I’m giving an invited career talk at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting tomorrow (Thursday March 7) at 12:42 pm.
The talk is titled: An unexpected journey: a physicist’s path to consulting
Thursday March 7 at 12:42 CT
Room 102AB
It’s been my pleasure to serve on the executive board of the APS Forum for Early Career Scientists (FECS) for the past five years. I’m currently running for a position as Councilor for the APS Forum on Industrial & Applied Physics (FIAP). The role of councilor is to serve as FIAP’s representative to the APS Council of Representatives, which represents the interests of APS members to the board, focusing on “all matters of science and membership, including science policy.”
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APS and the APS Forum for Industrial and Applied Physics (FIAP) just reworked their distinguished lectureship award to focus more clearly on careers. It’s now called the FIAP Career Lectureship Award (FCLA). The goal of this award is to find physicists with fascinating careers outside of physics and support them in giving talks on their career to physics students. Does someone you know have a cool non-academic career? Do you? If so, considering nominating them (or yourself)! Applications are due June 1.
And a little humblebrag: I did help redesign this award as part of my work on the APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development (CCPD).
If you’re interested in *my* talk, that information is here.
I’m really excited about the slate of events that FECS has put together for the 2023 March Meeting in Las Vegas. This includes Monday’s talk by Dr. Savannah Garmon “A trans perspective on building supportive and inclusive physics communities” and Tuesday’s FECS reception which will, for the first time since 2019, include complementary BEER. Hope to see you there!
Continue readingGoing to the 2023 APS March Meeting? Submit an abstract to the FECS Postdoctoral Poster Prize Competition in addition to your normal contributed or invited abstract. Up to a $500 prize for best poster!
More information here:
https://engage.aps.org/fecs/blogs/wennie-wang/2022/10/10/fecs-postdoc-poster-2023
We’re super excited for the 2022 March Meeting and we at FECS have prepared a program of some excellent events focusing on the unique interests of early career scientists. Also keep an eye out for our table somewhere in the hallways. I hope to see you there!
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Tomorrow (Thursday 3/18) I’m giving my talk at the March Meeting!
R20.00005: Field-induced freezing in the unfrustrated Ising antiferromagnet
Thursday, March 18, 9:12 AM–9:24 AM CDT
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We study instantaneous quenches from infinite temperature to well below Tc in the two-dimensional (2D) square lattice Ising antiferromagnet in the presence of a longitudinal external magnetic field. Under single-spin-flip Metropolis algorithm Monte Carlo dynamics, this protocol produces a pair of metastable magnetization plateaus that prevent the system from reaching the equilibrium ground state except for some special values of the field. This occurs despite the absence of intrinsic disorder or frustration. We explain the plateaus in terms of local spin configurations that are stable under the dynamics. Although the details of the plateaus depend on the update scheme, the underlying principle governing the breakdown of ergodicity is quite general and provides a broader paradigm for understanding failures of ergodicity in Monte Carlo dynamics. See also: Iaizzi, Phys. Rev. E 102 032112 (2020), doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.102.032112
*Note: The views expressed here are the speaker’s, and do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the AAAS STPF Program, the US Dept. of Energy, or the US Government.
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The APS virtual March meeting is just around the corner! Although we are not meeting in person, FECS will spare no effort on ensuring a meeting that is as successful as before. We are hosting the following three invited sessions to highlight the contributions from early career scientists in science, industry, and international collaboration:
Continue readingThe APS Annual Leadership Meeting will be taking place this week on Thursday 2/4 and Saturday 2/6. This is usually an in-person meeting in DC, so registration is usually limited to the leadership of APS Units, but this year it’s virtual and they have extended registration to all APS members for free (it might be free to nonmembers, but I am not sure).
I attended last year and it was an extremely valuable look at the work that APS does to advance physics, from organizing conferences to interacting with the congress and federal agencies to advance policies to strengthen scientific research. That includes obvious things, like most science funding, and less obvious things, like ensuring an adequate supply of liquid helium.
APS Signal Boost is an excellent series of videos covering developments in science policy. Check it out!
Adam Iaizzi, PhD （易亞丹） 