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Newsletter 186 Color Division of Nuclear Physics Newsletter No. 186 The American Physical Society November 2015 TO: Members of the Division of Nuclear Physics, APS FROM: Benjamin F. Gibson, LANL – Secretary-Treasurer, DNP Executive Committee (three positions): Accompanying This Newsletter Gail Dodge (Old Dominion Univ.) Louis Rosen Scholar nomination solicitation. John Lajoie (Iowa State Univ.) Jorg Piekarewicz (Florida State Univ.) Future Deadlines David Radford (ORNL) Raju Venugopalan (BNL) Remco Zegers (NSCL/Michigan State Univ.) • 8 January 2016 — APR16 Abstract Submission • 25 January 2016 — Voting in DNP Election • 26 February 2016 — APR15 Early Registration Candidate biographies are included in this newsletter (item #16). • 1 March 2016 — Mentor & Service Award Nominations • 11 March 2016 — APR15 Housing Reservation Web balloting: Those with email addresses registered with the APS • 1 May 2016 — DNP Nominations for APS Fellowship will receive an election email containing instructions plus a PIN number. Those for whom no email address is available or whose email bounces will be sent a paper ballot. The deadline for voting is 25 January 2016. The home page for the Division of Nuclear Physics is now available at “http://dnp.aps.org.” Information of interest to DNP members -- current research topics, deadlines for meetings, prize nominations, As a DNP member, please exercise your right to vote in the DNP election. Typically only some 700+ election ballots have been cast by forms, and useful links are provided. Each DNP Newsletter is members. Your vote does count. It is important. DNP elections have posted, in advance of the copy sent via post. Comments and been decided by fewer than 5 votes. suggestions are solicited. Please send them to Ron Gilman at <[email protected]> 2. ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR SPONSORING AGENCY 1. ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Given the importance of agency sponsorship in making nuclear physics research possible, it is urged that DNP members acknowledge their The terms of the officers and three members of the current Executive agency sponsors in any talk or publication which they generate: Committee will expire at the close of the Business meeting of the seminars, workshop contributions, APS meeting talks, conference Division to be held in conjunction with the APS general meeting in Salt talks/posters, etc. Lake City, April 2016. Gordon Cates will become Chair, Michael Thoennessen will become Chair-Elect, and John Wilkerson will become 3. 2015 DNP DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD Past-Chair. Wick C. Haxton is the Divisional Councilor, through 2017. Mary Alberg, Rolf Ent, and Roxanne Springer will remain members of The 2015 recipient of the American Physical Society's Division of the Executive Committee. A Vice Chair, Secretary-Treasurer, and three Nuclear Physics' Distinguished Service Award is Robert E. Tribble of members of the Executive Committee are to be elected by April 2016. Texas A&M University. Tribble received his award at the Business Executive Committee member terms are two years. Meting of DNP 2015 in Santa Fe, NM. The citation reads: This year's Nominating Committee consists of Charlotte Elster (Chair), “For his outstanding service over three decades on behalf of Karsten Heeger, Sanjay Reddy (Vice Chair), Cynthia Keppel, and the Division of Nuclear Physics, for his skillful stewardship Vincenzo Cirigliano. The candidates selected by the Nominating of the Division that strengthened its vitality as a unit of the Committee and approved by the Executive Committee are: American Physical Society, and for his extraordinary service on the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, including his Vice-Chair (one position): leadership of the NSAC long range planning process to the benefit of the Nuclear Physics community.” David J. Dean (ORNL) Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf (Univ. Mass., Amherst) Secretary-Treasurer: INSIDE . Benjamin F. Gibson (LANL) • Prize and Award Recipients • Volunteer to Chair a Session in Salt Lake City • Call for Nominations for DNP Awards 4. 2015 DNP MENTORING AWARD Please go to the APS web site and link to Prizes, Awards, and Fellowships under the heading Programs for more information. The The 2015 recipient of the American Physical Society's Division of prize will be awarded at the APS April 2016 meeting in Salt Lake City. Nuclear Physics' Mentoring Award is John Dirk Walecka of the College of William & Mary. The citation reads: 8. 