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2005


     16 December 2005       Kavli Foundation news
     23 November 2005       Fred Kavli Honored by Scientific American Magazine
     7 October 2005       David Miller Wins Apker Award
     15 August 2005       KICP Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2006
     27 June 2005       KICP Newsletter, vol 2 No. 2

Kavli Foundation news
 
16 December 2005    

The Kavli Foundation is joining with the National Academy of Sciences to support its Frontiers of Science Symposia, which brings together young scientists to discuss exciting advances and opportunities in their fields.

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Fred Kavli Honored by Scientific American Magazine
 
23 November 2005    

Fred Kavli has been honored as 'Policy Leader of the Year' by Scientific American in its December issue

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David Miller Wins Apker Award
 
7 October 2005    

David Miller, a recent graduate of the Physics Department, is the 2005 winner of the LeRoy Apker Award, sponsored annually by the American Physical Society and given to recognize outstanding achievements in physics by undergraduates.

David was a member of Juan Collar's group during his undergraduate research experience. He looked for high-energy axion or axion-like emissions from our Sun using a low-background calorimeter within the CAST (CERN Axion Solar Telescope) experiment at CERN. Such particles might be produced with a small probability in certain nuclear transitions in the Sun. David participated in all aspects of this project from its inception: selection of low-background detector materials, development of pulse-shape discrimination techniques, construction, installation and running of the detector, and data analysis leading to an experimental sensitivity that improves on astrophysical constraints on this mechanism of stellar energy loss.

The prestigious Apker Award includes an honorarium to be presented at a Society meeting. David is presently working with the ATLAS collaboration at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. He will be attending graduate school at Stanford University in 2006.

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KICP Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2006
 
15 August 2005    

The KICP invites applications for one or more NSF Funded Postdoctoral Research Fellows (at the rank of Research Associate) from young scientists of exceptional ability and promise who will have received a PhD. in Physics, Astrophysics or related fields by September 2006.

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KICP Newsletter, vol 2 No. 2
 
27 June 2005    

Hello,
It has been a while since the last new letter and many changes have taken place. Notably Bruce Winstein stepped down as Director of the KICP Physics Frontier Center and Stephan Meyer has taken over this position as of May 16th. Below are some highlights of the past 6 months and upcoming events.

Your comments and suggestions on this newsletter as well as contributions to future newsletter are welcome.

Best wishes,
Monica, Stephan & Helen
(Editors)

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