Charter, Mission, Goals

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M i s s i o n , G o a l s

C H A R T E R : The American Institute of Physics was founded in 1931 and chartered as a membership corporation for the purposes of the advancement and diffusion of knowledge of the science of physics—and its applications to human welfare. To this end it is the purpose of AIP to undertake, among other measures:

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the publication of scientific journals;

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to serve the public by making available reliable information on physics and its progress;

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to cooperate with other physics-related organizations to promote unity and effectiveness of effort; and

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to foster the relations of physics to other sciences and to the arts and industries. M I S S I O N : In order to achieve its purpose, AIP serves physics and related fields of science and technology by serving its Member Societies, individual scientists, educators, students, research and development leaders, and the general public with programs, services and publications— Information That Matters®.

G O A L S : AIP has set four goals, UMBRELLA, PRICING, IMAGE, and TIMELINESS, for its programs, services and publications. They are:

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value-added, naturally recognizable UMBRELLA services for Member Societies and other constituencies;

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a financially viable enterprise based on a PRICING model that is also viable for our customers;

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an improved IMAGE of physics and physicists through programs, products, and public information; and

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processes and procedures that improve the TIMELINESS of our products and services.

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Charter, Mission, Goals

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Letter from CEO and Chair

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•Member Societies

Publishing:

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•Magazines

•Journals & Proceedings

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Journals Highlights

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Physics Resources:

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•Career Network

•Education and Student Services

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•Finance, Administration and Technology

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Awards & Prizes

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World Year of Physics 2005

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C O N T E N T S

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to present this 2005 Annual Report of American Institute of Physics (AIP). The World Year of Physics made 2005 a particularly momentous year. Communities around the globe marked the year with events that involved not only physicists but people from all walks of life who expressed an unexpected ardor for science – from the

official opening public events in Paris to a closing symposium in Recife, Brazil. The Year showed that we should never underestimate the interest of the public in science and their desire to understand and appreciate what scientists do.

As an introduction to the Report, let us remind you that AIP fulfills its mission via four types of activities.

First, the Institute offers a diverse array of resources, programs and services: in education to students and teachers; in public information through broadcast, Web, and print media; in history via documenting the people and institutions who have advanced our disci-plines worldwide; in statistical research with education and employment surveys; in career services that match employers and job seekers; in public policy by providing infor-mation to and from government in a timely fashion; and by industrial outreach that helps companies be more effective in utilizing the benefits of physics and physicists. Second, AIP provides publishing services to assist in the production and distribution of journals, in print and online, by our Member Societies and other science and engineering organizations. Appropriately tailored services can be chosen from a broad and diverse set of cost-effective offerings.

Third, AIP is a publisher. The Institute publishes archival journals, magazines and conference proceedings that advance the frontiers of science and span the interests of more than one Member Society or fulfills roles otherwise missing in Society publications. Three-quarters of the submissions to our journals now come from outside the United States.

Finally, AIP creates a community out of disparate, but related interests across the diversi-ty of fields within our ten Member Societies, promoting interactions of mutual interest. With the theme for this Report, “On the Frontiers of Service and Science,” we have cho-sen to show how AIP is moving forward in revising its processes to provide additional and improved services to our community. The Report is published as a supplement to the June 2006 Physics Today, which is also marking another milestone with a related theme. There are several feature articles and essays appearing in this issue from the AIP 75th Anniversary Symposium on the Diverse Frontiers of Science. We hope you find this Report and the Physics Todaycommentaries interesting, stimulating, and inspiring.

Marc H. Brodsky Mildred S. Dresselhaus

Executive Director and CEO Chair, Governing Board

American Physical Society

(Founded in 1899, helped form AIP in 1931) – Dedicated to advancing and diffusing the knowl-edge of physics.

Optical Society of America

(Founded in 1916, helped form AIP in 1931)– Promotes the gen-eration, application, archiving and worldwide dissemination of knowl-edge in optics and photonics.

Acoustical Society of America

(Founded in 1929, helped form AIP in 1931)– Seeks to increase and diffuse the knowledge of acoustics and to promote its prac-tical applications.

The Society of Rheology

(Founded in 1929, and a Founding Member of AIP in 1931)– Promotes the advance-ment and applications of rheolo-gy, the science of deformation and flow of matter.

American Association of Physics Teachers(Founded in 1931 and a Founding Member of AIP)– Promotes the teaching of physics and appreciation of the cultural role of physics.

American Crystallographic Association(Founded in 1949, joined AIP in 1966)– Promotes interactions among scientists who study the structure of matter at atomic (or near atomic) resolution.

American Astronomical Society

(Founded in 1899, joined AIP in 1966)– Promotes the advance-ment of astronomy and closely related branches of science.

American Association of Physicists in Medicine(Founded in 1958, joined AIP in 1973)– Seeks to promote the application of physics to medicine and biolo-gy.

AVS:Science & Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing (Founded in 1953 as the American Vacuum Society, joined AIP in 1976)– Promotes communication and disseminates knowledge in vacuum science, technology, and engineering.

American Geophysical Union

(Founded in 1919, joined AIP in 1986)– Advances the understand-ing of Earth and its environment in space.

MEMBER SOCIETIES

OTHER MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS Society of Physics Students:4,800 members

Sigma Pi Sigma:38,000 members

Corporate Associates:36 companies

Letter from CEO and Chair

Mildred S. Dresselhaus Chair, Governing Board

Marc H. Brodsky Executive Director and

P U B L I S H I N G

O n t h e F r o n t i e r s o f S e r v i c e & S c i e n c e

Magazines Physics Today Embraces Diverse Frontiers of Science AIP’s flagship magazine,Physics Today, is a strong and influential force in the science community. It is

available in print and online as a free, on-membership benefit to all individual members of our ten Member Societies. Moreover, the magazine remains at the frontier of service to its readers with regular analysis of the educational, social, and political context of science. Its Website provides thrice-daily alerts to articles published in more than 100 scientific journals and also to science news from around the world.

In 2005,Physics Todayembraced the frontiers of science as they continued both to approach ever closer to our daily lives and to recede ever farther into esoteric realms. The bizarre realm of quantum information is now seeing mainstream experiments and may even be coming nearer to real-world applications. Earth's remote and frigid polar regions are now disturbing bellwethers of global warming. The exotic nanoworld of single atoms, molecules, and clusters is branching into industries including materials, medicine, and energy. Physics and physicists probe ever deeper into the mysteries of biology and the mystique of the inner Earth. Astronomers and astrophysicists gain surprising insights into the ever-expanding

cosmos that is our home. Some of the world's largest labs continue to study the smallest particles along with nuclei, even as nuclear power sees a resurgence of interest. In all these areas and more,Physics Today remains required reading for the curious mind. Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE)—On the Frontiers of Science Computing Norman Chonacky took over as the magazine's third editor-in-chief in January. CiSE continues to cover

how scientists and engineers use

computers. In 2005, the magazine's theme issues addressed cluster computing, Earth system science, multiphysics modeling, and grid computing.

