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Nominations for FECS officer positions are live now through September 20

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 08-18-2023
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Nominations for the upcoming FECS elections are live now! Update: deadline extended to September 20! The Forum of Early Career Scientists (FECS) Nominating Committee is seeking your assistance in identifying a diverse slate of outstanding candidates to run for leadership positions within their Executive Committee. Current positions open for nomination: Chair-Elect: 3-year term in total (serving as Chair-Elect, Chair, and Past Chair) Treasurer: 2-year term 2 Members-at-Large: 2-year term International Affairs Officer: 3-year term Elected candidates will begin their terms at the start of the calendar year. Current officers are listed ...
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Upcoming opening for FECS officers

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 08-06-2023
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In the coming weeks FECS will be putting out a call for nominations for positions on our executive board. Stay tune for that announcement. Our goal is for our executive committee to be diverse and include a lot of early career scientists. This is a great opportunity for your first experience volunteering with APS . Self- nominations are allowed and encouraged. Depending on the position, one should expect to spend an average of 5 to 10 hours per month in performance of their duties. We have virtual meetings every six weeks and typically one in-person meeting every year. For the upcoming elections, five positions are open: Chair-Elect, Treasurer, International ...
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Call for Nominations: FECS Diversity and Inclusion Award

By Andrew Michael Seredinski posted 04-25-2023
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Dear FECS Members, Efforts to improve the climate in physics are vital to the health and advancement of individual programs and the discipline as a whole. The APS Forum for Early Career Scientists (FECS) recognizes the invaluable and often uncelebrated contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion of early career scientists through an annual award. The FECS Diversity & Inclusion Award is a $2500 honorarium and certificate of recognition presented to an early career scientist who has made such a contribution. The awardee will also be invited to give a talk at a future FECS session at an APS meeting. You can learn more about the previous ...
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FECS Sponsored Career Event at APS April Meeting

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 04-13-2023
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FECS Sponsored Event at APS April Meeting Please join us for FECS (Forum for Early Career Scientists) sponsored session at the upcoming APS April Meeting in Minneapolis : Meet Your Future: A Conversation about Career Pathways Partnered with APS Career Sunday, April 16, 3 – 4:30 p.m. CDT The Gallery, Lobby Level The majority of physics Ph.D. graduates go on to careers in the private sector, or government labs, and the skills and experience that should be emphasized for employment in the private sector are different from academia. In this session, physicists and employers from outside academia will share their insights on how one can prepare for ...
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FECS sponsored events at APS March Meeting

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 02-23-2023
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Please join us for FECS (Forum for Early Career Scientists) sponsored sessions at the upcoming APS March Meeting in Las Vegas: FECS Sponsored Sessions 31.00.00 FECS Symposium Invited Speaker B51: The Early Career Scientist Experience in Times of Crisis and Struggle Monday March 6, 11:30 am-2:30 pm PST , Location: Room 321 In addition to the pressures of working towards an established career, early career scientists also face numerous other hurdles that are shaped by both external and internal forces. In this session, we hear from the experiences and perspectives of various early career researchers who have been impacted by tumultuous ...
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Call for papers: FECS Cosponsoring special issue of the Journal of Science Policy & Governance

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 01-11-2023
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The Journal of Science Policy & Governance ( JSPG ) and the American Physical Society Forum on Physics and Society ( APS FPS ) launched a call for papers and competition to provide policymakers with a new perspective on how scientific expertise could be useful to the complex brew of 21st foreign policy and national security challenges, resulting in a special issue on Policy and Governance on Science, Technology and Global Security . Submission deadline: April 30, 2023. This Special Issue is supported in-kind by outreach partners from the American Physical Society Forum on Early Career Scientists ( APS FECS ) and the Schar School ...
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FECS Mini Grants for attending the 2023 APS March Meeting

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 12-01-2022
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We are pleased to announce Mini Grants for attendance to the 2023 APS March Meeting in Las Vegas. Please find the application details and instructions below. Award : FECS APS March Meeting Mini Grants Application Description : FECS will offer mini grants to support the attendance of early career scientists for the APS March Meeting. These grants are equivalent to early-bird registration costs for in-person attendance. In order to apply, you must be within 10 years of earning your terminal degree, a FECS member (free to join), and be presenting a talk and/or poster in the March Meeting. You will be asked for a brief description (<100 ...
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Submit your abstracts for the FECS Postdoctoral Poster Prize Competition at the 2023 March Meeting

