The APS Division of Particles and Fields Nominating Committee requests your assistance in identifying candidates to stand for office in this fall’s DPF elections.  This year, we will be electing people to these offices:

• Vice Chair (1 position, 2024, then Chair Elect in 2025, Chair in 2026, and Past Chair in 2027)
• Executive Committee Member at Large (2 positions, 2024-26)
• Early Career Member at Large (1 position, must be a postdoctoral researcher, 2024, can serve two consecutive terms)

We invite you to nominate outstanding colleagues to be on this year’s ballot.  Nominations should be submitted here by July 31, 2023.  Self-nominations are welcome.  The Nominating Committee works to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion in all elections, so we ask you to suggest nominees who will represent the diversity of our division membership in all its forms.

More details about current officers and related governance information can be found on the DPF Website.

The membership of APS is diverse and global, and the Executive Committees of APS Units should reflect that diversity so that all voices are involved and empowered to have an impact on our community. Nominations of members belonging to groups traditionally underrepresented in physics, such as women, LGBT+ scientists, scientists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), disabled scientists, scientists from institutions with limited resources, and scientists from outside the United States, are especially encouraged. Students and early career members are also encouraged to participate in all unit leadership committees.

Governance of DPF is an important act of service to our community, and we thank you in advance for helping identify excellent candidates.

DPF Nominating Committee:

Keith Baker, Ken Bloom (Chair, kenbloom@unl.edu), Alvine Kamaha, Sabine Lammers, Laura Reina (Vice Chair), Sam (Geralyn) Zeller

As the APS Career Mentoring (CM) Fellows program continues to grow, we'd like to get some updated information from all past Fellows. Please use this form to:

• Provide your email, geographic location, job title/employer
• Give a list of your past volunteer activities as a CM Fellow
• Let us know how you would like to stay involved (if at all)

We will then follow up with you with relevant volunteer or social activities so that you can be as involved as you wish. 

The membership of APS is diverse and global, and the nominees for invited talks should reflect that diversity so that all are recognized for their impact on our community. Selecting members belonging to groups traditionally underrepresented in physics, such as women, LGBT+ scientists, scientists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), disabled scientists, and scientists from outside the United States are especially encouraged.

Important Dates & Deadlines

• Meeting Dates & Location: April 15-18, 2023, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Virtual Meeting Dates: Monday, April 24 - Wednesday, April 26, 2023.
• Selections Deadline: November 21, 2022; 5:00 p.m. EST
• Abstract Submissions Open: November 23, 2022; 5:00 p.m. EST

Submission Types

• Invited Session Selection: The session title, 1 suggested session chair, and 3 speakers (each with suggested talk titles).
• Mini-symposium Selection: The session title, 1 suggested session chair, and 1 speaker (with a suggested talk title).
• Plenary Session (Program Chair Only): The session title, 1 suggested session chair, and 3 speakers (each with suggested talk titles).

Speaker Eligibility

• An invited speaker who presented at April Meeting 2022, cannot be invited to speak at April Meeting 2023. Exceptions are made for speakers who will receive APS Prizes and Awards at the meeting. You may review the list of 2022 invited speakers here.
• An invited speaker may only present one technical invited talk, per meeting. An additional invited talk will be allowed if it is non-technical and presented in a session sponsored or co-sponsored by an APS forum or committee.

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Rules & Eligibility

• The applicant must be an APS-DBIO member at the time of application, without restrictions on his/her nationality or the geographic site at which the work was done.
• Biological physics researchers with at most 7 years of full time activity since starting their first independent position as of the nomination deadline, allowing for career breaks (e.g., due to child or dependent care, illness, military service, etc.), are eligible. The application package must explicitly state the date that the applicant started their first independent position, and any career breaks.
• The award is open to researchers from all disciplines that contribute to the advancement of biological physics, broadly construed, including experimental, computational, engineering, or theoretical approaches. The prize recognizes the fundamentally interdisciplinary nature of biological physics. The postgraduate degree and/or current affiliation of the applicant could be physics or many related fields.
• The applicant cannot be a previous recipient of the award
• The applicant cannot be a member of the award selection committee
• No current member of the DBIO Executive Committee may apply for this award. If an Early Career member’s term ends on their final year of eligibility, they will be allowed to submit an application at most 1 year past their final eligibility date (no more than 8 years of full time activity).

Application & Selection Process
Deadline: Thursday June 1, 2023
Any eligible applicant may submit one application each year. The application should
include:

• A personal statement (of no more than three pages) from the applicant summarizing their scientific achievements and broader impacts of their work to the field of biological physics.
• A two-page biographical sketch.
• A list of (up to 10 of) the most important publications.
• Names of least two, but not more than four, individuals to be contacted for recommendation letters.
• No time limits are set on when the work was done, but emphasis should generally be on recent work performed during their independent position(s).The research recognized could either be a single piece of work, or the sum of contributions.

Ordinarily the prize will be awarded to a single individual.

Use this form to request a promotional package of APS materials and giveaway items to share at your institution. If requesting for a specific event, package requests should be made well in advance (4 weeks within the US, 8 weeks internationally) to ensure time for shipping.

Must be a currently enrolled member of the APS Student Ambassadors program to request materials.

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Applications must be received by August 4, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT to be considered.
Grant recipients will be notified by email by September 15, 2023.
Questions concerning the application should be directed to the APS/DFD External Affairs Committee, daniel.chung@unimelb.edu.au or jdeldre@ucla.edu.

Applications must be received by August 4, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT to be considered.
Grant recipients will be notified by email by September 15, 2023.
Questions concerning the application should be directed to the APS/DFD External Affairs Committee, daniel.chung@unimelb.edu.au or jdeldre@ucla.edu.

Applications must be received by August 4, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT to be considered.
Grant recipients will be notified by email by September 15, 2023.
Questions concerning the application should be directed to the APS/DFD External Affairs Committee, daniel.chung@unimelb.edu.au or jdeldre@ucla.edu.