CiSE also broke new editorial ground. In the first issue of the year, a series of ambitious reviews of the most popular mathematics software packages, Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB, began. Its aim is to compare how the packages meet readers' needs in instruction, research, and publishing. Another 2005 innovation was the introduc-tion of Last Word, a reflective and some-times humorous column that occupies the magazine's last page. CiSE ended 2005 — literally — with a Last Word by Paul Dubois entitled "Bean-Counted Research is Smelly.”

Magazine Advertising

Magazine advertising in 2005 included only Physics Todayand the Physics Today Buyers' Guide. Magazine advertising in 2005 was essentially flat compared to 2004. The composition of the advertising changed with display advertising revenue declining by 7% and classified advertising revenue increasing by 12%. Online advertising increased again but at a lower rate than in previous years. Online advertising, while increasing in importance for the future, still represents a small segment of the overall revenue for the Magazine Group, only about 3% of total advertising revenue. The magazine advertising business, especially in business-to-business magazines, is still under tremendous pressure because of the highly competitive nature of the diverse media available to advertisers.

Journals — Reporting on the Frontiers of Science and Technology AIP publishes research journals to serve the physical sciences communities in fields complementary to those covered by the journals of our Member Societies. AIP journals’ subject area coverage is thus typically interdisciplinary or applied, yet these topics are some of the most vital in the current mission-driven research climate. Communities served include academic, government, and corporate sectors as part of a balanced global base of authors and readers.

AIP journals have moved to the forefront of content availability with the completion of two initiatives. The first is the mounting of

of Virtual Journals in Science & Technology (published jointly with APS), which gather into conven-ient online publica-tions all journal arti-cles from participat-ing publishers that are relevant to the particular fields. The addition of two ECS journals (Electro-chemical and Solid-State Letters and Journal of The Electrochemical Society) in late 2005 has further enhanced

the critical set of content in the Virtual Journals. Additional publishers expected to join the Virtual Journals in 2006 include The Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK), The Institute of Pure and Applied Physics (Japan), and The Institute of Physics Publishing (UK).

The end of 2005 marked the end of relationships AIP had with other publishers for a number of journals, although the journals will continue to be available elsewhere. One,Geochemical Transactions, AIP published jointly with the Division of Geochemistry of the American Chemical Society. Also, after 50 years of collaboration, AIP will no longer be involved with translation journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences. However, AIP will continue the translation, publication, and distribution for

AIP is both a publisher and a provider of publishing services:

Since our founding in 1931, AIP has striven to serve the greater physics community via our own publications, and by providing publishing services for Member Societies and the scientific, technical, and medical publishing community. AIP’s incorporation of methodologies, approaches, and content — all always at the frontiers of technology and research — has helped us fulfill the aspects of our mission related to the information and dissemination needs of the community.

As a publisher, AIP has a long and rich history of publishing magazines, journals, conference proceedings, directories, and other special publications. AIP has been an innovator in online publications, with a series of Virtual Journals (co-published with APS) and Author Select® open access options. In all cases, the timely, forefront content of the publications has informed the scientific community regarding advancements with both short- and long-term effects on technology, the economy, and human welfare.

As a provider of publishing services, AIP has continually adapted to new technologies and methodologies. We generate the finest quality print and online publications, and provide quality services using efficient processes, thus allowing us to offer competitive pricing. Recent re-engineering of our production processes has allowed AIP to further push the envelope of the quality-efficiency balance in providing publishing services.

the full online archive for each of the eight wholly-owned AIP journals, thus giving subscribers in 2005 and onward access options that include all articles ever published in each journal. The second initiative is the move to article-at-a-time publishing, which allows each new journal article to be made available online as soon as possible in its final, citable form. AIP’s goal of making its journal content ever more accessible has resulted in the expan-sion of consortia licensing; this includes many institutions that likely never were able to subscribe on their own. Also, our tiered journal pricing methodology continued in 2005, with indications that AIP has been able to stabilize the base of smaller institutions that subscribe to the journals.

In seeking to adapt to key publishing trends, AIP also launched the Author SelectSM

open access initiative at the beginning of 2005. This program allows authors to pay a fee to make their articles in the participating jour-nals freely accessible online in perpetuity to all – even to those who have no subscrip-tions. The first open access article was pub-lished in the October 2005 issue of Review of Scientific Instruments. Two other AIP journals were included in the initiative:Chaosand Journal of Mathematical Physics, and AIP is implementing Author Selectfor all its jour-nals in 2006.

AIP also continues to seek new ways to make the contents of our journals, and the journals of our partners, easier to find and use. A long-standing example is the series

the English language version of Low Temperature Physics– a Russian language journal with editorial offices in the Ukraine. Conference Proceedings — Report Timely Results of Timely Meetings AIP published 62 volumes, in print and online, in the AIP Conference Proceedings Series in 2005, more than in any prior year. Of these, 12 had associated CD-ROMs. AIP continued to offer high levels of service to conference organizers, with AIP’s Peer X-Press manuscript submission and review system used for two 2005 conferences. AIP also expanded the online accessibility to the AIP Proceedings via a new online-only offering in addition to packages with AIP journals and consortia licensing. As a result, online usage of Conference

Proceedings dramatically rose in 2005 with

Darlene A. Walters, AIP's Senior Vice President Publishing, at her right hand shows the Institute's entire published output during its first full year of operation in 1932. At her left are stacked eight AIP journals, less than 1/3 of AIP's total output for 2005.

increases relative to 2004 of approximately 55% and 75%, respectively, for the average hits per month (84,300) and annual article downloads (60,800). As of the end of 2005, there are 305 proceedings volumes available online, dating back to 2000. Publishing Services — Delivering High Tech Efficiency and Quality The array of AIP’s publishing services options and features continued to expand. Newly implemented processes improved production, timeliness and efficiency, allowing AIP to offer lower competitive pricing and increase our output to a record of nearly 330,000 pages. The continued expansion of the services customer base, both with new customers and new publications from existing customers, further aided AIP in meeting pricing and financial goals in 2005. These services cover the full range of the journal publication process, including editorial manuscript submission and peer review, page composition and pre-press production, online delivery via our Scitation® platform, distribution and fulfillment services for print and electronic media, and publication marketing and consortia sales.

Process Re-engineering: Current and Future Rewards

Transition to our new XML production process in 2005 resulted in both a signifi-cant reduction in processing and staff time in 2005, allowing improved timeliness and lower costs. Further enhancements to workflow management tools led to further improvements throughout the year, includ-ing management’s ability to assess staff performance. The comprehensive re-engi-neering effort has involved the retraining and reorganization of staff into four self-contained, self-sufficient teams, which were implemented as of 1 January 2005. Further steps in the re-engineering process will lead to a completely paperless work-flow. Examples of initiatives undertaken in 2005 in support of this goal include increased automation of electronic (XML-based) standard copyediting tasks/rules and enhanced use of smart technologies for routing of electronic documents (such as faxes of author proofs) formerly handled with paper. In addition, in-house capabilities were developed for processing and produc-ing author proofs with artwork that is to be printed in color, thus saving printer time and costs.

