재미한인물리학자협회
ASSOCIATION OF KOREAN PHYSICISTS IN AMERICA
AKPA NEWS, January 2002
(Association of Korean Physicists in America)
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1. AKPA General Meeting and Traditional Dinner at APS March Meeting
in Indianapolis, IN
2. AKPA Web Directory and Web Voting
3. AKPA Election
4. Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA)-2002
5. Membership Dues and Contributions: List of the current contributors
6. KOSEN Pledges Support for AKPA
7. US-Korea Conference: UKC2002 to be held in Seoul, 8 - 13 July, 2002
8. News from the Korean Physical Society (KPS)
9. International Conferences and Workshops in Korea
10. Job opening
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Dear AKPA members.
I would like to welcome you to the first AKPA News Letter of 2002. I
hope that each of you had happy holidays with your family and
friends. Our Web rebuilding job is making a steady progress. At this
stage, we need your input. I invite you to complete your personal
file in www.akpa.org, if you have not done so yet. (See item #2
below - Your login name (and password unless you reset) is given in the
subject line of this email and you have multiple profiles if you receive
this email more than once. ) Also, we are opening a new section for the
former AKPA presidents in the web. I thank you for your cooperation.
Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous New year.
Best wishes,
Sungkwun Lyo
AKPA president
PS: I am sure that many of you forgot to make membership
contributions and donations. You can email me a pledge and we can
send you a reminder. (See item #5 below.)
:-) You may be a physicist if... your three year old son asks why
the sky is blue and you try to explain
atmospheric absorption theory.
:-) You may be an engineer if... you have a habit of destroying
things in order to see how they work.
1. AKPA General Meeting and Traditional Dinner at APS March Meeting
in Indianapolis, IN
AKPA General Meeting and the three-decade-old Traditional Annual
Dinner Meeting for all Korean Participants (from all over the world)
of the APS March Meeting (3/18 - 24, 2002) will be held at 6:30 PM,
March 20 (Wednesday) at Mama's Oriental Restaurant [8867 Pendleton
Pike, (317) 897-0808] in Indianapolis, IN. Usually, the dinner
meeting is attended by 70 - 90 people including visitors from Korea.
Transportation to the restaurant from and back to the Indianapolis
Convention center will be provided. See the attached pdf file
"MarchDinnerMtg02.pdf" for more detail. Contact person: Professor
Yung Kee Yeo (Yung.Yeo@AFIT.edu).
2. AKPA Web Directory and Web Voting
At this stage we need your input. I would like to urge you to update
your own file in ww.akpa.org. The following old message from Dr.
Hoydoo You will help you to update your personal file. We are
planning to carry out next election on the Web to save costs.
"Dear member,
Dr. Chun-Yeol You has been instrumental in making the AKPA web site
to this point. We feel that it is a good time for the members to
update their membership information and status. Some of you already
have updated even before this announcement and we thank them. Just to
make things easier, we made everyone that we know of a new account
based on our information. Currently, the username and password are
your email address as you receive this email. In near future, buttons
will become available for you to choose
your own login and password. For now, we just like to have your
updated information.
Once you login, the voting privilege tells pretty much where your
membership stands. In near future, we also plan a system of web-based
membership fee payment via credit cards. For now, please contact the
president or treasurer to reinstate your voting privilege.
One apology for Netscape users: we have not completely sorted out the
problems and differences between explorer and Netscape. We also hope
to be able to sort it out. Meanwhile, Netscape users may be able to
read better by selecting another (not-default) encoding scheme (with
a larger font).
Sincerely,
Hoydoo You (Argonne Nat'l Lab.)"
3. AKPA Election
The annual AKPA election for the president and the auditor is to be
held soon for the term beginning May 1, 2003 and ending April 30,
2005 according to our amended AKPA Charter. The election committee
members are:
Dr. Kwang Je Kim (kwangje@aps.anl.gov, Argonne National Laboratory),
Vice President & chair
Prof. Young Hoon Kim (kim@physunc.phy.uc.edu, U. Cincinnati)
Prof. Yung Kee Yeo (Yung.Yeo@AFIT.edu, Air Force Inst. of Tech)
You are strongly encouraged to contact the members with your
suggestions for the candidates within a week.
4. Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA)-2002
The nomination process for the 9th annual OYRA has been successfully
completed. We had overwhelming responses from the physics community.
Many very high quality young physicists have been nominated this
year. The OYRA Committee members are now in the process of reviewing
the nominees.
The purpose of this award is to recognize and promote excellence in
research by outstanding young ethnic Korean physicists in North
America who are working at research-doctorate institutions, and
industrial and government laboratories. Candidates are limited to
those who received their doctoral degree after January 1, 1997, and
were nominated by the Chair or Head of the Department where they are
employed or by the candidate's former thesis advisor in a letter
detailing the importance and impact of the candidate's work.
Supporting documents include candidates' curriculum vitae and three
letters of recommendation.
The Awards Committee consists of
Dr. Taeil Bai (Standford U.) (Stanford U.)
Prof. Cheung Ryong Ji (North Carolina State University)
Dr. Kwang Je Kim (Argonne National Laboratory)
Prof. Young Hoon Kim (U. Cincinnati)
Prof. M. Howard Lee (U. Georgia)
Prof. Yung Kee Yeo (Air Force Inst. of Tech, chair)
PRESENTATION: The award in the amount of $1,000 will be presented at the
AKPA annual meeting to be held in Indianapolis, IN on March 20, 2002.
Visit <http://www.akpa.org/> for details.
5. AKPA Membership Dues and Contributions: List of the current contributors
The AKPA activities rely entirely on the regular membership ($25) and
the associate membership ($5) (graduates students). Any amount of
donations will also be appreciated. Please send your check to Dr. S.
K. Lyo, MS 1415, PO Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185. Please make sure
to put your return address on the envelop.
Following is the list of the contributors, as of January 2002, of the
basic membership $25, plus donations of $25 - $49 (*), $50 - $99
(**), $100 - $149 (***), $150 - $199 (****), $200 - $250 (*****):
Dr. Dr. Taeil Bai Dr. Yanglai Cho*****, Prof. Zang-Hee Cho****,
Dr. William T. Chu**, Dr. Suh-Urk Chung, Prof. Moo Young Han***,
Dr. Sang-Wook Han, Prof. Yong S. Joe, Dr. Ja Hyun Lee,
Prof. Kyungsik Kang**, Dr. Hong Mook Kim*, Prof. Kinney H. Kim*,
Dr. Kwang Je Kim**, Dr. Quiesup Kim, Dr. Dong S. Lee*,
Prof. M. Howard Lee, Dr. Sungkwun Lyo*****, Dr. Jeong Sun Moon,
Prof. Young Soo Oh*** Dr. Y. S. Park*** Prof. Yung Kee Yeo***
6. KOSEN Pledges Support for AKPA
Dr. Sun-hwa Hahn, Chief, Overseas S&T Information Dept., Korea Inst.
of S&T Information made a pledge for 1,000,000 Korean Won to support
OYRA and Annual General Meeting annually. It is gratifying and
heartwarming to know that KOSEN is trying to reach out and help
overseas activities of Korean people.
Dr. Hahn contacted the AKPA after reading AKPA News Letter.
7. US-Korea Conference: UKC2002 to be held in Seoul, 8 - 13 July, 2002
Professor Kyungsik Kang of Brown U. is organizing a Symposium of
Basic Science and Engineering at
the UKC2002 (organized by KSEA) and is in the process of assembling a
quality group of speakers in the basic science of Physics,
Mathematics and Chemistry area. Any one in AKPA wishing to attend and
present a paper at the Basic Science Symposium can submit an
application with an abstract to Dr. Kang (kang@het.brown.edu) or to
the UKC2002 Organizing Committee at KSEA (www.ksea.org) as soon as
possible. There will be a partial travel support ranging from $1,500
(invited or high quality papers) to $500 (poster session papers). For
details of the UKC2002, you may visit the UKC2002 link in
8. News from Korean Physical Society
The current KPS administration places a heavy emphasis on improving
physics education and has two VP's for Human Resources & Physics and
Society. The two main themes for the 50th KPS anniversary (to be
held at Hanyang University, Oct 24(Thu) - 26(Sat), 2002 in Seoul) are Nano-S&T
and Physics Education. Recently a plenary talk entitled
"Time-dependent Permeable Interface and IT-based Physics Education"
was presented at the International Conference on Physics Education in
Cultural Context (2001, Korea) by Drs. Keum H. Lee (H&R VP of KPS,
Prof. Phys., Jeonbuk U.)/Jin S. Kim (Sec. Edu. of KPS, Prof. Phys.,
Jeonbuk U.). Their work was received widely at international forums.
