Hamburg Conference Research Articles

Reflections by a member of the Editorial Board

I thank Co-Editors Ass. Prof. Dr. Jože Kropivšek and Prof. Dr. Katarina Čufar for the opportunity to serve as an Editorial Board member of Les/Wood, an international journal firmly grounded in the broad sweep of Slovene wood science and technology. The Editorial Board works to extend the relevance and impact of Les/Wood within and beyond Slovenia to the international community of wood science and technology in the broadest sense. We see the journal as a tool to support research and development of specific technologies, as well as to develop common terminology.
 I would like to use this opportunity to sketch out how I came to be involved with wood science in Slovenia. In retrospect that involvement seems inevitable, but the path was not always clear at the time! After completing my postgraduate education in plant pathology and mycology in the USA in 1982, I accepted my current position as supervisory plant physiologist for the USDA Forest Service, a US federal land management agency with a strong commitment to research & development and to international forestry.
 Throughout my career, my personal research has involved tree growth and wood decay in response to injury, infection, and environmental change. These tree responses affect forest health, the economic value of wood for art and industry, the tree-ring record of environmental conditions, and the performance of trees in urban and community environments.
 My USDA FS mentor and colleague Dr. Walter Shortle met Prof. Dr. Niko Torelli and Prof. Dr. Katarina Čufar at the IAWA conference in Hamburg (1983) and at the IUFRO World Conference 1996 in Ljubljana, where the two of them were local organizers. Afterwards they obtained a joint Yugoslav American Project, “Possible alterations of wood in air polluted trees”, which defined my earlier collaborations with Professor Torelli and Katarina Čufar on silver fir decline in Slovenia and Europe. Later, Katarina Čufar, Dr. Tom Levanič, and I identified changes in the climatic responses of silver fir in Slovenia and of red spruce in the northeastern US. I also worked with Dr. Primož Oven on special considerations for the health and safety of city trees. Later, Katarina Čufar and I both served on the Executive Council of the Tree Ring Society, an international association for dendrochronological research. We co-taught a tree biology section at the Dendro Fieldweek as part of the World Dendro conference 2010 in Finland. We found that our combination of research experience both intensified and broadened our understanding and presentation of wood structure and function. Since then, we have worked to provide Slovene students and scientists a platform to share techniques and experiences that both extend the science and community of scientists in the international research community.
 As an active researcher, I see Les/Wood as noteworthy because of the potential breadth of articles reporting on topics from wood mechanical properties to technologies and industrial processing to underlying anatomy and the biological processes that result in wood formation and preservation. In addition to the high level of scholarship and technical expertise within Les/Wood, I find collegiality of spirit, openness of approach, and pride of history and context. These qualities lift up and support ongoing and future research for Slovenia, its geographic surroundings, and the broader world research community. I’m excited at the prospect of Les/Wood extending its traditional strengths to meet the critical need for wood science to optimize wood utilization, ecological understanding, and cultural patrimony.

PNUM

Passaram dez anos desde a reunião do Conselho do International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF), na conferência de Hamburgo de 2010, em que tive o prazer de apresentar a proposta de criação de uma Rede Portuguesa de Morfologia Urbana (PNUM). Um artigo publicado nesse período, dedicado ao estudo da forma urbana em Portugal, referia a existência de muitos projetos de investigação desenvolvidos de modo isolado, bem como a ausência de internacionalização da morfologia urbana portuguesa (Oliveira et al., 2011). Desde então, o PNUM expandiu-se de uma rede ‘portuguesa’ para uma rede ‘lusófona’, abrangendo o Brasil, e tem vindo a contribuir para a promoção do estudo da forma urbana nos dois países e para o fortalecimento das relações dos morfólogos lusófonos com outros membros do ISUF e de outras redes regionais.

ECPR General Conference in Hamburg, 22–25 August, 2018

ECPR General Conference in Hamburg, 22–25 August, 2018

Preface to the Special Edition on Femtochemistry and "The Hamburg Conference on Femtochemistry 2015 (FEMTO12)".

This special issue is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ahmed Zewail, the founder of the field and the public-keynote speaker of the Leuchtturm (Tower of Light) Lecture (https://www.femto12.org/leuchtturm) at FEMTO12.