Business Advances and Opportunities

AIP continues to seek new publishing services business to improve our costs and pricing via larger economies of scale. In addition to our own pricing and services, we also seek to serve our customers in other ways. For example, through 2005 negotiations for new print vendor contracts we have helped our publishing services customers for whom we manage print services to achieve considerable savings. AIP expended considerable direct effort in 2005 to expand the publishing services customer base, including more proactive marketing of our services to a wider range of potential clients, improved web presence, and increased representation at publishing conferences. As a result, we significantly increased the volume of proposals tendered and we signed approximately $1.7 million in new publishing services business for 2005, including circulation and fulfillment, and $1.0 million for 2006.

As a result of additional new business signed for 2006, in late 2005 AIP began preparations to integrate the production of seven additional journals from five publishers into the AIP workflow. These publishers (and journals) are ASTM International (Journal of ASTM International, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, and Geotechnical Testing Journal), AVS (Biointerphases), IS&T (Journal of Imaging Science and Technology), the Tire Society (Tire Science and Technology), and Wiley (Infant Mental Health Journal).

Scitation® and other Online Services

AIP’s comprehensive and competitively priced online publishing services were more fully integrated with editorial workflow and production processes in 2005, improving AIP’s ability to quickly respond to customer’s needs. The cornerstone of AIP’s online services is Scitation, a fully integrated web-publishing system that enables scientific and technical publishers 2005 Journal and Book Pages Produced by AIP’s Publishing Services

AIP Archival Journals (10 titles) 94,763

Translation Journals (2 titles) 2,186

Other AIP Journal Products (1 title) 12,312

Member Society Journals (APS, AVS, ASA, AAPM,

SoR, OSA, AAPT, AAS) (20 titles) 124,298

Affiliated Society Journals

(SPIE, ASCE, ICDD, LIA, ECS) (38 titles) 36,000

Other Journals

(ASME, ISA, EERI, Wiley) (24 titles) 20,308

Conference Proceedings and Special Projects 39,364

Total 329,231

AIP featured its large and attractive exhibit booth in December 2005 at the annual Online Information show in London. Douglas LaFrenier, Director, Marketing & Sales is in center; at right is Mary Beth Manning of SPIE; at left is Terry Hulbert of the Institute of Physics Publishing group.

to provide customers with convenient, feature-rich online access to their

publications. AIP also provides a full suite of other online services including e-Commerce systems, intellectual rights management services, and Peer X-Press – a

comprehensive web-based manuscript submission and peer review service. All of these are backed by high-level technical support. AIP also seeks to involve its publishing partners in the early stages of development plans, such as via an annual forum on new strategies and initiatives. By the end of 2005, AIP had expanded Scitationoperations to 25 leading physical science and engineering organizations with the system hosting almost one million documents from scholarly journals, magazines, conference proceedings, standards, and other special publications. During 2005, 32 new publications joined Scitation, now totaling 151. Scitation’s registered user base grew by 46%, as the service supported more than 300,000 online subscriptions with almost 7,000 institutional accounts worldwide. Users downloaded over 20.3 million articles from Scitationduring 2005, a 24% increase from the previous year.

AIP also supported the installation of archival content for multiple Scitation publishing partners, including ASA, AAPT, SPIE, ECS, SID, and IEE. This includes comprehensive electronic archives for ASA and AAPT and new digital libraries for SEG and IEE. Such digital libraries allow Scitation publishers to serve all of their content through a variety of integrated browsing and searching options, and, more

importantly, offer new subscription models that can combine access to content in new and innovative ways. In 2005, AIP

contracted with ECS and SIAM to launch their digital libraries on Scitationin 2006. AIP is determined to keep Scitationat the forefront of online publishing in terms of service and features. For example, the 2005 service uptime for Scitationincreased to 99.78%, compared to 99.74% in 2004 with infrastructure improvements that included multiple redundant servers and real-time synchronization of data between its primary site and its alternate site. Further 2005 Scitationenhancements include: migration of all online storefronts to a new, more flexible e-Commerce infrastructure set to launch early in 2006; addition of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds and proceedings contents email to the platform’s content-alerting options; creation of topic-based cross-publication subscription options; conversion of

statistical usage reports for institutional and consortia subscribers to the COUNTER standard; and integration of the Rightslink® web-based permissions service from the Copyright Clearance Center.

AIP’s Peer X-Press (PXP) web-based peer review service also underwent considerable expansion in 2005 with the addition of ten new publications, including two of AIP’s largest journals. This expansion brings the PXP production operations to 28 publications from eight publishers. In addition to supporting journal operations, PXP also successfully served as a submission and review site for abstracts and/or manuscripts for several large conferences with heavy peak traffic.

Distribution and Fulfillment Services

AIP provides comprehensive membership, meetings, fundraising, circulation, and fulfillment services with a current total of 18 organizations served and over 170 products and publications handled. Specific services include database tracking and maintenance, printed and online billing/renewal effort generation, payment/order processing, label file generation, online fulfillment, and customer service. AIP’s subscription fulfillment service offerings also continuously adapt with new multisite licensing and consortia

arrangements. The total amount billed for dues and subscriptions has steadily increased, now totaling over $100 million. In 2005, AIP’s Membership and Circulation Services (MACS) database became the database of record for institutional, individual, and member subscription records from the AGU. A new meetings module was also developed to handle the processing of meetings registrations. AIP membership services continued development and expansion of online membership renewal services in 2005 with the continued implementation of real-time online renewal processing, including instant credit card processing and real-time updates to the MACS database. Additional web-based functionality was also added for meeting registration processing, book ordering, and society membership submissions.

Marketing, Sales, Advertising and Exhibits

AIP’s Marketing and Sales department promotes awareness and sales of AIP’s journals and proceedings, as well as those of a number of Member Societies and other publishers, via brochures, catalogs, conference exhibits, press releases, and library site visits. Other key activities involve negotiation of multisite and consortia licenses on behalf of 14 publishers and more

than 100 journals. In 2005, we licensed Member Society and Scitationjournals to new academic consortia in Portugal, Mexico, Pakistan, and Ireland, while renewing major licenses in China, Korea, India, and across Europe. AIP also organized a library campaign in little-visited libraries in Central Europe and the Baltic States, leading to new consortia negotiations in Poland and Lithuania. With APS, AIP conducted four focus groups of young researchers and their librarians to help guide future plans. AIP Marketing also exhibited at major library meetings in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. In addition, we launched a new online subscription option for the AIP Conference Proceedings program. In addition to handling the sale of

advertising space in the print and online journals of AIP, AAPM, AVS, SoR, and ICDD, AIP’s Advertising and Exhibits department manages the complete exhibit space at a number of conferences. In 2005, we managed exhibits at annual meetings of APS, ACA, and AVS as well as two new clients: IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, and the North American Catalysis Society.

