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Call for papers from American Journal of Physics

By Madison Mincevich posted 07-14-2025
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Dear Statistical and Nonlinear physics colleagues: I forward below a call from the American Journal of Physics for papers showing examples at the undergraduate level of the use of fundamental concepts and techniques in modern research contexts. Our field is rich in such examples. Please see the email below. Regards, Narayanan Menon The American Journal of Physics invites submissions for a special issue, *Motivating physics learning through research applications*, with a submission deadline of December 31, 2025. This issue will share how concepts from the undergraduate curriculum are applied in research, with the goal of providing instructors ...
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Protect Science Funding: Contact Congress Now

By Madison Mincevich posted 05-14-2025
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Last Friday, President Trump proposed a devastating array of cuts to science, including a 52% cut to NSF, a 47% cut to NASA Science and a 28% cut to NIST. Students’ dreams and scientists’ careers of discovery, entrepreneurship, and social impact will be derailed if these cuts become reality. Right now, nothing is final - Congress decides what budget actually passes into law. The best thing we can do is make our community’s voice heard loud and clear: science is essential and these cuts are a terrible idea. You can write to your senators and representatives right now through APS’ official advocacy webpage. And, in a few weeks, there will ...
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Engage Scheduled Maintenance

By Madison Mincevich posted 03-25-2025
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Dear Members, Please be advised that the APS Engage platform will undergo scheduled maintenance on Saturday, March 29, beginning at 10:30 p.m. ET . The maintenance is expected to last approximately 15 minutes , during which access to the platform may be temporarily unavailable. Do I need to take any action? No action is required. Any posts or scheduled messages during the maintenance window will be automatically delayed and resume once maintenance is complete. Need assistance? If you experience any connectivity issues after the maintenance has concluded, please contact us at apsunits@aps.org for support. Thank you for your understanding ...
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Engage Scheduled Maintenance

By Madison Mincevich posted 03-21-2025
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Dear Members, Please be advised that the APS Engage platform will undergo scheduled maintenance on Saturday, March 22, beginning at 10:30 p.m. ET . The maintenance is expected to last approximately 15 minutes , during which access to the platform may be temporarily unavailable. Do I need to take any action? No action is required. Any posts or scheduled messages during the maintenance window will be automatically delayed and resume once maintenance is complete. Need assistance? If you experience any connectivity issues after the maintenance has concluded, please contact us at apsunits@aps.org for support. Thank you for ...
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Nominate a Colleague for APS GSNP Honors

By Madison Mincevich posted 03-03-2025
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APS is now accepting nominations for Awards, Fellowships, and Prizes sponsored by the Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Please nominate your colleagues for APS Fellowship , the Lars Onsager Prize , and the Leo P. Kadanoff Prize . Information on these honors can be found on the APS GSNP Prizes & Awards website . Nominations can be submitted here , with deadlines: APS Fellowship – June 2, 2025 Lars Onsager Prize – June 2, 2025 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize – June 2, 2025 APS Honors recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of the global physics community. Guided by our core values, APS Honors encourages ...
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Opportunities to Volunteer

By Madison Mincevich posted 03-03-2025
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The APS Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics ( GSNP ) seeks a wide range of voices to help serve our members. There are many fun and rewarding ways to get involved: In addition to nominating colleagues for honors , participating in the Image-of-the-Month competition, and sorting abstracts or proposing invited talks for March Meetings, all for example, you can volunteer to serve on committees or offer to run for office. If you are interested, please fill out this self-nomination form and don't hesitate to reach out to Executive Committee officers if you have any questions. We encourage you to participate! #FeaturedNews
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Abstracts Due Oct. 25: Joint March Meeting and April Meeting

By Madison Mincevich posted 10-10-2024
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The call for abstracts is open for the Joint March Meeting and April Meeting, called the APS Global Physics Summit. Share your March Meeting and April Meeting research at the APS Global Physics Summit. All abstracts are due Oct. 25. Become a presenter today ! #FeaturedNews
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Reminder: GSNP Student and Postdoc Speaker Awards

By Madison Mincevich posted 10-07-2024
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Each year, GSNP offers a Student Speaker Award and a Postdoc Speaker Award for the best-contributed talks at the 2025 Joint March Meeting and April Meeting in the area of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Nominations are being accepted now until October 25, 2024 !!! PhD Student Speaker Award Submit your nomination for the PhD Student Speaker Award Up to five finalists will be selected. Up to $ 500 travel funding will be provided to chosen finalists presenting their talk in person. The first-place winner will receive an additional $ 500 award. Prizes will be announced at the GSNP Business meeting. Students must be nominated by their ...
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2025 APS Joint March Meeting and April Meeting Sorting Categories

By Madison Mincevich posted 08-05-2024
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Dear Members, I hope you’ve been having a good and productive summer. It may be hard to believe, but the abstract submissions portal for the 2025 APS Joint March Meeting and April Meeting will open soon - in early September. The 2025 meeting will feature additional events celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Our program committee, chaired by Narayanan Menon and vice-chaired by Sebastian Deffner, has been hard at work. Below is their list of Standard and Focus session sorting categories, which we hope spans the full range of member interests. Some asks: Please submit using these categories, namely 03 numbers (especially ...
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Nominations for APS Standing Committees

By Ericka Donielle Stansbury posted 05-30-2024
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Every year the APS seeks nominations for a large number of standing committees ( click here for descriptions ). We encourage all members to peruse the list and self-nominate. In addition, we would like to make a small number of targeted nominations for committees of particular interest to unit members. If you are interested in being nominated by GSNP, please click here and fill out a short form before Monday morning June 10 . The membership of APS is diverse and global, and the members of APS committees should reflect that diversity so that all are recognized for their impact on our community. Nominations of members belonging to groups traditionally ...
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Kickoff Meeting for Penn Center for Soft and Living Matter

