The AfLS project was well represent at the National Society of Black Physicist (NSBP) conference in Providence, RI held from Nov 14-17. The NSBP conference program is 30% professional development workshops and 70% technical. The professional development workshops aim to help students and faculty to make the various transitions to becoming active scientists. The NSBP technical program includes presentations in parallel sessions on Astronomy, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Cosmology, Gravitation, and Relativity, Chemical and Biological Physics, Medical Physics, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Photonics and Optical Physics, and Physics Education Research. Next year, in 2020, the NSBP conference will be held from Nov 5-8 at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Upton, NY. BNL is home to the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS II)– which is the newest third generation light source constructed in the U.S.
Photographed (left to right) are: Tabbetha Dobbins (Rowan Univ.), Dorian Bohler (SLAC), Benson Frimpong (Univ. of Ghana and SLAC), Sekazi Mtingwa (TriSEED Consultants, LLC and LAAAMP), Joseph Daafuor (Univ. of Ghana and SLAC), and Kenneth Evans-Lutterodt (NSLS-II at BNL). Benson and Joseph are both working towards their M.S. degree at the University of Ghana and are currently doing their research at Stanford (SLAC).
