재미한인물리학자협회

AKPA NEWS, JULY 2001

(Association of Korean Physicists in America)

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1. Greetings from the new AKPA President

2. Introduction of New AKPA Officers

3. Introduction of Standing Committee Members

4. International Conferences and Workshops in Korea

5. Opening for a post-doctoral position

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1. Greetings from President

Dear AKPA members. I am honored to serve our organization from May 1,2001 to April 30, 2002 as the 23rd AKPA president. Please let me express my sincere appreciation to you all for your sustaining and faithful support. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the ex-president, Prof. Zang-Hee Cho and his officers for their dedicated work during their tenure. I am also looking forward to working with Dr. Kwang-Je Kim of Argonne Nat'l Lab/U. Chicago (president elect & vice president). He is an internationally known physicist with a shining record. Let me also thank our new AKPA officers and standing committee members who will be introduced in the next sections. They have gladly agreed to serve AKPA in their various positions in spite of their busy schedule.

We have a long tradition as a professional organization of Korean physicists, who have been or are leaders in the physics community in north America. Many of our past members went back to Korea and are now leaders of the physics community there. I am also very proud of and rejoice in the fact that many of our young generation of physicists and graduate students are leaders among their colleagues. I am also grateful to many of our senior members who have dedicated themselves to enhance the future status of our younger colleagues.

Our main goal is to promote the interest and career of Korean Physicists in America. As most of you are aware already, the annual award of OYRA (Outstanding Young Research Award) has become quite successful and is now nationally known. I am very happy to see that the quality of the applicants is very high. I hope that many of you with recent Ph.D.'s will apply for this award this coming fall. We need to look into further expanding this kind of program for recognizing and encouraging future generations of Korean physicists. Recently, I have been thinking if OYRA should be part of the APS award program. It is an interesting question to be discussed among our members in the future. The advantage is a more formal, prestigious, and wider recognition but there are also obligations to meet and lack of total independence for us. If there is a prevailing consensus to join the APS program, I will be happy to work for it with APS. I would especially welcome the opinion from our young members including recent recipients.

An urgent task for AKPA is to upgrade and maintain the membership directory. The present directory has been recently improved through dedicated efforts by several AKPA members including Dr. Jeong-Sun Moon of Hughes Research Laboratory (new e-Link chair). He has agreed to further improve and update the directory this year. We have also been helping to promote closer interactions among Korean physicists through traditional dinner meetings not only among ourselves but also with the participants from Korea at some APS (American Physical Society) meetings. One well established program is the cherished traditional annual dinner meeting at APS March Meeting. This meeting has been sustained over the past three decades through selfless efforts by volunteers like Drs. Yoon Soo Park (ONR), Sang Boo Nam (KAIST), Y. S. Kim (U. Maryland), and, especially, by Yung Kee Yeo (AFIT), and others. I have attended these meetings regularly more than two decades. AKPA can partially sponsor other dinner meetings wherever and whenever there is a need.

Many members feel that we should strengthen our ties with the Korean Physical Society (KPS). To this end, I have been communicating with Prof. Dong-Pil Min of SNU (VP, KPS) for a closer and mutually beneficial exchange of information between our two organizations. He provided us with a list of conferences/workshops to be held in Korea in the next few months. Currently, the announcement is in Korean language and it will take time for a more extensive list in English to be released later. I want to express my deep appreciation for his kind help and look forward to working with him. I am also planning to establish a closer contact between AKPA and individual physicists in Korea who have frequent contact with our community. We will add them in our distribution list as our colleagues (and as our own flesh and blood) and build up the list gradually. I will welcome any request from all of you (including our colleagues in Korea) to disseminate any useful public information through our vast AKPA network.

We will also start e-publishing the list of recent publications (within the past ~ two years) by our members including our colleagues in Korea

and job opening. Since we have a vast distribution network among Korean physicists in the U.S. and Korea, it will be a very valuable investment of time for you. We have to rely on you to provide us with the information. Please send me your list in the format of the Physical review with the title preceding the reference and the contact address following the reference to minimize the administrative cost [e.g., "Energy transfer of excitons between quantum wells separated by a wide barrier," S. K. Lyo, Phys. Rev. B 62, 13641 (2000). Contactsklyo@sandia.gov]. In this regard, we will also start listing new Ph. D.'s among our members. Please send me your info with a full name, university, thesis tittle/area, theor/exper, current address. Finally, I have noticed that AKPA Web site has not been available temporarily. Dr. Hoydoo You of Argonne Nat'l Lab (new Publicity and Editorial Secretary) has agreed to work on it and will improve its content in the near future. Further announcement will be made when it is available.

I will welcome any comments and truly appreciate your suggestions. AKPA officers and I will try our best to serve AKPA better.

Best wishes to you all.

