening (July 5), and stay at least four nights, to get the full benefit of the conference. Consider preparing a physical demonstration or experiment to display on Public Day, and share with others some of the consequences of your ideas. Also please contact Greg Volk if you'd be willing to lead a discussion group, monitor audio-visual equipment, or help out in some other way. According to NPA custom, we call for papers on any subject related to the fundamentals of physical science. This year, we anticipate receiving 10-15 papers from electric universe authors in addition to the 120-140 papers we expect from traditional NPA authors. Since our publisher limits the Proceedings to 720 pages (exceeding this would effectively double the printing cost), we may need to edit or even exclude some material. In this case, papers will be selected based on quality, deadlines, and fee payments. So please submit only your very best work, written as tersely as possible (4-5 pages is recommended), meet the deadlines, and pay your fees. We suggest that each author submit no more than 10 pages of material for the conference. Finally the conference schedule itself will be quite full, so not everyone is guaranteed of an opportunity to present. Authors who submit two or more papers won't necessarily receive multiple 30-minute slots to present their work. However, presenters should have a larger audience than ever before at NPA conferences, because of the many electric universe attendees. Please submit your abstracts and papers in Word format to Greg Volk (click here to read submission guidelines and get a copy of the format for papers). Use the attached sample file as a template, adhering to all of its formatting standards. It works best to copy and rename the file, and type your text into the copied file. Do NOT try to recreate all the formatting yourself, but rather copy and paste your existing text into the template. Better yet, start your paper with the template file, and you'll save us all lots of time and headaches. Once you've submitted a paper, please do NOT edit it without telling Greg, since he or another reviewer could be editing it as well. Greg will post a pdf version of your paper to your profile so that others can read and review it prior to the conference. In order to stay on schedule, we've set three deadlines for this year's papers: 1) Abstract deadline: February 15; 2) First draft deadline: April 1; and 3) Final draft deadline: May 15. Please mark your calendars. The final draft deadline is firm, since we will actually take the finals to press in late May, and thus have the full Proceedings available at the conference itself. It will help tremendously if you respect these deadlines. During April and early May, we'll ask each author to review at least two other papers, constituting our in-house peer review. These reviews are intended to strengthen arguments, clarify ambiguities, catch typographical mistakes, and possibly correct errors. We will encourage groups of three or four authors with similar interests to review each other's papers. Please participate in this process, since improving the overall quality of the Proceedings benefits everyone. Next, remember the $10 per page fee for your articles, which covers the cost of preparing the Proceedings. You will be able to pay conference, lodging and other fees online with David de Hilster's soon-to-be-released conference website, containing many of the same features as the NPA-17 website. Please check http://conf18.worldnpa.org/ by the end of January, and browse through it occasionally as we get closer to the conference, since regular updates will be posted on it, along with relevant information about lodgings, meals and other conference details. Good news! The conference fees for presenters this year will be REDUCED to $50, though non-presenters will pay $125. For the first time ever, NPA-18 will have a sizable number of non-presenters in attendance, allowing us to reward presenters in a small way with a slightly reduced conference fee. More details coming on the conference fee. Please contact Don Briddell with questions regarding the logistics of the conference (accommodations, meals, facilities, etc.), David de Hilster with questions regarding the website (to be posted by the end of January), and Greg Volk with questions regarding paper submissions, Public Day displays, and the presentation schedule. We look forward to seeing you in College Park. PS. Nick Percival recently wrote an open letter concerning relativity's Twin Paradox (http://www.twinparadox.net) and invites all interested scientists to sign it. He intends to submit the letter to various mainstream publications during 2011, the 100th anniversary of the Twin Paradox concept. Please spread the word to others. 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