Division of Nuclear Physics Newsletter No. 127 The American Physical Society May 2001 TO: Members of the Division of Nuclear Physics, APS FROM: Benjamin F. Gibson, LANL – Secretary-Treasurer, DNP ACCOMPANYING THIS NEWSLETTER: Program Committee Charles Glashausser, Rutgers (Chair) • Hawaii 2001 Meeting Forms A. Baha Balantekin, U. Wisconsin (Vice Chair) • DNP Nomination Ballot Joel M. Moss, LANL (Past Chair, 2000) R. G. H. Robertson, U. Washington (Past Chair 1999) B. F. Gibson, LANL (Secretary-Treasurer) V. R. Brown, U. Maryland/MIT A. Bruell, MIT J. A. Cizewski, Rutgers D. Dean, ORNL K. de Jager, JLab V. Greene, Vanderbilt Future Deadlines J. Hardy, TAMU D. Hertzog, U. Illinois • 29 June 2001 — User Group Deadline in order to appear in A. Macchiavelli, LBNL the October Bulletin L. McLerran, BNL • 29 June 2001— Nomination Ballot for DNP Elections D. Morrissey, MSU • 29 June 2001 — Contributed Abstracts, Hawaii Fall Meeting J-C. Peng, LANL • 1 July 2001 — Nominations for Bonner Prize E. J. Stephenson, IUCF • 1 July 2001 — Nominations for Bethe Prize B. van Kolck, U. Arizona • 1 July 2001 — Nominations for Dissertation Award • 15 August 2001 — Hawaii Early Registration Deadline Remaining committees will appear in the August newsletter. • 5 September 2001 — Hawaii Hotel Reservations Deadline WWW Home Page for the DNP: http://nucth.physics.wisc.edu/dnp A WWW home page for the Division of Nuclear Physics is now INSIDE . available at “http://nucth.physics.wisc.edu/dnp.” Information of interest to DNP members -- current research topics, deadlines for meetings, prize nominations, forms, and useful links are provided. • Call for Officer Nominations Each DNP Newsletter is posted, in advance of the copy sent via post. Comments and suggestions are solicited. Please send them to Baha Balantekin at • Call for Prize/Award Nominations “[email protected]” • Future Meeting Dates 1. DNP COMMITTEES Executive Committee Joel M. Moss, LANL, Chair (2001) • Nuclear Physics Summer School Charles Glashausser, Rutgers, Chair-Elect (2001) A. Baha Balantekin, U. Wisconsin, Vice Chair (2001) R. G. Hamish Robertson, U. Washington, Past Chair (2001) • Hawaii 2001 Benjamin F. Gibson, LANL, Secretary- Treasurer (2001) J. Dirk Walecka, College of William & Mary Divisional Councilor (December 2001) • Physical Review C Search Charlotte Elster, Ohio U. (2002) Barry R. Holstein, U. Mass (2001) T. S. Harry Lee, ANL (2002) Bradley M. Sherrill, MSU (2002) • E-mail Abstract Submission Robert E. Tribble, Texas A&M (2001) Michael C. T. Wiescher, Notre Dame (2001) 2. NOMINATIONS OF OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR 2001 contribution. While general statements concerning the value of the nominee's work are important, we must have specific information that Terms of the officers and three members of the present Executive allows us to determine what the nominee has contributed and how this Committee will expire at the close of the regular meeting of the contribution has impacted the field. Division to be held in conjunction with the APS spring meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 2002. Charles Glashausser will Send name of proposed candidate and supporting material before 1 July become Chair, Baha Balantekin will become Chair-Elect, and Charlotte 2001 to: Dr. P. D. Bond, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY Elster, Harry Lee, and Brad Sherrill will remain members of the 11973. Executive Committee. A Vice-Chair, Secretary-Treasurer, and three members of the Executive Committee are to be elected before April 2002. 4. NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2002 BETHE PRIZE IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS The enclosed nominating ballot must be signed and may be returned in the enclosed envelope with your name and address printed or signed This annual prize was established in 1996 by friends, students, and legibly in the upper left hand corner of the envelope. It should be associates of Hans A. Bethe and announced at Bethe’s 90th birthday received by Benjamin F. Gibson on or before 2 July 2001 in order to celebration at Cornell. Previous prize winners are: J. Bahcall, E. E. be counted. The DNP bylaws require that a nominee proposed for a Salpeter, I. Talmi, and G. E. Brown. given post by not fewer than one-fiftieth of the members (47 for this election) shall be deemed nominated for that post. The purpose of the prize, which currently consists of $7500 and a certificate citing the recipient’s contributions, is “To recognize If you are a DNP member, please exercise your right to nominate outstanding work in theory, experiment, or observation in the areas of candidates for the upcoming DNP elections. In 2000 there were only astrophysics, nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics or closely related 127 nomination forms received by the Secretary-Treasurer. More fields.” members vote in the DNP elections, but in January 2001 only some 565 election ballots were mailed in by members. It is important to vote! The award is to be made to