Sincerely yours,

Sungkwun Lyo

23rd AKPA President

2. Introduction of New AKPA Officers

President

Dr. Sungkwun Lyo

MS 1415

Sandia National Laboratories

Albuquerque, NM 87185

Tel: (505) 844-3718

Fax: (505) 844-1197

E-mail: sklyo@sandia.gov

President-elect and vice president

Dr. Kwang-Je Kim

Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne, IL 60439

Tel: (630) 252 4647

Fax: (630) 252 7369

E-mail: kwangje@aps.anl.gov

Past President

Prof. Zang-Hee Cho

Department of Radiological Sciences

University of California

Irvine, CA 92697

Tel. (949) 824-5905

Fax. (949) 824-5905

E-mail : zcho@uci.edu

General and Treasury Secretary

Dr. Hyun Yim

MS1411

Sandia National Laboratories

Albuquerque, NM 87185

Tel: (505) 284-6588

Fax: (505) 844-9781

E-mail: hyim@sandia.gov

Publicity and Editorial Secretary

Dr. Hoydoo You

Materials Science Division

Argonne National Laboratory

9700 S. Cass Ave

Argonne, IL 60439

Tel: (630) 252-3429

Fax: (630) 252-7777

E-mail: you@anl.gov

E-Link Secretary

Dr. Jeong-Sun Moon

Hughes Research Laboratories

3011 Malibu Canyon Rd.

Malibu, CA 90265

Tel: 310-317-5461

Fax: 310-317-5450

E-mail: jsmoon@hrl.com

Award Committee Chair

Prof. Yung Kee Yeo

Department of Engineering Physics

Air Force Institute of Technology

2950 P Street

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433-7765

Tel: (937) 255-3636, Ext: 4532

Fax: (937) 255-2921

E-mail: yung.yeo@afit.edu

Auditor

Dr. Sang-Wook Han

Physics Dept. , BOX 351560

University of Washington

Seattle, WA 98195-1560

Tel: (206) 543 - 8748

Fax: (206) 685 - 0635

e-mail: han@phys.washington.edu

3. Introduction of Standing Committee Members

Election Committee

Kwang Je Kim (ANL, president-elect & chair)

Two other members to be appointed by the President in consultation with

the President-elect and the Secretary General serving as the Secretary

of the Committee for the year 2001-2002.

Award Committee

Yung Kee Yeo (AFIT, chair) and Taeil Bai (Standford) (class of 02)

Kwang Je Kim (ANL) and Chueng Ryong Ji (North Carolina St.) (class of 03)

Jin-Joo Song (Oklahoma State) and Young Hoon Kim (U. Cincinnati) (class of 04)

Publicity and Editorial Committee

Daniel Hong and No-Hwan Kwak (class of 02)

Quisup Kim and M. Howard Lee (class of '03)

Hoydoo You (ANL, Chair) and Kyungsik Kang (Brown U.) (class of '04)

E-Link Committee

Benedict Y. Oh (Penn St.) and Seon-ju Hwang (Oklahoma St) (class of 02),

Gil-Han Park (Oklahoma St.) and Young Don Son (UC Irvine) (class of 03)

Jeong-Sun Moon (Hughes Lab, Chair) and Dong Seung Lee (Emcore) (class of 04)

4. International Conferences and Workshops in Korea

(provided by Yubin Yim, Information Center for Physics Research, Korea)

1). "2001 UNESCO/AsPEN-KPS Workshop on IT-based

Physics Education"

Date: 2001. 7. 12 - 7. 16

Venue: Chonbuk University, Jeon-ju

Any request to : Dr. Kim, Jin Seung

(e-mail: jin@moak.chonbuk.ac.kr)

2). "Quantum Information Workshop (supported by KIST)"

Date: 2001. 8. 26 - 8. 27

Venue: Cheon-an Sangrok Resort, Cheon-an

Any request to : Dr. Kim, Jae Wan

(e-mail: jaewan@laputa.kaist.ac.kr)

3). "International Conference on Physics

Education in Cultural Contexts"

Date: 2001.8.13 - 8.17

Venue: KNUE(Korea National University of Education), Cheong-won

Any request to : Dr. Park, Yoon Bae

(e-mail: ypark@bh.kyungpook.ac.kr)

Home Page: http://www.icpec.or.kr

5. Job Opening

The Department of Engineering Physics at the Air Force Institute of Technology invites applications for a postdoctoral position at the Air

Force Institute of Technology in Experimental semiconductor physics. The research associate must have doctoral degree in physics, materials science, or electrical engineering. The successful candidate will perform electrical and optical characterization of group-III nitrides

such as GaN and AlGaN, and SiC using Hall effect, deep level transient spectroscopy, and photoluminescence measurement techniques. A background in wide bandgap semiconductors and their electrical and optical characterization techniques are therefore desirable. This research program will contribute to an existing Air Force effort to develop wide bandgap semiconductor materials.

Opportunities will be provided for interaction with Air Force Research Laboratory scientists at Wright-Patterson AFB. Selection of candidates will be based on demonstrated creativity, intellectual strength, and experience. US citizenship or permanent residency is preferred. The appointment will be for a period of one year with a possible extension for additional years. The starting date is flexible, anytime between now and October 2001. Interested applicants should send their curriculum vita including a list of publications and the names and addresses of three references to Prof. Yung Kee Yeo, Dept of Engineering Physics, Air Force Institute of Technology/ENP, 2950 P Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7765; email: Yung.Yeo@afit.edu; Fax: (937) 255-2921. The Air Force Institute of Technology is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.

YUNG KEE YEO

Prof. of Physics

Department of Engineering Physics

Air Force Institute of Technology/ENP

2950 P Street

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433-7765

Phone: (937) 255-3636 X4532

Fax: (937) 255-2921