9. International Conferences and Workshops in Korea
Provided by Yubin Yim <yubin@icpr.snu.ac.kr>, Information Center for
Physics Research, SNU
We depend on our Korean readers for this info. Any of you can send
conference info to sklyo@sandia.gov for a wide distribution in north
America (and Korea) free of charge.
9.1
Title: Neutrino - deuteron scattering and SNO results. ( II ) more advanced
Date: 2002.1.30
Venue: Sangsan Math. Sci. building 206 in Seoul Nat'l Univ.
Contact & Request to: sec@apctp.org
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9.2
Title: The 6th APCTP Winter School on 'Strongly Correlated Electron
Systems'
Period: 2002.2.1 ~ 2002.2.4
Venue: POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
Homepage: http://www-psc.postech.ac.kr/htsc/workshop/winter02.html
Contact & Request to: Lee, Sung Ik (e-mail: sec@apctp.org)
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9.3
Title: Scaling and Phase Transitions in Complex Networks and Nonequilibrium
systems
Period: 2002.2.18 ~ 2002.2.21
Venue: POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
Homepage: http://fracton.khu.ac.kr/scaling
Contact & Request to: Kim, Yup (e-mail: ykim@kyu.ac.kr)
10. Job Opening
Please send any job announcement to Dr. S. K. Lyo at sklyo@sandia.gov.
10.1 Postdoctoral Research Positions in Condensed Matter Physics and
Physical Chemistry at NEC
NEC Research Institute at Princeton, New Jersey, has several postdoctoral
positions open in the area of spin-polarized transport (experimental),
quantum phase transitions (experimental), and quantum computing
(theoretical). The group presently consists of three scientists: Dr.
Gabriel Aeppli, Dr. Christophe Renner and Dr. Yeong-Ah Soh and works
in close collaboration with various Universities (including
University of Chicago, Rutgers University, University of Tokyo) and
National Laboratories (including Argonne National Laboratory,
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory). The
successful candidate should have a recent Ph.D. in condensed matter
physics or physical chemistry and be highly motivated to conduct
research independently in a dynamic environment. Depending on the
project, expertise in magnetic thin film growth, nanoparticle
synthesis, nanofabrication, low-temperature transport,magnetometry,
X-ray diffraction, scanning probe microscopy, and numerical methods
are desirable. To apply, send a CV including the list of publications
and contact information of three references to Dr. Yeong-Ah Soh, NEC
Research Insitute, 4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540,
soh@research.nj.nec.com, (609) 951-2660 (ph), (609) 951-2482 (fax).
10.2 Postdoctoral research position in experimental condensed matter physics
at Sandia Labs
Contact information: Dr. Michael Lilly, mplilly@sandia.gov phone:
(505)-844-4395, FAX: (505)-844-1197, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O.
Box 5800, MS 1415, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1415
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position at Sandia National
Laboratories to study low temperature quantum transport phenomena of 2D
electron systems and nanoscale devices. Specific interests include
coupled quantum wires, bilayer electron-hole systems and novel device
applications. State-of-the-art facilities are available at Sandia for
materials growth, fabrication and measurements. The successful candidate
should have a recent Ph.D. in condensed matter physics or applied
physics. Experience with low temperature techniques and/or transport
measurements is desirable. This position is available immediately, and
the search will continue until the position is filled. To apply, send a
CV including a publication list and three letters of recommendation to
the above address. Equal Opportunity Employer M/D/F/V.