News of Oct/97

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* AKPA News Menu:
* A) AKPA Home page.
* B) International Free Electron Laser Award to Kwang Je Kim of AFRD.
* C) AKPA Membership Due. 
* D) The Award Committee.
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Dear AKPA members,

A) AKPA Home page:
   We would like to introduce a new AKPA homepage at http://www.AKPA.org/
for all of the members. This homepage of AKPA.org is duly registered 
with the webspace authority. We wish this homepage would serve a useful 
electronic network of AKPA data base, information, discussion, Newsletter and 
communication for the members. It will be even nicer if this can be used 
as a means of communicating with the outside world and particularly 
the physics communities in Korea. A short description of the homepage can 
be given as an overview:

   1. Introduction: Describes spirit and goals of the association, and 
                    shows the existing by-laws and suggested guidelines
                    which are under study to be incorporated with each
		    other and updated so that the AKPA bylaws becomes
                    practical and legitimate.
       		    Discussions and consultations for amending the 
	 	    by-laws have started immediately after we inherited 
		    the AKPA operation this year.

   2. AKPA members: Contains a member directory of e-mail address and
                    phone number. Note that some useful features are
                    implemented for automatic update of information
                    and a search capability.

   3. AKPA Newsletter: Will serve as an archives of AKPA newsletters
                       and research articles.
       (* Dr. Weonjong Lee, the Publicity and Editorial
          Secretary is in charge of maintaining this area and will
          circulate newsletters regularly. Please send your
          news, contributions, and articles to him (wlee@gita.lanl.gov). 
	  Prof. Byungwoo Park and Prof. Benedict Oh have done an 
	  excellent job in the past for the AKPA e-mail list and 
	  member directory, whom we would like to acknowledge.)

   4. Link to other interesting sites and job information:
                    Connects to interesting physics sites in Korea
                    and other international sites, as well as to 
                    job information sites. 

   Please try it and take a look at it and do not hesitate to send your 
   suggestions and comments to us. Maintenance and improvement of this 
   homepage strongly depend on YOU, and let's make it a valuable property 
   for all of us in AKPA.

   The current homepage was based on a nice and dedicated efforts by Dr. 
   Sang-Hyeon Chang at U. of Florida. He will continue to maintain and 
   improve it during his term as the E-link Secretary. 
   At this time, we would like to acknowledge Dr. Hwanbe Park, Dr. Jysoo
   Lee and Mr. C. Park for their efforts for the old AKPA web site at U. 
   of Colorado. We hope this new Homepage will continue to be maintained 
   by AKPA from now on.

B) International Free Electron Laser Award to Kwang Je Kim of AFRD:
Kwang Je Kim of the Acceleration and Fusion Research Division (AFRD),
who is the deputy head of AFRD's Center for Beam Physics, was presented the
International Free Electron
Laser Award at the 19th annual International Free Electron Laser Conference,
held last month in Beijing.
The citation on Kim's award, which includes a $3,000 cash prize and the
opportunity to present the opening
address at next year's conference, reads: "For promoting the FEL and
synchrotron radiation science for the
last 15 years, developing the theory for self-amplified spontaneous emission
which is the basis of current x-ray
FEL projects being pursued at SLAC and several laboratories, and pioneering
the analysis of the RF
photocathode beam dynamics, which is the basis for high brightness beam
generation in linacs required for
the x-ray FELs.

C) AKPA Membership Due:
AKPA has been prosperous thanks to yearly fund raising effort 
for donations and membership fees by AKPA members.
The remaining fund received from the previous fiscal year is not enough 
to give a full financial support to AKPA activities including the Directory,
Newsletter and the Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 1998.
We would appreciate it very much if you would kindly pay the annual
membership fee (regular member: $25, associate member: $5) as well as
make additional donations by the end of October to the following
address:

	Professor Kang, Kyungsik, AKPA president
	Department of Physics
	Brown University
	Providence, RI 02912.

Your generous contribution will be used for better quality in AKPA services 
including AKPA Newsletter, AKPA Home page, AKPA E-link, and AKPA award.

D) The Award Committee: 
Professor Kiuck Lee of Marquette University is
asked to form the Award Committee to select the AKPA Outstanding Young
Investigator of 1998. Information concerning the application of the AKPA
OYI award will be issued on this Homepage as soon as the Committee is
formed and ready to receive the applications.