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November 2011 Volume 20, No.10 TM November 2011 Volume 20, No.10 TM www.aps.org/publications/apsnews APS NEWS Focus on Northwest Section A PublicAtion of the AmericAn PhysicAl society • www.APs.org/PublicAtions/APsnews/index.cfm see page 6 Physical Review X Out of the Gate APS Helps Deconstruct the iPad on Capitol Hill The premier issue of Physical and exploring a physical model that By Mary Catherine Adams Review X, the new APS open ac- incorporates natural human-mobil- Congressional staffers gath- cess journal, hit the virtual news- ity patterns, challenges established ered at the Rayburn House Office stands on September 30th. PRX’s models for the spread of epidemics, Building in Washington on Sept. first twelve papers, in what will be and has, since its publication, re- 21 to learn about how basic sci- a quarterly journal, span a broad ceived attention in several national ence research was integral to the spectrum of fields and are all of media. Another paper comes from development of the iPad–a tool high scientific quality. Unlike other the area of electronic-devices re- many on Capitol Hill use daily. APS journals, which are mainly search, reporting the fabrication of In an effort to persuade Con- supported by subscription revenue, new nanowire-based electronic di- gress to invest in scientific re- PRX is supported by an article-pro- odes and demonstrating their ultra- search, the APS, participating cessing charge of $1500 for papers fast operating speeds and control- with the Task Force on American of less than 20 standard Physical lability. A third paper, also covered Innovation (TFAI) and several Review pages, with small incre- with a Synopsis in Physics, brings other organizations, hosted an mental charges for longer papers. acoustic levitation and x-ray dif- event called Deconstructing the According to the editors of PRX, fraction techniques innovatively to iPad: How Federally Supported not only are articles being submit- bear in processing pharmaceutical Research Leads to Game-Chang- Photo by brian mosley/APs ted from fields in which APS usu- drugs into desired, highly soluble ing Innovation, which specifically Luis von Ahn, of Carnegie Mellon University and founder of ReCAPTCHA, mod- ally publishes; but the new journal amorphous forms–an increasingly targeted conservative freshman erated the briefing. to his right are martin izzard, of texas instruments; william Phillips, nobel laureate from nist; and benjamin bederson, of the university of is also deliberately and actively important goal for the pharmaceu- members of the House. maryland and Zumobi, inc. giving attention to subject matter tical industry. “Our goal was to inform mem- press secretary Tawanda Johnson support for scientific research.” that goes beyond the traditional “We are also striving to set a bers of Congress on how technol- said before the event. “We’re ad- There wouldn’t be an iPad for coverage. For example, the first pa- high standard for PRX’s editorial ogies in the iPad are rooted in ear- vocating for investment and for per in the first issue, by proposing PRX continued on page 4 ly-stage scientific research,” APS iPAD continued on page 6 Nobels Honor Discoveries of Accelerating Universe, Quasicrystals Redesigned Website Merges Physics and Focus Three astrophysicists, two of was awarded to Dan Shechtman “Not only do we not know what The APS online publication view papers to other physicists them US-based, were awarded the of the Technion–Israel Institute of dark energy might be, that would Physics recently underwent a re- working in other fields. 2011 Nobel Prize for physics for Technology for his discovery of be making the universe expand design and merged with another “It is really targeted at those “the discovery of the accelerating quasicrystals. faster and faster, we don’t even online APS publication, Physical who are interested in what’s going expansion of the Universe through In the mid 1990s, the two re- know whether really the answer Review Focus. With the newly on inside the journals but don’t observations of distant superno- search teams that were headed will turn out to be a new energy upgraded website, readers can have time to read the 20,000 pag- vae”, and, in an unusual twist, this by Perlmutter and by Riess and in the universe,” Perlmutter said more easily navigate through the es per year,” said Physics editor year’s chemistry prize was award- Schmidt respectively, examined in an interview with Nobel Media articles and find links to related Jessica Thomas. ed to research first published in the redshifts of distant superno- following the announcement. “It’s content. Focus has traditionally had Physical Review Letters. vae to measure the expansion of possible that we’ve just discov- Physics was started about three more of a journalistic feel to its The Nobel Prize Committee the universe. They both