Candidates
Vice-Chair
Surajit Sen (SUNY Buffalo)
William Barletta (United States Particle Accelerator School and MIT)
Councillor
Herman Winick (SLAC)
Galileo Violini (University of Calabria, Italy)
Secretary/Treasurer
Tai C. Chiang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Noemi Mirkin (University of Michigan)
Member-at-Large
Giulia Pancheri (Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics, Italy)
Carl J. Gross (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Alberto F. Santoro (University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ))
Ching-Ray Chang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Czeslaw Rudowicz (West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland)
Candidate for Vice-Chair
Surajit Sen (SUNY Buffalo)Biography:
Surajit Sen earned a B.Sc (Hons) in Physics from the Presidency College, Calcutta and a PhD for work on theoretical statistical physics from the University of Georgia in 1990. His research interest is in constructing solutions to complex dynamical problems using a variety of techniques such as the projection operator formalism and its variants, Molecular Dynamics simulation techniques, various ad hoc approaches, etc. After postdoctoral appointments in condensed matter theory at Minnesota and Michigan State, he joined the Physics Department at SUNY Buffalo in 1994, and has been a full professor since 2006. He also holds an adjunct professor of mathematics appointment at the SUNY College at Buffalo. Since 1995, Sen has worked mostly on energy propagation properties of granular materials, in particular, on studying solitary waves in granular systems and he has pursued applications of energy propagation in problems such as the acoustic detection of land mines, designing scalable shock dispersion systems, nano-scale printing and energy recovery from ocean waves. One of the high points in this journey has been his realization that when solitary waves meet a wall, they break and reform, leading to the formation of what he called secondary solitary waves. The existence of these waves was experimentally confirmed in 2005. He is a prolific author and is deeply committed to addressing the challenges of science education in the rural sector of the developing world.
Sen is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was honored with the SUNY Chancellor’s First Patent Award. He has served as the president of the American Chapter of the Indian Physics Association since 2005 and has been an editor of the International Journal of Modern Physics B and Modern Physics Letters B since 2004 and an associate editor of the physics collection of the open digital library at merlot.org since 2003. He has worked with A.M. Sessler and Irving Lerch to develop the APS study report on the available technologies in humanitarian demining in 2002-3 and has been serving a term as a member of the APS Committee on International Scientific Affairs (CISA) (2007-2009).
Statement:
Surajit Sen would endeavor to sustain and strengthen the International Travel Grants and Awards Program which is one of the great successes of the Forum on International Physics. He strongly supports journal and book donation programs to institutions in nations where affordability is an issue. He is keen to work with the FIP members, CISA, the APS Director of International Affairs and the APS membership and leadership to further enhance the linkages with expatriate physicists from Asia Minor, Middle East, Far East, Latin America and Africa while working to nurture and strengthen the present linkages by attracting important internationally recognized physicists to address issues of interest to physics research, peace and security and work force issues to APS meetings. And last but not the least he believes it is important to explore ways of involving the current foreign-born graduate students in the US institutions with FIP and find ways to address their interests and concerns within FIP.
William Barletta (United States Particle Accelerator School and MIT)
Biography:
William A. Barletta is the Director of the United States Particle Accelerator School (USPAS). He is also Adjunct Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at UCLA, Guest Scientist at Fermilab and Director Emeritus of the Accelerator Fusion Research Division and of the Homeland Security Office at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and senior advisor to the President of Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy.
He is the coordinating editor-in-chief of the international journal, “Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research – A” and has served on the governing boards of USPAS (Chair), Virtual National Laboratory for Heavy Ion Fusion (Convener), and the US-LHC Accelerator Collaboration. He is member of the MicroBooNE He has been an active member of the APS Committee on Minorities (2003 – 2006), APS Panel on Public Affairs (2009 –), and the American Bar Association Privacy & Computer Crime Committee. His professional research activities range from neutrino detectors (as a member of the MicroBooNE and MiniBooNE collaborations) to instruments for accelerator-based science, to nanofabrication technology using ion beams, to interactive technologies for cargo inspection, to international legal and policy aspects of cyber-security and cyber-conflict. He has organized numerous international schools and workshops in technologies for accelerator-based science and was the founding director the International School of Innovative Technology for Cleaning the Environment at Erice, Sicily. He is editor of four books about beam physics and accelerator technology, co-author of three books concerning cybersecurity, privacy and international cyber-law, and most recently co-editor and contributor to the book, “Averting Disaster: Science for Peace in a Perilous Age.” Recently he has begun development of an MBA program in Management of Science with the Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the holder of 3 patents with four patents pending, and author of more than 150 papers and technical reports plus more than 30 internal reports on strategic technologies.
