APS News

A record number of 7,156 abstracts were submitted to this year's March Meeting. In December, a heroic band of about 130 physicists met at APS headquarters in College Park, MD to sort them all into appropriate sessions. In the top photo, Barry Wells of the University of Connecticut (center) makes a point to Karin Rabe of Rutgers (left) and Jaime Fernandez-Baca of Oak Ridge. In the bottom photo, March Program Committee Chair Allen Goldman of the University of Minnesota (left) consults with DCMP program representative David Pine of New York University (center) and Mark Stiles of NIST.

Following a tradition that began 2 years ago, at the November Council meeting APS Executive Officer Judy Franz (right) presented past‑President Leo Kadanoff with a bound volume containing the minutes of all the meetings that he chaired during his Presidential year in 2007. In addition to his many other duties, Kadanoff chaired 5 Executive Board meetings and 2 meetings of the APS Council.

In August 1932, Carl David Anderson of Caltech discovered the positron, for which he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in physics. On a beautiful California afternoon in October 2008, APS presented a plaque designating Caltech as a physics historic site in commemoration of Anderson's achievement. In the picture, John Rigden (left), Chair of the APS Historic Sites Committee, presents the plaque to Andrew Lange (right), the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics and chair of Caltech's Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy