Swapan Chattopadhyay, formerly an associate director at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia, and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, begins a new post this month as the first chair of accelerator physics in the UK. He has been appointed to the Sir John Cockcroft Chair jointly by the universities of Liverpool, Manchester, and Lancaster, and is serving as the inaugural director of the Cockcroft Institute, a newly created international center in accelerator science and technology. Chattopadhyay is also a principal member of the steering committees for the UK's proposed flagship light-source facility, known as the 4GLS. Chattopadhyay came to Jefferson Lab in 2001 after 25 years at the University of California, Berkeley.
Joining the American Association of Physics Teachers as its director of finance and administration and chief financial officer is Carroll W. Martin, who began his new post...
