American Physical Society Announces "Outstanding Referees"for 2010

Rabi Mohapatra is among the 157 Outstanding Referees of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters journals, as chosen by the journal editors for 2010.

Initiated in 2008, the Outstanding Referee program expresses appreciation for the essential work that anonymous peer reviewers do for our journals. Each year a small percentage of our 42,000 referees are selected and honored with the Outstanding Referee designation. Selections are made based on the number, quality, and timeliness of referee reports as collected in a database over the last 20 years. The program will recognize about 150 referees each year, although larger groups were selected in 2008 and 2009.

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What Went Wrong with the Global Economy?

The global economy has crashed. When did it start? Why did it happen? Why do we think we were taken by surprise? The AAAS symposium, What Went Wrong with the Global Economy?, presents a perspective on these questions from physicists who have been working in economics.

Victor Yakovenko, whose article Colloquium: Statistical Mechanics of Money, Wealth and Income was recently published in APS’ Review of Modern Physics, will join three other econophysicists and the Nobel Prize winner in economics, Robert Engle to discuss their recent work and the problems and approaches for future research.

*Professor Yakovenko is scheduled to give the same talk, as part of the Physics Colloquia Series, on January 26 at 4:00PM in Room 1410.

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UMD Physicists Among New AAAS Fellows

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded the distinction of Fellow to 531 members, including three members of the University of Maryland physics faculty: Professors Betsy Beise and Jordan Goodman and Adjunct Professor Carl Williams (NIST/JQI).

Founded in 1848, the AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. Fellows are recognized by their peers for distinguished efforts to advance science.

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