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March 2013 (Volume 22, Number 3)

March 2013 (Volume 22, Number 3) Entire Issue

Spring 2013 Prizes and Awards

News

Super Bowl of Physics Comes to Baltimore
The APS March Meeting is coming to Baltimore from March 18 through 22

TV to Cover the Action at March Meeting
The British television production company WebsEdge will add a new dimension to this year’s March Meeting

Six APS Fellows Among National Medal Recipients
Six fellows of APS received the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Panel Says Flat Funding Could Doom RHIC
Brookhaven’s RHIC heavy-ion accelerator could face shutdown if science budgets aren’t increased

Six Local Sites Host Diverse and Vibrant Conference for Women
The Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics held its eighth conference at six sites across the country

Conference Examines Many Facets of Graduate Education
The American Center for Physics hosted the second Graduate Education in Physics Conference

Opinion

Letters to the Editor
January 1851: First Reference to Photography in Literature • Anxiety Over Peer Review Somewhat Exaggerated • Interview left questions unanswered • Planck is a European Mission • Beltway Column Reflects Bias

The Back Page
Fisics and Phynance

Departments

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

This Month in Physics History
March 23, 1882: Birth of Emmy Noether

Inside the Beltway
Taking Procedural Stock

Moving Forward/APS Strategic Plan Implementation
Digital Strategy Enhances APS Online Presence

Diversity Corner
A column on programs related to diversity

Zero Gravity: The Lighter Side of Science
Quantum Computing

Six APS Fellows Among National Medal Recipients

Photo by Michael Lucibella

President Obama congratulates James Wynne and Rangaswamy Srinivasan who were honored, together with their late colleague Samuel Blum, for the invention of excimer laser surgery, the technique that makes LASIK surgery possible.

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Sorters Meet for Assorted Meetings

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On two recent occasions, groups of physicists assembled at APS headquarters to sort abstracts for the April Meeting sorters for the DAMOP Meeting.

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