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June 2013 • Vol June 2013 • Vol. 22, No. 6 Vote in APS Society-wide Election A PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY see page 6 WWW.APS.ORG/PUBLICATIONS/APSNEWS APS Award Recipient Runs Boston Marathon; APS Members Are Asked to Comment Finishes Shortly Before Tragedy Strikes On Updated Education Statement By Michael Lucibella It’s one of the most difficult, and, next year she made sure to keep The initial draft of APS’s up- Cottle, a physicist at Florida State dated statement on K-12 educa- University and Chair of the APS Feryal Ozel of the University because of its legacy, the most her schedule clear. However a tion has been posted on the APS Committee on Education. He of Arizona was the recipient of popular. With so many people rumor started circulating that the website and members are invited added that physics and the physi- this year’s Maria Goeppert Mayer trying to register, Boston’s is the race requirements were about to to read the proposed statement cal sciences are often the target of Award, but she couldn’t attend the only marathon in the country that get much more restrictive, and run- and submit their thoughts and sug- cuts as schools face budget con- APS April Meeting in person to re- requires runners to qualify for it ners from across the country wor- gestions about it. straints. “The most powerful thing ceive her certificate. She was ful- with minimum times. Ozel first ried that their times wouldn’t be Every five years APS state- we can do is to get the physics filling a long-time dream of hers, made the grade three years ago fast enough for future races. Most ments are reviewed and amended community to say teaching phys- to run in the Boston Marathon. She and promptly registered for the years, registration stayed open for as necessary. The latest version ics is important.” described how the day turned from following year’s race. However eight weeks, but this time it filled of the K-12 Education Statement The statement calls on policy one of determination and triumph before she could run, she received up in only seven hours and Ozel features many changes and up- makers to provide every student to an unimaginable tragedy. an invitation to speak at a high pro- missed her chance. dates to the previous statement, with one year of high quality “It’s the Holy Grail for any dis- file international conference on the “I said, ‘OK, third time is the which was passed by Council in physics education. In addition, it tance runner,” Ozel said. “Some- day of the marathon. charm. I’m going to actually run it 2000. In particular, it highlights calls for a national effort for col- thing celebratory and historical… “It wasn’t a colloquium, it basi- this year.’” the need for qualified physical sci- leges and universities to partner For that to be destroyed like this, I cally had to be on the day of the As race day neared, Ozel real- ence teachers more explicitly than with colleges of education and lo- just couldn’t wrap my head around Boston Marathon,” Ozel said, “I ized she was facing another con- in previous versions. cal K-12 schools, teachers to have it.” said I better not turn this talk invi- flict. She was set to receive the “We are sort of in a key mo- access to educational resources Started 116 years ago, the tation down, so I didn’t go [to the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award ment for education and science and training and to increase the Boston Marathon is the oldest or- race].” in Colorado on Sunday evening. education in particular,” said Paul COMMENTS continued on page 6 ganized marathon in the nation. She was disappointed, so the BOSTON continued on page 3 Dark Matter Comes and Physicists Ready to Add Their BRAIN Power Goes at April Meeting By Michael Lucibella Scientists involved with shap- and Technology Policy (OSTP) ing the BRAIN Initiative, short for the idea for a project to map all By Michael Lucibella at around 8.6 GeV during its Physicists are poised to play a major role in President Obama’s Brain Research through Advanc- of the neural connections in the Dark matter was in the air at 14-month run. ing Innovative Neurotechnologies, human brain. Their original Brain “The data are insufficient to proposal to better understand the this year’s APS April Meeting, human brain, which he announced emphasized the interdisciplinary Activity Map proposal, which the with researchers in many areas claim discovery of WIMPs… nei- nature of the research. President highlighted in his State ther are we claiming evidence for on April 2. The president pro- of the hunt saying that there were posed allocating $100 million for “Many of the advances if not of the Union address in February, important developments. Some them, but further investigation is most