Dear Colleagues,
The Division of Chemical Physics will be issuing the first Justin Jankunas Doctoral Dissertation Award in Chemical Physics at the 2016 March meeting of the American Physical Society. Dr. Jankunas obtained his doctorate from Prof. Richard Zare at Stanford in 2013 and then worked with Prof. Andreas Osterwalder at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne until 2015. In this short period he published 19 papers in molecular reaction dynamics until his tragic death in a motorcycle accident in 2015. Justin’s family, friends, and colleagues have established this award to encourage and recognize other promising chemical physicists. A campaign has begun to raise an endowment of $50K to support the annual $1K award and related expenses. DCP will support the award initially until the funds are raised.
The Justin Jankunas Doctoral Dissertation Award consists of a check for $1,000, a certificate describing the achievements of the recipient, and a grant of up to $1,000 for the awardee to travel to the March APS meeting (Baltimore, March 14-18, 2016) to receive the award and give an oral presentation describing his or her doctoral research. Eligible candidates for this award should have passed their thesis defense between November 1, 2014 and November 1, 2015. The application deadline is December 1, 2015. Further details may be found at http://www.aps.org/units/dcp/awards/index.cfm
We also want to tell you about the excellent symposia that have been organized by DCP at the March meeting. These focus sessions are on the topics of (1) Physics of Emerging Materials for Solar Energy Applications, (2) Chemical Physics in Extreme Environments: From Combustion to Astrochemistry, (3) Plasmonics and Beyond, (4) Chemistry and Physics of Confined, Biological, and Interfacial Water, (5) Recent Advances in Density Functional Theory and Applications in Chemical Physics, and (6) Editors’ Choice papers from the Journal of Chemical Physics. Further details may be found in the attached poster and at http://www.aps.org/units/dcp/meetings/index.cfm
As in previous years, the Division of Chemical Physics will issue travel awards for young investigators as well as child care awards for people presenting papers as the March meeting. The application deadlines are November 6, 2015 for the travel awards and February 16, 2016 for the child care awards. Further details may be found at
http://www.aps.org/units/dcp/awards/index.cfm
Best wishes,
David Chandler, DCP Chair Robert Gordon, DCP Secretary/Treasurer
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