Association of Korean Physicists in America

Dear AKPA Members,

  It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the AKPA Award Committee has recommended two winners of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) this year, and I have accepted that recommendation. Join me in congratulating Dr. Yong-Yeol Ahn, an Assistant Professor at Indiana University and Dr. Na Young Kim, a Research Associate at Stanford University. More details of their research accomplishments will be reported in the upcoming Newsletter.

  The award ceremony will be held at the Forum on International Physics (FIP) Reception, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 28, at the Boston Convention Center during the upcoming APS March Meeting in Boston, MA. I hope to see all the Korean participants of the APS March meeting at this reception.

  The award winners will also be announced at the Traditional Dinner Meeting on February 29 and at the Korean Symposium, to be followed by a banquet, on March 1.

  As you know, the Korean Physical Society (KPS) will celebrate its 60th Anniversary this year. There will be an AKPA-KPS joint workshop on Particle, Nuclear and Astrophysics Research in Daejeon, Korea, April 24-25, 2012. This workshop will immediately precede the KPS Spring meeting. If you are interested in attending the workshop and need travel support, send us your CV, your talk topic, and estimated travel expenses to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . AKPA plans to sponsor a still to be determined number of outstanding young researchers needing travel support.

  Finally, I would like to invite you to the US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship, which is to be held in Los Angeles, August 8 – 12, 2012. The registration and abstract submission will be available soon on the web site http://ukc.ksea.org/ukc2012/. The BASic track would bring together world leading scientists and young researchers in various fields of basic science from across the U.S. and Korea. This meeting will serve as a timely event for establishment of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and construction of the Korea Rare Isotope Accelerator (KoRIA) as part of the International Science & Business Belt (ISBB). Topics of interest include all areas of basic science.

Best Regards,
Eun-Suk Seo
President of AKPA