AAPPS Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies
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Year of 2006 (Volume 16)
Vol. 16 No. 1 February 2006
Words from the Editor-in Chief (PDF, 24KB)

Highlight of the Issue

Nanomechanics of Protein-Based Biostructures (abstract), (PDF, 908KB)
Atsushi Ikai
Laboratory of Biodynamics, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan



Articles

Do Gamma Rays Reveal Our Galaxy´s Dark Matter? (abstract), (PDF, 725KB)
Wim de Boer
Institut r Experimentelle Kernphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Look behind the Headlines? (abstract), (PDF, 532KB)
Arnon Dar 
Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel



Institution Reports

The National Center for Theoretical Sciences (PDF, 540KB)
Professor Tu-nan Chang
National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan


Departments

Special Reports
 Homestake Poised to Become a Goldmine for Scientific Research (PDF, 483KB)
 Neutrino Project on Target for Gran Sasso (PDF, 453KB)
 John Bahcall 1934-2005 (PDF, 472KB)
 NSRRC Operates in Top-up Mode (PDF, 433KB)
 How CERN Keeps Its Cool (PDF, 626KB)
 Report of the World Conference on Physics and Sustainable Development (PDF, 497KB)

Special News
 Memories for Darwin Chang (PDF, 461KB)

Special Announcements
 The 16th AAPPS Council Meeting (PDF, 439KB)


News from Member Societies
Meetings & Conferences
Vol. 16 No. 2 April 2006
Highlight of the Issue: The Centennial of the Birth of Sin-itiro Tomonaga (I)

Preface (PDF, 441KB)
Michiji Konuma, Guest Editor
Professor Emeritus, Keio University
Professor Emeritus, Musashi Institute of Technology
Special Advisor, AAPPS
Former President, AAPPS



A Biographical Sketch of Sin-itiro Tomonaga (PDF, 458KB)
Compiled by Michiji Konuma


Development of Quantum Electrodynamics* (PDF, 540KB)
Sin-itiro Tomonaga

Personal recollections, Nobel Lecture, May 6, 1966
* © The Nobel Foundation 1965


Tomonaga and QED (PDF, 23KB)
Toichiro Kinoshita
Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics, Cornell University, USA


Theory of Split-Anode Magnetrons by Sin-itiro Tomonaga (abstract) (PDF, 751KB)
Koichi Shimoda
Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan
 

Articles

Progress in Ultrafast Photonics (abstract) (PDF, 841KB)
Takeshi Kamiya and Masahiro Tsuchiya
Faculty for the Assessment and Research of Degrees, National Institution for Academic Degrees and
  University Evaluation, Japan
Basic and Advanced Research Department, National Institute of Information and Communications
  Technology, Japan


 

Departments

Special Reports
 Investigating the Proton´s Strange Sea (PDF, 552KB)
 Report on the APCTP International Workshop on Asian Women in Physics (PDF, 440KB)


News from Member Societies
Meetings & Conferences

Vol. 16 No. 3 June 2006
Highlight of the Issue: Statistical Physics Approaches to Biological Problem

Preface  (PDF, 455KB)
Zhong-Can Ou-Yang, Guest Editor
Director, Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China



Simple Markov Subtraction Essentially Improves Prokaryote Phylogeny (abstract),  (PDF, 745KB)
Lei Gao, Ji Qi, and Bailin Hao
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China
Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, Penn State University, USA


Mechanochemical Coupling of Molecular Motor (abstract),  (PDF, 620KB)
Yaogen Shu and Hualin Shi
Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China


Efficiency of Local Majority-Rule Dynamics on Scale-Free Networks (abstract),  (PDF, 1091KB)
Haijun Zhou
Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China


Effects of Local Inhomogeneities on the Mechanical Responses of Single DNAs (abstract),  (PDF, 805KB)
Jie Yan
Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore


A Novel Simulation Approach to Forced Unfolding Single RNAs (abstract),  (PDF, 757KB)
Fei Liu
Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China


Elastic Theory of Membranes (abstract),  (PDF, 707KB)
Z. C. Tu
Department
of Physics, Tamkang University, Taiwan


Long-Range Allosteric Effect of DNA and Chromatin Loop Structure (abstract),  (PDF, 889KB)

Ming Li
Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China


Departments

Special Reports

 Microlensing Detects Most Earth-like Exoplanet (PDF, 458KB)
 Minutes of the Fifteenth AAPPS Council Meeting (PDF, 520KB)
 Report on the Establishment of AAPPS Working Group on Women in Physics (PDF, 477KB)
 Going beyond the Standard Model (PDF, 431KB)
 Particles and Nuclei International Conference (PDF, 425KB)

Special News
 International WYP 2005 Physics Talent Search
(PDF, 435KB)
 INPC2007
(PDF, 425KB)
 Richard Dalitz 1925-2006
(PDF, 445KB)

News from Member Societies
Meetings & Conferences
Vol. 16 No. 4 August 2006
Highlight of the Issue:
The Centennialof the Birth of Sin-itiro Tomonaga (II)

Introduction (
PDF, 495KB)
Michiji Konuma, Guest Editor
Professor Emeritus of Keio University and Musashi Institute of Technology; Special Advisor and Former President of AAPPS


Collective Motion of Fermions: Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid (PDF, 580KB)
Norio Kawakami
Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Japan


