Best Paper Award in Memory of Jacques Calmet

The Indian Vacuum Society (IVS) was established in 1970. It has over 800 members including many from Industry and R & D Institutions spread throughout India. The society has an active chapter at Kolkata. The society was formed with the main aim to promote, encourage and develop the growth of Vacuum Science, Techniques and Applications in India.

for their paper "On Kostant's weight q-multiplicity formula for sl 4 (C)" published in Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing 33 (2022), no. 4, 353-418. The q-analog of Kostant's weight multiplicity formula is an alternating sum over a finite group, known as the Weyl group. This formula, when evaluated at q = 1 , gives the multiplicity of a weight in a highest weight representation of a simple Lie algebra. The paper considers the q-analog of Kostant's multiplicity formula for the simple Lie algebra of type A 3 . This formula depends on the q-analog of Kostant's partition function and the Weyl alternation sets, which consist of the elements of the Weyl group that contribute nontrivially to Kostant's weight multiplicity formula. The selection committee found the main contributions of the work very valuable. These remarkable contributions are the following: Firstly, the paper exhibits several explicit closed formulas for the q-analog of Kostant's partition function which help to produce an efficient algorithm to evaluate it. Secondly, the paper also describes and enumerates the Weyl alternation sets. Finally, they introduce a nice and visual presentation of their ideas by means of the Weyl alternation diagrams on the root lattice of the Lie algebra. The selection committee of the 2022 AAECC Best Paper Award in Memory of Jacques Calmet was formed by Grégoire Lecerf, Luis Pardo and Qiang Wang. The selection committee, the Managing Board and the Editor in Chief wish to extend their warmest congratulations to the winners.

Best Paper Award in Memory of Jacques Calmet

Best Paper Award in Memory of Jacques Calmet

Best Paper Award in Memory of Jacques Calmet

Academic CareerXinghua Wei was born in October 1925 in Wutai County of Shanxi Province, in north China. He entered the Tuo Yang higher primary school in the town of Dongye in the spring of 1937. However, he missed several years after the Japanese army occupied his hometown in the fall of 1938. In the fall of 1942, he entered middle school in the town of Dongzhi. But after a semester, he leftbecause of dissatisfaction with the enslavement of education by the Japanese puppet regime. To return to school, he went to Xi County in western Shanxi Province in 1943 and entered Jinshan middle school that fall. In 1946 he participated in underground revolutionary work at Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi, then moved secretly to Liberated Areas in 1947. He then joined the Communist Party of China through the Taiyuan Work Committee in the Taihang area. Though he was arrested and jailed, he kept the party's secret strictly confidential. After his release in June 1948, the party arranged for him to carry out revolutionary work in Beijing. He returned to the liberated areas in early November 1948, and entered Huabei University.In 1950, a year after the Revolution, he transferred to the newly established Department of Economics of Renmin (People's) University of China; in August of the same year, he transferred to the Political Economy Department as a graduate student. After his graduation he was elected to teach at Renmin in 1952, and successively served as lecturer, associate professor, and professor.In 1981, he became the deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Economic Theory and Economic Management. From 1983 to 1986, he was dean of the Department of Political Economy of Renmin University. He held posts as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Renmin University of China, deputy director of the Academic Committee of the University, member of the Academic Degree Committee and the presidency of the Theoretical Economics Chapter of the Academic Degree Committee. Currently he is an honorary first grand professor of the Renmin University of China and a doctorial tutor.In addition, Xinghua Wei served as a member of the economics appraisal group of the State Council's degree committee, and as a member of the Chinese philosophy, social science and economic planning group. He also served as the vice-chairman of China research association on Das Kapital, and the chairman of the national comprehensive university research association on Das Kapital. His current appointments include Distinguished Professor of the Academy of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Honorary Member of the CPC's China Institute of Literature Research, Member of Central Project Group of Research and Construction on Marxist Theory, Adviser to the Beijing-based Academic Research Center on Deng Xiaoping Theory, and Executive Director of the Industrial and Commercial Administrative Management Society. In addition, he holds concurrent posts as visiting professor at Nanjing University, Fujian Normal University and other universities, and as Honorary Dean of the School of Economics of the Jiangxi Finance and Economics University.In 1991 he was named to receive the special government allowance for experts. He has also received many other important academic awards, for example the first and second Paper Awards of the Yefang Sun Prize, the Baosteel Education Fund Special Award for Excellence in Teaching, the first Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award, the Paper Award in memory of the Tenth Anniversary of the 3rd Session of the 11th Congress, the first prize for Outstanding Teaching Materials, issued by the State Education Commission, the second prize for Outstanding Achievements in Humanities and Social Sciences issued by the Ministry of Education, the first prize of the fourth China's Books Award, the second prize of the fifth China's Books Award, and more than 20 other national and provincial awards. In 1981 he was honored as a Beijing labor model. …

