FIAP Chair’s Thoughts

We want to hear from you! FIAP is dedicated to connecting physicists with the industrial world. We use the APS March Meeting as the main venue to celebrate the best and the most interesting research in industrial physics and help open up possible pathways for students and postdocs toward jobs in the private sector. Thanks to the concerted effort by the FIAP team over the years, Industry Day has become a mainstay of the March Meeting. Special thanks to our Chair Elect Michael Gordon and APS Industrial Fellow Steven Lambert for organizing a great FIAP program at the March Meeting this year. Some Industry Day sessions including Recent Advances in Spintronics-based Computing and Innovations from Industry were so full that they were standing room only. We are also grateful to our Past Chair Matt Kim for reviving the popular Physicists as Entrepreneurs session, reminding us that YOU, too, can start your own company as an exciting career option. At the same time, we would like to see more industrial physicists attend the March Meeting. We will keep introducing new FIAP sessions and events to this end. Let us know what YOU would like to see at the next March Meeting. You can contact me at takeuchi@umd.edu. Thanks!

Ichiro Takeuchi
FIAP Chair