Jay Marx, an experimental particle physicist who in recent decades has directed several high-profile physics projects around the country, has been named executive director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) at Caltech. Marx succeeds Barry C. Barish, the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Caltech, who led the LIGO project through its construction and into its first major science runs. Barish has said he will now focus on directing the global design effort for the proposed International Linear Collider, although he will continue to be involved in LIGO research. Marx, who began at his new post on 14 March, had been a senior physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1981.
Raymond E. Goldstein has been named Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems in the applied mathematics and theoretical physics department at the University of Cambridge, UK. A professor of physics and applied mathematics...
