News of May/98

AKPA News in May, 1998

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*(1). Greetings from the New AKPA President

*(2). Introduction of New AKPA Officers

*(3). Introduction of Standing Committee Members

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(1). Greetings from the New AKPA President

Dear members of the Association of Korean Physicists in America, it is

my honor and pleasure to serve our organization from May 1, 1998 to

April 30, 1999 as the 20th AKPA president. First of all, on behalf of

AKPA, I give deep thanks to the ex-president, Prof. Kyungsik Kang, and

his officers for their outstanding job done during their period of

tenure. I also would like to thank our new AKPA officers and standing

committee members who will be introduced in the next sections. They

have gladly accepted their positions to serve AKPA in spite of their

busy workload. Let me also take this opportunity to extend our most

sincere congratulations and best wishes to the fresh Ph.D. degree

earners in this graduation season.

Our AKPA has already been in existence for twenty years. We have grown

steadily with the help of the faithful AKPA members, and we will

continue on indefinitely. By working together, we can make our AKPA

become a really meaningful important organization to each and every one

of our AKPA members. It could be a real challenge to maintain AKPA's

traditions while building AKPA's better future in this rapidly changing

technology and society. However, we believe that we can strengthen

further our activities in various areas.

It is very important that the AKPA's role must be recognized by the

physics community here, in Korea, and elsewhere. We will try to

establish an official linkage with the Korean Physical Society. We will

share our technical information as well as news with them in a timely

manner. Also, we could publish our papers more often in Korean Physical

journals, and could cite more Korean Physical journal articles in our

papers to bring up our Korean Physics community to the world class

level. As in the past, we will continue to recognize outstanding young

researchers amongst our young physicists and plan to expand the awards

in two areas. We will participate in activities of Physics without

Borders organized by the Korean-, Chinese-, and Indian-American

Physicists' organizations. Another important function of the AKPA is

information and news gathering, and disseminating them to our AKPA

members in a timely manner. In order to facilitate this function, I

would like to ask all of you to help us providing any worthwhile

information to the AKPA. Also, it is absolutely necessary to promote

the participation of the young and senior physicists in the AKPA

membership. We will constantly update our membership directory.

There could be many other things to be done only if we do have more

time. They include

helping young Korean-American and Korean physicists to find their jobs

in USA or Korea by senior AKPA members, timely listing of job

information in USA as well as in Korea through our e-mail network and

AKPA homepage (http://www.AKPA.org/), helping new Korean students coming

to American universities and colleges for further study in America, and

coordinating in recommending Korean-American and Korean physicists as

invited speakers in the American Physical Society meetings, etc.

In conclusion, AKPA officers and I will try our best to serve AKPA

better. However, this can only be accomplished through your help. We

will certainly always welcome your comments and suggestions for better

AKPA.

With best wishes and kindest regards,

Sincerely yours,

Yung Kee Yeo

AKPA President

(2). Introduction of New AKPA Officers and Standing Committee Members