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DPF Newsletter - August 1999 DPF Newsletter - August 1999 In This Issue... DPF Elections News from DOE, HEPAP It is time once again for a DPF election. This year we will elect a Vice-Chair, a Divisional Councillor, and DPF Congressional two regular members of the Executive Committee. The Reception Vice-Chair will enter our four-person Chair line (see below) and become Chair in 2002. The Divisional 1999-2000 DPF Election Councillor is one of two who represent DPF at Information meetings of the APS council and act as liaisons to the APS. The two Executive Committee members will join four Executive Committee members remaining on the DPF Bylaws changes committee. The current members of the DPF Executive Approved - Electronic Committee and the final years of their terms are voting to begin Chair: Howard Gordon (1999). Chair-Elect: Eugene Beier (1999). The proposed changes to the Vice-Chair: Chris Quigg (1999). DPF bylaws were approved Past Chair: Howard Georgi (1999). by DPF membership in an Secretary-Treasurer: Catherine Newman- election that concluded in Holmes (2000). June, 1999. The primary Division Councillor: Robert Cahn (1999), reason for changing our Sally Dawson (2003). bylaws was to allow Executive Committee Members: Vernon electronic balloting in our Barger (2001), Pat Burchat (1999), Glennys annual elections. We will try Farrar (2001), Nicholas Hadley (2000), Kay this out for the upcoming Kinoshita (1999), Donna Naples (2000). DPF election described in this newsletter. The current The nominees for Vice-Chair are Robert Cahn plan is to distribute ballots (LBNL) and Stanley Wojcicki (Stanford by e-mail to those DPF University). Peter Meyers (Princeton members with e-mail University) and Chiara Nappi (Institute for addresses. Those without e- Advanced Study) are the candidates for mail addresses will receive Divisional Councillor. The nominees for ballots by conventional mail. regular members of the Executive Committee Other units of APS have are William Carithers (LBNL), Janet Conrad experienced increased voter (Columbia University), Joey Huston (Michigan turn-out when electronic State University) and John Huth (Harvard voting was instituted. University). Statements from the candidates appear in this newsletter. Instructions for IMPORTANT: This is the voting will be sent electronically or by only paper copy of the conventional mail, as described in the item candidates' biographies and about the bylaws changes. statements that you will receive. In particular, you DPF Meeting News will not receive another DPF 2000 will be held August 9-12, 2000 at copy of the candidate Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio). information even if you Further information will appear on the DPF receive a paper ballot. If you Web page and in future newsletters. do not have access to the World Wide Web, please The proceedings from DPF 99 held at UCLA in retain this newsletter until January, 1999 will be published electronically you have voted. and made available on the Web through the UCLA library. There will be a link from the DPF home page when the proceedings are available. News from DOE, HEPAP Contributed by John Metzler, Executive Secretary HEPAP, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy In June, 1999 Mike Witherell, in assuming his new responsibilities as Director of Fermilab, officially stepped down as chairman of HEPAP. HEPAP is now scheduled to meet on October 12-14, 1999 in the Washington, D.C. area with six new members, including the new chair. The DOE/NSF LHC Joint Oversight Group met to review the progress in meeting DOE's and NSF's commitments to CERN for the LHC Project, and to help prepare for U.S. participation in the CERN Council, the Committee of Council, and the US-CERN Co- operation Committee meeting, June 17-18, 1999. In response to a CERN request, John O'Fallon briefed CERN's Committee of Council on U.S. efforts, and delivered the message that DOE and NSF management are actively involved in the U.S. LHC Project, that U.S. funds are being spent according to agreed-upon funding profiles, and that the LHC is an important part of the U.S. HEP program. The US-CERN Co-operation Committee focused on issues concerned with resources, computing needs, and schedule integrity. In July 1999, the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Global Science Forum-the successor to the OECD Megascience Forum-met in Paris and agreed that a small workshop of government officials should be held in the early months of 2000 to determine if sufficient interests exists to consider the formation of a Working Party in High Energy Physics, and, if so, to formulate a proposal to the Global Science Forum which would include precise goals, objectives, and a draft work plan. Glenn Crawford will officially start work in the DOE Division of High Energy Physics on August 30, 1999. Marvin Gettner and Gordon Charlton are retiring from the Division of High Energy Physics on August 13, 1999. Information on vacant positions in DOE's Division of High Energy Physics may be found at http://www.hep.net/doe- hep/home.html, and candidates interested in working in the DOE Division of High Energy Physics may wish to contact John O'Fallon at (301) 903-3624. DPF Congressional Reception The Division of Particles and Fields together with the Division of Nuclear Physics hosted a reception for members of Congress and their staff, representatives of the Washington administrative agencies, and other interested persons on May 11, 1999. Legislators (and their staff members) were vastly outnumbered by physicists. The DPF Executive Committee would like to hear suggestions for making this event more useful. Please send them to DPF Chair Howard Gordon ([email protected]). 