By Wennie Wang posted 10-10-2022
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31.03.00 FECS Postdoctoral Poster Competition Early career scientists! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to share your work and engage with your peers! The Forum for Early Career Scientists (FECS) is hosting a poster competition for postdoctoral researchers at the APS March Meeting 2023. An award for the "Best Poster" will consist of a $500 prize and a certificate; runners-up will receive a certificate and $100. Note: if you submit an abstract to this session you may still submit another abstract for an ordinary session (for a total of two abstracts). Eligibility: Abstracts are accepted in any topic covered by ...
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APS FECS Physical Electronics Conference Mini Grants

By Shaowei Li posted 04-04-2022
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APS FECS Physical Electronics Conference Mini-Grants Application deadline: May 1st, 2022 11:59pm EST Application form: https://forms.gle/FPN8vNSdRyV8LTjYA In order to support early-career physicists, FECS will be awarding some Meeting Mini-Grants to cover the cost of registration up to $200, which is the Early Career early registration rate for in-person attendance. In order to receive that low rate, you must register for the meeting by the early registration deadline of May 1st, 2022. More information on the 2022 Physical Electronics Conference: https://sites.google.com/view/pec-loyola-2022/ To be considered, applicants must be recent Ph.D. recipients ...
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FECS Events at the 2022 March Meeting

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 03-11-2022
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We're super excited for the 2022 March Meeting and we at FECS have prepared a program of some excellent events focusing on the unique interests of early career scientists. Also keep an eye out for our table somewhere in the hallways. I hope to see you there! Monday B13. (Invited) Policies and Postdocs: Early-Career Perspectives on How Public Policy Affects Scientists and How Scientists Can Affect Public Policy 11:30am - 2:30pm CT McCormick Place W-183A (and live stream) Early career scientists don’t live in a vacuum; we interact with policies made everywhere from APS to universities to federal agencies and even Congress. These interactions ...
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APS statement on the invasion of Ukraine

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 03-02-2022
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Dear FECS members, We are reaching out to share with you the APS statement on the invasion of Ukraine. FECS wholeheartedly supports APS' condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine and we stand with the Ukrainian people, especially the community of physicists, scholars, and scientists in Ukraine. If you are personally affected by this crisis and would like to reach out, please do not hesitate to contact our chair ( @Adam A Iaizzi ) or international affairs officer ( @Mehmet Dogan ). FECS Executive Committee --------------------------------------------------------- APS Condemns the Invasion of Ukraine The American Physical Society (APS) condemns ...
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Congratulations to Dr. Alex Frano, winner of the 2022 FECS Diversity & Inclusion Award!

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 02-23-2022
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Dear FECS community, Congratulations to Dr. Alex Frano, the winner of the FECS Diversity & Inclusion Award! Dr. Frano is on faculty at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), and he has dedicated passionate efforts to increase diversity in his department and across physics as a discipline. As a Latino scientist with a tumultuous background full of obstacles, he uses his story as inspiration to students who come from severely underprivileged backgrounds. His many efforts to help these students span mentorship, support and guidance structures, outreach activities and international collaborations. He is a participant and leader in many mentorship ...
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FECS announces mini travel grants for 2022 April Meeting

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 01-20-2022
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FECS APS April Meeting Mini Grants Application deadline: February 11, 2022 11:59pm EST Application form: https://forms.gle/Z7JVsLc13vctF8oq5 In order to support early career physicists, FECS will be awarding some April Meeting Mini Grants to cover the cost of registration up to $340, which is the Early Career early registration rate for in-person attendance. In order to receive that low rate, you must register for the meeting by the early registration deadline of February 28, 2022. More information on the 2022 April Meeting: https://april.aps.org/ To be considered, applicants must be recent PhD recipients (past 5 years), present a poster or talk at the ...
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Apply by Tuesday 1/18 for APS FECS 2022 March Meeting Mini Grants

