Past Events

Abstract: I will summarize some major activities and strategic plans of the American Physical Society, including: publishing research while opening access; advocating in Washington for funding for research and new initiatives, fostering education, and supporting appropriate immigration policies for graduate...

In this talk I will review the research on the benefits of diversity for innovation, and unpack the critical factors that teams should consider when seeking to leverage the benefits of diversity for innovation. Participants will leave the session with...

The 10th century parchment document known as the Archimedes Palimpsest contains the oldest surviving copy of works by the Greek genius Archimedes of Syracuse (287 – 212 BC). To uncover his obscured writings we developed the technique of rapid-scan X-ray...

Electron microscopes achieve sub-Å spatial resolution through the introduction of the cold field-emitter and aberration correction optics. It is the interplay between atomic-scale structure and the associated ultrafast dynamics that governs the macroscopic functionality observed in matter. Ultrafast electron probe...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is an experiment that is being performed on a global array of millimeter wavelength telescopes that span the Earth from Hawaii to Chile and from the South Pole to Arizona. With the full array, it...

In recent years X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) have increased by ten or more orders of magnitude in coherence and brightness. XFELs allow for the first time the exploration of the structure and dynamics of atomic, molecular, and high energy density...

The quality, scope, and impact of U.S. science and technology is admired the world over. International scientific collaborations highlight key values including evidence, peer review, transparency, teamwork, and dialog. Scientific leadership and technological prowess are also elements of national power...

On the eve of Kepler's launch in 2009, astronomers knew of a few hundred planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way. Today, the discoveries spill into the thousands, and the sensitivity boundaries continue to expand. NASA's Kepler Mission unveiled...

Earthquake ground-motion data and magnitude-distance attenuation relationships, coupled with earthquake recurrence statistics and fault models, are the basis for our seismic hazard maps and building codes. Seismic hazard maps are constructed in a probabilistic sense for a given rate of...