2010 AKPA Annual Meeting to be held in Portland, OR, March 15 AKPA annual meeting will be held in Oregon, Portland on March 15, 2010 during the APS March meeting. Date and Time : March 15, 6 - 9 PM Place: Mandarin Cove in Downtown, Portland 111 Southwest Columbia St. Fees: Regular member - $20 Student member - $10 Early bird special: Fees will be waived for the first 10 regular/15 student members of AKPA submitting name and current institution by email to akpa2010@akpa.org. You are encouraged to join AKPA in early registration if you are not yet a member by indicating your willingness to become a member. In submitting an email registration, please also indicate the membership of AKPA, KSEA and/or KPS if any. Thanks. Find more detail including the early bird special in the article of our Newsletter as well as in the Meeting flyer (click on the flyer on the above right). Sponsors: KSEA, KPS. Dr. Ian-Woo Kim (Univ. of Wisconsin), OYRA 2010 Winner "This award feels particularly special to me since I was educated in Korea." Dr. Ian-Woo Kim to be awarded as the Winner of OYRA 2010 at the AKPA Annual Meeting. The AKPA Award Committee chaired by Prof. Yong Woo Kim selected Dr. Ian-Woo Kim at University of Wisconsin, Madison as the recipient of Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) 2010. Find more detail in the article of our Newsletter.

March 2010 Newsletter is online. The Newsletter Volume 28, Number 2 is avaialble now. The contents of the Newsletter are as follows: Message from the 28th President of the AKPA Where do physicists go? The first collisions at the Large Hadron Collider Previous term finance audit report Dr. Ian-Woo Kim is the 16th OYRA Winner Report on KPS-AKPA special joint session Upcoming events and meetings

ICPS 2010 - Abstraction submission deadline extended.

We were informed that the deadline for the International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS) 2010 abstract submission deadline is re-extended to March 14. Please visit the website at http://www.icps2010.org for the detrailed conference information. 

Dear Esteemed AKPA Members,

    At the close of this year, we pause to wish you a warm and Happy Holiday Season and a peaceful and prosperous New Year. We appreciate your continuous support of AKPA. 

    We are making progress in fulfilling the first year plan of 28th admin as presented in the message at the beginning of the incumbency. Nomination process of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) is well underway, AKPA Newsletter Vol. 28 No. 1 was published online and another issue (No. 2) is in preparation for the publication early next year and AKPA Web site has been updated. In cooperation with the Korean Physical Society (KPS), a joint KPS-AKPA session was also held in KPS fall meeting. Furthermore, the AKPA annual meeting proposal submitted to the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) was accepted for funding in the level of support for affiliated professional societies. We are grateful to all the officers and committee members who devoted their precious time to make this happen. 

    Your membership in AKPA sends a powerful message to all Korean-American professionals and their future generations. It affirms that you are a strong partner in demonstrating the excellence of Korean-American professionals in all areas of Physics and also accredits that you deeply believe in the future of this voluntary association. We encourage you to check our website at www.akpa.org for news, activities, and membership registration. 

    Fellow members, drawing individual talents and enthusiasm towards the organizational objectives, we can collaboratively achieve extraordinary results. We want to take this opportunity to tell you how much you are valued. Let's work together to continue to develop and build our organization that we all can enjoy. 

    Finally, more than twenty AKPA officers and committee members say "Thank You" and wish you and your family "Happy Holidays" and a fruitful Tiger New Year! 

    Best Wishes,

    Chueng-Ryong Ji 

    AKPA President

Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) - Deadline extended

The OYRA nomination period has been extended till the end of this year, December 31, 2009. 

    (1) OYRA is to recognize and promote excellent researches by young ethnic Korean physicists in North America.

    (2) Candidates are limited to those who are within 5 years from the completion of Ph. D. disseratation.

    (3) Nominations and supporting letters should be sent to ywk0@lehigh.edu and ji@ncsu.edu. 

Please check our OYRA Award page for the detailed information.

KPS fall meeting, KPS-AKPA session

There was a special KPS-AKPA session in the KPS fall meeting held in Changwon, Korea (October 21-23). See Photo Album for all photos.

     

[Left: Participants in KPS-AKPA session]    [Right: Prof. Young Pak Lee (KPS president), Prof. Kiuck Lee (First AKPA president)]

September 2009 Newsletter is online.

The first Newsletter in the new administration is avaialble now.

The next term (29th) AKPA president elected!

Prof. Eun-Suk Seo (U. of Maryland) was elected as the 29th AKPA President by the AKPA members. Dr. Pil-Neyo Seo (Duke U.) was also elected as the Auditor for the current 28th administration. Below is from the official announcement from the Election Committee:

      'According to this result, we are pleased to announce that Drs. Eun-Suk Seo and Pil-Neyo Seo were elected as the President of the 29th term and the Auditor of the 28th term, respectively. According to the bylaws, Dr. Eun-Suk Seo will also serve as the Vice President of the current 28th term.'

     

[Left: Prof. Eun-Suk Seo (next term president)]    [Right: Dr. Pil-Neyo Seo (current term auditor)] 

Prof. Eun-Suk Seo's acceptance statement: "I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve as the 29th president of AKPA. I am greatly honored to accept the responsibility. I would also like to thank the nomination committee and the election committee for overseeing the electoral process."

AKPA election

As recently announced by the emails (1, 2), the vote for the next term AKPA president and the current term auditor will be held in August, 2009: 

    (1) Official candidates will be announced on August 14.

    (2) Voting will be performed through emails by the qualified members from August 17 to August 21.

    (3) The election result will be announced on August 24. 

Please check our Election 2009 page for the detailed information.

As of August 14, we announce that we have 2 candidates for the next term president and 1 candidate for the current term auditor. Candidates for the next term president (in chronological nomination order):

    Prof. Eun-Suk Seo (University of Maryland),  Dr. Taik-Soo Hahm (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory).

Candidate for the current term auditor:

    Dr. Pil-Neyo Seo (Duke University).

See the Candidates page for detailed information about the candidates.

As of August 17, the voting started. The qualified voters were notified by email. If you think you are a qualified voter, yet did not get the email, please contact the election committee immediately. Please note that the membership fee has to be paid by August 17 to be a qualified member for this election (contact the treasury secretary).

UKC 2009, Physics session

There was a Physics session (New Frontiers in Basic and Applied Physics) in the UKC 2009 meeting held in Raleigh, NC (July 16-19). See Photo Album for all photos.

     

There will be an election for the next (29th) AKPA president (serving from 2011) soon. Please register for the AKPA membership before the vote. The webpayment for the membership fee is temporarily out of service. For the membership fee, please send a check to Dr. Suh (treasury secretary) for now.

The 28th AKPA office launched.

New AKPA staff members were appointed by Professor Ji (28th AKPA president) during the last UKC 2009 meeting: Dr. Myungkee Sung (general secretary), Dr. In-Saeng Suh (treasury secretary), Dr. Hye-Sung Lee (web management).

[First unofficial 28th AKPA staff meeting at UKC2009 in Raleigh, NC in July, 2009]