ELFT HÍRADÓ

[Csorgo Tamas <csorgo AT rmki.kfki.hu>]

        Kedves Kollégák,

	Szíves tájékoztatásul továbbítom az alábbi hírt a BNL RHIC 
gyorsító egyik vezető kutatójának, Tom Ludlamnak a magas szintű 
elismeréséről az American Association of Advancement of Science részéről.

        Üdvözlettel

                                Tamás



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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:42:39 -0500
From: "White DePace, Susan M" 
<swd AT bnl.gov>
Subject: Tom Ludlam Named AAAS Fellow



UPTON, NY - The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 
has awarded two scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven 
National Laboratory with the distinction of Fellow. Chi-Chang Kao and Thomas 
Ludlam will be among 531 AAAS members to receive this honor for their efforts 
toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or 
socially distinguished. The new Fellows will be presented with their official 
certificate and rosette pin on February 20, at the 2010 AAAS annual meeting 
in San Diego.

Chi-Chang Kao is recognized for "his many contributions to resonant elastic and 
inelastic x-ray scattering techniques and to x-ray spectroscopy, their applications to 
important materials, and his inspired leadership at the National Synchrotron Light 
Source [NSLS]."

Kao's research interests have focused on developing new experimental 
techniques using synchrotron light at Brookhaven Lab's NSLS, a facility 
where, each year, approximately 2,100 scientists from around the world use 
x-rays, infrared light and ultraviolet light to study materials as diverse as 
computer chips and viruses. Specifically, Kao has developed x-ray techniques 
to study superconductors, materials that have no electrical resistance at 
very low temperatures; magnetic materials for storage devices in computers; 
and electronic structures of materials under high temperature and high 
pressure.

As chair of the NSLS, Kao manages a staff of about 170, and he has organized 
a large community of scientists to address scientific opportunities that he 
has identified. He also undertook major upgrades to the scientific programs 
and experimental facilities at the NSLS. In addition, he developed potential 
science programs for NSLS-II, Brookhaven's new light source that is currently 
under construction.

"I am honored to receive this distinction from the AAAS," Kao said. "It is a 
privilege to work with the talented and dedicated staff of the NSLS, and I am looking forward to 
continuing our productive scientific programs at NSLS-II."

In 1988, Kao earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Cornell University 
and joined Brookhaven Lab as a postdoctoral research associate. He worked his 
way up the ranks to become a senior physicist in 2001, and, in that same 
year, he was named associate chair for user science at the NSLS. In 2005, he 
was promoted to deputy chair of the NSLS, and in 2006, he became interim 
chair and then chair. In 2008, he became director of the Joint Photon 
Sciences Institute at Brookhaven Lab, an interdisciplinary research institute 
that uses advanced light sources to address challenging problems in science 
and technology.  Kao has been an adjunct professor in the Physics Department 
at Stony Brook University since 2003.

Thomas Ludlam is cited for "the establishment of the scientific program of the 
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider [RHIC] at BNL and for his leadership [in] preparing the 
detectors for RHIC."

Ludlam played a major role in the development of Brookhaven's world-class 
accelerator, RHIC, from its design stage starting in the early 1980s to the 
design and construction of its four detectors and the development of its 
research programs. RHIC began operations in 2000, colliding high-energy beams 
of heavy atomic nuclei, known as heavy ions, for experimental studies 
performed by physicists from around the world.

The heavy-ion collisions at RHIC allow the study of nature's strongest force, through 
the interactions of subatomic particles called quarks and gluons, by creating an 
extraordinarily hot and dense type of matter that is thought to have characterized the 
universe a few millionths of a second after the Big Bang. In 2005, physicists at RHIC 
found such a state of matter, and discovered that it behaves like a "perfect" 
liquid.

"The RHIC program has been - and continues to be - a wonderful adventure," Ludlam said. 
"I am grateful to have been a part of it from the beginning and honored to be recognized in 
this way by the AAAS."

Ludlam earned a Ph.D. in physics from Yale University in 1969 and began his 
career on the faculty of Yale. He joined Brookhaven in 1978 as an associate 
physicist and rose through the ranks to become a senior physicist in 1994. 
From 1990 to 1999, he served as associate project head for RHIC construction. 
In 2004, he became associate chair of nuclear physics within Brookhaven's 
Physics Department, and, in 2007, he was named chair of the Physics 
Department. Ludlam is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.



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