The 2006 joint spring meeting of the New England sections of the APS and AAPT will be held Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1, 2006 at Boston University. The theme for this year's meeting will be Physics and Cosmology: at the Interface with an invited session of prominent scientists discussing their research in talks aimed at a general physics audience. This year's meeting will also feature a new teacher workshop, a graduate teaching fellow workshop, and a physics demo show.

The new teacher workshop will be held on Friday morning and is targeted at those new to teaching physics. This workshop will focus on various aspects of teaching high school physics such as integrating new technologies and the challenges of implementing Physics First. The program will include a presentation by Concord Consortium and hands-on activities. There is an addition fee for this workshop.

A showcase of physics demonstrations will be held Saturday morning. This program will be spearheaded by the demo team from Boston University, but we are seeking individuals from other institutions to show off their favorite demonstrations. Interested parties should contact Andrew Duffy (duffy@bu.edu).

A new workshop for graduate teaching fellows is being planned for Saturday afternoon.

The deadline for the receipt is abstracts is March 17, 2006. Those wishing to make an APS contributed talk, please submit your abstract at http://www.aps.org/meet/abstracts/index.cfm. Those wishing to make an AAPT contributed talk should send their abstracts to nick_nicastro@wrsd.net.