After a term (1972 – 1974) as instructor of physics at Yale University, he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he held several research and management positions including until 1993. During period, 1988 –1996, he was also Visiting Professor of Physics at UCLA. He holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago (1972), and is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Italian Physical Society.Statement:
The past century of physics has exemplified the benefits of open science; strong international collaboration has yielded great advances. On the political front, the efforts of scientific leaders to build bridges between nations in numerous international venues contributed in no small way to building trust among nations, to defusing the tensions of the Cold War, and to enhancing global well-being. On the more familiar scientific front, close collaboration across national borders with colleagues in industrialized countries has become a daily reality for many APS members. Moreover, industrialized nations are seeing an inexorable movement toward international scientific mega-facilities at the multi-billion dollar scale built by and designed to serve a worldwide community. In high energy and nuclear physics such facilities are already unique on a continental if not a global scale. In contrast, a network of nearly 40 national and regional synchrotron radiation facilities including free electron lasers are spreading over the globe bringing the potential for high quality physics to the less industrialized world. Not surprisingly ~30% of students at the US Particle Accelerator School come from more than 25 countries.
Both paradigms of development of the global scientific infrastructure offer the American physics community (and especially the APS) the opportunity to expand the reach of science without borders – North, South, East and West. As advisors, the APS and its members can help scientists in the developing world by identifying and promoting opportunities to create university-scale facilities with the potential to yield “20% of the science at a thousandth the cost.” For example, at the few million-dollar scale, tabletop terawatt lasers can enable significant opportunities to perform cutting edge condensed matter and chemical physics. Even at this price, however, developing countries may be able to afford only a single facility of a given type, the most constraining factor being the scarce human capital required. The APS can assist by expanding training and exchange opportunities especially for early career scientists.
Scientific facilities of every scale can have expanded impact through information technologies. Computational grids and web-based collaboration tools can make virtual research groups and laboratories a vibrant reality beyond active, peer-to-peer collaboration. Digital telecommunication also enables shared monitoring, control, acquisition, real-time visualization and analysis of scientific data. Regional virtual laboratories can expand scientific opportunities while assuring centralized maintenance, security and safety of scarce resources. By identifying and facilitating such opportunities, physicists can make a major contribution to bridging both the digital and the facilities divide.Candidate for Councillor
Biography:
Deputy Director (Emeritus); Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) Division
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Professor (Research) Emeritus, Applied Physics & SSRL/SLAC, Stanford Univ.
A.B., Columbia College, 1953
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1957
Fellow of APS and AAAS.
Herman Winick has played a strong leadership role in the development of synchrotron radiation sources and research at Stanford and around the world.
After a postdoc at the Univ. of Rochester (1957-59) and a staff position at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator at Harvard Univ. (1959-73), he came to Stanford to lead the technical design of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Project (SSRP), now SSRL, and served as Deputy Director until his semi-retirement in 1998.
His professional work includes more than 100 scientific articles, co-editing "Synchrotron Radiation Research" (Plenum Press, 1980) and editing "Synchrotron Radiation Sources - a Primer" (World Scientific, 1994). He serves on advisory committees for several synchrotron radiation facilities and on editorial boards of several journals.
His work on wiggler and undulator magnets as advanced radiation sources has been recognized by awards by the DOE and the US Particle Accelerator School. In 2000 he was awarded the DOE Distinguished Associate Award. In 1992 he initiated studies of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Project to construct an x-ray laser using the SLAC linac. The LCLS began operation in 2009.
He maintains contact with accelerator laboratories around the world and has had extended stays as a Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo and on a Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in Hamburg at DESY/HASYLAB. He was instrumental in initiating SESAME (www.sesame.org.jo), a UNESCO-sponsored project which is now constructing a synchrotron radiation laboratory in Jordan, with 9 countries in the Middle East participating.