By Douglas J Durian posted 04-09-2024
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The new Center for Soft and Living Matter (CSLM, https://web.sas.upenn.edu/slm/ ) at the University of Pennsylvania is excited to announce a Kickoff Meeting, to be held Wed-Thu June 12 -13 on campus in Philadelphia. The program features confirmed speakers… Rae Robertson Anderson, Tommy Angelini, Katia Bertholdi, Dan Blair, Jasna Brujic, Paul Chaikin, Bulbul Chakraborty, Sujit Datta, Zvonimir Dogic, Nikta Fakhri, Margaret Gardel, Zev Gartner, Sharon Glotzer, Michael Klein, Ching-Yao Lai, Cecilia Leal, Dov Levine, Tom Lubensky, Lisa Manning, Xiaoming Mao, Nuris Figueroa Morales, Michael Murrell, Arvind Murugan, Ilya Nemenman, Michael Rubinstein, Yuhai ...
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Congratulations to the the 2023 Dissertation Award in Statistical & Nonlinear Physics recipient!

By Emma Rosa Zajdela posted 10-25-2023
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Congratulations to Colin Scheibner for the 2023 Dissertation Award in Statistical & Nonlinear Physics "for exceptional early-career scientists who have performed original doctoral thesis work of outstanding scientific quality in statistical & nonlinear physics." Read more about the award here .
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Congratulations to the 2024 Lars Onsager Prize recipient!

By Emma Rosa Zajdela posted 10-25-2023
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Congratulations to the 2024 Lars Onsager Prize recipient, Jacques Prost. This prize recognizes outstanding research in theoretical statistical physics including the quantum fluids. You can read more about this prize here .
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Congratulations to the 2024 Kadanoff Prize recipient

By Emma Rosa Zajdela posted 10-25-2023
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Congratulations to the 2024 Kadanoff Prize recipient, Mark Newman (University of Michigan). This prize recognizes scientists whose theoretical, experimental, or computational achievements have opened new vistas for statistical and or nonlinear physics. Read more about the Kadanoff prize here.
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GSNP student and postdoc awards - please send us nominations!

By Daphne Klotsa posted 09-18-2023
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Hi everyone, please send us some great nominations for students and postdocs! GSNP Student Speaker Award Nominations Submit your nomination for the Student Speaker Award Nominations for the 2024 March Meeting are due October 20th, 2023 Each year GSNP offers a Student Speaker Award for best contributed talk at the March meeting by a graduate student in the area of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Up to five finalists will be selected. Up to 500 dollar travel funding will be provided to chosen finalists presenting their talk in person. The first-place winner will receive an additional $500 award. ...
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GSNP Student and Postdoctoral Speaker Award Nominations

By Daphne Klotsa posted 10-24-2022
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GSNP Student Speaker Award Nominations Submit your nomination for the Student Speaker Award Nominations for the 2023 March Meeting are due November 1st 2022 Each year GSNP offers a Student Speaker Award for best-contributed talk at the March meeting by a graduate student in the area of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Up to five finalists will be selected. Up to 500 dollar travel funding will be provided to chosen finalists presenting their talk in person. The first-place winner will receive an additional 500 dollar award. Prizes will be announced at the GSNP Business meeting. Students must be nominated by their dissertation advisor. ...
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Who would you like to be on Executive Committee?

By Daphne Klotsa posted 07-07-2022
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Dear GSNP Members, The GSNP Nominating Committee is seeking your help in identifying a diverse slate of outstanding candidates to run for open leadership positions in the GSNP Executive Committee . Current positions open for nomination: • Vice Chair, 4 years - advances to chair-elect, chair, past chair in succeeding years • two Members-at-Large, 3-year term The terms and responsibilities of each position are described in the GSNP Bylaws , Article VI. Officers and Members-at-Large of the Executive Committee must be members of the Topical Group at least during the year of their nomination and during their tenure in office ...
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GSNP call for Invited Symposium and Focus Topic Proposals for the 2023 March Meeting

By Daphne Klotsa posted 05-11-2022
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The APS Topical Group of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (GSNP) welcomes your suggestions for Invited Symposia and Focus Sessions at the 2023 APS March Meeting, March 6-10, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Invited symposia consist of five 36-minute invited talks. Submit a proposal for an Invited Symposium Focus sessions typically include one invited and 12 contributed talks. Submit a proposal for a Focus Topic Proposals are due by May 27, 2022. Serving a diverse and inclusive community of physicists worldwide is a primary goal for APS. Nominations of women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and scientists ...
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2022 newsletter is out

By Thomas A Witten posted 03-06-2022
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Dear Members. See this link to get an advance copy of the 2022 GSNP newsletter. It's full of links for your use pointing to events at the March meeting and other sites. This will appear on the GSNP web site and will be emailed to members in due course. Best wishes, Tom Witten, GSNP Chair #FeaturedNews
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GSNP Session Titles for 2022 March Meeting

By Cynthia Reichhardt posted 01-13-2022
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For the March Meeting 2022, GSNP is the primary sponsor for 6 invited sessions, 20 focus sessions, and 6 contributed sessions. The titles of the sessions appear below. Once APS has finalized the room assignments, we will send out another message giving the time and location of each session. A big thanks goes to all the GSNP members who helped out this year by proposing invited symposia and focus sessions and joining in the abstract sorting process. All GSNP members are encouraged to plan ahead and start thinking about good symposia and focus topics for 2023. A successful meeting depends on strong participation! -Cynthia Reichhardt, GSNP Chair-Elect and Program ...
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