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 01-10-2022
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FECS APS March Meeting Mini Grants Application deadline: January 18, 2022 11:59pm EST Application form is here: https://forms.gle/ LYy3VBYdKZJkqmkS9 In order to support early career physicists, FECS is again running a "mini grant" program to cover the cost of registration (up to $340). Note: in order to receive that low rate, you must register for the meeting by the early bird deadline of January 25, 2022. More information on the 2022 March Meeting: https://march.aps.org/ To be considered, applicants must be recent PhD recipients (past 5 years), present a poster or talk at the meeting, and be current members of the APS ...
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From the newsletter: 2021 FECS April Meeting Mini Grants

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 12-21-2021
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April Meeting Mini-Grants Kevin Ludwick, Treasurer Hey FECS members, just wanted to highlight our winners of the April Meeting Mini-Grant for 2021. Since the winners were originally announced, the list of winners who accepted the award has changed, so the corrected list is below. Once again, congratulations! Look out for an announcement of the Diversity & Inclusion Award winner soon! For this year’s April Meeting, FECS offered mini-grants to cover the registration fee for selected applicants. Applicants had to be FECS members, recent PhD recipients (past 5 years), and present a poster or talk at the meeting. Women, underrepresented minorities, and candidates ...
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From the newsletter: Brief insights from the Fall 2020 APS FECS survey

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 11-28-2021
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The following is an article from the Spring 2021 FECS newsletter available here. Brief insights from the Fall 2020 APS FECS survey by @Wennie Wang , FECS Member-at-Large In the Fall of 2020, members of the APS FECS were invited to participate in a survey with the aim to gather recommendations on what FECS should focus on for future meetings and resources and to gauge the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on members’ work experiences. Of the over four thousand members in FECS, we received 170 responses. As an incentive, we gave away $50 Amazon gift cards to five randomly selected, anonymized participants. Below are brief highlights from the survey. ...
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Submit your abstracts for the FECS Postdoctoral Poster Prize Competition at the 2022 March Meeting

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 10-12-2021
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31.03.00 FECS Postdoctoral Poster Competition Early career scientists! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to share your work and engage with your peers! The Forum for Early Career Scientists (FECS) is hosting a poster competition for postdoctoral researchers at the APS March Meeting 2022. An award for the "Best Poster" will consist of a $500 prize and a certificate; runners-up will receive a certificate and $100. Note: if you submit an abstract to this session you may still submit another abstract for an ordinary session (for a total of two abstracts). Eligibility: Abstracts are accepted in any topic covered by ...
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FECS Executive Committee Call for Nominations

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 09-15-2021
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Forum for Early Career Scientists Deadline for nominations for open Forum for Early Career Scientists (FECS) positions has been extended to Friday, September 24. Thank you for your continuing support of FECS. In these uncertain times, we continue to promote the interests of early career scientists at the APS and within our community. This notice opens the nomination period for elections to the FECS Executive Committee for terms beginning in 2022. This year, five positions are open for nomination . This includes a call for FECS’ first elected Councilor—a position that represents ...
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NSF Director Explains Vision for Science Agency in APS News

By Stephan Addo posted 05-19-2021
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NSF Director Explains Vision for Science Agency in APS News In the June edition of APS News, National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Sethuraman Panchanathan discusses his vision for the science agency, including its role in supporting research and training the future STEM workforce. Panchanathan is a computer scientist and engineer, and NSF’s 15 th director, after being confirmed by the US Senate on June 18, 2020. Additionally, he is a leader in science, engineering, and education with more than three decades of experience. Read about his vision for NSF here . #FeaturedNews ​
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There is No Room for Hate

By Adam A Iaizzi posted 03-29-2021
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In recent days and weeks, we have witnessed horrible developments of violence occurring with increasing frequency in the U.S. against Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI). On March 16, eight people were killed in Georgia, six of whom were Asian women . As FECS, we are deeply heartbroken by these murders and share in the collective mourning during this time. Nobody should ever be the victim of such targeted murderous violence. We all have the right to go about our daily lives and feel safe, without the fear of harassment or attack. These heinous murders come at a time when Asian people are already experiencing increasing numbers of hate crimes ...
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