Financial Participation – Introduction

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Comment on Harold A. Linstone: When is a Need a Need? The Problem of Normative Forecasting in a Changing Environment, in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change 1 (1969), 55–71

I was asked to comment on the article “When is a need a need?” I have to admit, I had to read it again, and the first thought that came to my mind was a picture of Harold A. Linstone at a conference in Hamburg 15years ago, standing in front of me: “Kerstin, be careful, you are reinventing the wheel. And that is a saying other people already told me 20years ago when we were at the beginning of our forecasting…” I have never forgotten his words and nowadays, I am sometimes impatient with my students or my younger colleagues, and bite my lips in order not to repeat the same sentences. But the question “when is a need a need?” is still unsolved, discussed even more and seems to be more difficult than ever. The four hypotheses of the article can be discussed in a similar way today — and the questions remain the same. Some reasons, arguments and events or names have changed, but it is still up to date! This is alarming! Have we not learned anything in the meantime?

The Sleeping Giant Awakes? US Actions to Mitigate Climate Disruption

This paper, prepared for the Hamburg Conference on International Environmental Law, reports on US progress in mitigating global climate disruption. It concludes that the US has begun to move forward on this issue, but has not fully awakened to the danger climate disruption poses. This paper compares US policies at the federal, state, and regional levels with similar programs in other countries. The most significant nationwide initiative to date, by far, turn out to be recently revised Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards. Although these standards constitute something of a miracle politically and promise very significant emission reductions, both the EU and Japan have stricter standards on the books in terms of absolute levels if not in terms of total emission decreases. The US picture is consistent with trends elsewhere in that environmental benefit trading programs constitute the symbolic center of efforts, but in practice have achieved relatively little, because caps have been lax and problematic offsets have been available. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has realized significant emission reductions, primarily because of use of revenues raised through the sale of emission allowances to fund energy efficiency, even though the cap was overallocated. California’s trading program, which just came on line, is designed to achieve less emission reductions than a number of the California Air Resources Board’s sector specific programs. The RGGI states’ decision to auction off 100% of the allowances constitutes a significant policy advance, but the US programs, like other programs, have put about 50% of the achievements available through caps at risk through liberal offset policies. This paper also discusses the role the Clean Air Act will likely play in future nationwide efforts. It concludes that absent a comprehensive climate bill, which will not pass Congress absent major political change, progress will likely remain very slow, fragmented, and unsatisfactory, because of the difficulties involved in reliance on administrative actions to address climate disruption.

Stroke—call for papers

In the USA, someone has a stroke every 40 seconds or so, and stroke is a leading cause of death in most countries. Although improved management has reduced mortality in developed countries, disability and health-care costs remain substantial. Expansion of the obesity map to include developing countries, and an elevated risk of stroke in South Asian men, for example, mean that the need for prevention and treatment of stroke can only increase. To coincide with the 20th European Stroke Con ference in Hamburg, Germany, on May 24–27, 2010, The Lancet and The Lancet Neurology invite submissions of highquality research on the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke. Randomised trials are especially welcome, but we also encourage submission of other studies with the potential to change practice. All articles should be submitted via the journals’ online submission systems, with a covering note stating that the submission is in response to this call, and specifying whether the article should be considered by one or both journals. We look forward to reading your work, which must be submitted by Feb 21, 2011. Please let us know about studies to be presented at the conference, so that simultaneous electronic publication can be planned.

Emerging Roles of NAD + and Its Metabolites in Cell SignalingA report on the NAD2008 symposium, Hamburg, Germany, 14 to 17 September 2008.

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD(+)) is the universal currency of energy metabolism and electron transfer. Recent studies indicate that apart from its role as a coenzyme, NAD(+) and its metabolites also function in cell signaling pathways; for example, they are substrates for nucleotide-metabolizing enzymes and ligands for extra- and intracellular receptors and ion channels. Moreover, the NAD(+) and NAD(+) phosphate metabolites adenosine 5'-diphosphoribose (ADP-ribose), cyclic ADP-ribose, and nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAADP) have emerged as key second messengers in Ca(2+) signaling. A symposium in Hamburg, Germany, brought together 120 researchers from various fields, who were all engaged in the molecular characterization of the key players of NAD(+) signaling (www.NAD2008.de).

Pan-Africanism and communism: the Comintern, the ‘Negro Question’ and the First International Conference of Negro Workers, Hamburg 1930

This article charts the history of a now largely forgotten Pan-African gathering, the historic First International Conference of Negro Workers, organised by the Communist International (CI) and held in Hamburg in 1930. The CI had taken an interest in organising Africans and those of African descent in the colonies, and in Europe and the US, from its foundation, but the key factor in developing political work concerned with the ‘Negro Question’ was the founding of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers in 1928 and the activities of black communists. The difficulties experienced in organising the conference in Hamburg suggest that these activists were key to holding this historic event. The Hamburg Conference linked the communist movement with important black trade union and anti-colonial activists in Africa, the Caribbean, the US and Europe and subsequently had a significant influence on the future development of the Pan-African movement.

