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PRL 50th Special Events Calendar
On the occasion of PRL's 50th anniversary, the American Physical Society is hosting conference events and other visits celebrating physics as an international cooperative intellectual endeavor. We will update this calendar with more detail as schedules and plans are finalized.
- Events in Brazil (August 2008)
PRL editor Daniel Ucko will give a special presentation entitled PRL at 50: A history of moving physics forward.
- Monday 4 August: PASPS V Foz de Iguacu
- Friday 7 August: University of Sao Paolo, Sao Carlos, Brazil
- Events in China (July 2008)
The Editor-in-Chief of the APS journals, Gene D. Sprouse, will lead a small delegation of editors from Physical Review Letters and Physical Review to China for a series of activities:
- PRL 50th Anniversary symposium at Stony Brook (June 27, 2008)
Symposium to be held at the Wang Center, Stony Brook University, Long Island, New York, USA. These events are by invitation only. Badges will be prepared for invited guests.
Directions to the Wang Center: Take the LIE to exit 62, and follow Nicolls Road (Route 97) north for 9 miles. The main entrance to Stony Brook University is on the left and the signs before you come to it will indicate that it is also the turn for the Wang Center.
Turn left into the campus. You'll see the Wang Center almost immediately on making the turn into the main entrance. Just past the first traffic light, it's a large silver gray building on the right with red entryway fencing, crowned with a big silver tower.
Additional information here: http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/wang/directions.shtml
Parking: Go through that light and up to the Wang Center, drop off any passengers if you like, then turn left. Directly opposite the Wang Center is a paid parking lot. At some point in the evening, around 8:00, parking will become free so you *may* not have to pay if you are staying for dinner.
If you prefer, or if the paid parking lot is full, you can use the nearby "overflow" parking lot. Circle around back to the traffic light and make a left. You'll pass John Toll Road on your left. Keep going and the first right turn you come to is the overflow lot, in easy walking distance to the Wang Center.
Participants and Program, Symposium, Charles B. Wang Center Theatre
Participants:
Gene Sprouse, Editor in Chief, American Physical Society
Jack Sandweiss, Chairman of the Board of Editors, Physical Review Letters
Martin Blume, APS Editor in Chief Emeritus and Senior Physicist Emeritus, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Reinhardt Schuhmann, Managing Editor, Physical Review Letters
Barbara Jacak, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University
Chris Wesselborg, Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters
Peter Koch, Chair, Stony Brook University Department of Physics & Astronomy
Robert Garisto, Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters
Lawrence Krauss, Professor and Director of the Center for Education & Research in Cosmology & Astrophysics, Case Western Reserve University
Program Agenda:
2:00 Welcome: Gene Sprouse
2:10 Introduction of Martin Blume by Jack Sandweiss
2:15 Martin Blume, “PRL at 50: From Then to Now”
2:45 Questions: Moderator, Reinhardt Schuhmann
2:55 Introduction of Barbara Jacak by Gene Sprouse
3:00 Barbara Jacak, “Penning a Letter with 500 of My Best Friends”
3:30 Questions: Moderator, Chris Wesselborg
3:40 Coffee Break
4:00 Introduction to Part 2, Peter Koch
4:05 Introduction of Lawrence Krauss by Robert Garisto
4:10 Lawrence Krauss, “PRL at 50: From Here to Eternity”
4:40 Questions: Moderator, Robert Garisto
4:50 Symposium Closing Remarks: Reinhardt Schuhmann
5:00 - 6:00 Reception, Water Garden
6:00 - 8:00 Dinner, Zodiac lower level
Buffet dinner with choices of chicken, fish, or meat, with salads and side dishes; choice of dessert.
8:00 Closing Remarks, Reinhardt Schuhmann
The Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University
An invitation to celebrate 50 years of Moving Physics Forward.
The Symposium speakers, (L-R) Lawrence Krauss, Marty Blume and Barbara Jacak, pose with Sam Goudsmit's portrait.
- APS DAMOP meeting (May 27 — 31, 2008)
APS DAMOP Meeting, State College, Pennsylvania, USA.
Speaker: Daniel Kleppner
More details forthcoming.
- APS April Meeting (April 12–15, 2008)
APS April Meeting St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Monday, April 14, 2008, 1:30 PM–3:15 PM: History of PRL Symposium. Please join us on the occasion of the golden anniversary of PRL for a look back at the past five decades, an assessment of where PRL stands today, and a discussion of where it is headed.
- Monday, April 14, 2008, 3:30 PM–5:30 PM: Meet the APS Journal Editors. Please join the editors of Physical Review and Physical Review Letters in celebrating 50 exciting years of publication of interesting and important physics. Refreshments will be served .
- DPG Meeting: AMOP, Hadrons, and Nuclei (March 10–14, 2008)
DPG Spring Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany.
- Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 6:00 PM–7:30 PM:
50 Years of Physics Symposium, following the regular conference
program. Please join us on the occasion of PRL's golden anniversary
for a retrospective of five decades of interesting physics and
physics publishing. Planned talks include:
- Christopher Wesselborg (APS Editorial Office),
Brief history of PRL and the Physical Review
- Wolfgang Schleich (Universität Ulm),
Highlights from 50 years of PRL—Höhepunkte aus 50 Jahren PRL
- Horst Stöcker (GSI),
Making headlines in PRL: From RHIC to LHC and FAIR
- Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 7:30 PM–8:45 PM:
Reception for the conference attendees. Refreshments will be served.
- APS March Meeting (March 10–14, 2008)
APS March Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
- Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 11:15 AM–2:15 PM: History of PRL Symposium, followed by a reception for the conference attendees. Planned talks include:
- Saad E. Hebboul, PRL at 50: A history of moving physics forward
- Charles P. Slichter, Superconductivity
- H. Eugene Stanley, Phase transitions
- Marvin L. Cohen, Carbon nanotubes and mesoscopic physics
- Jack Sandweiss, Future of PRL
- Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 6:30 PM–8:30 PM: Social Activity: Meet the Editors of AIP and APS and Celebrate 50 Years of PRL. Please join the editors of the journals of the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics, and our special guests from the Physical Society of Japan, in celebrating 50 years of publication of interesting and important physics. Refreshments will be served.
The distinguished Outstanding Referee group at a ceremony honoring their dedication and hard work.
A festive APS booth celebrates 50 years of Moving Physics Forward.
PRL’s Reiny Schuhmann and a collection of anniversary balloons. Photo by David Tomanek of Michigan State.
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