of the advances, come from ultimately evolved into the White warranted,” said Blas Cabrera, a the initiative, to be divided among teams reported they were get- the National Institutes of Health, the physical sciences,” said Mi- House’s BRAIN Initiative. ting closer, while others saw once physicist at Stanford University. chael Roukes, of the Kavli Na- “It is a very auspicious time “Analysis favors a WIMP signal the National Science Foundation promising results fade away. and the Defense Advanced Re- noscience Institute at Caltech. He for using advances that have ac- “It looks like the pot is boil- with about a three sigma.” added that physicists are adept at crued in the last couple of decades The silicon detectors are locat- search Projects Agency (DARPA). ing,” said Leslie Rosenberg from Though the specific goals and “thinking about complex highly in nanoscience and nanotech, and the University of Washington. “A ed deep underground in the Sou- correlated systems of networks.” assembling a new generation of dan mine in Minnesota. They’re scope of the project are still being lot is happening in the dark matter determined, they will likely in- Roukes was part of the Kavli tools that will enable a great leap sector.” designed to detect the minute re- team that first suggested to the ad- forward in neuroscience,” Roukes coil that occurs whenever a WIMP clude developing new techniques At the meeting, researchers to map and study the brain. ministration’s Office of Science BRAIN continued on page 4 from the Cryogenic Dark Matter strikes a silicon nucleus. Search said they’ve seen three The results are surprising in potential candidates for dark mat- a few ways, and Cabrera said APS April Meeting Prize and Award Recipients ter particles known as WIMPS. that more analysis and data were The experiment’s eight silicon needed before any conclusions detectors recorded the readings MATTER continued on page 7 Meetings Impacted as Travel Cuts Take Effect By Michael Lucibella new travel restrictions for its em- Scientific conferences have ployees following the General started to feel the effects of ef- Services Administration scandal forts by the US federal govern- (see the report in the August/Sep- ment to curtail spending on travel. tember 2012 APS News, available Scientists have widely criticized online). Following that, “seques- the move to limit their ability to tration” took effect on March 1 of travel, and some conferences have this year, taking another slice out been especially severely affected. of scientists’ travel budgets. “I don’t believe the administra- Different federal agencies have tion understands what a science adopted different travel review meeting really is,” said Stephen policies. In the Department of Mackwell, an adjunct professor Energy, if DOE scientists collec- at Rice University and director of tively request spending of more the Lunar and Planetary Institute. than $100,000 on travel to one Photo by Ken Cole “It’s not a boondoggle, it’s the life meeting, the deputy secretary has blood of the scientific commu- to sign off on it. If they request On Sunday, April 14 at the April Meeting in Denver, APS President Michael Turner presented prizes and awards to 21 nity.” more than $500,000, the secretary distinguished individuals. In the photo, front row (l to r): Geoffrey West, Stephon Alexander, Roberto Peccei, Helen Quinn, Conferences have been hit with has to sign off. In the Department Sultana Nahar, Bernard Sadoulet, Michael Moe, and David Sanford. Middle row (l to r): George Fuller, APS President Mi- a double whammy over the last of Defense, travel needs to be au- chael Turner (standing slightly behind), John Galayda, Daniel Ratner, Irwin Shapiro, Randolf Pohl, Theodore Yoder, Gary 12 months. In May of last year, thorized by the relevant branch’s Gladding, and Timothy Stelzer. Back row (l to r): Teppei Katori, Jinhui Chen, Jin Huang, Roger Stuewer, and Blas Cabrera. the federal government adopted MEETINGS continued on page 7 2 • June 2013 Washington Dispatch This Month in Physics History Updates from the APS Office of Public Affairs June 10, 1854: Riemann’s classic lecture on curved space lbert Einstein changed our view of the uni- his own career on the theory of surfaces in two di- ISSUE: BUDGET Averse in 1915 when he published the general mensions, making it possible to precisely evaluate Fiscal Year 2014 Presidential Budget Request theory of relativity, in which he set forth the notion curvature mathematically. And in an 1824 letter to Though it was delayed multiple times, the president’s budget of a four-dimensional spacetime that warps and Ferdinand Schweikart, Gauss had speculated on request arrived in April. Overall the budget request was curves in response to mass or energy.
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