He has a strong interest in human rights and in international scientific collaboration. His human rights activities include chairing the APS Committee on International Freedom of Scientists (CIFS) in 1992. In 2005 he was elected Vice Chair of the APS Forum on International Physics and received the Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award from the New York Academy of Sciences.
Statement:
I believe that the promotion of science and technology in developing countries can play a role in raising their standard of living, improving relationships with the US, countering fundamentalism, contributing to democratic regimes, and promoting peace.
The APS, through FIP, FPS, and committees such as POPA, CISA and CIFS, and with the strong support and leadership of the Office of International Affairs, can be proud of its contributions to international science, particularly in developing countries. This includes providing journals and discounted membership fees to developing countries, bringing scientists from abroad to participate in sessions at APS meetings, conducting international workshops in the US and abroad, reducing visa impediments for scientists, and supporting exchange visits and joint research.
For more than 20 years I have worked on many of these international issues. Most recently, while in the FIP Chair line and as a member of CISA it has been my privilege to work with the APS Office of International Affairs to initiate several very successful travel grant programs. These make it possible for scientists from developing countries to attend workshops and schools in the US and abroad, and to pursue collaborations with US scientists.
My work over the past 25 years in developing synchrotron radiation sources and research facilities has provided connections to more than 60 such facilities around the world, with many personal contacts. In particular, through my participation in the SESAME project I have seen how scientists from developing and developed countries can work cooperatively to overcome political tensions in pursuit of a common goal, while building mutual understanding in the process.
As FIP Councilor I will use my international contacts and work to continue and expand the APS international activities and to encourage physical societies in other parts of the world to emulate the example of APS.
Galileo Violini (University of Calabria, Italy)
Biography:
Galileo Violini was born in 1942, graduated in Physics at University of Rome La Sapienza in 1965, and obtained his Libera Docenza in 1971. Between 1965 and 1987 he was at the University of Rome La Sapienza, where he was a profesor of Algebra and Mathematical Methods of Physics. He has been a professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Calabria since 1987. Since 2007 he is the Delegate of the Rector for International Relations.
In 1985 he founded the Centro Internacional de Física (CIF) in Bogota (Colombia), which he directed until 1994 (currently, Director Emeritus), has been director of a four year European Union program at the University of El Salvador, was responsible for higher education UNESCO scientific programs at the Santiago (Chile) Office. He was director of UNESCO Office and Representative of UNESCO to Islamic Republic of Iran and to ECO (intergovernmental organization with Headquarters in Iran). Under his direction CIF organized more than 100 events, mostly, but not uniquely, in Colombia. He has also organized workshops in El Salvador and Iran, the latter having led to the cooperation agreement between Iran and CERN, which has made possible the participation of Iranian scientists in LHC.
In 1995 he received the APS Wheatley Award for the creation and direction of CIF. In 2001 he was elected APS Fellow for contributions to physics and the development of new international programs He served as member at large of the FIP Executive Committee, for the period 2008-2010.
He has been a member of several committees for the promotion of international cooperation in science, in Europe (International Dimension of the Europe of knowledge), US (Latin American Institute at Texas A&M, Panamerican Association for Physics, IITAP Advisory Committee) and Latin America (Fundamental Physics in the Andean Region).
He has collaborated on several feasibility studies of scientific development programs in Poland, Japan, Colombia, Italy and Chile. In addition he performed a study on Physics in Central America for UNESCO and collaborated with two American scientists on a mission to explore the possibility of funding an International Center of Science in the Middle East, which could contribute to the peace in that region.
Violini’s main research activity has been in Particle Physics, an area in which he was coauthor of the book “Dispersion Theory in High-Energy Physics”. Beside his papers in this area he has published several papers on science policy and on science teaching.
