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February 27 — march 2

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show hours

Mon FeB 27 10 : 0 0aM –5: 0 0pM

tues FeB 28 10 : 0 0aM –5: 0 0pM

wed FeB 29 10 : 0 0aM – 4 : 0 0pM

Move- in hours

sat FeB 25 1: 0 0 –5 : 0 0pM

sun FeB 26 8 : 0 0aM –5: 0 0pM

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wed FeB 29 4 : 0 0 – 8 : 0 0pM

thurs Mar 1 8 : 0 0aM – noon

the March Meeting offers your company a valuable opportunity for one-to-one interaction with physicists from industry and universities, in private and government laboratories who are involved in making and/or influencing purchasing decisions. We are marketing the exhibit show to commercial exhibitors, government agencies and laboratories. For complete information on the technical program and housing, visit www.aps.org/meetings/march, available at the end of January.

There are many benefits to exhibitors:

n vir tual tradeshow: online product promotion and hyperlinks via the american physical society’s homepage

n Company listing of products and services in the aps show guide, in the aps March Meeting program book, and on the aps website

n Free admission to the program

n program book advertising

n special event sponsorship opportunities

n discounted hotel rates

n extended show hours, poster sessions, and receptions in exhibit hall

n Job Fair services

n access to pressroom and opportunities to interact with trade press

n Coffee & refreshment breaks for exhibitors in exhibitors' lounge

n exhibitor lounge during show days

t o e x h i B i t o r s

the american physical society will hold its 2012 March Meeting, February 27 to March 2 in Boston. we are expecting more than 7,500 of the top scientists involved in physics research and applied physics throughout the world.

Reflection spectra as a function of wavelength (axis at 10 o'clock) and of defect layer thickness (axis at 2 o'clock) of a cholesteric liquid crystal illuminated by circularly polarized light, showing photonic band gap at higher thicknesses (A. H. Gevorgyan, Phys. Rev. E 83, 011702 (2011)).

BeneFits

Sponsors receive value-added benefits such as:

n Pre-show attendee labels free of charge to sponsors. Labels must be ordered no earlier than 4 weeks prior to the meeting and the list will include names and addresses only (no emails).

n Special recognition signage posted at sponsored events.

n acknowledgment of sponsorship in the Meeting program and on the aps March Meeting homepage.

n distributed onsite and used extensively thoughout the Meeting, the March aps Bulletin is the comprehensive index of all sessions, poster presentations, meetings and events. Advertising is limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. these advertising positions are available:

Back Cover $5,000

inside Front Cover $3,500

inside Back Cover $2,500

n gain exposure for your company by sponsoring:

Company logo on directional signs $3,000

Company logo on shuttle bus signs $2,000

Commercial workshops $500

wine/cheese reception in exhibit hall $3,000

poster session sponsor $1,000

e-mail pavillion in exhibit hall $2,500

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BoB Finnegan

aps exhiBits Manager

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2 huntington Quadrangle

Melville, ny 11747-4502

phone: 516-576-2433

Fax: 516-576-2481

RFinnEGAn@AiP.oRG

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achieve max imum v i s ib i l i t y by adver t i s ing in the March Bulletin of the american physical society and deliver your marketing message to more than 7,500 of the world’s top scientists.

sponsor

Bulletin advertising is:

100% digital

high resolution PDF files

images at 300 dpi

built out of CMyK

embedded fonts are required

trim size: 8 1/4” w x 10 7/8” h

False-color scanning electron microscope image of a tooth from the Florida sea urchin Arbacia punctulata; each tooth element is highlighted by a different color and is a single crystal of calcite (Pupa Gilbert, University of Wisconsin-Madison).

aps attendees speCiFy these produCts:

scientif ic software .................................................70%

test & Measurement equipment ......................56%

vacuum Components/systems .......................... 51%

detectors ...................................................................47%

power supplies.........................................................47%

Cryogenic equipment ............................................46%

scientif ic Computing .............................................39%

sensors ........................................................................37%

Microscopes ..............................................................36%

optical Components .............................................34%

lasers ...........................................................................33%

educational/teaching products ......................... 31%

Magnetic Materials .................................................25%

Characterization equipment ..............................24%

high Field Magnets .................................................24%

thin films 46%

semiconductors 42%

spectroscopy 40%

superconductivity 35%

optoelectronics 28%

polymers 23%

stm 19%

magnetic storage 15%

data storage 13%

nonlinear devices 12%

p r o F i l e

March Meet ing at tendees a r e invo l ved in a var ie t y of techn iques and appl ica t ions .

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66% academia, government, Federally-Funded

21% research & development

11% Commercial & industrial

2% hospital, Medical, not-for-Profit

93% of meeting attendees visited the product exhibit three or more times

78% specify or recommend purchase of equipment, products, services

75% requested information from vendors

60% have annual budgets of up to $100,000

85% plan to purchase equipment and services within the next yearFerrofluid sandwiched between two clear, circular plates, immersed in a magnetic field and lit by a ring of colored LED lights (Michael M. Snyder, University of Louisville).

