Vice-Chair
Harvey Newman, California Institute of Technology
William Barletta, United States Particle Accelerator School and MIT

Member-at-Large
John Gillespie, Lehman College and CUNY
Susana Hernández, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Milton W. Cole, Penn State University
Marie-Louise Saboungi, University of Orleans, Orleans, France

Candidate for Vice-Chair

Harvey Newman
California Institute of Technology

Biographical Summary
Harvey Newman (Sc. D, MIT 1974) has been a Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology since 1982. His career in high energy physics has focused on high searches for new particles and precision electroweak and QCD measurements at both electron-positron and proton-proton colliding beam experiments since 1969. He has made important contributions to the field through experiments paving the way to the discovery of charm (at CEA, 1969-73), the establishment of QCD (CERN Intersecting Storage Rings, 1974-8), the discovery of gluons with the MARK J (DESY 1978-1982), and precision electroweak measurements and new particle searches at LEP (1981-2006). Since 1994 on the CMS experiment at the LHC he and his group have established central roles in the search for Higgs particles and TeV-scale graviton resonances, as well as excited leptons and several other new particle searches. He has served as US CMS Collaboration Board Chair from 1998-2008. Since 2005 he also has led the MINOS/NOvA group at Caltech studying neutrino oscillations.

Newman’s contributions to physics have been paralleled by innovations in instrumentation, notably in the design and construction of large muon spectrometers, precise crystal calorimeters and RFQ-accelerator as well as laser-based calibration systems. He originated the use, and has led the development of state of the art international data networks for high energy physics since 1982. He originated the global scale grid-based computing system used by the LHC experiments in 1998, and collaborative systems serving HEP and many other fields of science in 1994. He currently represents the LHC and the science research community in general on the Strategic Planning Steering Committee and the Architecture and Operations Advisory Council of Internet2.

As Chair of the ICFA Standing Committee on Inter-regional Connectivity since 2002, he has worked on Digital Divide issues, specifically to provide effective high performance networks for physicists and other scientists in all regions of the world. This has included collaborative work with physics groups in India, Pakistan, Romania, Slovakia, China, Mexico, Brazil, Korea, Poland and other countries, as well as the major research and education networks in many nations. This work was presented to the FIP at the April 2006 APS meeting, and discussed in depth at a pair of sessions on Bridging the Digital Divide at the April 2007 meeting in Jacksonville. In association with this work, he has been awarded Doctor Honoris Causa degrees by the Politechnica University in Bucharest, Romania, and the Pavel Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia in 2007, and the Jose Bonifacio medal of the State University in Rio de Janeiro in 2008.

Candidate's Statement

Physics research is inherently international, and with the growth of physics collaborations along with other areas of science has become truly global in scope. A world community of scientists, working as individuals and in groups large and small, is now the driver behind advances in our fundamental understanding of states of matter, photonics and communications, quantum information, nature’s most basic constituents and interactions, and the makeup and evolution of our universe from its first moments.

The APS Forum on International Physics has a key role to play in fostering these developments, and discoveries. In a global community, exploration at the frontiers of science should proceed in an open environment where young and more senior scientists from all world regions may participate fully in the discoveries. It is in everyone’s interest, both within and beyond the scientific community, to create such an environment, where the next generation of leaders in science may be drawn from a truly global pool of talented individuals, whose worldview is imbued with the spirit of mutual cooperation, understanding and trust.

While science is deeply collaborative, the groundbreaking ideas, inventions and advances are often the work of the greatest individual minds – often young minds. It is these scientists in particular – including those in the less-economically favored regions of the world, who should be given every opportunity to engage in research, and push back the frontiers of our knowledge, independent of their nationality or location.

If elected Vice-Chair, I will work with the Chair to continue and expand upon the FIP’s leading role in these traditions which are vital to our science and to international cooperation, and to give it a new dimension, accelerating the process of inclusion on a worldwide scale, by:

(1) helping to secure additional sources to strengthen the Forum’s opportunities to APS members both abroad and in the Americas and overseas, (2) leveraging years of experience and leadership in bringing together some of the largest multi-national scientific collaborations, to foster and enhance opportunities for young scientists from all regions of the world, and (3) continuing to work globally on Digital Divide issues, applying advanced communications and information technologies in collaborative projects to benefit frontier science and the broader research and education community.

William Barletta
United States Particle Accelerator School and MIT

Biographical Summary

William A. Barletta is the Director of the United States Particle Accelerator School (USPAS). He is also Adjunct Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Guest Scientist at Fermilab and Director Emeritus of the Accelerator Fusion Research Division and of the Homeland Security Office at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and senior advisor to the President of Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy.

