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2006 ANNUAL REPORT  False Color View of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia a Combining X-Ray, Visible, and Infrared Images AMERIC A N P H Y S I C A L S OCIETY A P S 2006 Annual R eport The AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY strives to: APS Be the leading voice for physics and an authoritative source of physics information for the advancement of physics and the benefit of humanity; APS Collaborate with national scientific societies for the advancement of science, science education, and the science community; APS Cooperate with international physics societies to promote physics, to support physicists worldwide, and to foster international collaboration; APS Have an active, engaged, and diverse membership, and support the activities of its units and members. Cover photos: Top: Wires in a superconducting magnet coil (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory). Middle: Thin liquid crystal film after rapid cooling through a phase transition, showing topological defects — points in the image where four dark regions converge (Oleg Lavrentovich, Kent State University). Bottom: Super star clusters in the heart of the galaxy Ar 220 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. NASA, ESA and C. Wilson (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). Annual Report Design: Leanne Poteet/APS/2007 Charts: Krystal Ferguson/APS/2007 n 2006 APS marked several milestone achievements. Membership in the Society grew by more than 2000, passing 45,000. Many of these new members are students, which bodes well for the future of physics and APS. The APS March Meeting had over 7400 participants, an all-time high and an astounding number for those of us who remember that when this figure reached I4000, people complained the meeting was too large! Submission of articles to APS journals also continued its growth, and wonderful new scientific results were published: unbelievable precision in the electron’s magnetic moment, new evidence for dark energy in the early universe, antimatter hydrogen atoms, new insight into the properties of graphene, energy landscapes predict gene regulation, and many more. Increasing the funding for physics research and education continued to be a top priority for APS in 2006. The year started with the importance of the physical sciences for national competitiveness highlighted in the President’s State of the Union Address. APS, along with many other organizations, had worked extremely hard to get this national attention, and these efforts continued unabated throughout the year as the President’s budget was debated by Congress. With many ups and downs along the way, we now know that our efforts have not been in vain, and NSF, the DOE Office of Science and NIST have received the first installment of the increases that should double their budgets in the next ten years. Through the work of the APS Panel on Public Affairs (POPA), the Society prepares studies and reports that advise the Administration and Congress on physics-related issues of public concern. This year POPA subcommittees concentrated on energy- related issues, interim storage of nuclear waste and electricity storage, as well as concerns about the introduction of “intelligent design” in science classrooms. APS made a special effort to reach out to various groups throughout the year. A Task Force on APS Industrial Members considered the special concerns and needs of this important part of APS membership and came up with good recommendations, many of which are now being put into practice. A new website, with new technology and structure was implemented to better serve APS members and to communicate better with policy makers and the public. In addition, a new Committee on Informing the Public was initiated to advise APS on its increasing activities in this area. Improving the education of physics teachers remains a major priority for APS, and I’m pleased to report that our programs to involve more universities in these efforts have been flourishing. During the year, Tom McIlrath, APS Treasurer and Publisher, retired after 10 years of meritorious service, leaving the Society in good financial shape. Joe Serene was welcomed as the new Treasurer/Publisher, and I believe that he will serve APS with equivalent insight and expertise. With APS journals and meetings thriving, our new logo “APS Physics” making it clearer to policy makers and the public who we are, and with the APS membership growing in both size and range of activity, the Society is in a strong position to face the future. John Hopfield APS 2006 President APS 2006 ANNUAL REPORT 1 False color view of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A combining x-ray, visible, and infrared images. (NASA/CXC/SAO/STScl/JPL-Caltech, see http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/casa/) Journals In September, APS announced its Free internal PRL committee marks a subset of to Read open access program. Free to Read al- those as “Suggestions” for being particularly hange is certainly a