MAGAZINES

Physics Today

Computing in Science and Engineering (Jointly with IEEE Computer Society)

JOURNALS

Applied Physics Letters

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science

Journal of Applied Physics The Journal of Chemical Physics Journal of Mathematical Physics Physics of Fluids

Physics of Plasmas

Review of Scientific Instruments

Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data (Jointly with NIST)

Low Temperature Physics (a Translation Journal)

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

In 2005, published 62 volumes

VIRTUAL JOURNALS

(Jointly with APS)

VJ of Applications of Superconductivity VJ of Biological Physics Research VJ of Nanoscale Science & Technology VJ of Quantum Information

VJ of Ultrafast Science

Applied Physics Lettersis a leading, highly cited venue for research impact-ing a wide range of technologies. Examples of 2005 articles are “Single-metalloprotein wet biotransistor” [A. Alessandrini et al., Appl. Phys. Lett.86, 133902 (2005)] ; “Optical conveyor belt for delivery of submicron objects” [T. Ciˇzmár et al., Appl. Phys. Lett.86, 174101 (2005)]; “Soliton transistor” [F. Raissi, Appl. Phys. Lett.86, 263503 (2005)]; “Ballistic bit addressing in a magnetic memory cell array” [H. W. Schumacher, Appl. Phys. Lett.87, 042504 (2005)]; and “Solid-state super-capacitors for electronic device applica-tions” [L. Ma and Y. Yang, Appl. Phys. Lett.87, 123503 (2005)].

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Sciencecontinues to publish a balance of submitted articles and organized “focus” sections on specific topics. In 2005 each of Chaos’ four issues contained a well received focus section: “The ‘Fermi-Pasta-Ulam’ Problem-The First 50 Years,” edited by D. Campbell, P. Rosenau, and G. Zaslavsky [March 2005]; “100 Years of Brownian Motion,” edited by P. Hänggi and F. Marchesoni [June 2005]; “Solitons in Nonintegrable Systems,” edited by R. Grimshaw, L. Ostrovsky, and D. Pelinovsky [September 2005]; and “Self-Organization in Nanoengineering,” edited by T. Yamaguchi, I. Epstein, M. Shimomura, and T. Kunitake [December 2005].

Journal of Applied Physicscontains research underlying high-technology, similar to its companion journal Applied Physics Letters; however, J. Appl. Phys. features full-length articles as well as a series of Applied Physics Reviews. Examples of 2005 review articles are “Dielectric breakdown mechanisms in gate oxides,” [S. Lombardo et al., J. Appl. Phys.98, 121301 (2005)];

“Luminescence properties of defects in GaN,” [M. Reshchikov and H. Morkoç, J. Appl. Phys.97, 061301 (2005)]; and “Vertically aligned carbon nanofibers and related structures: Controlled syn-thesis and directed assembly,” [A. Melechko et al., J. Appl. Phys. 97, 041301 (2005)].

The Journal of Chemical Physicsis devoted to applications of physics to chemistry and biochemistry, with 2005 continuing a trend to more biochemical physics arti-cles. Examples of Communications, which report particularly important results, pub-lished on biological topics in 2005 are “Using fluorescence resonance energy transfer to measure distances along indi-vidual DNA molecules: Corrections due to nonideal transfer” [C. Sabanayagam et al., J. Chem. Phys.122, 061103 (2005)]; “Retention of nativelike conformation by proteins embedded in high external elec-tric fields” [P. Pompa et al., J. Chem. Phys. 122, 181102 (2005)]; and “Different chemical dynamics for different conform-ers of biological molecules:

Photoionization of glycine” [D. Shemesh and R. Gerber, J. Chem. Phys.122, 241104 (2005)].

Journal of Mathematical Physicscontains articles on mathematical advances rele-vant to a broad range of physics, such as quantum information, particles and fields, and fluid dynamics. Examples of 2005 papers on these respective topics are “Teleportation schemes in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces” [K.-H. Fichtner, J. Math. Phys.46, 102103 (2005)]; “Extensive ground state entropy in supersymmetric lattice models” [H. van Eerten, J. Math. Phys.46, 123302 (2005)]; and “Fluid-dynamic equations for granular particles in a host medium” [M. Bisi and G. Spiga, J. Math. Phys.46, 113301 (2005)]. The journal features an annual special issue, which in 2005 was “Superconductivity and the Ginzburg-Landau Model” [September 2005] assembled by Guest Editors J. Rubinstein and P. Sternberg.

Physics of Fluidspresents research across the full breadth of fluid dynamics. Its Letters section is reserved for particu-larly timely research, with the following being 2005 examples: “Predicting rogue waves in random oceanic sea states” [A. Islas and C. Schober, Phys. Fluids 17, 031701 (2005)]; “Computer simulations of the collapse of a granular column” [R. Zenit, Phys. Fluids 17, 031703 (2005)]; “Identification method for vor-tex sheet structures in turbulent flows” [K. Horiuti and Y. Takagi, Phys. Fluids 17, 121703 (2005)]. There were also two special topics sections published in

2005: “Biofluid Mechanics” [March 2005] and “Transport Phenomena in Micro- and Nanodevices” [October 2005], which were published with the assistance of Guest Editors J. Grotberg and M. Gad-el-Hak, respectively. Physics of Plasmasreports on funda-mental and applied plasma physics, par-ticularly that related to fusion science, lasers, and astrophysics. The journal annually features a special issue for Review, Tutorial, and Invited Papers from the APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting. Examples of invited papers from the 2005 Special Issue are “Simulation of spheromak evolution and energy confinement” [B. Cohen et al., Phys. Plasmas 12, 056106 (2005)]; “Accessing ultrahigh-pressure, quasi-isentropic states of matter” [K. Lorenz et al., Phys. Plasmas 12, 056309 (2005)]; “Implosion hydrodynamics of fast ignition targets” [ R. Stephens et al., Phys. Plasmas 12, 056312 (2005)]; and “Measurements of intense femtosecond laser pulse propagation in air” [A. Ting et al., Phys. Plasmas 12, 056705 (2005)]. Review of Scientific Instruments publish-es developments related to instruments and techniques impacting diverse areas such as biomedicine, materials, plasmas, geophysics, and optics. The journal also features both invited and review arti-cles, and occasional conference pro-ceedings. Examples of 2005 invited and review articles are “A densely distrib-uted high-sensitivity seismograph net-work in Japan: Hi-net by National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention” [K. Obara et al. Rev. Sci. Instrum.76, 021301 (2005)]; “Nanoelectromechanical systems” [K. Ekinci and M. Roukes, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 76, 061101 (2005)]; “Instrument tech-niques for rheometry” [Y. Hou and H. Kassim, Rev. Sci. Instrum.76, 101101 (2005)]; and “Table-top water window transmission x-ray microscopy: Review of the key issues, and conceptual design of an instrument for biology” [J.-F. Adam et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum.76, 091301 (2005)]. The first Author Selectopen access article was “Cryogenic scanning Hall-probe microscope with centimeter scan range and submicron resolution” [Rafael B. Dinner et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 76, 103702 (2005)].