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SAMUEL C. COLLINS AWARD 2023 Prof. Dr. Ir. H.J.M (Marcel) ter Brake University of Twente, Faculty of Science and Technology The Netherlands In 1965 the Cryogenic Engineering Conference (CEC) established an award in honor of the late Samuel C. Collins, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of Professor Collins’ most notable works is his invention of the modern helium liquefier. The Collins Award is awarded to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the identification and solution of cryogenic engineering problems and has additionally demonstrated a concern for the cryogenic community through service and leadership. The award is open to persons regardless of national origin. The CEC Awards Committee reviewed multiple nomination packages for highly qualified individuals and selected Marcel ter Brake as the recipient of the 2023 Samuel C. Collins Award. Marcel ter Brake received his PhD in 1986 at the University of Twente (UT) for his work on a SQUID-based horizontal-access rock magnetometer. Following his PhD, he became member of the Low Temperature Division at UT. Focus of his work was the realization of a Biomagnetic Center equipped with a magnetically shielded room and home-made multichannel SQUID-based neuromagnetometers. These magnetometers were all liquid-helium cooled. The advent of high-temperature superconductivity in 1986 allowed the use of small cryocoolers that were available on the market. The interfacing of these coolers to ultra-sensitive devices such as SQUIDs became an important field of ter Brake’s research. In this ongoing research, MEMS technologies were applied to fabricate cryocooler components. In addition to microcooling he also researched sorption-based compressors combined with Joule-Thomson coolers. These sorption coolers are essentially vibration free and are of interest specifically for optical instruments in scientific space missions but can also be beneficial in terrestrial applications. Marcel ter Brake was appointed Associate Professor at UT in 2000, and Full Professor and chair holder of Energy, Materials and Systems at UT since January 1st, 2010. Next to cryogenic technologies, this research chair investigates the use of superconductivity in high-current applications, focusing on systems to be applied in future energy chains. Marcel’s recent work is on ejectors to achieve lower temperatures and higher system efficiency in JT coolers. His work on the fundamental understanding of counter flow heat exchangers (CFHXs) and the associated mechanisms of flow maldistribution for two-phase flow in JT microcoolers. He has done excellent work on the heat-triggered switching of two-phase flow maldistribution in the heat exchanger of JT microcoolers by using both microscopic and temperature measurements that led to solutions to the challenge. Marcel ter Brake had a 10% Professor appointment at the Technological University of Eindhoven (TUE) from September 2004 to September 2010. He founded the Cryogenics Society of Europe in 2015 and until present he chairs the Board of that Society. Furthermore, he is lifetime member of the Cryogenic Society of America, chairs the International Cryogenic Engineering Committee and is board member of the International Cryocooler Conference. He has supervised and (co)-promoted 19 PhD students, has published more than 200 papers, of which 115 in refereed journals, and written 5 book chapters. Based on Marcel ter Brake’s impact in terms of technical achievement, leadership, and service to the cryogenics community, in the opinion of the awards committee, Marcel is a perfect example of what the Sam Collins Award is meant to recognize. THE RUSSELL B. SCOTT MEMORIAL AWARDS The Russell B. Scott Memorial Awards honor the first head of the Cryogenic Engineering Laboratory of the Boulder Laboratories of the National Bureau of Standards, now the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Mr. Scott was the founder of the Cryogenic Engineering Conference (CEC), the first of which was held in 1954 in Boulder, Colorado. He is the author of the book Cryogenic Engineering, published by the Princeton press in 1959. Mr. Scott retired in 1965 after 37 years at NBS and died in 1967. The Scott Memorial Awards provide an incentive for the production and presentation of high-quality papers at the Cryogenic Engineering Conferences, and recognition of authors who, in the judgment of the CEC Board of Directors, presented the best papers at the proceeding conference. The papers are nominated by the reviewers and editors of the conference proceedings. In 2023, two awards for the best papers delivered at the 2021 CEC Virtual Conference, and published in the IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 1240, 2022, were presented at the 2023 Honolulu conference to the following: Best Paper for Cryogenic Engineering Research A Anand, A S Gour, T S Datta and V V Rao for their paper “50 kJ SMES magnet design optimization using real coded genetic algorithm” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 1240, 2022; 012137 Best Paper for Cryogenic Engineering Applications I Wells, J Bussey, N Swets, L Reising, C Butikofer, G Wallace, S Kulsa and J Leachman for their paper “Liquid nitrogen removal of lunar regolith simulant from spacesuit simulants” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 1240, 2022; 012003