He is the coordinating editor-in-chief of the international journal, "Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research – A". and has served on the governing boards of USPAS (Chair), Virtual National Laboratory for Heavy Ion Fusion (Convener), and the US-LHC Accelerator Collaboration. He has been an active member of the APS Committee on Minorities (2003 – 2006), and the American Bar Association Privacy & Computer Crime Committee. His professional research activities range from instruments for accelerator-based science, to nanofabrication technology using ion beams, to interactive technologies for cargo inspection, to international legal and policy aspects of cyber-security and cyber-conflict. He has organized numerous international schools and workshops in technologies for accelerator-based science and was the founding director the International School of Innovative Technology for Cleaning the Environment at Erice, Sicily. He is editor of four books about beam physics and accelerator technology, co-author of three books concerning cybersecurity, privacy and international cyber-law, holder of 3 patents with four patents pending, and author of more than 150 papers and technical reports plus more than 30 internal reports on strategic technologies.

After a term (1972 – 1974) as instructor of physics at Yale University, he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he held several research and management positions until 1993. During period, 1988 –1996, he was also Visiting Professor of Physics at UCLA. He holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago (1972), and is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Italian Physical Society.

Candidate's Statement
The past century of physics has exemplified the benefits of open science; strong international collaboration has yielded great advances. International collaboration with colleagues in industrialized countries is a daily reality for many APS members. Now, the industrialized world sees an inexorable movement toward scientific mega-facilities at the multi-billion dollar scale built by and designed to serve an international community. Such facilities are already unique on a continental if not a global scale. In contrast, a network of nearly 40 synchrotron radiation facilities including free electron lasers are spreading over the globe bringing the potential for high quality physics to the less industrialized world. Not surprisingly ~30% of students at the USPAS come from more than 25 countries.

Both paradigms of development offer the American physics community the opportunity to expand the reach of science without borders – North, South, East and West. The APS can also help scientists in the developing world by identifying and promoting opportunities to create university-scale facilities with the potential to yield "20% of the science at a thousandth the cost." For example, at the few million dollar scale, table-top terawatt lasers they enable significant opportunities to do cutting edge condensed matter and chemical physics. Even at this price, however, developing countries may be able to afford only a single facility of a given type, the most constraining factor being the scarce human capital required. The APS can assist by expanding training and exchange opportunities especially for early career scientists.

Scientific facilities at every scale can have a greater impact through information technologies. Computational grids and collaboratory tools can make virtual laboratories a vibrant reality beyond active, peer-to-peer collaboration. Digital telecommunication also enables shared monitoring, control, acquisition, real-time visualization and analysis of scientific data. Regional virtual laboratories can expand scientific opportunities while assuring centralized maintenance, security and safety of scarce resources. Physicists can make a major contribution to bridging both the digital and the facilities divide.

Candidate for Member-at-Large

John Gillespie
Lehman College and CUNY

Biographical Summary
John Gillespie is Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at Lehman College and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. His B.S. is from The University of Rochester and his Ph. D from the University of California at Berkeley. After postdoctoral appointments at Columbia and SLAC, he worked for ten years in France at the universities of Paris and Grenoble, as well as at the Center for Nuclear Studies, Saclay, the Center for Scientific Research and the Ecole Polytechnique. He was on the Faculty of Boston University for three years. He joined Lehman College of CUNY in 1985, where he served as Chair for eight years. Sabbatical research leaves were at the University of Rome (La Sapieza), The Observatory of Paris (Meudon), The University of Paris (Orsay) and Imperial College (London). For three years, he collaborated with the Nuclear Medicine group at Memorial Sloan Kettering Center for Cancer Research.

His research interests have included astrophysics (dark matter), theoretical nuclear and particle physics (final-state interactions), electrodynamics and nuclear medicine. His most recent research was in the development of detectors for dark matter in the Astrophysics Group of Imperial College, London.

At CUNY he served on a wide range of committees: The Academic Policy Committee of The Graduate Center, The University Patent Committee, and at Lehman College, the committees for Personnel and Budget, Academic Standards and searches for faculty and administrators.

He has been active in the support of human rights for scientists: a member of CIFS from 2004 to 2007 (Chair in 2006) and, since 1985, a member of the Committee on the Human Rights of Scientists of the New York Academy of Sciences. He served as an observer at human rights trials in Russia in 1999, representing CIFS, NYAS, and AAAS. While on sabbatical, he participated in human rights seminars at the London School of Economics.

Candidate's Statement
FIP has been effective in encouraging international collaboration in physics research and education. It can enhance awareness of international science issues and encourage the discussion of science policy. It can also inform the APS membership of developments in the defense of the human rights of scientists throughout the world.

