Eva Zurek named 2022 APS Fellow
October 19, 2022
Eva Zurek, professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has been named an American Physical Society (APS) Fellow for 2022. The APS Fellowship Program was created in 1921 for those in the physics community to recognize peers who have contributed to advances in physics through original research, innovative applications, teaching, and leadership.
Richard Kraus selected as recipient of the inaugural American Physical Society’s 2023 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award
October 11, 2022
Richard Kraus, research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is the recipient of the inaugural American Physical Society’s 2023 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award for Studies of Matter at Extreme High Pressure Conditions. Kraus is recognized for his outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions by an early-career scientist to studies of matter at extreme high-pressure conditions.
Poster Award at AAPPS DPP 2022
October 10, 2022
Poster Award for “The Impact of Magnetic Fields on the Melting Curves of Warm Dense Matter” at the Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics in October 2022. Authors: I. N. Erez, R. Betti, J. R. Davies, J. L. Peebles, and P.-A. Gourdain.
Hussein Aluie recognized with the 2021 Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES)
July 2022
Hussein Aluie, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester and staff scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, has been recognized with the 2021 Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), an American Geophysical Union journal.
Hao Yin selected for the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing
June 7, 2022
Hao Yin of the University of Rochester was selected to participate in the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), to be held July 31 – August 12, 2022, at the Q-Center in St. Charles, IL.
Jessica Shang selected as 2022 NSF CAREER Award recipient
March 15, 2022
Jessica Shang, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester was selected as a 2022 NSF CAREER Award recipient for her project “Multiscale modeling of perivascular flow in the brain.”
Hussein Aluie selected to 2022 USNC/TAM Young Observer Program
June 2022
Hussein Aluie, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester and staff scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, has been selected as one of up to two Young Observers in the U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM) program in 2022.
Eva Zurek elected Vice Chair of APS/DCOMP
March 19, 2022
Eva Zurek, professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, was elected Vice-Chair of the APS Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP). Her one-year term begins on March 19, 2022.
Hussein Aluie serving as 2022 Chair-Elect of the APS Topical GPC
January 1, 2022
Hussein Aluie, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester and staff scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, is the 2022 Chair-Elect of the APS Topical Group on the Physics of Climate.
J. J. Ruby awarded Lawrence Fellowship
October 2021
A graduate student in the High Energy Density Physics Experiments Group at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics and IMAXED/CMAP, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.