Members of the Division of Nuclear Physics, APS FROM: Benjamin F
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
TO: Members of the Division of Nuclear Physics, APS FROM: Benjamin F. Gibson, LANL – Secretary-Treasurer, DNP ACCOMPANYING THIS NEWSLETTER: Charles Glashausser, Rutgers, Vice Chair (2000) • APS Spring Meeting DNP Symposia Walter F. Henning, ANL, Past Chair (2000) • DNP Fall Meeting Speaker Nomination Form Benjamin F. Gibson, LANL, Secretary-Treasurer (2000) J. Dirk Walecka, College of William & Mary Divisional Councilor (December 2001) Christopher R. Gould, N. Carolina State Univ. (2000) Barry R. Holstein, U Mass (2001) Brian Serot, Indiana U (2000) T. James M. Symons, LBNL (2000) Robert E. Tribble, Texas A&M (2001) Future Deadlines Michael C. T. Wiescher, Notre Dame (2001) • 1 April 2000 — APS Fellowship Nominations • 4 May 2000 — Speaker Nominations for Fall Meeting 2. CALL FOR DNP COMMITTEE SUGGESTIONS • 1 July 2000 — Nominations for Bonner Prize • 1 July 2000 — Nominations for Bethe Prize The terms of some of the members of the following DNP committees • 1 July 2000 — Nominations for Dissertation Award expire in April 2000: Bethe, Bonner, Fellowship, Nominating, Home Page, and Education. Suggestions from the DNP membership for new members of these committees for 2000 are welcome and should be sent WWW Home Page for DNP - “http://www.phy.anl.gov/dnp/”. to Hamish Robertson. A list of committee members for 2000 will be published in the August newsletter. A worldwide web home page for the Division of Nuclear Physics is currently available at “http://www.phy.anl.gov/dnp/”. Information of interest to DNP members, such as current NP topics, deadlines for Inside . meetings, prizes, nomination forms, special announcements, and useful links are listed there. Each DNP newsletter is also posted on the web, in advance of the copy you receive in the mail. We would • Bonner, Bethe, Dissertation Award Winners like to hear your comments and suggestions. Please send them to Bob Wiringa at “dnp@ theory.phy.anl.gov”. • 1999 APS Fellows • Spring Meeting Preview 1. RESULTS OF ELECTION: OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR 2000 • Call for Prize/Fellow Nominations By the deadline date of 31 January 2000, 566 properly identified ballots were received for the election of officers and members of the Executive • Fall Meeting in Williamsburg Committee. The results of the election are as follows: Charles Glashausser was elected as Vice-Chair and Benjamin F. Gibson was elected as Secretary-Treasurer for one-year terms. Barry R. Holstein, • DNP99 Teachers’ Day Robert E. Tribble, and Michael C. T. Wiescher were elected to two-year terms on the Executive Committee. The counting of the ballots was • Annual Reviews Orders done by Tellers Martin Cooper, Ron Nelson, and Dick Silbar and supervised by Kay Grady, all of LANL. The members of the 2000 Executive Committee, who assume their duties at the APS/AAPT • Future Conferences Spring Meeting, are as follows: R. G. Hamish Robertson, U Washington, Chair (2000) Joel M. Moss, LANL, Chair-Elect (2000) 3. 2000 BONNER PRIZE WINNER 7. THE 2000 WOLF PRIZE IN PHYSICS ANNOUNCED Raymond Arnold, known for his work at the Stanford Linear The 2000 Wolf Prize in Physics will be shared by Professor Raymond Accelerator Center, has been named the winner of the 2000 Tom W. Davis Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania and Brookhaven National Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics. The citation reads: Laboratory, USA, and Professor Masatoshi Koshiba, of the University of Tokyo, Japan, “for their pioneering observations of astronomical “For his leadership in pioneering measurements of the electromagnetic phenomena by detection of neutrinos, which created the emerging field properties of nuclei and nucleons at short distance scales that addressed of neutrino astronomy.” the fundamental connection of nuclear physics to Quantum Chromodynamics and motivated new experimental programs.” The Israel-based Wolf Foundation announced last week that the two world-renown scientists will share the $100,000 Prize. “Their Go to www.aps.org and click on Prizes and Awards to read the observations of the elusive neutrinos of astrophysical origin have background information on Dr. Arnold. opened a new window of opportunity for the study of astronomical objects, such as the Sun and exploding stars, and the study of fundamental properties of matter,” stated the Jury. Davis and Koshiba 4. 2000 BETHE PRIZE WINNER developed complementary methods that have yielded important scientific results and have inspired the development of new neutrino Igal Talmi, Professor Emeritus of the Weizmann Institute of Science, detection experiments. has been named the winner of the 2000 Hans A. Bethe Prize. The citation reads: Raymond Davis Jr., 85, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, graduated from the University of Maryland and received his Ph.D. from “For pioneering work on the shell model of the nucleus that laid the Yale University. He has been associated with Brookhaven National foundation of much of what we known about nuclear structure." Laboratory, Upton, New York, since 1948; since 1973, he has been Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, Go to www.aps.org and click on Prizes and Awards to read the Philadelphia. “He developed, through persistent and sustained efforts, background information on Prof. Talmi. the first large-scale radiochemical neutrino detectors and obtained the first measurements of the flux of neutrinos from the sun,” it was said. These measurements were shown to provide a very stringent test for 5. 