1999-2000 DPF Election Information Candidates for Vice Chair (vote for one) Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Robert Cahn grew up in California. He graduated in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard in 1966 and received his Ph.D. in Physics at Berkeley in 1972 under J. D. Jackson. He held post-doctoral positions at SLAC and the University of Washington before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1976. He was on the faculty at U. C. Davis for a year before returning to Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1979, where he has remained since. From 1991 to 1996 he was the Director of the Physics Division at LBNL. Cahn's research has covered many topics in particle physics including particle spectroscopy and electroweak symmetry breaking, with a focus on very high energy hadron colliders. With Sally Dawson, he proposed colliding virtual W's to produce the Higgs particle. After completing his term as Division Director at LBNL, he maintained his connection with the experimental program and is now a member of the BaBar Collaboration. He is also involved with the KamLAND underground neutrino oscillation experiment under construction in Japan. He is the author of two books, "Semi-Simple Lie Algebras and Their Representations", and "Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics," the latter co-authored by Gerson Goldhaber. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has held an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He has been a Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters and is co-editor of the Cambridge University Press series on Particle Physics. He served as Secretary-Treasurer of the DPF from 1992 to 1994 and is filling a one-year term as an APS Divisional Councillor. He is a member of the BaBar Executive Committee, the SLAC Policy Committee, and has served as the head of the NSF Special Emphasis Panels for Elementary Particle Physics for the past three years. Statement: This is an exciting time for particle physicists especially in the U.S., where several major programs are getting underway at accelerator laboratories. We are placing detectors deep underground and in outer space, as well, to look for phenomena that may challenge the Standard Model. Our commitments extend around the surface of the globe, with participation in programs in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Despite all this, we know that the future of particle physics in the U.S. is uncertain. The particle physics community has set out its blueprint for the future in the reports of the HEPAP subpanel headed by Fred Gilman and the National Research Council, chaired by Bruce Winstein. If we are to convince the American public and their governmental representatives that these plans deserve their support, we need to work as a unified community. There are encouraging signs that some of the rivalries - between different labs, between labs and universities, between DOE and NSF - are subsiding. There is increasing recognition that only with joint action can we hope to maintain the vitality of particle physics in the U.S. What we need is a Grand Unification of a different sort, one that brings together factions that have contended for resources to try to secure the support the community needs. I believe that because the DPF represents all components of the high energy physics community it ought to play a leading role in its unification. We need new accelerators, to be sure, but most of all we need new young physicists who will bring their talent and enthusiasm to our enterprise. By conveying the excitement of stalking nature's fundamental secrets, we can encourage students from all backgrounds to join us in this pursuit. To attract the most outstanding students, however, we must first build a long-term future for our field. Stanley G. Wojcicki, Stanford University Stanley Wojcicki received his AB in physics from Harvard University in 1957 and his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1962 for work on strange particle resonances in the group of Luis Alvarez. He stayed at Berkeley until 1966 (part of which time was spent in Paris and CERN on an NSF postdoctoral fellowship) at which time he moved to Stanford as Assistant Professor.
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