Tomonaga and Nuclear Physics (PDF, 497KB)
Toshio Suzuki  and Yasuhisa Abe
Department of Applied Physics, Fukui University, Japan
Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Japan



Articles

Nucleosynthesis in Classical Nova Explosions: Modeling and Nuclear Uncertainties (PDF, 665KB)
Jordi José and Alain Coc
Dept. Física i Enginyeria Nuclear Universitat Politécnica de Catalunyaand Institut d’Estudis Espacialsde  
   Catalunya (IEEC-UPC),  Barcelona, Spain
Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire etde Spectrométrie de Masse, IN2P3-CNRS, Université Paris Sud
   Orsay Campus, France



HERMES Looks for Final Pieces in Nucleon-Spin Puzzle (abstract), (PDF, 620KB)
Elke Aschenauer and Ilka Flegel
DESY and spokesperson of HERMES, DESY-Hermes, Hamburg, Germany
TextlaborAm Markt 19D-07743 Jena




Departments

Special Reports
 New WMAP Results Give Support to Inflation (PDF, 520KB)
 D0 Provides Precise Results on B0s Oscillations (PDF, 442KB)
 Sterile Neutrinos Unravel Astrophysics (PDF, 461KB)
 Muon Neutrinos Vanish on Way to Minnesota (PDF, 490KB)
 JINR Celebrates 50 Years (PDF, 676KB)
 JINR Celebrates 50 Golden Years (PDF, 490KB)
 Meeting Reviews Progress towards the New BEPC (PDF, 563KB)
 Golden Opportunities in China (PDF, 488KB)
 Physicists Witness a Changing China (PDF, 479KB)
 Asian Committee for Future Accelerators (PDF, 475KB)
 The Rise of HEP in Korea (PDF, 481KB)
 Bringing Science to Vietnam (PDF, 546KB)
 New Director Appointed at NSRRC in Taiwan (PDF, 429KB)
 U-Ser Jeng (PDF, 484KB)
 Australian Synchrotron (PDF, 493KB)


Special News
 Olympians Are Coming to Town—Beware! (PDF, 435KB)
 IUPAP NewsNews from ChinaNews from India (PDF, 435KB)

 
News from Member Societies
Meetings & Conferences
Vol. 16 No. 5 October 2006
Highlight of the Issue:
APCTP's 10th Anniversary

Preface (PDF, 105KB)
Seunghwan Kim, Guest Editor
Executive Director of APCTP; Professor, Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea


Asia Pacific Centre for Theoretical Physics -- The Dream in the Making in Asia Pacific (PDF, 178KB)
Seunghwan Kim
Executive Director of APCTP; Professor, Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea


AAPPS and APCTP (PDF, 66KB)
Michiji Konuma
Professor Emeritus of Keio University and Musashi Institute of Technology; Special Advisor and Former President of AAPPS


Articles


New Cosmic Microwave Background Results Strengthen the Case for Inflationary Big Bang Cosmology

 (PDF, 104KB)
Bertram Schwarzschild
American Institute of Physics

The Future's Bright for the Pierre Auger Observatory (PDF, 190KB)
Alan Watson
FRS, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK


Departments


Special Reports
 HAPPEx Shows the Proton Is not so Strange (PDF, 120KB)
 FLASH Produces the Shortest Wavelength yet (PDF, 27KB)
 MAGIC Discovers Variable Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from a Microquasar

  (PDF, 92KB)
 Quasar Jets could Be Powerful Accelerators (PDF, 111KB)
 The World's Biggest Neutrino Detector Gets Ready for Physics (PDF, 91KB)
 Ettore Majorana: Genius and Mystery (PDF, 62KB)
 New Centre to Take Control of J-PARC (PDF, 46KB)
 Overview of J-PARC Project Newsletter (PDF, 29KB)
 The Fourth Overseas Chinese Physics Association Accelerator School (PDF, 86KB)


Special Announcements
 The 17th AAPPS Council Meeting (PDF, 38KB)

 
News from Member Societies
Meetings & Conferences

Vol. 16 No. 6 December 2006
Highlight of the Issue:
The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics


The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics: Cosmology and the Cosmic Microwave Background (PDF, 343KB)
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

 

 

Articles


A Physicist's Journey into Biology (PDF, 771KB)
Steven Chu
Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA

Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA



The Rise and Fall of the Pentaquark (PDF, 87KB)
Kandice Carter
Science Writer, Jefferson Lab., USA

 

 

COMPASS Homes in on the Nucleon Spin (PDF, 148KB)
Franco Bradamante*, Alain Magnon and Gerhard Mallot
* University of Trieste and INFN Trieste Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy

DSM / DAPNIA / SPhN, France

PH Department, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland


Departments


Special Reports
 Japanese Source Starts Lasing at 49 nm Wavelength in VUV (PDF, 45KB)
 PAMELA Looks for Dark Matter and Antimatter (PDF, 70KB)
 US Team Finds Direct Proof for Dark Matter (PDF, 68KB)
 ANTARES Collaboration Detects Its First Muons (PDF, 91KB)
 OPERA Experiment Detects First Neutrinos in Beam from CERN (PDF,111KB)
 Nuclear Physics Helps Unravel the Universe (PDF, 155KB)
 Valentine L. Telegdi 1922-2006 (PDF, 109KB)
 Physical Review Focus (PDF, 38KB)
 The 2nd International WYP Physics Talent Search (PDF, 24KB)

 
News from Member Societies
Meetings & Conferences

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