The WFN comes of age

The WFN comes of age

Cinefest: Hamburg, November 13-21, 2004 (review)

Reviewed by: Cinefest: Hamburg, November 13-21, 2004 Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart (bio) Cinefest: Hamburg, November 13-21, 2004 Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Hamburg, Germany, in November: A low, grey sky, bone-chilling cold, strong winds sweeping in from the North Sea—a perfect time to convene at the Metropolis Theater, a bright and welcoming spot on the Gänsemarkt. Metropolis, Hamburg's venerable art-house cinema/Cinémathèque, was built in the 1950s. It became one of the first "municipal cinemas," joining a movement to make film and film education of the public part of the cultural budgets of cities and other municipalities, on par with the opera (which is next door), theaters, and concert halls. Over the years, its director, Heiner Ross, and his team have made the cinema into one of Hamburg's leading cultural institutions. In 1988, a dozen film historians, film archivists, and cineastes from Eastern and Western Europe met at the Metropolis to commemorate the hundredth birthday of Hamburg's actor and director Reinhold Schünzel and to take part in the First International History Conference on German Language Films, organized by CineGraph, publisher of a definitive lexicon on German film. In the ensuing annual conferences, lost and forgotten films, directors, actors, and actresses from the 1920s and 1930s were rediscovered. Subjects, which revealed new aspects of German film history, included directors Joe May and Richard Oswald, producer Seymour Nebenzahl, Russian émigrés in Berlin, and German-British coproductions in the early sound period, all revealing new aspects of German film history. The conferences have been documented in many excellent publications. [End Page 148] In 1991, Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, the German Federal Film Archive, became co-organizer of the event. To make the public more aware of Germany's rich heritage in film, to give film archivists a public forum for showing their extensive holdings, and to highlight the work of film historians, the team at CineGraph and the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv came up with the idea to launch the first Cinefest: the International Film Festival of German Film Heritage, which ran from November 13–21, 2004, complementing this year's seventeenth Film History Conference in Hamburg. Cinefest then moved to Berlin, Vienna, and Zurich. Two prizes will be given annually at the festival: the Reinhold Schünzel Prize for life achievement in preserving, furthering, and disseminating German film; and the Willi Haas Prize, named after the film critic and scriptwriter (of G. W. Pabst's Joyless Street), for an outstanding international publication on German-language films. Hans-Michael Bock, editor-in-chief of CineGraph, invited me as a guest of honor to Cinefest. The program of the festival and its accompanying Film History Conference looked promising: "Jewish Humor in Early German Film and What Happened to Humor in the years 1933 to 1945." According to Mr. Bock, this year's films focused on a different side of the Weimar period: comedies. "This genre is often neglected by film historians as not 'serious' enough," he said. The scope of the films reaches from the well-known Victor and Victoria (1933) to unknown gems like Famlientag im Hause Prellstein (Family Reunion at the Prellsteins', 1927). A parade of German film stars came to life: Ernst Lubitsch (in front and behind the camera), Curt Bois, Sig Arno, Anny Ondra, Renate Müller, Lilian Harvey, Ossi Oswalda, Karl Valentin, Willy Fritsch, Adele Sandrock, and many others. At the center of the festival was the work of Reinhold Schünzel, both as an actor and director. A personal note: I was pleasantly surprised at opening night to find that I was to be awarded the first Reinhold Schünzel Prize. Dr. Rainer Rother, curator of the German History Museum in Berlin, gave the presentation speech and handed me a beautiful framed document with an original animation cel by Hamburg filmmaker Franz Wintzensen. I then had to give an acceptance speech (which I did, totally off the cuff!). The Willy Haas Prize 2004 went posthumously to William Moritz for Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger. A Special Mentioning went to Icestorm Entertainment for their efforts to bring out on DVD rare films from...

