March 2007 GIMS Newsletter

Contents:

• March APS Meeting GIMS Special Events
• Keithley Award Winner
• 2006 Officers List

GIMS Special Events

Focus Sessions at March Meeting

Special Thanks to the organizers of the GIMS focus sessions for 2007. At last year’s business meeting we had volunteers start to develop focus sessions for GIMS to sponsor. Below is the list of GIMS focus sessions at the March Meeting. Particular thanks goes to Andreas Mandelis, Joseph Stroscio, Robert Duncan, and Albert Macrander for leading the focus session committees’ efforts. Additional thanks to the focus session chairs: Andreas Mandelis, Carolyn MacDonald, Joseph Stroscio, Andreas Heinrich, Eric Hudson, and J. Geremia.

Session A38 Focus Session: Acoustic and Optical Instrumentation Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Andreas Mandelis, University of Toronto Room: Colorado Convention Center 501
Invited Speakers: Diebold

Session B38 Focus Session: Bioinstrumentation and Biophotonic Technologies Sponsor: GIMS DBP Chair: Andreas Mandelis, University of Toronto Room: Colorado Convention Center 501
Invited Speakers: Telenkov

Session D38 Nanoinstrumentation for Biological and Other Applications Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Karen Waldrip, Sandia National Laboratories Room: Colorado Convention Center 501

Session H38 Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Sciences I Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Carolyn MacDonald, State University of New York at Albany Room: Colorado Convention Center 501
Invited Speakers: Lang

Session J38 Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Sciences II Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Carolyn MacDonald, State University of New York at Albany Room: Colorado Convention Center 501

Session L38 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Low Temperatures, Manipulation, and Optical Methods I Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Joseph Stroscio, National Institute of Standards and Technology Room: Colorado Convention Center 501

Session M38 GIMS Business Meeting Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Carolyn MacDonald, State University of New York at Albany Room: Colorado Convention Center 501

Session N38 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II: Force Methods Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Andreas Heinrich, IBM-Almaden Room: Colorado Convention Center 501
Invited Speakers: Ternes

Session P38 Sensors and Signal Analysis Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Charles Agosta, Clark University Room: Colorado Convention Center 501

Session S6 X-ray Synchrotron Instrumentation Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Tim Graber, University of Chicago Room: Colorado Convention Center 207
Invited Speakers: Maser, Chu, Williams, Macrander

Session U38 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III: High Frequency and Probe Characterization Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Eric Hudson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Colorado Convention Center 501

Session V38 Focus Session: Instrumentation and Metrology for Fundamental Physics Sponsor: GIMS Chair: J. Geremia, University of New Mexico Room: Colorado Convention Center 501
Invited Speakers: Schwab

Session W6 Keithley Award Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Stan Tozer, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University Room: Colorado Convention Center 207
Invited Speakers: Irwin, Kilbourne, Richards, Cabrera, Zink

2007 Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science Recipient

Kent D. Irwin National Institute of Science & Technology, Boulder

Citation:

"For the development of SQUID multiplexers used in large-format arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensors that have impacted such fields as particle physics, astronomy, materials analysis, cosmology, and nuclear physics."

Background:

Kent Irwin leads the quantum sensors project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, and is an adjunct professor of astrophysics and planetary science at the University of Colorado. He received a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1988 and a PhD. from Stanford University in 1995. At Stanford, he studied under Blas Cabrera and developed the voltage-biased superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES). These devices are now being actively used for the sensitive measurement of electromagnetic signals from microwaves through gamma rays, and for the detection of dark matter, alpha particles, and neutrons.

At NIST, he and his group have developed multiplexed superconducting quantum interference devices that have made it possible to instrument large TES arrays, significantly enlarging their scope of application. His group is actively developing detector systems based on multiplexed TES arrays for astronomy, nuclear non-proliferation, materials analysis, and homeland defense applications. His research interests include precision measurements of electromagnetic signals for cosmological physics and the fundamental thermodynamic and quantum mechanical limitations of sensors and detectors. His team has received the Department of Commerce gold medal and the NIST applied research award for their work with superconducting detectors.

The Award Session is Thursday, March 8, 2007 2:30PM - 5:30PM
Session W6 in Colorado Convention Center 207

2:30PM W6.00001 Keithley Award Talk , KENT IRWIN, Award Winner

3:06PM W6.00002 Cold Probes of the Hot Universe , CAROLINE KILBOURNE, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

3:42PM W6.00003 The Cosmic Microwave Background , PAUL L. RICHARDS, University of California, Berkeley

4:18PM W6.00004 Dark Matter, BLAS CABRERA, Stanford

4:54PM W6.00005 Quantum Calorimeter Gamma-ray Detectors: New Tools for Nonproliferation, BARRY ZINK, University of Denver

2006 GIMS Leadership

A special thank you to all who volunteered time and effort this year including our 2006 Officers

For complete contact information for the 2006 Leadership go to the officer’s web page at: http://units.aps.org/units/gims/officers.cfm

Officers