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January 2008 (Volume 17, Number 1) Entire Issue January 2008 Volume 17, No. 1 www.aps.org/publications/apsnews APS NEWS Meet the New APS President A PublicAtion of the AmericAn PhysicAl society • www.APs.org/PublicAtions/APsnews Page 3 APS April Meeting Convenes in St. Louis APS Launches New Prize for Approximately 1200 physicists In keeping with the more gener- the APS Committee on Minorities are expected to attend the 2008 APS alist tone of the April Meeting, ten in Physics (COM) and Committee Industrial Applications of Physics April Meeting, to be held April 12- exciting plenary talks will highlight on the Status of Women in Physics APS is calling for nominations and thereby to publicize the value 15 in St. Louis, Missouri. The scien- the technical program. (CSWP), and a special symposium for its new Industrial Applications of physics in industry, to encour- tific program, which focuses on as- Numerous special events are also celebrating the 50-year history of of Physics Prize. The Prize was age physics research in industry, trophysics, particle physics, nuclear planned for the April Meeting, in- Physical Review Letters. approved by Council last spring, and to enhance students’ aware- physics, gravitation and cosmol- The Division of Particles and and will be awarded for the first ness of and interest in the role of ogy, will consist of three ple- Fields has scheduled several time at the 2009 March Meeting. physics in commercial product nary sessions, approximately 72 special invited sessions and is The selection process for the first development.” invited sessions, more than 100 planning evening sessions on Prize will take place in the spring John Jaros, 2007 Chair of the contributed sessions, and poster the theme “A New Era in US and summer of 2008. APS Prizes and Awards Commit- sessions. This year the meeting Particle Physics.” April Meet- According to the description of tee, said “This Prize is designed to will be held in conjunction with ing program chair Natalie Roe the Prize, it is “awarded to an in- attract not only physicists in larger a conference sponsored by HEDP pointed out that in the next few dividual, or individuals, for appli- companies, but also the increasing (High Energy Density Physics) years, accelerators in the US cations of physics in an industrial number of industrial physicists and HEDLA (High Energy Den- will be shutting down, the Large setting. The purpose of the prize working in small companies and sity Laboratory Astrophysics). Hadron Collider will be turning is to recognize excellence in the start-ups. The emphasis will be on APS units represented at the on, and planning is underway for industrial application of physics, PRIZE continued on page 7 meeting include the Divisions the International Linear Collider. of Astrophysics, Nuclear Phys- “It’s a time of transition in par- Token of Appreciation ics, Particles and Fields, Physics ticle physics,” she said. of Beams, Plasma Physics, and The abstract submission dead- Computational Physics; the Fo- line is January 11; post-deadline rums on Education, Physics and abstracts received by February Society, International Affairs, His- cluding a high school physics teach- 8 will be assigned as poster presen- tory of Physics, and Graduate Stu- ers’ day, a student career panel and tations on a space-available basis. dent Affairs; and the Topical Groups networking reception, a students Early registration closes on Febru- on Few-Body Systems, Precision lunch with the experts, a “meet the ary 22. Measurement and Fundamental APS journal editors” reception, More information about the Constants, Gravitation, Plasma As- the presentation of APS prizes and April Meeting: http://www.aps.org/ trophysics, and Hadronic Physics. awards, a reception sponsored by meetings/april/index.cfm Turning 50, PRL Plans a Banner Year This year, Physical Review still the best. The 50th anniver- Gene Sprouse. Letters celebrates its 50th anni- sary is a great time to look back A number of activities are versary. Special events as well at the outstanding physics we've planned for PRL’s golden an- as special features in the journal published in PRL, but also an niversary year, including spe- and online are planned. opportunity for us to introduce cial sessions and receptions at PRL was first published in the March and April Meetings, July 1958 when Editor Sam a symposium and banquet on Photo by Ken cole Goudsmit started the journal as Long Island in June, and spe- A new tradition was inaugurated at the APS Council meeting in November, an experiment. It took the brief cial events at several meetings when executive officer Judy franz (right) presented past-President John hopfield with a bound volume of the minutes of theb oard and council meet- contributions that would have around the world. ings that he chaired in 2006, as a token of appreciation for all the services been published as letters to the These sessions will include that he rendered to the society during his Presidential