Message from the Newsletter Editor

Kevin Ludwick, Newsletter Editor and Secretary/Treasurer

Kevin Ludwick
Kevin Ludwick

Greetings, FECS members! We are excited to present to you our newsletter for Fall 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 an introduction to the newly elected FECS officers, a summary of the FECS activities at the last DFD Meeting, an preview of upcoming FECS sessions and activities at the 2020 March and April Meetings, a Q&A article on submitting grants written by an NSF program director, and an article on the nature of antimatter and its appearance in different fields of physics.

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. I especially want to thank Dr. Gillaspy from NSF for all his work on his article, which had to go through numerous administrative reviews before it made its way to this newsletter. 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,

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Kevin obtained his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After a two-year postdoc at the University of Virginia, he became an assistant professor at LaGrange College in 2015, and he is the Pre-Engineering Dual Degree advisor there. His research is in theoretical cosmology, pertaining to dark energy and dark matter models.