There is a wide range of possibilities for supporting physics in emergent countries. Exchange programs provide valuable opportunities for their scientists and students; many countries are actively seeking visiting science educators and researchers. The FIP Travel Grant Award Program is a fine example of such efforts; they deserve to be expanded.

Increasing the visibility and membership of FIPS will enable further development of its valuable programs.

Susana Hernández
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Biographical Summary
Full name: Ester Susana Hernández, Argentinian, born in Argentina.

Ph. D in Physics, University of Buenos Aires, 1973.

Researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina, since 1973. Superior Researcher (maximum category) since 2004.

Full Professor in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, since 1983 - Plenary Full Professor (Honorific title) since 1998.

Founder and head of the Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter Group in my home institution.

My main scientific interests and research areas include: general theory and applications of quantum many body physics, statistical physics, low temperature physics (quantum fluids). I am currently concerned with wetting and adsorption properties of superfluid helium and with superfluid dynamics in systems of dilute trapped fermions.

My research activities are contained in around 150 publications in indexed journals (Physical Review Letters, Physical Review, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Journal of Physics, Nuclear Physics), and over 40 extended Conference Proceedings of international meetings.

I have been a postdoctoral fellow in University of California at Los Angeles and at Berkeley.I am or have been Invited Professor/Invited Researcher/Lecturer at: Institute of Theoretical Physics, Sao Paulo, Brasil; Institute of Theoretical Physics, Trieste; Universities of Barcelona and Valencia, Spain; of Nantes, France; Chile; México; Linz, Austria; Pennylvania State University, USA. At the moment I carry regular joint activities with colleagues at Barcelona and at PSU.

I have been an Invited Lecturer in more than 40 international meetings. I serve or have served as a member in several International Advisory Committees of regional and international scientific meetings, such as: MEDYFINOL (Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Physics) series; LAWNP (Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Physyics) series; CMT (International Workshop on Condensed Matter Teories) and QMBT (International Conference on Recent Progress in Many Body Theories). Since 2001 I am a member of the QMBT International Advisory Committee. I have been Chair of the Organizing Committee of around 20 regional and international events held in Argentina, Buenos Aires and other cities.

I have supervised around 20 MS and PhD thesis in my Department of Physics, similar number of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and young researchers. My team of young collaborators has been always composed by amounts of female and male members that reflect the proportion in the Argentinian academic and scientific institutions in Physics: 35 to 40% of our scientists at all levels are women. I have received around 30 research grants, some of which have contemplated foreign collaborations, in whose frames I have strongly pushed the participation of my youngest trainees.

I have been a Member of the Government Council of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences representing my colleague Professors (1986-89), Member and Chair of a variety of Advisory and Selection Committees in academic institutions and sponsoring agencies in Argentina and abroad, and reviewer of publications in international indexed journals and of research proposals for national and international agencies.

Candidate's Statement
As a candidate for the APS Forum of International Physics, I can assert that I have sub- stantial experience in i.e., evaluation of inidividuals and proposals; organization of international scientific meetings; generation of networks and elaboration of joint proposals in the frame of multilateral cooperation agreements. My daily universe is the Southern Cone and Mercosur area –i.e., Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Brasil, Paraguay– and all Latinamerican countries will- ing to share scientific and educational activities. I possess a wide list of contacts in the region and will be exceptionally happy if given the opportunity to incorporate the best neighboring colleagues to these endeavors.

Milton W. Cole
Penn State University

Biographical Summary
Milton Cole received degrees in physics from Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago (Ph. D., 1970). Currently a Distinguished Professor of Physics at Penn State University, he has held short-term positions at Brooklyn College (CUNY), Brown, Caltech, ENS (Paris), Marseille, Oxford, Padua, Toronto and the University of Washington.

Cole’s research areas are condensed matter and chemical physics, with an emphasis on the theory of van der Waals interactions and the statistical mechanics of matter in one or two dimensions. His honors include fellowship in the American Physical Society, a Fulbright Scholarship to Oxford University (1989), Penn State’s Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Physical Sciences and Engineering (1993) and the National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing (2001). He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Low Temperature Physics.

Throughout his career Cole has been involved in international collaborations, including the organization of many conferences (e.g., two at ICTP, Trieste). During the last 5 years, he has coauthored publications with scientists from Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, India, Italy and Japan. One-half of his former students and postdoctoral fellows come from outside of the United States.

Cole has been active in the support of women in science, who represent about half of his collaborators. For his mentoring activities, he was honored in 2008 with Penn State’s Women in Science and Engineering Faculty Award. Concerned about "science in society" issues, especially science education, he collaborates with both school teachers and faculty in the College of Education. At Penn State, he serves on the Advisory Board of the Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy and is co-chair of the Intercollege Minor in Civic and Community Engagement.