term. editor in Physical Review, and talks on the history and future of collected them in a separate the APS journals, as well as talks Council Calls for Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions journal in order to make impor- about the history of the physics At its November meeting, APS mitigating actions are taken, signifi- tant results available quickly. some exciting new improve- that has been published in the Council passed a statement on global cant disruptions in the Earth’s physi- “Physical Review Letters was ments on which we are work- journals. At the March Meet- warming that calls for immediate ac- cal and ecological systems, social the first letters journal, and it is ing,” said APS Editor-in-Chief PRL continued on page 3 tion to reduce greenhouse gas emis- systems, security and human health sions. The statement also calls for are likely to occur. We must reduce Panel Hears Pros and Cons Of Open-Access Publishing more research to better understand emissions of greenhouse gases be- By Calla Cofield the effects of human activity on the ginning now. Open Access publishing was one org ), but papers posted there are not of loss were to occur in the 25 times climate. The complete text of the Because the complexity of the topic of intense discussion at the No- peer-reviewed. The purpose of Open larger journal, Physical Review D, it statement follows. climate makes accurate prediction vember meeting of the High Energy Access, said Mele, is to “grant any- would not be sustainable. APS offers Emissions of greenhouse gases difficult, the APS urges an enhanced Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP), body, anywhere, at anytime access to another form of Open Access in the from human activities are chang- effort to understand the effects of hu- whose members advise the federal peer reviewed, publicly funded HEP journals Physical Review A-E, Physi- ing the atmosphere in ways that af- man activity on the Earth’s climate, government on the national program research.” cal Review Letters, and Reviews of fect the Earth’s climate. Greenhouse and to provide the technological op- in high energy physics (HEP). APS At the HEPAP meeting, Sprouse Modern Physics. Anyone can pay a gases include carbon dioxide as well tions for meeting the climate chal- Editor-in-Chief Gene Sprouse ad- said that he supports the principle of fee to make the article free for all to as methane, nitrous oxide and other lenge in the near and longer terms. dressed the general subject of Open Open Access, but there needs to be a read on the APS website. However, gases. They are emitted from fossil The APS also urges governments, Access and its relation to APS, and financially sustainable model. only 30 out of about 18,000 papers fuel combustion and a range of in- universities, national laboratories Salvatore Mele of CERN described Open Access programs have been have been purchased since the pro- dustrial and agricultural processes. and its membership to support poli- SCOAP3, an Open Access model available in different forms for years, gram started a year and a half ago. The evidence is incontrovertible: cies and actions that will reduce the that is gaining steam in the European and are already the basis of some The European Physical Journal Global warming is occurring. If no emission of greenhouse gases. particle physics community. physics journals. One APS journal, has a similar program online. In No- Open Access initiatives began Physical Review Special Topics–Ac- vember 2007, EPJ made its Europe- Printing problem for APS News? in the biological sciences commu- celerators and Beams, is an online- an Physical Journal C–Particles and we have received complaints from some readers that their cop- nity, and have been attracting inter- only Open Access journal, funded by Fields open access, to experimental ies of the December issue were unreadable. we are asking any- est in high energy physics. The high a consortium of large labs. PR-STAB papers only, without cost to the au- one who had this problem to let us know by sending a message to energy physics community has for is not quite recovering its costs, said thor, although it is still maintaining [email protected]. if you wish, you can request a replacement years been making preprints freely Sprouse. In effect APS helps to spon- its regular subscription rates. copy in the message and we'll be happy to send one to you. accessible on the arXiv (http://arxiv. sor this journal, but if the same level PANEL continued on page 6 2 • January 2008 APS NEWS Members in the Media This Month in Physics History “Physicists love to nitpick, so for on the ground.” Edwin Hubble expands our view of the universe the 100 in the 10 million people who Wendy Freedman, Carnegie Insti- might watch the show, I try to get it as tution, on next generation telescopes, ntil the mid 1920s, most scientists thought the redshifted, indicating that most of the nebulae were re- close to 100% accurate as I can.
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