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* AKPA News Menu:

* A) AKPA Home page.

* B) International Free Electron Laser Award to Kwang Je Kim of AFRD.

* C) AKPA Membership Due.

* D) The Award Committee.

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Dear AKPA members,

A) AKPA Home page:

We would like to introduce a new AKPA homepage at http://www.AKPA.org/

for all of the members. This homepage of AKPA.org is duly registered

with the webspace authority. We wish this homepage would serve a useful

electronic network of AKPA data base, information, discussion, Newsletter and

communication for the members. It will be even nicer if this can be used

as a means of communicating with the outside world and particularly

the physics communities in Korea. A short description of the homepage can

be given as an overview:

1. Introduction: Describes spirit and goals of the association, and

shows the existing by-laws and suggested guidelines

which are under study to be incorporated with each

other and updated so that the AKPA bylaws becomes

practical and legitimate.

Discussions and consultations for amending the

by-laws have started immediately after we inherited

the AKPA operation this year.

2. AKPA members: Contains a member directory of e-mail address and

phone number. Note that some useful features are

implemented for automatic update of information

and a search capability.

3. AKPA Newsletter: Will serve as an archives of AKPA newsletters

and research articles.

(* Dr. Weonjong Lee, the Publicity and Editorial

Secretary is in charge of maintaining this area and will

circulate newsletters regularly. Please send your

news, contributions, and articles to him (wlee@gita.lanl.gov).

Prof. Byungwoo Park and Prof. Benedict Oh have done an

excellent job in the past for the AKPA e-mail list and

member directory, whom we would like to acknowledge.)

4. Link to other interesting sites and job information:

Connects to interesting physics sites in Korea

and other international sites, as well as to

job information sites.

Please try it and take a look at it and do not hesitate to send your

suggestions and comments to us. Maintenance and improvement of this

homepage strongly depend on YOU, and let's make it a valuable property

for all of us in AKPA.

The current homepage was based on a nice and dedicated efforts by Dr.

Sang-Hyeon Chang at U. of Florida. He will continue to maintain and

improve it during his term as the E-link Secretary.

At this time, we would like to acknowledge Dr. Hwanbe Park, Dr. Jysoo

Lee and Mr. C. Park for their efforts for the old AKPA web site at U.

of Colorado. We hope this new Homepage will continue to be maintained

by AKPA from now on.

B) International Free Electron Laser Award to Kwang Je Kim of AFRD:

Kwang Je Kim of the Acceleration and Fusion Research Division (AFRD),

who is the deputy head of AFRD's Center for Beam Physics, was presented the

International Free Electron

Laser Award at the 19th annual International Free Electron Laser Conference,

held last month in Beijing.

The citation on Kim's award, which includes a $3,000 cash prize and the

opportunity to present the opening

address at next year's conference, reads: "For promoting the FEL and

synchrotron radiation science for the

last 15 years, developing the theory for self-amplified spontaneous emission

which is the basis of current x-ray

FEL projects being pursued at SLAC and several laboratories, and pioneering

the analysis of the RF

photocathode beam dynamics, which is the basis for high brightness beam

generation in linacs required for

the x-ray FELs.

C) AKPA Membership Due:

AKPA has been prosperous thanks to yearly fund raising effort

for donations and membership fees by AKPA members.

The remaining fund received from the previous fiscal year is not enough

to give a full financial support to AKPA activities including the Directory,

Newsletter and the Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 1998.

We would appreciate it very much if you would kindly pay the annual

membership fee (regular member: $25, associate member: $5) as well as

make additional donations by the end of October to the following

address:

Professor Kang, Kyungsik, AKPA president

Department of Physics

Brown University

Providence, RI 02912.

Your generous contribution will be used for better quality in AKPA services

including AKPA Newsletter, AKPA Home page, AKPA E-link, and AKPA award.

D) The Award Committee:

Professor Kiuck Lee of Marquette University is

asked to form the Award Committee to select the AKPA Outstanding Young

Investigator of 1998. Information concerning the application of the AKPA

OYI award will be issued on this Homepage as soon as the Committee is

formed and ready to receive the applications.