Particle physicists recognized by APS awards
The American Physical Society made a number of awards at its April meeting, held jointly with the high-energy astrophysics division of the American Astronomical Society in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The W H K Panofsky Prize went to Masatoshi Koshiba, Yoji Totsuka and Takaaki Kajita, all from the University of Tokyo, for "compelling experimental evidence for neutrino oscillations using atmospheric neutrinos".
Gordon Baym of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign received the Hans A Bethe prize for his "superb synthesis of fundamental concepts, which have provided an understanding of matter at extreme conditions, ranging from crusts and interiors of neutron stars to matter at ultrahigh temperatures".
The "pioneering work in the development of superstring theory" of Cambridge University's Michael Green and Caltech's John Schwarz was recognized by the award of the Dannie Heinemann Prize, given jointly by the APS and the American Institute of Physics.
Alexander Skrinsky, director of the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, received the Robert R Wilson Prize for his "major contribution to the invention and development of electron cooling and for his contributions to the physics of the electron-positron colliders at the Budker Institute".
J David Bowman of the Los Alamos National Laboratory received the Tom W Bonner prize for his "leadership in performing precision measurements involving tests of fundamental symmetries, including his studies of parity non-conservation in compound nuclei".
Hampton University's Oliver Keith Baker received the Edward A Bouchet prize for his "contribution to nuclear and particle physics; for building the infrastructure to do these measurements; and for being active in outreach activities, both locally and nationally".
Alberto Sirlin of New York University and William J Marciano of Brookhaven were awarded the J J Sakurai prize for their "pioneering work on radiative corrections, which made precision electroweak studies a powerful method of probing the Standard Model and searching for new physics".
The Joseph A Burton Forum Prize went to Adrian Mellott of the University of Kansas for "his outstanding efforts in helping to restore evolution and cosmology to their proper place in the K-12 scientific curriculum. As a distinguished cosmologist and respected member of the clergy, he played a key role in helping the people of Kansas reverse their State Board of Education's anti-science action".
Bruce Knuteson of the University of Chicago won the Tanaka Dissertation award for work on Fermilab's D0 experiment, and Jiunn-Wei Chen of the University of Maryland won the dissertation in nuclear physics award. James Cederberg of St Olaf College in Minnesota won the prize for a faculty member in an undergraduate institution, and the Leo Szilard Lectureship award went to the president of the federation of American Scientists, Henry C Kelly.
A Workshop on High-Power Couplers for Superconducting Accelerators will be hosted by Jefferson Laboratory on 30 October - 1 November. It will be an informal meeting where members of diverse scientific, technological and industrial communities can explore possibilities for advancing the science, engineering and art of cost-effective RF power coupler design, manufacture and use. Details are available at http://www.jlab.org/hpc2002/; email hpc2002@jlab.org.
The XVI International Conference on Particles and Nuclei (PANIC02) will be held on 30 September - 4 October in Osaka, Japan. Details are available at http://www.rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp/~panic02. It will be preceded by the 2nd International Workshop on Nuclear and Particle Physics at the KEK/JAERI 50 GeV proton synchrotron, which will be held at Kyoto University on 27-29 September. See http://www-jhf.kek.jp/NP02/.
A workshop on Neutrino News from the Lab and the Cosmos will be held at Fermilab on 17-19 October. It will focus on cosmological and terrestrial probes of neutrino masses and mixing, highlighting the implications of recent results, and aiming to bring together members of the particle and astrophysics communities. Emphasis will be placed on the interplay and complementarity of cosmological and laboratory-based methods. Details are at: http://www-astro-theory.fnal.gov/Conferences/NuCosmo/.
An exhibition on the life and work of Werner Heisenberg will be on display at CERN on 1-23 July. The exhibition was produced in 2001 by the University Archive of Leipzig University and the Max-Planck Institute in Munich to mark the centenary of Heisenberg's birth (CERN Courier December 2001). A related celebration will take place on 18 July, and will include reminiscences on Heisenberg's life and work from his daughter, Barbara Blum; his last postgraduate student, Helmut Rechenberg; and CERN's Valentine Telegdi.