From the Editor

The articles in this issue include essays by two recent award winners. Neil Johnson is the recipient of the Forum’s 2018 Burton award, while Robert Kleinberg is the 2018-19 APS Distinguished Lecturer on the Applications of Physics. I am very grateful that they agreed to contribute to this Newsletter. We have additional articles on “Voodoo Physics” and on the social applications of complexity.

I saw some of you in Boston and received many sugestions for this Newsletter. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it to Denver.

We are continuing to expand our media presence. Several of the Forum sponsored APS meeting talks were video recorded and the files (or information on how to get them) will be posted at the Forum’s web site. Please send suggestions to our Media Editor, Tabitha Colter, at tabithacolter@gmail.com.

Contributions from our readership and their friends are always welcome, as they are suggestions for invited contributions. Suggestions and articles should be sent to me, except for book reviews, which should go to the reviews editor directly (ahobson@uark.edu). Content is not peer reviewed and opinions given there are the author’s, not necessarily mine, nor the Forum’s. We are very open as to what is appropriate. Controversy is good.

Oriol

Oriol T. Valls
University of Minnesota
otvalls@umn.edu

These contributions have not been peer-refereed. They represent solely the view(s) of the author(s) and not necessarily the view of APS.