2005 Highlights and Examples of Research Results Published in AIP Journals

SPS communicates with its members, electronically and in print, through theSPS Observer (a newsletter). Members also contribute regularly to The Nucleus, the undergraduate component for the NSF-supported Physics & Astronomy Digital Library (ComPADRE), a collaboration involving SPS, AAPT, AAS, and APS. The scholarship and summer research clearinghouses are the newest features to the site, both developed by SPS.

Sigma Pi Sigma (ΣΠΣ) is the National Physics Honor Society, with over 38,000 active alumni from diverse professional fields. The Society enjoyed increased 2005 activity levels, largely due to the energy created by the 2004 ΣΠΣQuadrennial Congress.Radiationsmagazine,ΣΠΣ’s main publication, continues to examine the ethics recommendations brought forth from Congress

attendees.

The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) helps young minds to appreciate the physical sciences by enriching the science education of future K-12 teachers. A collab-orative effort

PHYSICS RESOURCES

o n t h e F r o n t i e r s o f S e r v i c e & S c i e n c e

In 2005, AIP enthusiastically responded to the demands of the day, such as World Year of Physics activities and diversity in science, while remaining focused on its mission — “to advance physics and allied fields by providing information, initiatives, and specialized services of superior quality to Member Societies, their individual members, students, and the general public.”

Under Physics Resources, AIP addressed its strengths and weaknesses and formulated responses to the external opportunities and threats — the necessity to reshape and revitalize science education, the growing interdisciplinary nature of the sciences, the challenge of new media and communication mechanisms, the democratization of the Web by open access and digital library movement, and science policy shifts. In dealing with these challenges, AIP developed some useful and successful strategies in its Physics Resources areas. One such successful strategy has been to build and maintain close relationships with scientists, institutions, and scientific communities. Close relationships lead to leveraging of resources, unified responses, and, consequently, maximization of results, and thus have lead to some formalized (and some informal) collaborations and partnerships. AIP has sought out and targeted areas of need not filled by other organizations. The desired outcome of the approach is effectiveness without duplication of effort; whenever possible, AIP fills the gap by designing unique offerings to address such areas.

Physics Today Career Network (PTCN) Expands Service to Science and Engineering Professionals To create a seamless, one-stop posting Website and provide a user-friendly environment for employers and job seekers, Physics Todayintegrated the Career Network Website, which includes the AIP, APS, AVS and AAPT jobs boards with its own job site. The new comprehensive site is gradually expanding its offerings for job seekers.

PTCN’s goal is to become the premier online employment Website for physicists, engineers and other physics related professionals in industry, academia, government, and the non-profit sector. In 2005, Career Network Website saw a 44% increase in job postings and a 19% increase in job seeker registrations. With 2,661 job postings and 5,600 registered job seekers, the site shows almost 400,000 page views to 20,000 unique visitors monthly. In addition, Career Network operated job fairs at three APS meetings, serving the combined 900 job seekers who interviewed for 300 positions with 90 employers. The job fairs were held at the March and April APS meetings and at the Division of Plasma Physics Meeting.

Education and Student Services — Advancing Quality Science Education

AIP advances the quality of physics education for students through a suite of programs and services that increase students’ exposure to the physical sciences and to the supporting social and professional networks. AIP provides physics and science departments with information about exemplary programs, encourages constructive strategies for continuous improvement, and provides opportunities for students to engage in scientific research. Also realizing that science is social, AIP fosters a sense of community through professional collaboration, interaction and outreach. AIP is home to the Society of Physics Students (SPS) – the professional society for physics students and their mentors. SPS, with 4,600 members (primarily under-graduates) in more than 700 chapters nationwide, encourages scientific study through undergraduate research grants, internships, travel subsidies to present research at member society meetings, scholarships and recognition for quality research. Its members are challenged to make science available to a wider audience, through outreach grants, Science Outreach Catalyst Kits (SOCKs), and by subsidizing regional meetings. All SPS meetings, out-reach, and publications adopted and

between AIP, APS and AAPT, PhysTEC iden-tifies models of collaboration between physics departments and education col-leges and local schools to develop more coherent and productive curricula for future teachers. PhysTEC also promotes mentoring and induction experiences for new teachers in an effort to encourage highly qualified individuals to remain in the K-12 classroom.

Government Relations: Science Policy

Science policy and budgetary decisions made by the federal government affect education, jobs, career paths, and research directions of current and future scientists. FYI, The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News has a 15-year tradition of providing timely, concise, and objective analyses of current policy developments affecting the science community. This highly-regarded bulletin is provided without charge to ensure that members of AIP Member Societies and others in the science and policy communities, media, and the government stay informed.FYIis distributed electronically and is also available on AIP’s Science Policy website. In 2005, 177 issues of FYItracked approximately 50 program budgets and other policy areas. In response to Member Society interests, attention was devoted to issues such as nuclear weapons initiatives and disputes over the teaching of evolution.

Science policy decisions need to be informed by the best and most current science. AIP’s Science Fellowships offer opportunities for AIP Member Society members to serve the U.S. government by providing scientific expertise to Congress and the State Department while also learning how science and the policy process intersect. In 2005, AIP's Congressional Science Fellow, ASA member Dahlia Sokolov, finished her fellowship term by accepting a permanent staff position with the House Committee on Science. AIP broke new ground in establishing its State Department Fellowship in 2001, and this program has since served as a model for other scientific societies to follow. AIP's newest Fellow, AGU member Tegan Blaine, began her fellowship at the State Department, working on water and

sustainable development issues within the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. History: Center for History of Physics and New Views of Science of the Past

AIP’s History Center, as the only institution with an international mission to preserve the history of scientific fields, has pioneered in studies of how to assure preservation in the complex modern environment. Its current project investigates ways to document the history of physicists in industry. Staff have completed more than two-thirds of the planned site visits at 15 industrial laboratories, where scientists and records managers cooperated in describing their activities in structured interviews. Staff meanwhile continued to record career-length autobiographical oral history interviews with especially significant industrial physicists.

The Web has become the chief place where the public—including scientists and young people in particular—seeks general information, and from the outset, AIP has staked out a space in this new medium. An extensive historical “exhibit hall” is the most popular section of AIP’s Website. Keeping it current with new historical knowledge and evolving technologies now takes as much effort as creating new exhibits. This year the Einstein exhibit, revised and expanded for the World Year of Physics, and the Marie Curie exhibit, enhanced with a large interactive section for young people, each attracted millions of visitors. The exhibits on “The Discovery of Global Warming” and “Andrei Sakharov” were also revised extensively to

incorporate new knowledge. Meanwhile a draft text and layout were completed for AIP’s largest Web exhibit — The History of Cosmology.

The Web has also become a main source of information used professionally by historians and other researchers. We implemented new software for our database of finding aids (detailed descriptions) of collections of historical materials, and can now easily harvest data from archival Websites. At the end of 2005, the index covered finding aids for 176 major collections at 21 science repositories in the US and abroad, and work continued to expand the database. The online Visual Archives, extensively used by publishers and educators, is likewise growing quickly and has a new electronic-store interface. Both outside users and AIP staff can now handle searches and sales with much greater efficiency.