2000 DISSERTATION AWARD WINNER theories of the solar interior. John Arrington now of Argonne National Lab has been awarded the Masatoshi Koshiba, 73, received his Ph.D. in 1955 from the University 2000 Dissertation in Nuclear Physics Award for his thesis work at of Rochester, New York, after graduating from the University of Tokyo. Caltech under the direction of Bradley Filippone. The citation reads: He led the design and construction of the Kamiokande detectors, which broke new ground, by recording the time of arrival, energy, and “For his significant contributions to the preparation, execution and direction of the incoming neutrinos. “These attributes were essential in analysis of measurements of inclusive high-energy electron scattering identifying that neutrinos from Supernova 1987a and the low energy from nuclei. Observations of scaling phenomena in these cross sections neutrinos originate in the sun, and in measuring the fluxes of neutrinos provide insight into the role of nucleonic and subnucleonic degrees-of- of different types produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, providing freedom in the short-range structure of nuclei.” the initial evidence that neutrinos have mass,” it was stated. Koshiba has been a Professor at the University of Tokyo since 1970. He has Go to www.aps.org and click on Prizes and Awards to read the taught also at Tokai University, Japan, at CERN, Switzerland, and at information on Dr. Arrington. George Washington University, USA. Among other honors, he has received the Order of Cultural Merit, conferred by the Emperor of Japan in person. 6. NEW DNP FELLOWS The following DNP members are newly elected (1999) Fellows of the 8. THE APS SPRING MEETING IN APS. Please join us in offering congratulations. LONG BEACH, CA, 29 APRIL – 2 MAY 2000 Ani Aprahamian, University of Notre Dame The Program Committee, under the leadership of Hamish Robertson, Arthur E. Champagne, University of North Carolina has completed organizing the DNP component of the APRIL 2000 APS Umesh Garg, University of Notre Dame Spring Meeting in Long Beach. The Invited Sessions and Jack Terrance Goldman, Los Alamos National Laboratory Minisymposia are listed in the enclosed program summary. The Michael Hass, Weizmann Institute of Science contributed paper sessions will soon be available in the web version of Christopher J. Lister, Argonne National Laboratory the BAPS on the APS Home Page. Claude M. Lyneis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Eric B. Norman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The successful Plenary Session format of the 1998 Columbus meeting Seppo Ilmari Penttilä, Los Alamos National Laboratory will be utilized at Long Beach. The 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Sessions on Robert James Perry, Ohio State University Saturday–Monday will be devoted to nine Plenary talks. During the Jørgen Randrup, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory remainder of the four-day meeting the DNP has organized the DNP Gary D. Westfall, Michigan State University Prize Session, four Invited Speaker sessions, and five joint Invited Robert B. Wiringa, Argonne National Laboratory Speaker sessions with: DPF (Particles and Fields), GFC (Fundamental Constants), GFBS (Few-Body Systems), CSWP/FPS (Committee on the Status of Women in Physics/Forum on Physics in Society), and DPB (Physics of Beams). In addition, there will be two Minisymposia, each of which will be initiated by a 30-minute Invited Speaker introduction of the society. The total number of members who could be elected to on which the following contributed paper speakers may rely to set the Fellowship in a given year is one half of one percent of the total APS stage. The Minisymposia, which have been organized by Roy Whitney, membership. are: The DNP deadline is normally 1 April. Nomination forms are available B4. Minisymposium: Spin in the Nucleon — GDH from the APS Home Page or can be obtained by sending an e-mail Sum-Rule Evolution message to “[email protected]” or by calling (301) 209-3286. V13. Minisymposium: Towards a Common Completed forms should be returned to Dr. J. Franz at the same address. Understanding of the “NN Correlation” Concept Information can also be found on the APS home page (http://www.aps.org); click on the word fellowship. The nomination Some 15 sessions of Contributed Papers have been organized in parallel form can also be downloaded. with the Invited Speaker sessions and the Minisymposia. The 2000 DNP Fellowship Committee is comprised of S. J. Freedman (Chair ), W. Benenson, S. E. Vigdor, D. Geesaman, and J.