Summer 2024 Newsletter

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How to find physicists who work in industry using the APS Membership Directory

 Sometimes you want to find physics colleagues who work in the private sector. Fortunately, APS makes this easy. Here’s the process: 

  1. Login to your APS member account 
  2. Click on Member Directory on the left side of your profile page, or follow this link 
  3. Choose “Search Affiliation” tab near the top 
  4. Select “Company” Affiliation type 
  5. Enter name of company in “Affiliation name” OR country, state (city is optional) 

You’ll get a list of company names which are links to lists of individuals including contact information. 

Note that this is a listing of APS members, not all physicists. However, it is a good starting point to identify companies that employ physicists and perhaps some possible contacts. Companies with no members presently active are also listed if you want to know where APS members have worked in the past. This is a very useful tool when you want to expand your network or find information about a company. 

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APS FIAP Career Lectureship Award Nominations are OPEN

 The American Physical Society (APS) Committee on Careers and Professional Development (CCPD) and the APS Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (FIAP) seek to recognize physicists in industrial and other non-academic careers and support them in delivering a series of engaging lectures about their careers. The deadline for nominations is June 27th. The 2023 FIAP Career Lectureship Award recipient, Azadeh Keivani, shared the importance of being open-minded, the value of interdisciplinary collaborations, her involvement in educational initiatives, and deciding whether to stay in academia. You can read more about her journey in the 2024 Careers Guide https://lnkd.in/e5GmVEdd 

You can nominate a deserving colleague by visiting https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/award/fiap-career-lectureship 

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10th Anniversary of Physical Review Applied

     Celebrate 10 years of Physical Review Applied! Content collections commemorating the best of PRApplied will be coming out as part of the festivities, with the first collection dedicated to Quantum Information Science and Technology. Join us for planned celebrations at both DAMOP and the 2024 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit. For more information on the ongoing anniversary celebrations, sign up for journal alerts. 

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    APS Careers Guide 2024 available on-line

    A new and expanded version of the APS Careers Guide was released at the March Meeting. It’s full of helpful career information including profiles of physicists from many different backgrounds, overviews of exciting new fields such as quantum optics and neural engineering, and more than twenty profiles of organizations employing physicists including how to apply for a job. One article that may be particularly helpful is “Industry or Academia? How to choose your route.” You can browse a softcopy or request a hardcopy at this link. Check it out! 

    https://www.aps.org/publications/reports/careers-guide-2024 

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    International Year of Quantum

    The UN has proclaimed 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ). This year-long, worldwide initiative will celebrate the contributions of quantum science to technological progress over the past century, raise global awareness of its importance to sustainable development in the 21st century, and ensure that all nations have access to quantum education and opportunities. 

    The consortium’s current founding partners include the American Physical Society; the German Physical Society (DPG); the Chinese Optical Society; SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics; and Optica (formerly OSA). APS is planning an exciting slate of activities and engagement opportunities for members, the scientific community, the media, and the general public. You can learn more at this website. 





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    Industrial Physicists LinkedIn group- hear what your colleagues are saying!

    APS manages the Industrial Physicists LinkedIn group as a valuable source of information for this community. Participating is easy, and you can keep up with developments in physics, APS events and announcements relevant to physicists working in industry, and postings by others who are involved in physics in industry. No cost to join, and membership in APS is not required. 

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    Newsletter Suggestions Welcome

    Suggestions for the Newsletter are welcome, comments too. 
    Please email the Newsletter Editor Steven Lambert at SELsanjose@gmail.com

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