Message from the Newsletter Editor

Greetings, FECS members! We are excited to present to you our newsletter for Spring 2019. We hope you find it informative and interesting. In these newsletters, in general, we aim to provide you with useful information about basic research in different fields of physics, information about our activities at conferences and elsewhere, opportunities to actively participate in FECS, and helpful guidelines toward furthering your career.

This issue includes a survey of machine learning and its utility, a review of the FECS activities and sessions that happened during the APS March and April Meetings in 2019, a reproduction of a unit profile of FECS from APS News, job search advice from the DFD meeting, an interview with a successful South Asian physicist who travelled a difficult path and succeeded, and an introduction to the newly elected FECS executives.

I offer my sincere gratitude to all the contributors for this issue of the FECS newsletter, who worked hard to provide useful and engaging content, and many thanks to all the FECS members for reading. Suggestions, comments about the newsletter, and article contributions are always very welcome, and you can reach me with these at kludwick@lagrange.edu or on our Facebook group (called “APS Forum for Early Career Scientists”). I hope to connect with you on our Facebook group and at upcoming APS meetings!

Sincerely,

Kevin