Letters UC Campus Maintains Commitment to Physics — Hungarian Ruler not a Fascist Dictator — Not Wise to Ignore Engineering — Stuyvesant Teachers Definitely Above Average — What Really Happened That Morning in Georgia?
The Back Page The Impact of Current Visa Restrictions on National Security
Included in this month’s APS News is a poster advertising the World Year of Physics, which will take place in 2005. But it’s not early—there is good reason to display it in 2004. The whole idea of the World Year of Physics is to get the word out about the importance and excitement of physics to the general public. And the only people who can do that are the members of the physics community, who have to begin planning in 2004 if the effort is to succeed. The poster is attractive, and worth putting up for that reason alone. But its main purpose is to remind our members, whether they are in industry, universities, or national labs, to participate in the 2005 celebration. Much more information, and suggestions for how to participate, are available at the WYP web site, www.physics2005.org.
Sorters Tackle Record Number of Abstracts
Legions of dedicated volunteers are shown hard at work at APS headquarters in December as they sort the record-breaking 6100 abstracts for the March meeting in Montréal, March 22-26.