nanoandMore usananomagnetics instruments Ltd.nanonics imaging ltdnational high Magnetic Field

laboratorynational nanotechnology

infrastructure networknational research Council of the

national academiesnature publishing groupneaspec gmbhneutron scattering society of

americanor-Cal productsnovoControl americaomicron nanotechnology usaoriginlab Corporationoxford instruments americaoxford university presspark systemspfeiffer vacuumphotonisphysical society of Japanphysics todaypiezosystem jenapnasPrinceton Scientific Corp.princeton university pressQuantum designQuantum design JapanQuantumwise a/sQuinStar Tech. inc./PAMTECH inc.radiant technologies

advanced research systemsagilent technologiesagilent technologies-vpdaip publishingaJa internationalamerican Magneticsamerican physical societyames laboratory, usdoe, Materials

preparation Centeramuneal Manufacturing Corporationandeen-hagerlingannual reviewsapogee imaging systemsar rF/Microwave instrumentationasylum researchattocube systems agBlake industriesBruker CorporationCambridge university pressCoax Co., Ltd.Coldedge technologiesColdQuantaComputing in science & engineering

(CiSE)CrdF globalCryo industries of americaCRYoFAB, inc.Cryogenic Control systemsCryogenic limitedCryomagneticsCryomechdCa instrumentseasylab technologies ltd

electro optical Componentselsevierentropy gmbhFirst nano, a Div. of CVD EquipmentgMw associatesgraphene laboratoriesgwr instrumentshealth physics societyHPD inc.huntington Mechanical labsiet inspecinstrutechintermodulation productsiop publishingJ.A. Woollam Co.Janis research CompanyJohnsen ultravacKeithley instrumentsKepco inc.Kimball physicsKurt J. Lesker Companylake shore Cryotronicslos alamos national laboratoryMacKichan softwareMad City labsMantis depositionMaterials research societyMcallister technical servicesMdC vacuum products, llCMewasa north americaMMr technologiesMontana instrumentsMti Corporation

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Pre-registrant labels are available for purchase. Contact don wise four weeks prior to the meeting at: 301-209-3289 or wise@aps.org to order registrant labels. Cost: $500. Labels will be sent electronically and will include names and addresses only (no emails). We do not sell registrant labels after the meeting.

exhiBitors

raith usarhK technologyrigaku americas Corporationroyal society of Chemistry, Cambridgescience/aaasScientific Computing & Modeiing

(SCM)Scientific instrumentsScientific Magneticssignal recoverysolartron analyticalspeCs surface nano analysis gmbhspringerstaib instrumentsStanford Research Systems (SRS)star Cryoelectronicstaylor & Francis group llC - CrC

pressteachspintreKulvaC technologiesvatvg scientavisitech internationalwebassignwiley-BlackwellWiTec instruments Corp.wolfram researchWorld Scientific Publishing CompanyZurich instruments

a three-dimensional attractor representing data from a chaotic spin wave in a magnetic thin film (A. hagerstrom et al., Phys. Rev. B 83 104402 (2011)).

Mail application & payment to Bob Finnegan, Exhibits Manager • American institute of Physics • 2 Huntington Quadrangle • Suite 1no1 • Melville, nY 11747-4502 • Phone: (516) 576-2433 • Fax: (516) 576-2481 • E-mail: rfinneg@aip.org. For more information on the technical program, housing and other aspects of the meeting, visit the APS Meetings homepage at www.aps.org/meetings/march.

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Single booth area is 10 ft. x 10 ft. defined by pipe with drape on back and side walls. no furnishings are included in the cost of the

booth rental. Furnishings should be ordered on the service forms that will be sent in the Exhibitor Kit in December. island booths will

be created on the floor plan upon request.

Fees: 10’ x 10’ interior booth: $2,200 10’ x 10’ corner booth: $2,300 10’ x 20’ corner booth: $4,500

Location: our preferences are: (please refer to numbers on floorplan on back page) 1. _________ 2. _________ 3. _________

Please do not allocate space next to the following possible exhibitors: ___________________________________________

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Enclose deposit (25% of booth cost) with application. Balance is due January 13, 2012. no space will be allocated without deposit.

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Calculated von neumann entropy of the one-dimensional XYZ spin-1/2 chain in the D-G plane (E. Ercolessi et al., Phys. Rev. B 83, 012402 (2011)).

applications

Beams physics

Biophysics

Carbon nanotubes

Chemical physics

Clusters

Complex Fluids

Computational physics

disorder & Composites

electronic structure

experiments & Measurements

Fluids & Quantum Fluids

Fullerenes

glassy & amorphous systems

graphenes

highly Correlated Metals

layered systems

Magnetism

Materials

Measurement & science

Mesoscopic systems

Metal-insulator transition

nano Materials

nonlinear phenomena

optical proper ties

phase transitions

polymers

Quantum hall effect

Quantum information

Quasicrystals

thin Films

x-ray & neutron scattering

semiconductors

• Bulk

• Defects

• Heterostructure

spintronics

superlattices

sur faces

superconducting Materials

superconductivity theory

superconductors

• Charge Proper ties

• Lattice Proper ties

• Type-ii & Macroscopic

• Phenomena

• Spin Proper ties

Future MarCh Meeting sites

2013 Balt iMore

2014 denver

2015 san antonio

2016 Balt iMore

2017 ne w orle ans

2018 los angeles

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College park, Md 20740

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the physicists who are your customers attend the March Meeting to participate in the highest level scientific program where the best physics research will be presented. More than 7,500 technical papers will be presented over the five-day program, covering:

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480-nanometer-wide scanning tunneling microscope image of a thin film of iridium grown on an iridium surface, showing borders between sections at different heights (S. Bleikamp, et al., Phys. Rev. B 83, 064103 (2011)).

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