Atlantic History: History of the Atlantic System, 1580–1830

Don’t be fooled by this book’s title; it cannot justly claim to be anything approaching a history of the Atlantic system. This collection of 29 essays grew out of a 1999 conference in Hamburg. The context in which the volume was generated is important, as it explains the collection’s contents. Participants, for example, had to give papers in English or French. The location of the conference generated many essays on German-speaking people and their experiences in the Atlantic, itself a welcome realignment of conventional approaches to Atlantic history. The volume’s scope thus reflects not a coherent effort to engage different aspects of Atlantic history in a systematic fashion, but instead the participation of people who responded to the initial call for papers and those distinguished scholars who were invited to take part. The circumstances of publication further shaped the volume. No author was excluded, aside from those who excluded themselves or who could not prepare an adequate typescript. Moreover, there were no funds for a copy editor. The result is a profoundly uneven collection encumbered by grammatical errors, missing documentation, and stylistic inconsistencies. The editor’s introduction does not help the reader to integrate the individual essays, because it neglects to discuss explicitly the larger themes of the volume or any individual contributions.The essays range enormously in quality. The contributions of several distinguished scholars are worthwhile, although in some instances very similar to pieces already published elsewhere. Nicholas Canny’s essay on the scope, sources, and methods of Atlantic history offers an excellent introduction to the field. James Muldoon offers a nice comparative framework in “Christendom, the Americas, and World Order.” Pieter Emmer’s provocative essay, “In Search of a System: The Atlantic Economy, 1500-1800,” argues that, by economic measures, there was no “Atlantic System” and that the economic impact of that system on Europe was meager. Instead, Emmer insists that the Atlantic system, such as it was, revolved around cultural values. Herbert Klein offers a useful synthesis of slave-trade historiography through 1999. Robin Law’s essay on the Port of Ouidah is particularly noteworthy and should be of special interest to historians of the south Atlantic. Law’s essay is exemplary in its approach to Atlantic history, particularly its insistence “on the continuous involvement of Africans . . . in trans-oceanic exchanges” (p. 350): in this instance, the migration of Brazilians and Afro-Brazilians to Ouidah and the enduring cultural impact of this community there. He offers a refreshing critique of the limits of the Black Atlantic as delineated by Paul Gilroy. Finally, Kenneth Morgan’s essay on the impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on the eighteenth-century British economy revisits a familiar debate, but it does so carefully and thoughtfully, urging readers to eschew an insistence on quantifiable measurements only and instead to consider a range of economic impacts.Four relatively junior scholars contributed strong essays. Ursula Appelt’s “Ethnographic Economies: The Role of Cultural Comparison in English Economic Tracts of the Early Seventeenth Century” employs a method of examining economic tracts for ethnographic purposes that is well worth replicating in other contexts. Claudia Schnurmann explores Dutch and English relations in the seventeenth century and suggests the value of investigating imperial powers in tandem instead of in isolation. William O’Reilly and Christine Hucho contribute innovative essays based on original research on German-speaking migrants.Only seven of the essays (Robin Law’s is the best of the lot) deal with the Ibe-rian Atlantic world. This might seem inadequate to HAHR readers and to those who study the Atlantic in general. These essays privilege economic history (Marina Alfonso Mola on the fleet system, Manuel Bustos Rodríguez on Cádiz, Carlos Martínez Shaw on trade and the Bourbon reforms, Eugenio Pinero on cacao production and household configurations, and Nikolaus Böttcher on Cuba’s trade during the American War for Independence). The two exceptions are Alberto Vieira on the Atlantic islands and Josefina Zoraida Vázquez on Mexican nationalism and the Atlantic revolutions, which offers a refreshing attempt to put Mexico (whose revolution is generally overlooked by scholars of the North Atlantic) into the general narrative of revolution in the Atlantic world. Latin Americanists might be pleasantly surprised to discover an affinity between Argentina and Iceland in the early nineteenth century: Anna Agnarsdottir’s essay on Britain’s efforts to annex Iceland during the Napoleanic Wars offers a fascinating counterfoil to simultaneous British efforts in Buenos Aires.Although, as noted above, there are several excellent essays in this volume and each essay contains a helpful bibliography, on the whole readers would be well served looking elsewhere for new scholarship on the Atlantic world.