Statement:
APS is not only the largest and more important national community of physicists, but also one with of global membership, having about one third of non US members . Many international cooperative actions and programs already exist. Some are based on personal collaboration, but institutionally several APS units have important programs, and certainly the role of FIP for that is unique. I intend to use my experience in institutional building and of the three years spent as member-at-large of FIP Executive Committee, to ensure a fluid communication between the Council and the unit responsible of the promotion of international programs oriented to strengthen institutional cooperation. Certain regions where I have had direct experience, like Latin America and Middle East are prioritary for APS, as its membership confirms. Moreover, the fact that my European origin and connection with UNESCO may be instrumental in favoring contacts that I hope may help the establishment of programs of institutional cooperation that is necessary to encourage at all levels, such as the training at Ph D level, in cooperative research programs, and the establishment of institutions in the South whose promotion of South-South cooperation (that I consider essential) requires also support from the North, and for which there are indications that will represent an US priority in the forthcoming years. FIP can play a unique role in promoting these ideas, but it is also necessary that they become part of the culture of APS, and the FIP councilor should play an essential role for that, contributing to a diffusion of these ideas beyond APS, with impact on the appreciation of its authority and reputation.
Candidate for Secretary/Treasurer
Tai C. Chiang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Biography:
Tai C. Chiang has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois since 1980. His research interests include the electronic and atomic structures and growth behavior of surfaces, films, and nanostructures, as well as phonons, phase transitions, and critical phenomena in complex material systems. He has been a user of synchrotron radiation for over 30 years and has contributed substantially to the development of angle-resolved photoemission, core level spectroscopy, surface x-ray diffraction, and thermal diffuse x-ray scattering methods. His experiences include a long tenure as Associate Director of the Illinois Materials Research Laboratory. His current/recent activities include: Chair, Users Advisory Committee, Synchrotron Radiation Center (2007-); Board Chair, UNICAT (University, National Lab, and Industry Collaborative Access Team), Advanced Photon Source (2003–2008); Scientific Advisory Committee, Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, Louisiana State University (2000-); Advisory/Steering Committees, Taiwan Photon Source (2006-); Lecturer at National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering, Argonne National Laboratory (2009); Chair, VUV/Soft X-ray/IR Beamline Review Committee, National Synchrotron Light Source (2008); and Lecturer at International School on Sub-Ten-Nanometer Wires, University of Tokyo (2008). He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1986 and was recognized as an Outstanding Referee in 2008 (inaugural group). He was appointed Distinguished Chair, National Taiwan University from 2007 to 2008 and currently holds the position of Honorary Chair at Tsing Hua University. His services to the international community include frequent reviews for proposals, facility construction and operations, tenure and promotion cases, and awards/prizes. He has participated in numerous international collaborative projects involving scientists from France, Germany, Sweden, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and India.
Statement:
Scientific research and education has no national boundaries, and the worldwide physics community can greatly benefit from closer international cooperation and collaboration. The Forum on International Physics (FIP) of the American Physics Society, with a mission centered on advancing the knowledge of physics and its diffusion by fostering cooperation and communication among physicists of all countries, serves as an important avenue for connecting the American Physical Society to the many physical societies, colleagues, and friends in other countries. As a candidate for the FIP Secretary/Treasurer, I pledge to do my best, if elected, to vigorously promote international fellowship, scholarship, and trust for a better global physics community, in which scientific activities proceed in an open, free, and friendly environment. There should be few limits on travel and communication across national borders for participation in scientific meetings, visits, discussions, and research at international facilities and laboratories. The FIP should seek additional resources to leverage support for a broad range of multilateral activities; additionally, the community as a whole must lend a helping hand to our less fortunate friends and colleagues whenever and wherever the needs may arise. It is in everyone's best interest that we come together to create and maintain an ideal international physics society in which we can effectively focus our energy on research, education, and outreach, in which young people worldwide with a passion for science and discovery will have ample opportunities for pursuing their studies and careers in a nurturing environment, and in which scientific research resources and opportunities are made accessible or available to all interested members. The FIP has a key role to play in fostering the development of a better global physics community; if elected, I will work with the other members of the executive committee of the FIP toward this goal.
