This month, physicist Robert A. Eisenstein is taking office as president of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), a New Mexico research organization that encourages multidisciplinary collaborations among visiting and resident scientists from the physical, mathematical, biological, computational, and social sciences. Eisenstein was NSF’s assistant director for mathematical and physical sciences from 1997 to 2002 and, during the past year, has been on leave at CERN. He succeeds Ellen H. Goldberg, who became president in January 1996. She stepped down this past January, when she was appointed as a research professor at SFI and codirector of the initiative entitled Santa Fe Institute Consortium: Increasing Human Potential.
Albert Chang, professor of physics at Purdue University, will be joining the physics faculty at Duke University on 1 August.
Brian DeMarco has been awarded the 2003 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship by Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, for his “seminal contributions...