At the suggestion of early career scientist, Dr. Lynda Bunting, and with the full support of the ASLO Awards committee, the ASLO Board voted in February 2015 to rename the Citation for Scientific Excellence as the “Victoria J. Bertics Memorial Award for Aquatic Science” in honor of a brilliant young scientist who lost a decade-long battle with cancer in 2013. Victoria (Vicky) Bertics was the 2014 recipient of the ASLO Citation for Scientific Excellence (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lob.201423246/epdf). As noted in her nomination by Dr. Peter Girguis and colleagues, Vicky-s interest in oceanography began at the University of California - Berkeley, where as a undergraduate she worked on the distribution of foraminifera within the Monterey Bay Canyon. She received her PhD from the University of Southern California, where her research focused on the role of bioturbation in nitrogen and sulfur cycling in marine sediments. Later, she received the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to work in Germany on the coupling of on nitrogen and sulfur cycling in marine oxygen minimum zones. She was then awarded a competitive C-DEBI fellowship to work at Harvard University on carbon and nitrogen cycling in the deep subsurface biosphere. Vicky succumbed to cancer just one month after starting her C-DEBI postdoctoral fellowship. To provide more information about Dr. Bertics, ASLO will be producing a biography of her life and career in a future volume of the ASLO Bulletin. The new description of the award is as follows. “The Victoria J. Bertics Memorial Award for Aquatic Science recognizes ASLO members who could not fulfill their career potential because of early death or disability. Initiated in 1987, the Award was originally called the ASLO Citation for Scientific Excellence, but was renamed in honor of Victoria Bertics, a brilliant young scientist whose career was sadly curtailed by illness. Nominees can be at any career stage and have, in the past, ranged from post-doctoral fellows to senior scientists. Nominations should be made directly to the ASLO President and are considered by the entire Board. Nomination procedure is less formal than with other awards, but should include a statement of the nominee-s aspirations and achievements. Further details may be obtained from the ASLO President.” It-s time again for the annual ASLO awards nominations! As always, ASLO awards provide a great opportunity to recognize outstanding individual performance and to highlight accomplishments of the aquatic science research community. This year, the deadline for nominations is October 16, 2015. Please take the time to nominate your colleagues for these awards. Nominations are short, simple to make, and can be submitted electronically via our dedicated online nomination form at www.aslo.org/forms/awards.html. For further information, please have a look at the awards pages on the ASLO website, or contact ASLO Awards Committee Chair, Kimberly Wickland, via e-mail kpwick@usgs.gov. The ASLO Awards Committee wishes to announce a correction to the citation for Hilary G. Close, the 2015 recipient of the Raymond L. Lindeman Award for an outstanding paper written by a young aquatic scientist. Dr. Close-s nomination was made by both Elizabeth A. Canuel (Virginia Institute of Marine Science) and Karin Björkman (University of Hawaii). The Awards Committee apologizes for errors in the original citation. Peter Leavitt, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change and Society, University of Regina; Peter.Leavitt@uregina.ca