Industry Outreach: Corporate Associates — Science Frontiers and Industry

AIP’s Corporate Associates Program works together with the industrial physics community to improve the effectiveness of people and organizations in advancing corporate goals using physics and allied technologies. Member companies benefit from its services and participate in programs such as the annual Industrial Physics Forums (IPF) and other satellite meetings. Industry executives, research managers, academics, and science policy decision makers convene to stay current on research and policy developments, share knowledge, and exchange ideas with others facing similar research and business challenges.

Hans Bethe (1906-2005) lecturing at Dalhousie University, October 15, 1978. This is one of many photos donated this year to the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. More than 7000 images can now be downloaded free in low resolution or purchased in high resolution. Photograph by Roy Bishop, Acadia University, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives.

al science coverage, and an article ver-sion of the story, with contact infor-mation of scientists and relevant organi-zations.

Publicity and Pressrooms for Member Society Annual Meetings: AIP offers assistance to Member Societies and other scientific partners in dissemi-nating science news to newspapers, mag-azines, TV, radio, and other media outlets. In 2005, AIP operated

a press luncheon at an AVS meeting for the first time. AIP operated pressrooms and issued press releases in conjunction with OSA, ASA, AAPM, and APS meetings. APS meetings received most notable press cov-erage, including news items in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Associated Press,and on BBC, CNN, NPR, and the German National Radio.

News Services for JournalistsPhysics News Update, Physics News Graphics, Physics News Links,and Physics News Select Articleskeep science writers informed about science in journals and at meetings. PNU is translated into a dozen languages and reaches audiences in 80 countries. News coverage during 2005 included “The Physics Stories of 2005" and stories in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle,and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Inside Science News Service (ISNS) identifies science stories of interest to a general population. In 2005, ISNS covered topics from medical physics to statistical figures of women in science. Scientific Collaborations

AIP aligns itself with the concerns and prior-ities of its Member Societies and the broad-er scientific community, actively participat-ing in multi-society coalitions on issues ranging from funding for federal R&D agen-cies to science education. In 2005, AIP joined Member Societies in endorsing 11 policy statements or letters in support of robust research funding, streamlining of the visa process, and other relevant policy issues. AIP also took a leading role in efforts to coordinate Member Societies’ actions in defending the teaching of evolution in K-12 classrooms and disseminating this message through the media.

The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD hosted the 2005 IPF. The Forum’s theme was:Advancing the Infrastructure for Innovation. Participants toured research labs and attended sessions on the “Government’s Role in Stimulating Nanotechnology for Industry” and “Frontiers in Physics.” The 2006 IPF, in a new format, will be held in conjunction with the AVS International Symposium in San Francisco, CA, from 12 – 14 November. Media Relations: Bringing Frontiers of Science to the Public

During the 2005 World Year of Physics, AIP offered many innovative products and services to bring science and science policy news to a wide spectrum of audiences. Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science (DBIS): AIP is a pioneer in bringing peer-reviewed science to local TV news audiences, highlighting new and relevant research in 12 stories a month. With this syndicated television news program, a wide array of scientific disciplines receive public exposure, local TV news stations receive high-quality, cutting-edge science stories, and the TV viewer learns about leading edge scientific discoveries. The DBIS program’s innovations include supplemental web-based content, production of several pieces per month in Spanish, analysis of the program’s impacts on public perceptions of science, and establishment of a broad coalition of scientific, engineering and mathematical societies to produce and oversee the program. This coalition grew significantly in 2005, expanding from 10 organizations in 2004 to 15, by the end of 2005. DBIS receives funding from the National Science Foundation.

In 2005, a new DBIS website for news direc-tors was launched. Local TV news programs that subscribe to DBIS are able now to access DBIS stories, the Science Insider for

addition-Statistical Research

The Statistical Research Center (SRC) collected, analyzed and disseminated data on the comprehensive issues of education and employment in physics and allied fields. During 2005, the SRC published 9 reports on its core surveys, gave 16 invited talks, and completed work on 13 externally supported studies.

Many of the studies were conducted in support of AIP Member Societies, including AAPM, APS, AAPT, and AGU. However, SRC also provided its research expertise to the broader scientific community including organizations such as the National Academies, the National Conference of Black Physics Students (NCBPS), the American Geological Institute (AGI), the American Meteorological Society, and the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists (AAMD).

In 2005, SRC expanded its international activities. It posted an on-line database of over 350 societies that are based in more than 80 countries and are focused on the fields covered by the AIP Member Societies. The Center also compiled data on the number of physics bachelors and physics PhDs awarded in more than 20 countries, and conducted a follow-up survey of women physicists around the world titled Women Physicists Speak Again. Finally, SRC conducted a follow-up survey of the impact of visa regulations on international students attempting to enter physics graduate programs in the U.S.

AIP’s Statistical Research Center celebrated 15-year career milestones for two of its staff in 2005. Center Director Roman Czujko (L) congratulates Julius Dollison (center) and Raymond Chu.

Finance, Administration, and Technology

In order to provide services to the Member Societies, AIP needs the infrastructure to support its activities. Finance,

Administration, and Technology provide this necessary underpinning. The Treasurer’s Office and the Accounting Department manage AIP’s finances and investments to ensure that money collected on behalf of Member Societies is transferred to the appropriate Society in a timely manner. Additionally, each month, each Society is given a full accounting of all services provided by AIP.

Information, Business Communications and Information Technology provide a computer and telecommunications infrastructure for all AIP’s locations. This infrastructure supports AIP’s Web platforms including Scitation, AIP’s online publication hosting service. Additionally, these departments ensure that staff has the right tools to effectively and efficiently serve AIP’s customers. Facility and Office Services departments in College Park and Melville serve the staff by providing a secure work environment, keeping the mail moving, and providing quality meeting space.

Human Resources

In 2005, the Human Resources division continued providing improved and broadened services to Member Societies (AAS, AAPT, AAPM, ASA, AVS) by expanding a number of the services that are currently available. These included recruitment of employees, compensation consultation for all levels of staff, and managing the new Medicare D plan for their retirees. In 2005, Human Resources was able to utilize a New York State training grant of almost $100,000 to organize many training sessions in 2005 for various levels of staff. These sessions focused on Contract Management, Diversity in the Workplace, Project Management, Customer Service, and other critical topics.

In 2006, the Institute’s 75th Anniversary year, Human Resources will continue to provide these services while providing support for employee events surrounding Anniversary celebrations throughout the year.