indepen- ered an extra wrinkle in Einstein’s years ago as a resource for physi- articles. Since it was created in awarded half of the physics prize dently published findings in 1998 Theory of Relativity, and that that cists to keep up with the latest 1998, it has highlighted new and to Saul Perlmutter at Lawrence announcing the unexpected con- would be the real final result. But research developments across all exciting research coming out of Berkeley National Laboratory, clusion that the universe appears at this point, the job is really back fields covered by APS journals. the journals, with an eye to appeal while the other half was split be- to be accelerating as it expands. in our court again as observers, The articles and commentary are to a broader audience, including tween Brian Schmidt at the Aus- The discovery came as a complete and we have to come up with more written by current researchers to students, scientists in other fields, tralian National University and surprise to the field, and its cause data that will help narrow in on highlight important Physical Re- WEBSITE continued on page 7 Adam Riess at Johns Hopkins remains one of the biggest myster- what the answer is.” University. The chemistry prize ies in cosmology. NOBEL continued on page 5 Philly Fellow-fest Fermilab Plans to Up the Intensity By Michael Lucibella lab is now looking to explore the addition, the lab will help analyze When Fermilab’s Tevatron shut intensity frontier, in hopes of de- data coming out of the LHC and down for good on September 30, it tecting very unusual interactions even has a remote operating room was in part acquiescence to the fact that hold clues to new physics. The to keep the LHC beams running that the United States had for the transition from one focus to the when it’s night in Geneva. foreseeable future ceded to Europe other is a gradual one, as there is Over the next couple of years, its place at the cutting edge in high still much to take care of after the neutrinos will take their place at energy particle colliders. When Tevatron shut down. the forefront of the lab’s research. brought to its full potential, the “The energy frontier is still go- They’ve been one focus already, Large Hadron Collider at CERN ing to have Fermilab participation. but as time progresses their share will be able to create particle col- Many of our staff are engaged in of the experimental activity will lisions seven times more energetic the CMS experiment at the LHC, increase. than the Tevatron could ever hope so we’re continuing in that sense “Neutrinos will be one of the to achieve. The Tevatron had been on the energy frontier as collabo- flagships,” said Sam Zeller, co- the centerpiece of Fermilab for 28 rators,” said Bob Tschirhart, a re- coordinator of the MiniBooNE ex- years, but with its shutdown the lab searcher at Fermilab. “For the next periment. has begun a process of reinventing few years we’re going to aggres- The neutrino projects that Zeller Photo by darlene logan itself to probe questions about the sively analyze our own data and and other researchers are working On September 15, APS hosted a reception in Philadelphia for APS Fellows from the area. in addition to conversation and refreshments, the fellows who nature of neutrinos, matter-antimat- collaborate with CERN.” on are part of a long-term plan to There are mountains of informa- build bigger and more sensitive de- attended heard from APS past President Curtis Callan of Princeton, and from ter asymmetry and other new phys- executive officer Kate Kirby, treasurer/Publisher Joe serene, and editor in ics at the intensity frontier. tion left over from the final run of tectors that can probe questions like chief gene sprouse. they were also brought up to date on political issues by Long the leader at the energy the Tevatron. It could be as many the hierarchy of neutrino masses APs director of Public Affairs michael lubell. in the photo are (l to r) APs fel- lows marsha lester of the university of Pennsylvania, elizabeth mccormack frontier with the Tevatron, Fermi- as two years before the last of its and neutrino mixing angles. collisions have been analyzed. In FERMILAB continued on page 6 of bryn mawr, and guest Jeff bush. 2 • November 2011 APS NEWS Members This Month in Physics History in the Media Nov. 19, 1711: Birth of Mikhail Lomonosov, Russia’s first modern scientist Ed. Note: This month’s column has been con- ber of Russian academicians as well as interns and “Physics is a true canary in without the Tevatron.” tributed by guest author APS Fellow Vladimir D. students in the Academy’s Gymnasium. In 1755 he the mine, so to speak, of judging Christopher Quigg, Fermilab, Shiltsev, Director of the Accelerator Physics Center founded Russia’s first University in Moscow, now America’s capabilities in terms of reflecting on the technical wiz- at Fermilab.
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