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Dear Members,
Call for nominations for the Henri Poincaré Prize http://www.iamp.org/poincareprize.html
Please send nominations by email to the president at [email protected] (which is confidential) or by mail to
Professor David BrydgesA summary of the major accomplishments of the candidate and papers in which they occur will be helpful.
In order for nominations to be considered we should receive them before May 31 2005.
Larry Thomas has kindly agreed to be the new manager of the US account. Dues may be paid in US Dollars with a check made payable to IAMP to
Prof. Lawrence E. ThomasYours sincerely
David Brydges, President
Jakob Yngvason, Vice President
Ruedi Seiler, Secretary
Volker Bach, Treasurer
New Members
| Mohamed Kachkachi | Université Hassan, Morocco |
| Maziar Nekovee | British Telecom, United Kingdom |
Messages from Associate Members:
From Institute of Physics Publishing: There is a new section of Journal of Physics A devoted to Classical and Quantum Field Theory. Please take a look at http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.3/0305-4470.
Conferences:
We have now changed the deadlines for applications. The information below will appear soon on the IAMP webpage:
Applications for category C should be sent to the Secretary. For category C a conference program, including a list of speakers, is needed and the application should be made at least 6 weeks in advance of the conference.
Applications for category B should be sent to the President. The application must be made at least 6 months in advance of the conference and must include a financial plan which details other sources of support. Decisions are made at three monthly intervals on Jan 15, April 15, July 15 and Oct 15.
New Books:
Search for New Editor for Journal of Mathematical Physics:
Journal of Mathematical Physics Editor Roger Newton and Associate Editor John Challifour have informed the American Institute of Physics (AIP) that they intend to step down from their positions with the journal at the end of 2005. AIP is seeking a new Editor who will continue to advance the journal's reputation of excellence. In this process, a Search Committee chaired by Professor Cumrun Vafa of Harvard University will advise AIP regarding suitable candidates for Editor of JMP. Candidates should be well-respected scientists in mathematical physics and should have the abilities and devotion necessary to maintain and build the journal's quality and level of service to the community. The Editor will be eligible for an honorarium or compensatory payment to his or her institution; there are no geographic limitations to the Editor's location.
Please send applications or nominations (preferably by e-mail) before 31 May 2005 to:
JMP Search CommitteeSergio Fubini (1928 – 2005):
Sergio Fubini died on Saturday the 8 January 2005 after a prolonged illness. He shall be remembered not only as a theoretical physicist but as a promoter of ``scientific peace-bridges'' in the Middle East.
Fubini was an outstanding physicist with roots at the University of Turin in Italy. He contributed to several areas including, field-theoretic dynamical basis to S-matrix concepts such as Regge singularities; algebraic formulation of current algebras, and super-convergence sum rules that played an important role in the birth of dual resonance models; factorization of the dual S-matrix, converting it into an infinite component field theory. Fubini and co-workers founded and developed the physical and mathematical principles of string theory. He was recognized by the Dannie Heinman Prize for mathematical physics in 1968, by an honorary degree of Heidelberg University, Germany and by a medal from the Italian Government.
Fubini's skill and enthusiasm left a strong mark on the students and the institutions. He was at the University of Padua and University of Turin in Italy. He was on the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA) physics faculty during 1967-1973. Fubini and his research student Veneziano formed a research centre at MIT, which includes an exchange programme administered and funded by the Italian Nuclear Physics Institute (INFN) and by MIT. He was an active member of the CERN directorate (January 1971 to December 1980) under the directors John ADAMS and L�on VAN HOVE respectively. He played an important role in the planning stage of the Large Electron Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics).
In later years Fubini devoted his international standing in physics to promote peace in the troubled region of the Middle East. He organized the ``Sinai Physics Meeting'', at the Egyptian resort of Dahab, on the Gulf of Aqaba, in November 1995 [1-2]. This historic meeting brought together Arab, Israeli and Western physicists. It led directly to the formation of the ``Middle East Scientific Cooperation (MESC)''. MESC constitutes a network of scientists promoting research cooperation between Europe, the USA and the Middle East. The novel idea of an international synchrotron radiation facility in the Middle East emerged from the MESC workshop in 1997. During this workshop Herman Winick of SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, California, USA) and Gustav-Adolf Voss, a former director of DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany) suggested using the components of Berlin's BESSY-I machine, scheduled to be closed down in 1999, as the core facility for a new laboratory in the Middle East. At the request of Fubini and Herwig Schopper (director of CERN during 1981-1988) the German government agreed to donate the decommissioned synchrotron to the Middle East (the only region other than Africa without a synchrotron) [3]. Rest is all history: BESSY-I was relocated to Jordan and the synchrotron laboratory with the epic name of SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) was put under the auspices of UNESCO. SESAME, now in the advanced stages of completion, has evolved from a vision to a system [4]. Fubini shall be missed by his friends and collaborators who had the great opportunity of knowing him and of interacting with him. Fubini accomplished in producing three ``generations'' of eminent theoretical physicists: Sergio Fubini was the research supervisor of Gabriele Veneziano, who was the research supervisor of Henry Tye, who was the research supervisor of Keith Dienes! Fubini's name is forever linked with MESC and SESAME. Fubini is survived by his wife Marina and daughter Emma Kusner.
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(Contributed by Sameen Ahmed Khan, Mar 10, 2005).
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