The American Association of Physics Teachers will return to New Orleans for its Winter 2013 Meeting, January 5-9. The Big Easy, well known for its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage, provides a lively and entertaining backdrop for physicists and physics educators as they meet to share information and ideas spanning a potpourri of themes (including physics of accelerator applications, physics of space weather, instructional innovations for the laboratory, reducing the achievement gap in physics, and online physics courses). And the meeting in New Orleans, "the birthplace of jazz," would not be complete without special sessions on the physics of sound, music, and all that jazz!

The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans with weekend workshops being held at a local university.

This meeting offers an opportunity for members, colleagues, and future physicists from around the world to participate in physics workshops, meet and greet other physics educators, form networks internationally, nationally and locally, engage exhibitors and learn about the latest physics resources.