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KOREA NIGHT 2024

 

The inaugural KOREA NIGHT took place on March 6th at Hyatt Regency Minneapolis during the APS March Meeting 2024, where Korean physicists gathered to connect and collaborate with their colleagues. Welcoming remarks were given by Harold Kim (President of the Association of Korean Physicists in America, AKPA), Suklyun Hong (President of the Korean Physical Society, KPS), and Young-Kee Kim (President of the American Physical Society, APS).

OYRA 2024

Dear Colleagues,

 

The Association of Korean Physicists in America (AKPA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2024 Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA). OYRA was established in 1994 to recognize and promote excellence in research by ethnic Korean physicists in their early careers. Nominees are limited to physicists who are working at universities, research institutions, or industrial or government laboratories in North America. 


The deadline for the nomination letter and supporting documents is March 31, 2024.


More details of the announcement can be found at https://www.akpa.org/oyra-award and in the attached flyer. Please help share the information with your colleagues and encourage them to nominate excellent candidates. If you have any questions, please contact oyra2024@akpa.org.

 

Best regards,

 

Harold Kim

President, AKPA

Dr. Junyeong Ahn

(Harvard Univ.)

Dr. Na Hyun Jo 

(Univ. of Michigan)

2023 AKPA Outstanding Young Researcher Award

Dear AKPA members:

We are pleased to announce that the 2023 AKPA Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) will be awarded to   

Junyeong Ahn (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University)

"for elucidating the optical responses of quantum materials in terms of geometry and topology,"

and

Na Hyun Jo (Assistant Professor, University of Michigan)

"for pioneering experimental studies of quantum materials under strain using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) "  

This award is jointly sponsored by the Association of Korean Physicists in America (AKPA) and the Korean Physical Society (KPS).

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Junyeong Ahn and Dr. Na Hyun Jo for their outstanding achievements! 

 

Harold Kim

Chair of OYRA Committee

Professor of Physics  

Georgia Institute of Technology

2023 AKPA-KPS Symposium

2023 AKPA-KPS Symposium.pdf

The 2023 AKPA-KPS Symposium will be held via ZOOM.  The 2023 Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) will be presented in the beginning of the event, and the presentations by the winners and the others will follow.  

AKPA-KPS Symposium

8:00 – 10:30 pm, May 14 (Sun), 2023 in EST

9:00 – 11:30 am, May 15 (Mon), 2023, in KST

UKC 2022

The US-Korea Conference (UKC 2022) was held in Washington DC, August 18 – 20, 2022.  As a part of the program, AKPA organized the Physics Symposium with three oral sessions covering a wide range of topics: (1) Physics under extreme conditions, (2) Astrophysics, and (3) AKPA and Other Topics. More than 20 Physicists, from US and Korea and from graduate students to senior faculty members, participated and made stimulating presentations followed by many questions and discussions. The UKC 2022 and the Physics Symposium provided an excellent opportunity to establish and strengthen the professional network among the Korean physicists in US and from Korea through the scientific interactions, the networking dinner, and the banquet. 

Newsletters

Newsletter_35_1.pdf

PRESIDENT'S REMARK


ACTIVITY REPORT

- AKPA-UKC (US-Korea Conference) Symposium

- National High School Physics Competition

- Audit Report


MEMBER NEWS

- New Faculty and Staff

- Dr. Harold Hwang: McGroddy Prize


RESEARCH FRONTLINE INTERVIEWS

- Mission for particle physicists working with the mature LHC by Doyeong Kim

- Bringing high-energy expertise to a large-scale quantum experiments by Sanha Cheong

- Towards unraveling hidden order & its emergence in quantum materials by Youngjun Ahn

- Mechano-sensing and mechanotransduction of immune receptor by Hyun-Kyu Choi

- Unveiling quantum gravity through holography and stringy origins by Monica Jinwoo Kang


OYRA

- Geometry to characterize the quantum properties of complex materials by Junyeong Ahn


TOPICAL COMMENTARY CORNER

- Room temperature superconductors by Wonhee Ko

- ChatGPT by Harold Kim


LIFE & ART CORNER

Crafty expressions by Tae Min Hong

AKPA_Newsletters_34_No2.pdf

Activity Report

President's remark

AKPA-KPS Symposium

National High School Physics Competition

The Korean Physical Society (KPS)

Audit Report

Member News

Dr. Chang Kee Jung: Lilienfeld Prize

Dr. Eun-Suk Seo: A Book "Homo Science"

New Faculty Members

Research Frontline

Correlated topological materials by Na Hyun Jo, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Riemannian Manifold Hybrid Monte Carlo and For Quantum Chromodynamics by Chulwoo Jung, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York

Beyond "common" unconventional superconductivity by Hyunsoo Kim, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Outstanding Young Research Award 2022 Winners

Interactive Quantum Phases and Transitions by Jong Yeon Lee, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Nobel Commentary Corner

The work of Giorgio Parisi (2021 Nobel Prize in Physics)by Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University

Life & Art Corner

임윤찬, 이휘소, 그리고 백낙청 by Seung-Hun Lee, University of Virginia

Nature's Aquarium by Sook H. Kim 

AKPA_Newsletters_33-34_No1.pdf

Research Frontline

Making Discoveries for Humanity and Society by Do Young Noh, Institute for Basic Science

Quest to Understand the Unification of Electroweak Force by Philip Chang, University of California, San Diego

Applications of Topological Materials by Joon Sue Lee, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Exotics in Nuclear and Hadron Physics by Yongseok Oh

Outstanding Young Research Award 2021 Winners

Benchmarking Quantum Computers and Simulators by Joonhee Choi, , California Institute of Technology

Seeing Antiferromagnetism in Real Space by Min Gyu Kim, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Life & Art

The Life Under the COVID-19 Pandemic Siege by Yong W. Kim, Lehigh University

귀차니즘의 화신에게 트럼펫이 최적의 악기인 이유 by Seung-Hun Lee, University of Virginia

When Art and Science were Siblings by Jae-Ho Chung, Korea University

AKPA News

AKPA New Sites 

Member News Dr. Youngkee Kim / Dr. Taekjip Ha

AKPA OYRA Solicitation Announcement 

2021 National High School Physics Competition 

2021 AKPA-KPS Joint Symposium 

Broadening Participation

Audit Report