Noemi Mirkin (University of Michigan)
Biography:
Noemi Mirkin was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She received her Licenciado degree in Physics from the National University of Tucuman in 1973 and her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Michigan in 1989. Mirkin stayed at the University of Michigan first as a postdoctoral fellow in the Physics Department, and is now an Associate Research Scientist at the Biophysics Department. Mirkin’s research has been in the general area of vibrational spectroscopic studies of peptide and protein structure. Over the years, her research interests have included a variety of topics in experimental infrared and Raman spectroscopy; vibrational analysis; surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy; quantum chemical studies of structures, energies and force fields of macromolecules. Her recent work has concentrated in the development of physically reliable molecular mechanics energy functions to be used in the modeling of biomolecules. Beyond academics, she has been deeply involved with multiple organizations in activities geared to increasing the participation of women and minorities in science and engineering. She was awarded the University of Michigan's Sarah Goddard Power Award for scholarship, leadership and sustained service on behalf of women. She is currently serving on the Committee for a Multicultural University of the University of Michigan. She has also held leadership roles in the Association for Women in Science, the Council of the Michigan Chapter of Sigma Xi, the University of Michigan Hispanic Alumni Council, and the National Board of Directors of the University of Michigan Alumni Association. She is a member of Sigma Xi, the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, AAAS, the National Society of Hispanic Physicists, and the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science. She is currently serving the American Physical Society as Secretary/Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Forum on International Physics and member of the Committee on the International Freedom of Scientists.
Statement:
Our greatest opportunity and challenge is to increase our membership base. To remain a healthy organization we not only need to recruit more members, but also to increase member participation at all levels. In addition, we need to strengthen the communication between the FIP Executive Committee and the FIP members; our members need to know what our organization is doing and how it affects them. It is important for the FIP to maintain a strong presence in matters of international issues. We must represent and bring to the forefront the interests of the foreign members of the APS.
In this ever-changing world environment, the FIP has the opportunity to play a unique leadership role towards enhancing international cooperation in scientific research and technological development. Critical issues at this time are the barriers to the free flow of information and communication with international scientists. We must be aware, vigilant and proactive in maintaining these freedoms.
As a candidate for this position, in addition to the specific duties of the Secretary/Treasurer, I will continue to work for the FIP in its efforts to provide a forum that supports and encourages scientific interactions in the international community. I welcome the opportunity to continue to have an active role in this organization.
Candidate for Member-at-Large
Giulia Pancheri (Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics, Italy)
Biography:
Since 1966, when she graduated from University of Rome with a theoretical thesis on Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), Giulia Pancheri has been author or co-author of more than 200 articles or Conference contributions on particle physics phenomenology, radiative corrections to electron-positron experiments, to resonance production, resummation in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and QED processes at flavour-factories. Her present interest is on the energy behaviour of total hadronic cross-sections, with a Review article for the European Physics Journal C in preparation.
Giulia Pancheri has edited or co-edited proceedings for over 10 International Conferences, has founded in 1996 the Frascati Spring School of Particle Physics, and has written articles on gender issues in physics and on history of accelerator physics.
Giulia Pancheri has in-depth experience of both US and European research projects, and spent about 14 years in Boston, with a two year period at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Studies. From 1992 to 2006 she has been European Coordinator of EU funded theoretical physics Research and Training Networks involving up to 12 European countries and more than 150 theoretical physicists of 15 different EU institution. She is a member of many EU Commission research evaluation Panels, and has participated in EU Commission benchmarking exercises of Human Resources in the S&T profession. She has been National Chair of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) Equal Opportunity Committee and published two national reports on the status of women in INFN. After her retirement from INFN Director of Research in 2008, she is now INFN Senior Associate, Visiting Professor at University of Durham, UK, and Visiting Scientist at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. For the academic year 2009-2010, she will be a visiting scientist at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. She was elected APS fellow in 2009.
Statement:
Science has contributed to intellectual exchanges among different cultures and different historical developments since early times.
Recently, new phenomena have built new bridges between people. The unification of Europe is one such historical milestone. Having participated in EU funded research projects for almost twenty years, I have seen Europe change from a 7 country Union to the present 27, and, as EU Coordinator of Research and Training Networks, I have witnessed the impact of international programs on young people’s mobility and integration into the ideals of the European Union. It is possible to extend this experience to other countries and I plan to study such possibilities, as a member of FIP Executive Committee.
Great changes have also taken place within China and Japan, where particle accelerators are now competing with similar accelerators in the rest of the world. The development of accelerators from table top machines to the LHC, shows how ideas grow between different countries even in the worst of times. Such has been the case of the birth of electron-positron physics, which started during World War II in Germany with the Austrian Bruno Touschek and the Norwegian Wolf Wideroe, and continued in the '50s and '60s in Europe, USA and the URSS. My recent research work on Touschek's life highlights this early story for a wider public, to witness the rise of great ideas in physics and their many applications in today’s industry, medicine and particle physics research. I plan to continue my outreach efforts in such directions and so encourage young men and women to physics studies.