How to market titanium: Lower the cost

Titanium continues to be referred to as the “wonder metal,” with an image as untarnished as the metal itself; however, cost remains the barrier to greatly expanded use. Titanium is used when it is the only material that will do the job. For example, approximately 45% of the Advanced Tactical Fighter F-22 Raptor is constructed from titanium. It’s also the most effi cient material for construction of other items such as golf club heads. However, with its bright and positive image, titanium also sees use in higherquality consumable items such as watches, bicycles, jewelry, hammers, and knives (Figure 1). State-of-the-art titanium science, technology, and applications were showcased at the Tenth International Titanium Conference in Hamburg, Germany, 13–18 July 2003. Skillfully chaired by Gerd Lutjering, the conference outdid all previous conferences in this series with more than 730 attendees and in excess of 450 papers. All of the major titanium-producing countries were represented at the conference—United States, Commonwealth of Independent States, Japan, United Kingdom, France, China, and Germany. An interesting development here was the high quality of the presentation aids used by all participants—quite a contrast from the hand-drawn slides used by representatives from China and the Commonwealth of Independent States in the past. It was also apparent that the participants from these countries were cognizant of what it takes to market titanium to the West—quality, consistency, strategic alliances—oh, and cost. The cost theme permeated the conference, both in the formal papers and in hallway discussions. Aerospace was no exception here, with the big commercial guys such as Boeing and AirBus turning to titanium castings to reduce cost and in the military arena, U.S. Air Force programs such as the Metals Affordability Initiative and Forging Supplier Initiative aiming at cost-affordability. The high cost of titanium compared to metals such as steel and aluminum comes from the high extraction and processing/fabrication costs for the wonder metal. Papers at the conference addressed both areas of concern. For example, new extraction processes have benefi ted from the infl ux of multimillions of dollars from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency for techniques such as the Fray-FarthingChen reverse electrolysis approach. In processing, single-melt methods were discussed as well as near-net-shape processes including casting, powder metallurgy (P/M), precision forging, and extrusions. Following the pioneering work by T. Saito in incorporating titanium P/M valves into the Toyota Altezza family automobile fi ve years ago, work in this area appears to be expanding with a greater urgency in Japan and Europe (where gasoline is 3–3.5 times the price it is in the United States). For an update on what’s new in titanium, read the articles featured in this issue of JOM. You’ll note that the papers range from research work on titanium components to dental use of titanium. The articles on titanium in the family automobile and powder metallurgy titanium review the cost issue.

The Critical Exponents of the 2D and 3D Anderson Transitions

Since 1999, the year of the last Localisation conference in Hamburg, there have been several key advances in the numerical analysis of the Anderson transition. A working method for taking account of corrections to scaling when analysing numerical data has been demonstrated with an accompanying improvement in the accuracy of the estimate of the critical exponent. 1) Second, single parameter scaling of the conductance distribution of a three dimensional mesoscopic conductor in the critical regime has been demonstrated. 2,3) This has shown how the phenomenon of mesoscopic conductance fluctuations and the scaling theory of localisation may be reconciled, as well as providing independent numerical estimates of the critical exponent. These advances are welcome, especially as it has proved impossible to estimate the critical exponent reliably with any of the usual analytic approaches such as the � -expansion. Here we report estimates of the critical exponent ν, which describes the divergence of the localisation length, for the Anderson transitions in the orthogonal universality class in three dimensions (3D) and the symplectic universality class in two dimensions (2D). Symplectic symmetry is realised in systems with time reversal symmetry but where spin-rotation symmetry is broken by the spin-orbit interaction. In this case, by simulating an SU(2) model for which corrections to scaling are negligible, we have been able to estimate the exponent far more accurately than previously possible. 4) 2. 3D orthogonal university class

Comment on “Determining energy spectra for separate mass groups from EAS: the quest is still on”

In a recent publication Schatz [Astropart. Phys. (2003), this issue] argues that unambiguous results about energy distributions of primary cosmic-ray mass groups can only be obtained from measured air shower observables if their mutual correlations are explicitly taken into account. This statement is used to challenge preliminary results presented by the KASCADE Collaboration at the International Cosmic Ray Conference in Hamburg, 2001 [KASCADE Collaboration, 27th ICRC, Hamburg, 2001, p. 97; KASCADE Collaboration, Invited Rapporteur and Highlight Papers of ICRC 2001, p. 240]. In this comment it is argued that the criticism of Schatz does not apply to the aforementioned analysis of KASCADE data.

