The Using Astronomy to Teach Physics Workshop will be held on the UNL campus July 27-30. An impressive list of plenary speakers has recently been announced. The speakers, their institutions, and their topics include:

• Joseph Amato, Colgate (Teaching Physics with Astronomy)
• Roger Blandford, Stanford (Keynote Address)
• Duncan Brown, Syracuse (LIGO)
• Doug Caldwell, NASA (Kepler ExtraSolar Planets)
• David Helfand, Columbia (Chandra)
• Kara Hoffman, Maryland (IceCube)
• Ed Prather, Arizona (Pedagogical Strategies)
• Barbara Ryden, Ohio State (Observational Cosmology)
• Greg Snow, UNL (Pierre Auger Observatory)

More information can be found here.