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September 2011 Newsletter 

Ernie Malamud, Editor

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In This Issue

  • View from the Chair by Harvey Newman
  • APS Office of International Affairs by Amy Flatten
  • From the Editor byErnie Malamud

Announcements

  • World Federation of Scientists - Erice Declaration on Principles for Cyber Stability and Cyber Peace by Bill Barletta
  • ELECTION TIME! by Noemi Mirkin and Noémie Koller
  • Highlighting APS Opportunities: APS Fellows, Prizes Awards and Medals, Lectureships, Travel Grants by Harvey Newman and Noemi Mirkin

FIP Sessions and Events at the APS 2011 Spring Meetings

  • Overview, Harvey Newman
  • March 21-25, Dallas Texas
    • The Shaping of Regional Identities through Research Funding Policies (T8), Chaired and reported by Giulia Pancheri
    • Migrations of Physicists (X8), Chaired and reported by Noémie Koller
    • Experiences and Issues for Young Physicists in the International Arena: Impact on the Future of Physics (Y8), Chaired and reported by Amy Flatten
  • April 30 – May 3, Anaheim, California
    • The Digital Divide in 2011 (J6), Chaired and reported by Harvey Newman
    • Prize Session: talks by Miguel José Yacaman and Noémie Benczer-Koller (T5), Chaired and reported by Harvey Newman
    • Science Diplomacy (Y5), Chaired and reported by Harvey Newman
    • International Physics (Q13), Contributed paper session, reported by Harvey Newman

Articles

  • The Impact of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster to Japanese Physics Departments and Laboratories by Tuneyoshi Kamae
  • Rutherford's legacy; its virtual and artistic versions by Lidia Smentek, interview with John Campbell
  • Digital Access to APS Meetings: Serving our Overseas Members in the Information Age, by Karsten M. Heeger
  • The Turkish Accelerator Center Project by Ercan Alp and Ömer Yavaş
  • The APS Council – My perceptions as International Councillor by Belita Koiller
  • The Digital Divide in the Scientific Community and Worldwide by Alberto Santoro

FIP Committees - 2011

  • Executive Committee
  • Committees

Deadline for contributions to the Spring 2012 Newsletter is February 1, 2011. Send contributions to malamud@foothill.net.

Disclaimer: The articles and opinion pieces found in this issue of the APS Forum on International Physics Newsletter are not peer refereed and represent solely the views of the authors and not necessarily the views of the APS.

Stamps

Thanks to Professor Lidia Smentek for this interesting collage of stamps honoring Ernest Rutherford 

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