2016 BETHE PRIZE WINNER “In recognition of his sustained excellence in mentoring at all levels, from one-on-one mentoring of more than thirty- Vassiliki Kalogara of Northwestern University was named the recipient five graduate students to his inspired teaching of graduate of the 2016 Americal Physical Society's Hans A. Bethe Prize. The and undergraduate students in the classroom” citation reads: “For key contributions to the study of the electromagnetic Walecka spoke about his mentoring experience during the invited and gravitational wave radiation from binary compact session for Award winners at the DNP 2015 Fall Meeting in Santa Fe, objects, including the now-verified prediction that neutron NM. He received his certificate at the Business Meeting. star mergers produce short gamma-ray bursts that will be found in all galaxy types.” 5. 2016 NUCLEAR PHYSICS DISSERTATION AWARD Please go to the APS web site and link to Prizes, Awards, and The 2016 recipient of the Nuclear Physics Dissertation Award of the Fellowships under the heading Programs for more information. The American Physical Society's Division of Nuclear Physics is Chun Shen prize will be awarded at the APS April 2016 meeting in Salt Lake City. of The Ohio State University (now at McGill University). Shen’s dissertation was written under the direction of Ulrich Heinz (Ohio State). His citation reads: 9. NOMINATIONS FOR THE DNP MENTORING AWARD “For his successful prediction of anisotropic flow in Pb+Pb Nominations are sought for the Division of Nuclear Physics Mentoring collisions at the LHC, his elucidation of the ‘direct photon Award. This APS Unit Award is intended to recognize Division of flow puzzle’, and his contributions to the development of a Nuclear Physics members who have had an exceptional impact as computational tool of viscous fluid dynamics enabling mentors of nuclear scientists and students. This mentoring could be precision studies of relativistic heavy-ion collisions.” through teaching or research or science-related activities. Shen spoke about his research during the award session at DNP 2015 in Examples of contributions of individuals who could be candidates for Santa Fe. this award: - Exceptional mentoring of early career nuclear scientists; - Sustained commitment to mentoring early career nuclear scientists 6. 2016 BONNER PRIZE WINNER from traditionally under-represented backgrounds; - Leadership role in developing nuclear science research and career I-Yang Lee of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was named development activities, such as centers for nuclear science research for the recipient of the 2016 American Physical Society’s Tom W. Bonner undergraduates, or conference experiences for students, or summer Prize in Nuclear Physics. The citation reads: schools for nuclear science students. “For seminal contributions to the field of nuclear structure Early career nuclear scientists include undergraduate and graduate through the development of advanced gamma-ray detectors as students, postdoctoral scholars, and nuclear science professionals early realized in the Gammasphere device, and for pioneering work in their careers, such as assistant professors or assistant scientists. on gamma-ray energy tracking detectors demonstrated by the Gamma-ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETINA).” Nominations for the 2016 award are due 1 March 2016 and should be sent to: Please go to the APS web site and link to Prizes, Awards, and Fellowships under the heading Programs for more information. The Ani Aprahamian prize will be awarded at the APS April 2016 meeting in Salt Lake City. University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Physics 225 Nieuwland Science Notrre Dame, IN 46556 7. 2016 FESHBACH PRIZE WINNER Phone: (574) 631-8120 Email: “[email protected]” Xiangdong Ji of the University of Maryland and Shanghai Jiao Tong University was named the recipient of the 2016 American Physical Nomination packets should consist of at least 3 but not more than 4 Society's Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics. The letters supporting the nomination and a brief biosketch of the candidate. citation reads: At least two of the letters should be submitted by individuals who have benefited from the mentoring experience. Nominees shall be members “For pioneering work in developing tools to characterize the structure of the DNP. There are no time limitations on contributions that can be of the nucleon within QCD and for showing how its properties can be recognized by this award. Nominations will be active for three years. probed through experiments; this work not only illuminates the nucleon theoretically but also acts as a driver of experimental programs The members of the 2016 DNP Mentoring Award selection committee worldwide.” are: Ani Aprahamian (Chair), Warren Rogers, Calvin Johnson, Artemis Spyrou, and Dirk Walecka. 10. NOMINATIONS FOR THE DNP DISTINGUISHED consists of 1,000 €, a medal, and a certificate citing the recipient's SERVICE AWARD contributions, is: To recognize and encourage very promising experimental or theoretical Nominations are sought for the Division of Nuclear Physics’ research in nuclear
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