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Home   |   Publications   |   APS News   |   May 2002 (Volume 11, Number 5)

May 2002 (Volume 11, Number 5)

May 2002 (Volume 11, Number 5) Entire Issue 

News

 
Latest Research in BEC, MgB2 Among March Meeting Highlights
More than 5000 talks presented the latest cutting-edge physics research at the biggest physics meeting of the year.
 
Women Physicists Explore Survival Skills at March Meeting
The APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP), for the first time, hosted a special half-day workshop to address te severe underrepresentation of women in physics.
 
International Conference Grapples with Issues of Women in Physics
The low number of women in physics worldwide was one of the underlying themes at a groundbreaking international conference on women in physics.
 
Physicists Achieve Molecular BEC, Coexistent ''Fermi Sea''
Session speakers present latest research on Bose-Einstein condensates.
 
Workshop Seeks New Ways to Prepare Students for the Job Market
The APS Committee on Professional Development spearheaded a special half-day workshop just prior to the APS March Meeting.
 
Princeton Meeting Honors Wheeler's Contributions to Physics
''Science and Ultimate Reality'' celebrated Wheeler's 90th birthday and his many contributions to quantum mechanics, cosmology, and information science.
 
Researchers Present New Physics-Based Medical Imaging Techniques
Medicine continues to reap benefits from pioneering physics tools.
 
Group Seeks to Spur Publications by Retired Physicists
Retirees are an "untapped resource" of valuable knowledge.
 
Meeting Briefs
Spring Section meetings
 

Opinion

 
Letters
First authorship does not determine real leader — Book may redefine what's rational
 
Viewpoint #1
A climate change policy for America.
 
Viewpoint #2
How to launch your own department PR program.
 
The Back Page
Reviewing the status of Black physicists at the DOE labs.
 

Departments

 
Members in the Media
As quoted in other publications...
 
This Month in Physics History
May 24, 1844: Morse and the telegraph.
 
Zero Gravity: The Lighter Side of Science
Hair-raising tabletop fusion ruckus rocks small Massachusetts town.


March Meeting Prize and Awards Recipients
March Meeting Prize and Awards Recipients
Photo credit: MediaWright, Inc. Photography and Video
Front row (l to r): Jim Eisenstein (research advisor for Kathryn Todd); KathrynTodd, Deborah S. Jin, Chris G. Van de Walle, Robert Wagner. Back row (l to r): Nicholas Read, Robert J. Soulen, Jr., James Allen, Tom Witten, Thomas Timusk, Donald S. Bethune, Jainendra Jain, Robert Willett, Sumio Iijima, Timothy J.Bunning, Carlos Bustamente, Anatoly L. Larkin, David Goldhaber-Gordon.
 

Party Animals
Party Animal
Photo by Malcolm Tarlton
Passing through the parking lot at APS headquarters last March were science writer James Riordon (left) and a polyurethane pachyderm (right). The latter was on its way to the studio of James’s mother, Elizabeth Cowan-Riordon, an artist and art teacher who was among those chosen by the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities to paint a collection of 100 elephants and 100 donkeys. Comprising a public arts project called “Party Animals”, these have been placed on display at various locations around Washington, and will later be auctioned off with the proceeds going to benefit the activities of the commission. Incidentally, Elizabeth Cowan-Riordon is the daughter of Clyde Cowan, who, together with Frederick Reines, made the first observation of the neutrino in 1956.

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