Speech and neurology-chemical impairment correlates

Speech correlates of alcohol/drug impairment and its neurological basis is presented with suggestion for further research in impairment from poly drug/medicine/inhalent/chew use/abuse, and prediagnosis of many neuro- and endocrin-related disorders. Nerve cells all over the body detect chemical entry by smoking, injection, drinking, chewing, or skin absorption, and transmit neurosignals to their corresponding cerebral subsystems, which in turn affect speech centers-Broca’s and Wernick’s area, and motor cortex. For instance, gustatory cells in the mouth, cranial and spinal nerve cells in the skin, and cilia/olfactory neurons in the nose are the intake sensing nerve cells. Alcohol depression, and brain cell damage were detected from telephone speech using IMPAIRLYZER-TM, and the results of these studies were presented at 1996 ASA meeting in Indianapolis, and 2001 German Acoustical Society-DEGA conference in Hamburg, Germany respectively. Speech based chemical Impairment measure results were presented at the 2001 meeting of ASA in Chicago. New data on neurotolerance based chemical impairment for alcohol, drugs, and medicine shall be presented, and shown not to fully support NIDA-SAMSHA drug and alcohol threshold used in drug testing domain.

Announcement: Hamburg Conference 2002

Announcement: Hamburg Conference 2002

In Brief

The Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh has announced that Alan G. Marshall will receive the 2002 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award at the society’s annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, next March. Marshall is being recognized for his “co-invention (with Melvin Comisarow) of the Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) technique and other advancements he has stimulated in mass spectrometry.” He is the Kasha Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University and director of the ion cyclotron resonance program at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida.At its annual meeting held this month in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Eastern Analytical Symposium presented the 2001 EAS awards to seven individuals, two of whom conduct physics-related work. Ray Freeman received the EAS Award for Achievements in Magnetic Resonance. He retired in 1999 as the Plummer Professor of Magnetic Resonance in the chemistry department at the University of Cambridge in the UK and is currently writing an introductory book on magnetic resonance. The EAS Award for Achievements in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy was given to Yukihiro Ozaki, a professor of chemistry at Kwansei-Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Japan.The Commission on Cosmic Rays of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics handed out its awards for 2001 in August at the International Cosmic Ray Conference in Hamburg, Germany. The Shakti P. Duggal Award went to Teresa Montaruli in recognition of “significant contributions to cosmic-ray physics by a young scientist of outstanding ability.” Montaruli is an associate researcher with a joint appointment at Bari University and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), both in Italy. Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg received the O’Ceallaigh Medal for “outstanding contributions to cosmic-ray physics.” He is a scientific adviser at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow and a professor at the Moscow Physics and Technology Institute. Reuven Ramaty was acknowledged with the Yodh Prize for “significant and outstanding contributions to the field of cosmic-ray astrophysics.” A senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, he was informed of this honor shortly before his death this past April.This past July, Gordon E. Pike was appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of Materials Research. He is concurrently working as a senior manager at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He replaces Robert P. Frankenthal, who retired from the journal after three years as its editor-in-chief. Frankenthal continues to work as a consultant, primarily to Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Royce Zia won an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award this year from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany. He is a professor of physics and codirector of the Center for Stochastic Processes in Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. The foundation acknowledged Zia for his “seminal contributions to the theory of critical and interfacial phenomena,” adding that he “has played a pioneering role in recent years in advancing our understanding of the statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium systems, in particular, driven diffusive systems.” The award recognizes past accomplishments of winners, who are invited to carry out research projects of their choice in Germany. Zia will conduct his research at the University of Essen with Hans Werner Diehl. Beverly Karplus Hartline joined Argonne National Laboratory last April as deputy director. She previously was the acting deputy associate laboratory director of the strategic and supporting research directorate at Los Alamos National Laboratory.The International Centre for Diffraction Data, located in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, presented the 2001 J. D. Hanawalt Award in August to Raymond P. Goehner and Joseph R. Michael, both of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for “excellence in the field of x-ray powder diffraction.” After receiving the award, Goehner, manager in the materials characterization department, and Michael, distinguished member of the technical staff, both presented the Hanawalt Award Lecture entitled “Phase Identification Using Electron Backscatter Diffraction in the SEM [Scanning Electron Microscope]: A Powerful Tool for Materials Science” at the annual Denver x-ray conference in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.Earlier this year, Lyle Schwartz became the new director of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Schwartz, previously the director of the aerospace and materials sciences directorate at that office, replaced Joseph F. Janni, who retired in March after five years as director. Janni plans to work as a research consultant in the science community.© 2001 American Institute of Physics.

Environmental effects of aviation

The impacts of aviation upon the human and natural environment are matters of growing concern, as the volume of air transport operations grows and our consciousness of its effects deepens. Research into these effects and means for their alleviation is increasingly transnational in character, as was clearly demonstrated by the range of project activity described at the Hamburg conference.