Welcome to IPST
2008 Distinguished International
Service Award
Jan Sengers has been chosen as the 2008 recipient of the Distinguished
International Service Award by the Office of International Programs.
President Mote will present the award on November 5, 2008.
2008
Dean's Outstanding Non-Exempt Employee Award
Mr. Ed Cole, Engineering Tech III in IPST, has been selected as the recipient
of the 2008 Dean's Outstanding Non-Exempt Employee Award. This honor is
in recognition of his exceptional service and professionalism in his duties
for IPST since starting employment
in 1990.
2008 Sloan Research Fellowship
Award Winner
Arpita Upadhyaya is a 2008 Sloan Research Fellowship Award Winner.
Assistant Professor Arpita
Upadhyaya of IPST/Physics was among the list of 2008 Sloan Research
Fellowship Award Winners. These awards are intended to enhance the careers
of the very best young faculty members in science. A total of 118 fellowships
are awarded annually. For more information, visit: http://www.sloan.org/programs/scitech_fellowships.shtml
National Academy of Science 2007
Election
Katepalli Sreenivasan has been elected a member of NAS.
He is now a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the
NAS.
Note: The National
Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and
18 foreign associates from 12 countries in recognition of their distinguished
and continuing achievements in original research.
The election was held during the business session of the 144th annual
meeting of the Academy. Those elected bring the total number of active
members to 2,025. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy,
with citizenship outside the United States . This election brings the
total number of foreign associates to 387.
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=05012007
2007 Poole and Kent Teaching Award
for Senior Faculty
Mikhail Anisimov is the winner of this year's Poole and Kent Teaching
Award for Senior Faculty.
Comments by Sheryl Ehrman, Selection Committee: To me, Mikhail is
such great example of a true scholar and educator who both recognizes
the potential of all of our students and helps them however
he can to achieve their goals. And by all students, I mean
not just the very bright ones that would excel anywhere with minimal input
from us, but also the students who are earnest, curious, and willing to
work hard.
2005 Royal Medal Award
Michael E.
Fisher has been awarded the 2005 Royal Medal, with the following citation:
Her Majesty the Queen has approved the recommendation of the President
and Council of the Royal Society that Dr. Fisher be awarded a Royal Medal
in recognition of his seminal contributions to wetting transitions, dislocation
melting and criticality of ionic solutions and many other topics in Statistical
Mechanics.
The Royal Medal will be awarded November 30, 2005, London, England.
For the history of the Royal Medal, please go to:
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?tip=1&id=1749
2005 APS Award for Excellence in Plasma
Physics Research
Howard M. Milchberg
Citation: “For the conception and first realization of hydrodynamic
shock-formed plasma channels, and for the development of diagnostics for
their characterization”.
Howard will be presented the award at the Banquet of the Division of Plasma
Physics, American Physical Society annual meeting, October 24-28, 2005
in Denver Colorado.
http://www.aps.org/praw/plasma/index.cfm
Ellen D. Williams, Elected Member of National
Academy of Sciences
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/05032005?OpenDocument
Wolf Prize
Professor Serguei Novikov has been awarded the 2005 Wolf Prize
in Mathematics for his "Fundamental and pioneering contributions
to algebraic and differential topology, and to mathematical physics, notably
the introduction of algebraic-geometric methods." The award
will be presented by the President of Israel, Mr. Moshe Katsav, in a special
ceremony to take place in Jerusalem on Sunday, May 22, 2005.
http://www.aquanet.co.il/wolf/
Eitan Tadmor, Distinguished University
Professor
Professor
Tadmor has been awarded the title of Distinguished University Professor.
This award is in recognition of his work in the area of numerical analysis
of time-dependent problems and is the highest academic honor that our
university confers upon a faculty member. He is a member of the
Department of Mathematics; Institute for Physical Science and Technology;
and Director, Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling.
Distinguished
Scholar Teacher Award 2005-2006
Professor Howard Milchberg has
been selected to be one of the 2005-2006 Distinguished Scholar-Teachers
at the University of Maryland at College Park.
http://www.faculty.umd.edu/FacAwards/dstlist.html
American Physical Society
Dissertation Award in Plasma Physics (See Awards and Prizes)
CREAM Status
(Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass)
The third CREAM flight is in preparation and is scheduled for December
2007.
http://cosmicray.umd.edu/homepage
or
http://cosmicray.umd.edu/cream/cream.html
Review engineer Larry Lutz's career with
IPST and the CREAM Project: http://www.outlook.umd.edu/article.cfm?id=2421
News items
- http://www.ipst.umd.edu/News/news.html
- Dr.
Murthy Gudipati - Remarks:
NASA News Release 07-17AR, April 6, 2007
http://spacescience.arc.nasa.gov/redglow/
-
Two professors elected Fellows of the American Geophysical Union.
-
Professor
elected to the Executive Board of the American Physical Society.
- Professor Emeritus Ivo Babuska elected to the National Academy of
Engineering.
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5/6/08
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