The objective shall be to enhance the Society's ability to meet the needs of the industrial and applied physics community, and help the Society take advantage of the evolving opportunities in the practice and application of physics.

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New FIAP officers for 2009-2012

Please join us in congratulating our newly elected FIAP Executive Committee officers for the 2009-2012 term:

• Ernesto Marinero, IBM Almaden Research Center, Vice-Chair 
• Alexander Demkov, University of Texas, Austin, Member-at-Large
  
• Martin Poitzsch, Schlumberger-Doll Research, Member-at-Large
  

The new officers were installed at the 2009 March Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. We extend our thanks to all who took part in the election. We also express our great thanks to the outgoing members, Joseph Heremans, Donald Morelli, and Philip Wyatt, for their service to FIAP.

APS Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics

We congratulate  Phillip J. Wyatt, Wyatt Technology Corporation, winner of the 2009 Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics:

"For pioneering developments in the physics of the inverse scattering problem: new applications of laser light scattering and the successful sustained commercialization of new related analytical methods and instrumentation."

Call for Nominations

2010 AIP Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics — Deadline: 1 May 2009

You are invited to submit nominations for the 2010 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics. The prize is awarded on behalf of the AIP Corporate Associates, in recognition of outstanding contributions by an individual to the industrial applications of physics.

General Motors Corporation and AIP co-sponsor this $10,000 award. The prize will be presented at an upcoming AIP member society meeting. The following website contains the rules and eligibility for nominations: http://www.aip.org/ca/about_prize.html.

We hope that you will participate and promote recognition for our colleagues whose physics contributions have led to commercialized technology.

2010 George E. Pake Prize — Deadline: 1 July 2009

The members of the Forum are strongly encouraged to submit nominations for the 2010 Pake Prize, endowed by Xerox Corporation in 1983 specifically for industrial and applied physicists. Past winners have also worked in the national labs and academia. Detailed information on previous winners and guidelines for nominations.

Nominate a FIAP Colleague for APS Fellowship

The deadline for submitting APS Fellowship nominations through FIAP is 1 May 2009.  It's not too late to nominate a worthy colleague (FIAP member) for Fellow of the APS this year.

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