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.

• APS DAMOP meeting (May 27 — 31, 2008)
  

  APS DAMOP Meeting, State College, Pennsylvania, USA.
  Speaker: Daniel Kleppner
  More details forthcoming.

  
  
• 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. Details forthcoming.

  
  
• 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:

  • Visits to the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing University, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology of China, Wuhan University and Zhejiang University.
  • Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM: A special symposium jointly held by the American Physical Society and the Chinese Physical Society to celebrate PRL's golden anniversary and to discuss ways that the APS and the CPS can best foster communication in physics.

  Symposium program to be announced.

  • Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Reception and dinner for the symposium attendees.