The 2006 Dirac Medal is being awarded to Peter Zoller, professor of physics at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and scientific director of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Zoller is being honored “for his innovative and prolific accomplishments in atomic physics, including his seminal work in proposing methods to use trapped ions for quantum computing and describing how to realize the Bose–Hubbard model and associated phase transitions in ultracold gases.” Zoller will receive the medal and a $5000 cash prize during a ceremony later this year in Trieste, Italy, where he will present a lecture. The Dirac Medal was established in 1985 by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.
Carl A. Ventrice Jr left the University of New Orleans on 13 August for a position as associate professor in the physics department at Texas State...