I am also deeply interested in the gender equity in physics. The situation differs widely between East and West, South and North, and a global study of women’s presence in physics is a worthy goal for the Forum of International Physics, to which as a member of the Exective Committee of FIP I would like to contribute.
Carl J. Gross (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Biography:
Carl J. Gross is a Group Leader for Experimental Systems and the User Liaison at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF) located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in nuclear physics in 1987 from Florida State University studying nuclear structure spectroscopy at high spins. Following a 4.5 year post doctoral stay at the Universitaet Goettingen in Germany where his emphasis shifted to the study of nuclei far from stability, he returned to the US and began his work at HRIBF first as a post-doc, then in 1995 he became the User Liaison, and finally Group Leader in 2009.
Since 1996 Carl's work has been concentrated on equipment development highlighted by the successful commissioning and operation of the HRIBF Recoil Mass Spectrometer and his interest in enhancing decay spectroscopy studies using non-traditional methods. The field of radioactive ion beams allows the use of applying higher energy detection and identification techniques to what has been traditionally extremely low-energy decay spectroscopy.
Carl has over 130 refereed publications and invited presentations, serves as referee for several organizations, and has been the lead local contact on two Exotic Beam Physics Summer Schools as well as the Fourth International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses (ENAM).
Statement:
As the Experimental Systems Group Leader and the User Liaison at a DOE National User Facility, I interact with almost all visiting experimentalists at HRIBF and assist many of them in doing their experiments. I see firsthand the importance of international relations and can share the joy and frustrations that our foreign national users experience when trying to do work at our facility. My experience at living in Europe for almost 5 years has made me keenly aware of the international nature of physics where the next great idea can come from any member of the collaboration including the students.
As a member-at-large I can bring a unique perspective to the discussions as to the hurdles our international users face when trying to do work in the US. I support open scientific exchanges and international collaborations which are vitally important to our field, and will support the FIP programs which further these goals.
Alberto F. Santoro (University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ))
Biography:
Alberto Franco de Sá Santoro, Brazilian physicist, Professor of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), leader of the UERJ-CMS group, and of the T2-HEPGRID-Brazil-UERJ, is working in the present on Forward Physics, on the Detector CASTOR (Centauro And Strange Objects Research) and Physics Analysis (several topics, helping students for their thesis). He has a group of colleagues and students working on these projects. He is the co-chair of the Digital Divide of ICFA/SCIC. His professional life started with Roberto Salmeron in the University of Brasilia. Obliged by political reasonos to leave Brasilia, continued his studies in the Federal University of the Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). As graduate student at CPBF (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas) published his first paper with Professor Colber de Oliveira in General Relativity. After working in Saclay-CEA/France as fellow of French Governement and under the advisor of Professor Gilles Cohen-Tannoudji he did his Ph.D in the University of Paris VII. He was the advisor of many Master and Doctoral students, an activity that is still present in his life. He participates of the D0/FNAL one of the experiments which discovered the Quark top. He is author of many papers and books. He is the Director of the Summer School LISHEP (International School in High Energy Physics with four Sessions: A. Dedicated to Professors of Secondary School; B. Workshop on HEP; C. Associated Technologies to HEP; D. Advanced School on HEP). He is Fellow of the APS (1993); received the Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico (The Brazilian Order of Science Merit) in the grade of Comendador 1995; Golfinho de Ouro Award, Culture Council of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2004; Award from the Simpósio Einstein -- 100 years of Relativity from Casa da Física, Manaus-AM, Brazil, 2005; Award from the Chamber of the State of Amazonas (Legislative Assembly of the State of Amazonas), Manaus-AM, Brazil, 2005; The APS Marshak Lectureship -- CISA -- Committee on International Scientific Affairs/APS - American Physical Society – 2007; 2008 Award for Experimental/Developmental Applications – CENIC – Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, Ultralight, USA – 2008. He is a member of several Scientific Societies. In the present his main interest is in Forward Physics.
