Clare Yu
University of California, Irvine
Chair-Elect, Nominating Committee
Biographical Summary
Clare Yu is currently a professor of Physics and Astonomy at the University of California, Irvine. She received her A.B and Ph. D in physics from Princeton University. She was a postdoc at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Los Alamos National Laboratory before joining the faculty at UC Irvine.
Her present research interests include biological physics and condensed matter physics. In biological physics she is working on intracellular transport and developmental biology. Her condensed matter physics interests include glassy and disordered systems, noise, and superconducting Josephson junction qubits. She has also contributed to problems in strongly correlated electrons, quantum magnetism, superconducting vortices, phase transitions, and quantum solids.
She was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. She has served as a member-at-large of the executive committee of the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP), and as a member of the nominating committee of the APS DCMP. She was a co-organizer of the 2006 Workshop on Opportunities in Biological Physics sponsored by the APS Division of Biological Physics. She was co-leader of a Campus-Laboratory Collaboration (involving 5 campuses and Los Alamos) on Superconducting Vortices and Related Phenomena. She is currently a member of the University of California Academic Council Special Committee on (National) Lab Issues.
Candidate's Statement
We members of the American Physical Society face a number of challenges:
(1) Lack of sufficient funding for basic research in the physical sciences including interdisciplinary endeavors.
(2) Educating the public and policy members about the important role that physics has in everyday life, including the technology and inventions that help drive our economy.
(3) Attracting bright young people into our profession,
(4) Shortage of rewarding employment opportunities that utilize training in physics. Such a shortage of academic and research oriented positions in the US is resulting in an increasing number taking jobs abroad.
(5) Under representation of women and minorities in physics.
If elected, I will try to identify candidates who can help us to meet these challenges.
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