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March 2009 (Volume 18, Number 3)

March 2009 (Volume 18, Number 3) Entire issue

Spring 2009 Prizes and Awards Announcements

News

March Meeting Covers Broad Spectrum of Research
Largest general physics conference of the year features latest research in condensed matter, industrial applications, new materials, chemical and biological physics, fluids, and computational physics

APS President’s Message Stimulates Strong Member Response
APS members write to Congress to support science funding in economic stimulus legislation

Panel Pushes More Investment in Energy Research
Subcommittee of the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC) makes recommendations to help curtail global warming and manage the nation’s energy needs

LaserFest Website Launched
Site features LaserFest events and activities, laser facts, history

APS Debuts on Facebook and LinkedIn
Members can use social networking sites to start discussions, review articles, post comments and notices, share photos, or check APS updates

Beller, Marshak Lectureships to Enhance March and April Meetings
Lectureships bring distinguished physicists from overseas to APS meetings

Simultaneous Cross-country Conferences Host Women in Physics
Undergraduate women hear research talks, present their own research, learn about graduate school and career options, and network with other women in physics

Job Fair Attendance Lags in Gloomy Economy
Both job seekers and employers may be finding it difficult to attend job fairs

Opinion

Letters
The Real Reason Water is Blue • Back Page Labeled Propaganda • Blunder May Not Have Been Einstein's

Viewpoint
ITER and Fusion Energy

The Back Page
New Eyes on the Universe: 400 Years of Physicist Astronomers

Inside the Beltway
It Takes Two to Tango

Departments

Members in the Media
As quoted in other publications...

This Month in Physics History
March 13, 1930: Clyde Tombaugh’s discovery of Pluto announced

Zero Gravity: The Lighter Side of Science
Lunchtime at the LHC

Education Corner
Bimonthly column featuring educational programs and publications

Focus on APS Topical Groups
Instrument and Measurement Science

Pound for Pound
Arthur Bienstock and Cherry Murray

Photo by Ken Cole/APS

The APS past-President Arthur Bienenstock of Stanford (left) handed the gavel, symbolic of the APS Presidency, to his successor, Cherry Murray of Livermore National Laboratory.
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Come Back with my Abstract!
sorters meeting for March 09

Photo by Ken Cole/APS

Steve Detweiler of the University of Florida (standing), representing the Topical Group on Gravitation, gestures vigorously for more abstracts for the April Meeting, while Stan Whitcomb of Caltech looks on.
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APS Honors Rabi and Columbia

Photo by David Wentworth

On January 29, as part of its historic sites initiative, APS presented a plaque ( to the physics department at Columbia.
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