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The American Physical Society was founded on May 20, 1899, when thirty-six physicists gathered at Columbia University for that purpose. They proclaimed the mission of the new Society to be "to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics", and in one way or another the APS has been at that task ever since.
In March 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs formed the 2025 APEC Summit Host City Selection Committee and began the process of selecting the host city in earnest. The committee was chaired by Yoon Jin-sik, chairman of the Korea International Trade Association , and had 17 members including government officials and private members. [ 2 ]
The organizational meeting founding the society was held on December 30, 1887, in Curtis' laboratory space at Columbia University and was attended by seventeen people. [4] [5] The society had 28 founding members. [2] The first regular meeting of the APS followed in September 1888 in Washington, DC, featuring paper presentations and ...
Mar. 13—Albuquerque Public Schools has adjusted its academic calendar for March, the district announced on its website last week. Originally, the plan would have had middle schoolers out of ...
APS’s most recent edit-a-thons took place as part of the April Meeting 2022 and March Meeting 2021, where participants collaborated to update and create Wikipedia pages focused on women and other historically marginalized groups in physics. To highlight the work of Black physicists, APS has also partnered with the organization Black in ...
Akron Public Schools Board President N.J. Akbar on Monday publicly addressed the board's evaluation of its superintendent, which included Akbar calling Christine Fowler Mack's first year on the ...
What to expect at the Fed's next policy meeting: March 18–19, 2025. It's widely expected the Federal Reserve will hold the Fed rate at 4.25% to 4.50% after its policy meeting on March 18 and ...
The John H. Dillon Medal is a medal that has been awarded annually by the American Physical Society (APS) since 1983. The recipients are young polymer physicists chosen for "outstanding accomplishment and unusual promise in research in polymer physics" One medal is awarded each year to a nominee who received their terminal degree (e.g. PhD) less than 12 years prior to nomination.