Alan
Chodos
Associate Executive Officer
American Physical Society
Lead
Speaker: 2005
World Year of Physics Session & Reception
Abstract
Kick-off
celebration for the 2005 World Year of Physics! Presentations
from association leaders on 2005 plans across the United States
and around the globe; SPS chapter demonstrations; posters.
Biographical
Sketch
Alan
Chodos is a theoretical particle physicist. Born in Canada,
he was an undergraduate at McGill University in Montreal.
In addition to studying physics and math, he spent a good
deal of time working on the campus newspaper, experience that
would later serve him in good stead (see below). He then emigrated
to the United States, and, despite the turmoil of the sixties,
during which he was only arrested once, he received his PhD
from Cornell in 1970. After postdoctoral stints at the University
of Pennsylvania and MIT, he joined the physics department
at Yale in 1976. In 2000 he left Yale to take the position
of Associate Executive Officer of the American Physical Society.
While
at MIT, Chodos was a co-author of the paper that introduced
the MIT Bag Model of hadrons. Later, he was an early contributor
to the renaissance of higher-dimensional field theories, that
have become increasingly popular with the advent of superstrings.
He also attained a certain notoriety for daring to believe
that the neutrino might be a tachyon, i.e. travel faster than
light. He is the author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed
journals, and the co-editor of three books, including "Modern
Kaluza-Klein Theories". At APS, Chodos has resuscitated
his latent journalistic tendencies as editor of APS News.
He also oversees the APS prize and award portfolio, and is
taking a lead role in APS participation in the World Year
of Physics.
|