Statement:
First of all I would like to thank the Nomination Committee for including my name to run for election as FIP Executive Committee Member-at-Large. I consider APS the best Physics Society organization around the world. I was very impressed when I attended the Annual meeting. FIP – Forum on International Physics is one of the most important organizations for discussion in development of Physics at International Level. As Brazilian physicist, I have always pushed my colleagues in Latin America to be members of this organization since it is an important Forum to propose actions in common agreement on behalf of the development of Science. In the recent past colleagues of High Energy Physics have organized workshops in several countries of Latin America to develop the computing infrastructure of networks and show the importance to have good bandwidths for the whole society. But for science is absolutely necessary for their development mainly in science. Science is International. There is no regional or national equation. All physics equations are absolutely international. All discoveries are absolutely a patrimony of the humanity. I will continue to convince more and more people to continue to participate on International initiatives as a small part of their contribution for peace in the world!
Ching-Ray Chang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Biography:
Current Appointment:
Professor, Department of Physics, National Taiwan Uinversity
Previous Appointments:
Chairman of Department of Physics, National Taiwan Uinversity
(from August 1st 2000 to July 31, 2007)
Associated Professor, Department of Physics, National Taiwan Uinversity
(Feb. , 1989- July 1994)
Education:
Ph.D. Physics, University of California, San Diego (1988)
Research Areas:
Micromagnetics, Mechanism of Spin-dependence Transport, Dynamic Reversal of Mesoscopic Magnets, Magnetic Recording Theory
Publications:
More than 180 papers published in SCI journals.
Synergistic Activities
1. Council member of C9 : Magnetism: International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) (2006-2008).(2009-2011)
2. Chairperson of IEEE: Taiwan Magnetic Chapter (2005-2008)
3. Chief organizer of World Year of Physics in Taiwan (2005).
4. Executive Secretary of Association of Asia Pacific Physical Society (AAPPS) (2005-2007)(2008-2010)
5. President of Physical Society located in Taipei, ROC (2004-2005)
6. Program committee of InterMag 2005 in Nagoya, Japan.
7. Deputy-Chief Editor of AAPPS Bulletin (2005-2007)
Professional Societies: Associations of Asia Physical Society (AAPPS), Taiwanese Physical SocietyPSROC), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Physics Society(APS)
Honors and Awards:
1. 2004: The distinguished industrial contribution award in NTU, Taiwan.
2. 2004: The researching award of Taiwanese Magnetic Society.
3. 1989-2001: NSC researching awards, Taiwan.
4. 1999: The honorable teacher award in NTU, Taiwan
Statement:
International collaboration and partnerships are essentially important for physicists as we need to remain connected to the global community to advance the quality of research and have a better understanding of the universe as well. Thanks to technological advancement, we have travelled the globe more frequently and communicated faster to accelerate international cooperation across the nations. Our interdisciplinary dialogue has paved the way for the explosion of new knowledge and technology applications for industrial development.
Over the past century, the physical research community has indeed contributed greatly to the wellbeing of humans. Looking to the future, there still is room for development in basic research, technological application and commercialization of R&D. APS has been a significant key player in advancing knowledge of physics and fostering international cooperation. The establishment of FIP has also been regarded as a driving force for international cooperation and facilitator in research and education.
As a member of APS, I am convinced that international collaboration is more effective when partnerships are in line with national priorities programs and domestic research strategies. For decades I have been involved in promoting physics research in Asia, not only in developing economies, such as Taiwan, China, Korea, and Japan, but also in regions under development. My service as the President of Taiwan Physics Society has enabled me to take initiatives to pursue international collaborations in physics research and education and to increase the participation and advancement of Women in Physicist. Expanding efforts have been made through a variety of international collaboration in Asia over the years.
If successfully been elected, I would devote more of my time and experiences in leading the efforts to establish a network system between Asian R&D communities and APS, aiming at supporting international collaborations in interdisciplinary research and education; increasing scientists exchanges and promoting career development for physicists at all levels to reach the goals of accelerate discovery for the benefit of the world.