constant, but 2006 lows individuals or institutions to pay a com- interesting and clear to readers who want to had even more of it than usual in the paratively low fee—$975 for a Physical Review venture outside of their own fields and their areas of personnel, technology, and (PR) article and $1300 for Physical Review usual interests. The goal is to encourage broad the physical environment at the APS Editorial Letters (PRL)—to allow access, on the APS reading and to foster unity in physics. The APS Free to Read program allows C Office. Along with their Maryland colleagues, site, to the full text versions of articles at no The Electronic Office Project (EOP) individuals or institutions to pay a Editorial Office staff bid a fond goodbye to cost to readers without subscriptions. Not continued its progress in 2006. Two major comparatively low fee to have access Publisher and Treasurer Tom McIlrath in Oc- limited to recent articles, Free to Read can be systems have increased efficiency, reduced -de tober. Joe Serene, with a background in aca- applied to any articles from APS’s complete lays, and sped processing time. One acceler- on the APS site to full text versions of demic administration and a strong knowledge archive. Several papers of current or historic ates the processing of incoming submissions; articles without subscriptions. of APS and its journals, stepped ably into that interest to the general public, as well as an en- the other enables streamlined check-ins of position. Charlie Muller also retired as Direc- tire issue of Reviews of Modern Physics, were new papers as well as updating, correcting, tor of Journal Operations. Muller had been made Free to Read by the APS to inaugurate and proofing of database entries. The “paper- employed by APS in a number of locations the program, and CERN has also financed less office” liberated substantial square footage and capacities since 1981, and most recently two articles. About 20 more have already been formerly devoted to paper files, but the space played a key role in streamlining and modern- purchased or are under consideration for Free was quickly gobbled up for new offices. izing editorial support processes. Christine to Read. TheFree to Read model promises bet- Now that the EOP is nearing completion, Giaccone moved up to the Director position ter sustainability and flexibility than other the skills, momentum and human resources upon his departure. such schemes, and it joins the Special Topics marshaled for it will be directed to a new ini- Towards the end of the summer, the news journals (in Accelerators & Beams and Phys- tiative, Journal Innovations ( JIN), which was arrived that Gene Sprouse, a nuclear physicist ics Education Research) as part of the open funded by the APS Council in the fall of 2006. and professor at the State University of New access offerings sponsored by APS. JIN will develop new services and new content York, Stony Brook, had been selected to succeed Following recommendations from the re- that will highlight and supplement traditional APS Editor-in-Chief Martin Blume, who re- cent PRL Review Committee and others, the journal articles. tires on February 28. Sprouse became involved editorial staff developed and tested a scheme ThePhysical Review Focus web site (focus. almost immediately, attending meetings and for selecting a small subset of Letters each aps.org) continued to produce weekly, broadly events, dropping in on staff, and browsing the week for special attention. “Editors’ Sugges- accessible accounts of selected recent papers office and organization websites. He joined the tions” has now been implemented. PRL edi- from the Physical Review journals, along with staff full time as of January 22, 2007. tors nominate a few Letters each week, and an attractive images. Focus also covered four pa- 2 APS 2006 ANNUAL REPORT Theoretical polymer density map of a nanoparticle with “hair” made of polymer molecules. (J.-R. Roan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 248301 (2006), see http://focus.aps.org/v17/st22) pers from the Physical Review archives, all of one on opportunities in biology for physi- Dynamics (DFD), Plasma Physics (DPP), which led to Nobel Prizes, on the discovery cists and one on teaching quantum mechan- Particles and Fields (DPF), as well as several of the positron, wave-particle duality, nuclear ics. Several special sessions were held during meetings sponsored by the Topical Groups magnetic resonance, and the theory of super- the meeting, including two evening sessions, and Sections. conductivity. entitled Emerging Emergent Phenomena; Intel- A special task force on the future of the The annual increase in submissions to the ligent Design: Its Impact and Responses to It and April Meeting, chaired by Chris Quigg of Physical Review is not exactly news anymore, Perspectives on our Energy Future. Fermilab, reported its findings at the APS The 2006 March Meeting was the although there was a slower rate of increase The location of the March Meeting in Council meeting in November.
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