Candidate's Statement
Science is an international endeavor, a fact that greatly enhances the "job" of being a scientist. My life has been enriched in many ways by the cosmopolitan nature of science, including foreign travel, of course, as well as countless discussions with visiting scientists, students and my colleagues at Penn State (half of whom are foreign born). Because the Forum on International Physics has a broad mission to enhance these activities, I have been a member of the FIP since its inception. In two specific cases, I have gained very directly from the existence of the Forum. A few years ago, I was fortunate to receive an APS international travel grant, supporting a month-long visit of my collaborator from Argentina. A more dramatic experience involved very vocal support provided by FIP some years ago, enabling my former student (from China) to overcome the State Department’s inertia and bureaucracy so that he could get a visa and present an invited talk at an APS meeting.

"The world is flat" has become a cliché, referring to the belief that the world-wide economic playing field is level. The scientific world is not flat, but it is getting flatter, thanks to the increasing role of electronic communication, which helps physicists world-wide to contribute to the scientific dialogue as near-equals. The Forum has an important role to play in this process and has been doing so rather effectively. I refer specifically to the travel grant program, the newsletter, forums at APS meetings (downloadable!) and the book and equipment exchange programs. "More of the same" may be a lame campaign slogan, but it sounds pretty good to me.

Marie-Louise Saboungi
University of Orleans, Orleans, France

Biographical Summary
Present Position: Professor of Physics, University of Orléans; Director, Centre de Recherche sur la Matière Divisée (CRMD), Orléans, France.

Education: Ph.D. (Physics), University of Aix-Marseille, France (1973).

Employment History: Professor of Physics and Director, CRMD (2002-present); Senior Scientist (1987-2001), Staff Scientist (1976-1986), Argonne National Laboratory, IL.

Principal Research Interests: Dynamics and structure of disordered systems; bionanocomposites: interface between polymers & biomaterials; ionically conducting polymers; confinement in porous & mesoporous materials; hydration & diffusion of biomolecules in solution.

Other Professional Activities: DCMP Symp. on Unusual transport properties of chalcogenides, APS Mtg., Denver, 2006; Int. Conf. on Innovative nanoscale approach to dynamic studies of materials, Okinawa, Japan, 2006 (Co-chair); Int. Conf. on Materials processing for nanostructured devices, Nouan-Le-Fuselier, France, 2003; DCMP/DMP Focused Session on Multiscale dynamics, relaxation & charge transport in polymers, APS Mtg., Seattle, 2001; Theory Inst. on Structure, dynamics & charge transport in polymeric materials, ANL, 2000; Gordon Res. Conf. on Liquid metals & molten salts, Wolfeboro, 1989 (Chair), 1987 (Vice-chair); NSF MRSEC Review Panels and DOE Review Panels for Hydrogen Fuel Initiative & Solar Energy Centers; many postdocs & students from N. America, Europe and Asia.

Honors: Fellow, Humboldt Foundation (2007), APS (1988), AAAS (1987); NATO Coll. Grant USA-Turkey (1993), NSF Coll. Grant USA-France (1983); Visiting Prof. KEK, Tsukuba, Japan (2000), James Franck Inst., Univ. of Chicago (2003).

Publications: Over 200 peer-reviewed publications in intl. journals including Science, Nature, Phys. Rev. Letters and Appl. Phys. Letters; several book chapters; co-author of textbook on neutron scattering in progress; Editorial Board of J. Bionanoscience (Am. Sci. Pub.), J. Experimental Nanoscience (Taylor & Francis).

Candidate's Statement
I believe that the FIP can play an effective role in promoting interactions with scientists in emergent countries. Communication and understanding between nations is not just an admirable goal but may be essential for our survival. The article by Martin Hellman in the latest FIP Newsletter estimates the likelihood of a nuclear war as 0.02-0.5% per year, while Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society, considers the chance of human civilization surviving in its present form till the end of the century as no better than 50%. Since physics is by necessity an international undertaking, physicists and the FIP in particular can play an active role in changing these statistics. I would work with the FIP to foster interactions between American scientists and those in emergent countries, some of which are perceived as having different and even confrontational political agenda compared with ours. At a recent conference in Uzbekistan, co-organized by colleagues from Cambridge, I had the opportunity to meet not only scientists from Central Asia but also a large contingent from Iran, whom I found to be articulate, well informed and eager to collaborate. The FIP has the opportunity to foster interactions with emergent countries through sessions organized or co-sponsored by the FIP and enhancement of the International Travel Grant Program. It can also try to facilitate access to major facilities for scientists in these countries (I am involved in such an initiative for South Africa) and in favorable cases encourage them to plan for medium-scale facilities in their own regions. I hope that my background of education and research in three continents - the Middle East, Europe and North America - will give me a useful perspective in promoting such activities.