Czeslaw Rudowicz (West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland)
Biography:
Czesław Rudowicz was born (1948) in Poznań, Poland; graduated with MSc (1970) and PhD (1974) in physics (with distinction) from A. Mickiewicz University (AMU). In the pursuit of his childhood dreams of travelling to distant countries, which was not easy in then ‘communist’ Poland, he has managed to obtain position of Senior Lecturer at the Port Harcourt University, Nigeria (1978-80). This was the start of his ‘Brownian motions around the world’, followed by A. von Humboldt Fellowship at the Erlangen-Nurnberg University, Germany (1980-82). With the Solidarity movement crushed in December 1981, instead of returning to Poland, he accepted Research Fellowship at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia (1982-89); later he, his wife and two kids become Australian citizens. Based on research carried out at the ANU he was awarded DSc (Physical Sciences) from his Alma Mater AMU (1989). Next ‘quantum jump’ was to the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) as a Reader (1989-95), becoming Professor (Chair) in Physics, Dept. Phys. & Mat. Sci. (1995-Jan 2005). In Feb. 2005, a return ‘motion’ happened – to Poland (now part of the European Union) to take up position as Professor in the Institute of Physics at the West Pomeranian University of Technology. Since Jan. 2007 he is the Head of Modeling in Spectroscopy Group.
He is considered as world-class expert in the areas of magnetism, optical and EMR (EPR/ESR) spectroscopy of transition ions; has worked and published extensively in the field of ligand/crystal field theory and foundations of EMR. His main contributions deal with microscopic spin Hamiltonian theory, superposition model, and low symmetry effects in spectroscopy of various technologically important ion-host systems. His publication record (nearly 300 in total) includes: about 180 international refereed papers, one monograph, one edited book, over 110 international/regional conference presentations, and 11 Research Reports. As PI of research grants awarded at the CityU, he coordinated team work of scientists from China, Korea, India, Russia, Poland, and Japan. Thirty three international journals have benefited from his services as a referee, e.g. Phys. Rev. B, Phys. Rev. Let., J. Phys. Cond. Matter., while three: Applied Mag. Resonance, Physica B, Indian J. Pure & Applied Physics have had him as Member of Editorial Boards. He has international teaching experience in various countries, e.g. he taught (in English) courses in General Physics, Solid State Physics / Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Physics, Magnetism and Magnetic Resonance Techniques, and Electromagnetism. Periods of monthly Visiting Professorships at Korea Univ. (1995), Jagiellonian Univ. (2002), Kobe Univ. (2003) and Allahabad Univ. (2007) as well as invitations to deliver plenary or invited talks at numerous conferences had given him chance to execute additional Brownian motions.
In January 1997 he established the Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Society [APES], becoming its first President (1997-2004), then Immediate Past President (2004-08). He still serves on the APES Council as Founder President. Under his leadership several Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Symposia have been organized: APES'97 (Hong Kong), APES'99 (Hangzhou), APES'01 (Kobe), APES'04 (Bangalore) & the Satellite School to APES’04 (Mumbai), whereas other colleagues have continued this work: APES'06 (Novosibirsk) and APES’08 (Cairns). In April 2007 he was elected as the President of the Polish EPR Society.
The President of Poland had conferred on him the title of Professor in Physical Sciences in Dec. 2002. The American Physical Society (Forum on International Physics) has elected him as Fellow (Nov. 2004); citation reads: “For his significant contributions to optical and EMR spectroscopy of transition ions and outstanding leadership in promoting international meetings and collaborations as Founder and President of the Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Society.” He was awarded Honorary Professorship at Baoji Univ. of Arts & Sciences, P.R. China (2004) and the CityU (2005-2008), while the Senate of the CityU conferred on him the title of Emeritus Professor in June 2008.
Statement:
APS may be proud of being the largest national society of physicists, while having a huge proportion of members from all countries. The strength of APS is, among others, in transcending national borders while fostering collaboration between physicists regardless of nationality or country of origin. Notably, this transcendence and international character are immanent features of physics, so nicely reflected in the immense contribution to physics by American physicists born outside the USA.
As a member at large of the Forum on International Physics I will strive to utilize my vast international scientific collaborative network as well as professional contacts with physicists around the world to enhance the network of international linkages built up by our predecessors. As Founder President of the Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Society [APES] (originated in 1997 and still alive and kicking) I have organized and co-organized the series of Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Symposia in several Asia-Pacific countries. As the APES Council member and the President of the Polish EPR Society I may provide a vital link to many physicists in a number of countries. My experience in society and conference organization may be particularly useful in fulfilling the FIP mission, especially with regard to fostering cooperation and communication among physicists of all countries.
