Vaia Papadimitriou and Kelly Stifter started their terms on Jan. 1.
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The scientists have been selected 2022 fellows of the American Physical Society, a distinction awarded each year to no more than one-half of 1% of current APS members by their peers.
Marcela Carena, head of the Theory Division at Fermilab, has been elected the new vice-chair of the Forum on International Physics of the American Physics Society. Her term starts in January 2023. “As part of the FIP chair-line, I am excited about the opportunity of applying my experience in building capacity and research infrastructure on a broader international stage,” said Carena. “I intend to concentrate on developing nations where sustained attention and support from the global physics community has great potential to…
From Brookhaven National Laboratory, October 11, 2022: Brookhaven National Lab announced yesterday that two of their scientists who led the “E821 g-2” experiment at BNL from 1990 through 2004 received the APS’s 2023 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics. William M. Morse and Bradley Lee Roberts received the honor for their leadership and technical ingenuity in achieving a measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment with a precision suitable to probe Standard Model.
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Cristina Mantilla Suarez is the recipient of the Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics by the American Physical Society.
Ihar Lobach, a former student in the Fermilab Accelerator Ph.D. Program, is the recipient of the American Physical Society’s 2022 Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Beam Physics Award. He was recognized for outstanding research contributions as well as for developing an experimental method.
From Stony Brook University, December 1, 2021: Chang Kee Jung, founding member of the DUNE collaboration, is recipient of the 2022 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize by the American Physical Society. Professor Jung is being recognized for his outstanding contributions and leadership in experimental neutrino physics and outstanding teaching and outreach, especially in the physics of sports.
The APS awarded two prestigious prizes, the Panofsky Prize and the Wilson Prize, to four scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
On Oct. 13, the American Physical Society announced the recipients of the 2021 APS Fellowships. Two Fermilab scientists were selected as 2021 APS fellows.