Development

Contributions and grants are sought from the natural constituencies of AIP programs. In 2005, over $1 million was raised for endowments or operating funds. Generous donations to the Center for History of Physics were received from John and Elizabeth Armstrong, Allan Sandage, and Mildred Dresselhaus, as well as a bequest from Hans Bethe and the third installment of a grant from The Research Corporation. Sigma Pi Sigma donors were especially generous in annual giving, pro-viding significantly more this year than in any other. Noteworthy gifts to Sigma PI Sigma were provided by Graham Kent and Ruth Davis. Significant gifts received for the U.S. Physics Olympiad Team included in-kind gifts donated by PascoScientific

S u p p o r t Fu n c t i o n s

and Vernier Software, and grants from the Tyco Electronics Foundation, IBM, and Oracle as well as cash donations from all ten AIP Member Societies. Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science received the second installment of a multi-year, $2.35 million National Science Foundation grant as well as gen-erous contributions from partnering sci-ence, engineering and mathematical societies.

AIP Vice President, Human Resources Theresa C. Braun AIP Treasurer and

Chief Financial Officer Richard Baccante

FINANCIAL SUMMARY FOR 2005

BALANCE SHEETS AS OF DECEMBER 31, ($ in thousands)

2005 2004

Assets

Cash and cash equivalents $ 32,366 $ 37,387

Accounts receivable 3,436 3,335

Pledges receivable 41 870

Dues from Member Societies 637 272

Marketable securities 112,995 103,195

Investment in ACP, Inc. 909 0

Other assets 1,245 732

Equipment and leasehold improvements 3,679 4,616

Total Assets $ 155,308 $ 150,407

Liabilities and Net Assets Liabilities

Accrued expenses and accounts payable $ 19,173 $ 22,352

Due to Member Societies 9,724 9,178

Deferred revenues 20,070 23,286

Investment in ACP, Inc. 0 150

48,967 54,966 Net Assets Unrestricted 100,653 89,858 Temporarily restricted 1,636 1,531 Permanently restricted 4,052 4,052 106,341 95,441

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 155,308 $ 150,407

STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES AND CHANGES IN NET ASSETS FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31,

($ in thousands)

2005 2004

Revenues

Publishing and publishing services $ 57,453 $ 58,105

Physics resources 2,464 3,000

Other 243 306

Working capital investment income 573 146

Provision from segregated reserves 2,600 3,400

Pass-through services for Member Societies 10,372 9,842

73,705 74,799

Expenses

Publishing and publishing services 47,850 49,675

Physics resources 8,963 9,357

Other 232 275

General and unallocated expenses 2,766 3,092

Pass-through services for Member Societies 10,372 9,842

70,183 72,241

Operating Net 3,522 2,558

Special purpose funds 1,021 1,978

Gain from proceeds on insurance claim 0 615

Equity in gain on investment in ACP, Inc. 1,059 926

Net investment gain on segregated reserves 1,035 2,010

Unrealized gain on investments 4,263 3,830

Change in Net Assets 10,900 11,917

Net Assets, Beginning of Year 95,441 83,524

Awa r d s &

P r i z e s

The AIP Tate Medal for International Leadership in Physics, awarded every two years, recognizes distinguished service to the profession of physics by a non-US national. The 2005 winner was Erio Tosatti in recognition of his leadership and tireless effort in helping scientists from developing countries to bring research in their home institutions to world standards.

The AIP Karl T. Compton Medal, awarded every four years, recognizes distinguished serv-ice to the profession of physics. It was last pre-sented in 2004.

The biennial AIP Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics, sponsored by the General Motors Corporation and the AIP Corporate Associates, publicizes the value of physics research in industry. The 2005-2006 Prize was presented to William A. Edelstein for his pioneering developments leading to commercialization of high-resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for medical applications.

Science Writing Awards: AIP offers these annual awards to promote effective science communication in print and broadcast media. They recognize outstanding science writing in four categories:

Broadcast Journalist –Jon Palfreman

“Innovation: Light Speed”, WNET, New York Print Journalist–Michael Moyer

“Journey to the 10th Dimension”, Popular Science

Scientist–Neil DeGrasse Tyson “In the Beginning”, Natural History Magazine

Children’s Book Author–Bea Uusma Schyffert “The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon”, Chronicle Books

AIP’s biennial Meggers Project Awardfor projects designed to improve high school physics was given to three groups in 2005. Recipients are:Molly Johnson, Jody House,and Mary Ann Varankafrom Estes Park High School, and Martin Aims Community College for their project titled: “Technical Activity Module Documentation and Dissemination;R. Melvin Blake, Michael Castelaz,and David Moffettfrom Furman University for their proj-ect titled: “High School Physics through Radio

Astronomy: The School of Galactic Radio Astronomy;” and Kathy O’Connor, Beth Seibel-Hunt,and Lois Fruenfrom Breck School for their project titled: “Using Robots to Teach Beginning Physics.”

The Andrew W. Gemant Awardrecognizes significant contributions to the cultural, artis-tic, or humanistic dimension of physics. The 2005 award was presented to Hans Christian von Baeyerin recognition of his authorship of many highly acclaimed articles and books and his delivery of countless lectures that illustrate his dedication and ability to communicate physics to wide audiences. His tremendous gift for science writing is reflected by prose that is crisp, captivating and illuminating. An accom-plished theoretical physicist, his writings reflect such depth, passion and clarity that even the most scientifically naïve can’t help but care about science.

The 2005 Dannie Heineman Astrophysics Prize(in cooperation with the AAS) was pre-sented to George Efstathiouand Simon Whitein recognition of their pioneering research, both together and separately, into the evolution of structure in the Universe from the earliest times to the present epoch, as examples of outstanding work in the field of astrophysics. The 2005 Dannie Heineman Mathematical Physics Prize(in cooperation with the APS) was presented to Giorgio Parisi for fundamen-tal theoretical discoveries in broad areas of ele-mentary particle physics, quantum field theory, and statistical mechanics; especially for work on spin glasses and disordered systems.

The first annual APS/AIP Abraham Pais Prize for the History of Physics was awarded in 2005 to Martin Klein for his pioneering studies in the history of 19th and 20th-century physics, which embody the highest standards of scholar-ship and literary expression and have profoundly influenced generations of historians of physics. The 2005 Fluid Dynamics Prize, supported jointly by the AIP journal Physics of Fluids and friends of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, was presented to Ronald J.AdrianFor his advancement of experimental techniques and their integration into experiments that have led to new insight into complex flows.

World Year of Physics

2005 Activities

In 2005,Physics Today celebrated the World Year of Physics (WYP) with 37 special items that ran the gamut from original works

of fiction and music, to deeply profound essays on science and life.

The ΣΠΣCongress, held just before the year started, served as a “kick-off” event devoted to motivating student participation in WYP 2005. Through the year, SPS Outreach Catalyst Kits (SOCKS) built around the theme “Einstein in the 21st Century” were disseminated to chapters to use K-12 programs around the country. AIP also supported the celebration via ComPADRE, the NSF-supported physics digital library project under the

stewardship of AIP, AAPT, AAS, and APS. The student sector of ComPADRE, “The Nucleus,” featured various resources and displays related to 1905, and ran several student contests. The Adopt-a-Scientist project, a joint WYP 2005 effort of SPS, APS, and AAPT, had students conducting e-mail interviews with scientists to find out what it means to be a scientist. The scientists were volunteers from different fields, employers, backgrounds, and stages in life; they willingly spent time investing in the next generation. About 600 scientists volunteered for more than 2,500 interviews.

The Center for the History of Physics enhanced its popular Einstein Web exhibit as an information source for both the public and those addressing the public. Through the News and Media & Government Relations division, AIP coordinated outreach and media activities, nationally and locally, with the AIP Member Societies. One example was helping publicize the 11 October showing of “Einstein’s Big Idea” on the PBS TV Series NOVA.

2006 – 2007

GOVERNING BOARD

Mildred S. Dresselhaus,* Chair Martin Blume (APS)

Marc H. Brodsky* (Exec. Director) Slade Cargill (APS)

Charles W. Carter, Jr.* (ACA) Hilda A. Cerdeira (MAL) Marvin L. Cohen (APS) Timothy A. Cohn* (AGU) Bruce H. Curran (AAPM) Lawrence A. Crum (ASA) Robert E. Dickinson (AGU) Michael D. Duncan (OSA) H. Frederick Dylla (AVS) Judy R. Franz* (APS) Brian J. Fraser (AGU) John A. Graham* (AAS) Joseph H. Hamilton (APS) Ken Heller (AAPT) James N. Hollenhorst (MAL) Judy C. Holoviak (AGU) John J. Hopfield (APS) Anthony M. Johnson (OSA) Angela R. Keyser (AAPM) Bernard V. Khoury* (AAPT) Louis J. Lanzerotti (AGU) Harvey Leff (AAPT) Rudolf Ludeke* (AVS) Thomas J. McIlrath (APS) Arthur B. Metzner* (SOR) Robert W. Milkey (AAS) John A. Orcutt (AGU) Richard W. Peterson (AAPT) S. Narasinga Rao (ACA) Elizabeth A. Rogan* (OSA) Bahaa A.E. Saleh (OSA) Charles E. Schmid* (ASA) James B. Smathers* (AAPM) Benjamin B. Snavely* (Corp. Secretary) Fred Spilhaus (AGU)

Richard Stern (ASA)

Hervey (Peter) Stockman (AAS) * = Executive Committee MAL = Member-at-Large

AIP OFFICERS

Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Chair of the Governing Board

Benjamin B. Snavely, Corporate Secretary

Marc H. Brodsky, Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer

Richard Baccante, Treasurer & Chief Financial Officer

Theresa C. Braun, Vice President, Human Resources

James H. Stith, Vice President, Physics Resources

Darlene A. Walters, Senior Vice President, Publishing

HEADS OF OPERATING UNITS

Eva Adams, Physics Resources Strategic Planning

Joe Anderson, Niels Bohr Library Jeffrey Bebee, Magazine Circulation Larry Belmont, Scitation Services Stephen Benka, Editor-in-Chief, Physics Today

Doreene Berger, Editorial Operations Martin Burke, Publisher, Journals & Technical Publications

Phil Caccioppoli, NY Buildings & Grounds

Lori Carlin, Circulation & Fulfillment (C&F)

Linda Castellanos, Child Care, NY Thea Cohen, Facility Services, NY Roman Czujko, Statistical Research Paul DeCillis, Scitation Operations Tracy Denien, BSO Applications Development

Debbie Dillon, ACP Office Services Christine DiPasca, Advertising Production

James Donohue, Publishing Services Bonnie Feldman, Career Network William Filaski, Publishing Technology Robert Finnegan, Journal Advertising & Exhibits

Richard Fitzgerald, Managing Editor, Physics Today

Carol Fleming, Production Operations & Customer Services

Maya Flikop, Special Publications & Proceedings

Deborah Frost, NY Office Services Bernadette Garcia, C&F Customer Services

Jonathan Goodwin, Compensation & Benefits

Colleen Grant, Internal Audit Margaret Griesmer, Human Resources, NY

Paul Guinnessy, Physics Today Online Chris Hamlin, Online Systems Development

Jack Hehn, Education

Patricia Hoeffner, Publishing Business Robert Hollowell, Production Systems Tim Ingoldsby, Publishing Business Development

Donna King, C&F Operations Gloria Klahr, Financial Analysis Richard Kobel, Publishing Services Sales Jeff Kobilinsky, ACP Communication & Information Services

Jennifer Krivanek, Web Strategy & Management

Joel LaCalamita, BSO Infrastructure & Communications

Douglas LaFrenier, Marketing & Sales Doris Lewis, Accounts Receivable & Collections

Dianne Longi, Vendor & Cottage Services

Wendy Marriott, Business Systems & Operations (BSO)

Debbie McHone, Production Group Team Leader

Christopher McMahon, Production Operations Support Services Charles Minder, Online Systems Operations

Timothy Murray, Scitation Development

Randy Nanna, Publisher, Magazines Michael Neuschatz, Education Statistics

Richard O’Keeffe, Publishing Support Audrey Pabs-Garnon, Child Care, MD Frank Perugini, Online Services Natalie Quets, Development Jay Reich, Financial Reporting Sherry Render, General Accounting/Assistant Controller Diane Schubach, Production Group Team Leader

Matthew Stratton, Publishing Systems Gigi Swartz, Controller/Assistant Treasurer

Reid Terwilliger, Peer X-Press Tom Thrash, Customer Service Accounts

Alicia Torres, Media & Government Relations

Denise Uzeda, Online Help Desk Spencer R. Weart, Center for History of Physics

Robert Wheeler, Production Operations Support Gary White, Society of Physics Students

Janice Wilmot, Production Operations & Customer Services

James Wonder, Online Technology Stuart Wortzman, Peer ReviewSystems

2006 CORPORATE ASSOCIATES

3M Company

Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

The Aerospace Corporation Agilent Laboratories Battelle Energy Alliance Corning, Incorporated Cryogenic Control Systems, Inc. The Dow Chemical Company Eastman Kodak Company Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company

ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company

Ford Motor Company General Atomics

General Electric Corporate R&D

General Motors R&D Center Hewlett-Packard Company HRL Laboratories, LLC

IBM Thomas Watson Research Center Janis Research Company, Inc. Jobin Yvon Horiba Lake Shore Cryotronics

Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories MIT Lincoln Laboratory

National Institute of Standards & Technology

PARC Palo Alto Research Center Philips Research

Rockwell Scientific Company, LLC SAIC

Sarnoff Corporation Schlumberger-Doll Research Seagate Technologies Shell E&P Technology Company Texas Instruments, Inc.

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

UOP, LLC Xerox Wilson Center for Research & Technology

AFFILIATED SOCIETIES

American Chemical Society/Division of Physical Chemistry

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

American Meteorological Society American Nuclear Society American Society of Civil Engineers ASM International

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Biomedical Engineering Society The Electrochemical Society Geological Society of America IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society

International Association of Mathematical Physics

International Union of Crystallography JCPDS—International Centre for Diffraction Data

Laser Institute of America Materials Research Society Microscopy Society of America The National Society of Black Physicists

Physics/Astronomy Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research Polymer Processing Society Section on Physics of the AAAS Society for Applied Spectroscopy SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering