Forum on Industrial & Applied Physics
George E. Pake Prize
We congratulate Thirumalai Venkatesan, National University of Singapore, winner of the 2012 George E. Pake Prize:"For his exemplary scientific career in research, industrial leadership, and guidance of new generations of physicists in the creation new ventures by innovation.."
Summer 2012 FIAP newsletter available!
The newest issue of the FIAP Newsletter is now available. Articles on career development, successful collaborations, announcements, and more.
FIAP officer elections for 2012-2015 term
Election closes 5 PM EST Monday December 19.
FIAP elections have begun! Your country and the APS need you to vote!
Country?
Absolutely and here’s why: In 2005, the Congress and Senate asked the National Academies (Sciences, Engineering, and Institute of Medicine) to do a study on U. S. Competitiveness. The results (a report entitled “Rising above the gathering storm”) were terrible, so in 2010 they were asked to try again. Last year the new report came out entitled: “Rising above the gathering storm Revisited: Rapidly approaching category 5” If you have any interest in seeing where physics and your funding and your future are heading, don’t hesitate to download yourself a FREE copy of the $19.95 report at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12999#description.
Physicists represent one of the Nation’s most precious resources needed to reverse this trend … and time is running out rapidly. FIAP represents a major constituency of the APS with almost 6800 members and desperately needs your encouragement and participation to become more active in the Nation’s industrial and Applied Physics needs.
Last year almost 91% of our membership didn’t vote!! PLEASE spend a few minutes looking over our remarkable list of candidates running in this year’s election and then cast your votes. Your vote means so much to all of us. Please help and vote early.
Details of the duties and responsibilities of the positions open for election may be found at the APS Website. Meanwhile FIAP exists to represent the interests of the industrial and applied physics community within APS. Electing officers is your right as a member and is one of the best ways to influence the priorities and direction of FIAP. We encourage you to read the candidate summaries carefully and to make informed choices. Every vote counts! Historical participation rates in APS unit elections are very low - which makes your vote all the more important. Don't miss this opportunity to shape the future of FIAP!
FIAP's Vice-Chair succeeds to Chair-Elect and Chair and leads all of FIAP's key subcommittees: Program (plans FIAP's March Meeting sessions), Fellowship (selects new APS Fellows), and Nominating (selects candidates for FIAP office). The Councillor serves as liaison between the FIAP Executive Committee and the APS Council, brings proposals and issues of concern to FIAP to the attention of Council, reports to FIAP regarding Council actions that affect the status and operations of FIAP, and performs other functions as appropriate. Members-at-Large assist with all FIAP activities and are encouraged to champion new initiatives through the FIAP Executive Committee.
Please vote and, in the process, learn more about your remarkable colleagues who are running for election.
APS will send an email containing a secure personal URL to access the ballot (FIAP members without a valid email address registered with APS will instead be mailed a paper ballot).
For questions or comments, contact fiapelection@mailaps.org.
FIAP Outstanding Student Papers at the APS 2012 March Meeting
At the APS March meeting in Boston the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics recognized the Ken Hass Outstanding Student Paper Award recipient, Jose Sanchez-Perez from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The award recognizes outstanding student papers on industrial applications of physics submitted to a sorting category or a focus session sponsored or co-sponsored by the Forum on Industrial & Applied Physics. The award consists of a cash honorarium and was presented at the FIAP reception/business meeting on Tuesday February 27th, 2012. Our forum plans to repeat this award next year, so watch your inbox for a FIAP announcement in October or November.
Best paper:
Direct-bandgap infrared light emission from tensilely strained germanium nanomembranes, Jose Sanchez-Perez, University of Wisconsin Madison.
Session Q28: Applications of Semiconductors, Dielectrics, Complex Oxides, Abstract Q28.0009, Wednesday, February 29th, 2012, Room 258C.
http://meeting.aps.org/Meeting/MAR12/Event/164213
FIAP congratulates its new 2011 APS Fellows
The Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics is proud to present a list of members nominated by FIAP and elected to Fellowship in the American Physical Society. Each new fellow is elected after careful and competitive review and recommendation by the FIAP Fellowship Committee, additional review by the APS Fellowship Committee and final approval by the full APS Council.
William Atkinson, Boeing Company
Timothy Boykin, University of Alabama, Huntsville
April Brown, Duke University
Jason Cleveland, Asylum Research
David Ginley, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Robert Hayes, Washington TRU Solutions, LLC
Minghwei Hong, National Taiwan University
Danhong Huang, Air Force Research Lab - Kirtland
Massoud Kaviany,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University
Gerhard Klimeck, Purdue University
Carl Meinhart, University of California, Santa Barbara
Vladimir Mitin, SUNY, Buffalo
Vijay Narayanan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Eric Schiff, Syracuse University
Mathias Schuber, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Kenneth Stalder, Stalder Tech & Reserch
Terry Tritt, Clemson University
Robert Weller, Vanderbilt University
Magnus Willander, Linkoping University, Norrkoping
Call for nominations: FIAP members for APS Fellowship
The APS is now accepting nominations for the 2011 class of APS Fellows. The deadline for consideration by FIAP is June 1, 2011, and we encourage members to nominate outstanding candidates. Instructions for preparing nominations are available at:http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/nominations.cfm
Call for Nominations
2012 George E. Pake Prize — Deadline: 1 July 2011
The members of the Forum are strongly encouraged to submit nominations for the 2012 Pake Prize, endowed by Xerox Corporation in 1983 specifically for industrial and applied physicists. Past winners have also worked in the national labs and academia. Detailed information on previous winners and guidelines for nominations.
2012 AIP Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics — Deadline: 1 April 2011
You are invited to submit nominations for the 2012 American Institute of Physics Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics. The prize is awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to the industrial applications of physics.
General Motors Corporation, APS, and AIP cosponsor this $10,000 award. The prize will be presented at an upcoming AIP member society meeting. The following website contains the rules and eligibility for nominations: http://www.aip.org/industry/prize/
We hope that you will participate and promote recognition for our colleagues whose physics contributions have led to commercialized technology.
APS 2011 Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics
We congratulate Nicholas P. Economou and William Ward, ALIS Corporation, winners of the 2011 Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics:
"For innovative developments in the physics of field ion microscopy and the invention and commercial introduction of the Helium Ion Microscope."
AIP 2010 Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics
We congratulate Robert Street, Palo Alto Research Center, winner of the 2010 Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics:
"For pioneering contributions to the science and technology of hydrogenated amorphous silicon, and the development of flat panel x-ray medical imaging"