Plasma physicist Chuang Ren started a new job this month as assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Rochester in New York. He left UCLA, where he was an assistant research engineer.

Tony Beasley has left a position in California to take a new one, starting this month, in Santiago, Chile, as the international project manager for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array project. He had been the project manager for the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy, which is situated at Caltech’s Owens Valley Radio Observatory in Big Pine.

At the 25th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (ICGTMP) last month in Cocoyoc, Mexico, Erdal Ýnönü received the Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation’s Wigner Medal for “conceiving with [Eugene] Wigner a notion of group contraction and deriving with it the representations up to a factor of the Galilei group from the Poincaré group.” Ýnönü...

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