David Aspnes is the AVS Science and Technology Society’s president-elect for 2004. Aspnes, who will become president of the society in January 2005, succeeded Robert Childs, who is president effective this month (see Physics Today, Physics Today 0031-9228 56 1 2003 61 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1650230 January 2003, page 61 ).
Aspnes received his BS in 1960 and his MS in 1961, both in electrical engineering, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He earned his PhD in physics in 1965 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and spent the next two years doing postdoctoral research at Illinois and at Brown University.
In 1967, he became a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs) in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he spent the next 17 years. Aspnes then moved to Bellcore, an R&D and telecommunications company in Piscataway, New Jersey, in 1983. There, he managed...
