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May 2008 Newletter is online
May 2008 AKPA Newletter is currently online.
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New (Next) President and Auditor Elected
The new (Next) President and Auditor of AKPA
were elected by an email ballot in March, 2007. Fourteen members cast their votes.
With the second presidential candidate having
withdrawn, Professor Cheung Ryong Ji of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina,
was elected unopposed with all 14 votes. Professor Ji
will serve as Vice President from May 2007 through April 2009, and then as
President from May 2009 through April 2011.
The vote for the Auditor was much closer.
Dr. Yong-Hyun Kim of National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden,
Colorado, received 8 votes, defeating Dr.
Jiyeong Gu of California
State University
at Long Beach,
who received 6 votes. Dr. Kim
will serve as Auditor from May 2007 through April 2009.
Congratulations and our best wishes to Professor
Ji and Dr. Kim!
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Joint Award
Ceremony and the Annual Meeting
As
announced in our February newsletter, Dr. Tuson Park
of the Los Alamos National Laboratory was selected for this year¡¯s Outstanding
Young Researcher Award (OYRA). The
award ceremony took place at the Forum on International Physics (FIP) reception
at the APS March meeting in Denver,
Colorado, at 6:00-8:00 p.m. on March
6, 2007. This was the first
FIP reception cosponsored by the organizations of overseas physicists working
in the U.S.
The groups that cosponsored the reception are the American Chapter of the
Indian Physics Association (ACIPA), the Association of Korean Physicists in
America (AKPA), the Overseas Chinese Physics Association (OCPA) and
Iranian-American Physicists (IrAP) Network
Group. Professor Paik, AKPA¡¯s President, briefly explained the activities of AKPA,
read the OYRA citation, and handed over the OYRA plaques and cash award to Dr.
Park in front of about 100 physicists who attended the event.
Following
the FIP reception, the annual meeting of AKPA was held in an adjacent room in
Adam¡¯s Mark Hotel. The meeting was attended by only six
members, which included three ex-presidents of AKPA. Professor Paik, the current President,
reported on the progress AKPA has made in holding public lectures since
2005. Altogether 8 lectures have
been given so far, 3 in 2005, 5 in 2006, and 1 in 2007, in major cities of U.S. The public lectures have been very
successful and have generated much publicity in Korean news media. Professor Paik related his unique
experience of co-hosting the public lecture event with the Korean Association
of Atlanta. The attendees also
discussed how AKPA may increase its membership and encourage younger members to
participate and take more active roles.