one individual for outstanding accomplishments in these areas. No time limits are set on when the work was done. CALL FOR 2002 PRIZE/AWARD NOMINATIONS Nominations remain active for three years. It is extremely helpful for the committee to receive additional letters of support that detail the 3. NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2002 TOM W. BONNER contributions of the nominee and the impact these contributions have PRIZE IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS had on the field. It is also appropriate to submit material such as significant articles that might help the committee evaluate the This annual prize was established in 1964 as a memorial to Tom W. nominee’s contribution. While general statements concerning the value Bonner by his friends, students and associates. Previous winners are: of the nominee’s work are important, specific information defining what H. H. Barschall, R. J. Van de Graaff, C. C. Lauritsen, R. G. Herb, G. the nominee has contributed and how this contribution has impacted the Breit, W. A. Fowler, M. Goldhaber, J. D. Anderson and D. Robson, H. field is needed. Feshbach, D. H. Wilkinson, C. S. Wu, J. P. Schiffer, S. T. Butler and G. R. Satchler, S. Polikanov and V. M. Strutinsky, Roy Middelton and W. Send name of proposed candidate and supporting material before 1 July Haeberli, R. M. Diamond and F. S. Stephens, B. L. Cohen, G. E. 2001 to: Dr. G. T. Garvey, MS H846, Los Alamos National Brown, C. D. Goodman, H. A. Enge, E. G. Adelberger, L. M. Bollinger, Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545. B. Frois and I. Sick, R. H. Davis, E. M. Henley, V. W. Hughes, P. Twin, H. G. Blosser and R. E. Pollock, A. Arima and F. Iachello, E. K. Warburton, F. Boehm, J. D. Walecka, R. G. H. Robertson, J. M. Moss, 5. NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2002 DISSERTATION V. R. Pandharipande, R. Arnold, and R. Geller and C. Lyneis. AWARD IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS The purpose of this prize, which currently consists of $7,500 and a The now annual prize, which recognizes a recent Ph.D. in nuclear certificate citing the recipient's contributions, is “To recognize and physics, was established in 1985 by members and friends of the encourage outstanding experimental research in nuclear physics, Division of Nuclear Physics of the APS. Previous winners are: B. including the development of a method, technique, or device that Sherrill and W. J. Burger, Thomas E. Cowan, Michael J. Musolf, James significantly contributes in a general way to nuclear physics research.” Edward Koster, Zhiping Zhao, Greg Schmid, Yury G. Kolomensky, Eric Hawker, John Arrington, and Daniel Bardayan. Nominations are open to physicists whose work in nuclear physics is primarily experimental, but a particularly outstanding piece of Nature: The award consists of $2000 and an allowance for travel to the theoretical work will take precedence over experimental work. There annual Spring Meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the are no time limitations on when the work was performed. The prize American Physical Society at which the award will be presented. shall ordinarily be awarded to one person but a prize may be shared among recipients when all the recipients have contributed to the same Rules and Eligibility: Nominations are open to any person who has accomplishment(s). received a Ph.D. degree in experimental or theoretical nuclear physics from a North American university within the two-year period preceding Nominations remain active for three years. It is extremely helpful for 1 September 2001. Nominations remain in effect for two years and the committee to receive additional letters of support that detail the need not be resubmitted. contributions of the nominee and the impact these contributions have had on the field. It is also appropriate to submit material such as Send before 1 July 2001 the nomination of the proposed candidate, a significant articles that might help us evaluate the nominee's statement of his/her contribution to the research as well as that of others, a letter of support from the physicists who are familiar with the people from different subfields to meet and to recognize that they are candidate and the research, and five copies of the thesis for the five members of a broad community. committee members. Electronic copies in PDF or postscript format are welcome. These materials are required for each nominee and should be sent to Dr. J. M. Moss, MS H846, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 9. 2001 DNP FALL MEETING ON MAUI, Los Alamos, NM 87545. 17–20 OCTOBER, V. R. Brown The annual Fall Meeting will be an historic first joint meeting of the 6. FUTURE DNP FALL MEETINGS Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) of the American Physical Society (APS) and the nuclear physicists of the Japanese Physical Society (JPS). The meeting will be held at the Outrigger Wailea Resort on the island of 2002 October 9–12 East Lansing, MI Maui in Hawaii on 17–20 October 2001.