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SPP is a member society of the AAPPS and is now accepting nominations for the AAPPS-APCTP Chen Ning Yang Award.  Please send your nominations to hq@spp-online.org on or before 24 April 2019.  Nominees should demonstrate a commitment to both excellence in scientific research and development of leaders in physics in the Asia Pacific region. The following award guidelines are provided in the CN Yang Award website.

Background

The CN Yang Award has been established to honor young researchers with prominent research achievements and to promote the development of leaders in physics in the Asia Pacific region. The Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) and the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) have jointly established the AAPPS-APCTP Chen-Ning Yang Award (CN Yang Award).

Eligibility

1. The awardee must have obtained a PhD in physics or an equivalent degree no more than 10 years
   prior to the date of nomination.
2. The awardee must have done the work to be awarded when s/he had an affiliation to an institution in a member country/region.
3. The awardee must have an affiliation to an institution in a member country/region at the time of 
   nomination.

Nomination Package

1. A letter of not more than 5000 characters explaining the nominee’s achievements
   with a citation having less than 300 characters.
2. The nominee’s contact information.
3. The nominee’s biographical information, including the date when the nominee’s PhD was received and the institution where the PhD was awarded.
4. The nominee’s publication list, including the URL information where the complete texts of five of the nominee’s foremost publications can be retrieved.

Sessions of the APPC14

1. Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Gravitation
2. Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics
3. Condensed Matter, Semiconductor & Materials Physics
4. Particle Physics
5. Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
6. Optics & Laser
7. Synchrotron Radiation
8. Statistical Physics & Bioinformatics
9. Complex Systems, Mathematical Physics & Computational Physics
10. Biological and Medical Physics
11. Physics Education
12. Magnetism & High Magnetic Field
13. Nuclear Physics
14. Plasma Physics
15. Quantum Information

Selection Process

A selection committee, appointed by the AAPPS Division, the AAPPS and the APCTP, shall determine the recipient of the prize from the nominations, taking into account the overall quality and significance of the contribution and the creativity exhibited in the contribution. 

Prize

The prize consists of a US$1000 monetary prize and a certificate for each recipient. The prizes will be presented to the awardees by the AAPPS President at the APPC 2019, and the recipients are invited to give talks at APPC 2019 and publish review papers to the AAPPS Bulletin.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought Remote Learning to the grassroots level of education in all disciplines including physics. This webinar series aims to start a dialogue on remote learning in physics and document the challenges and best practices from stake holders.

Webinar I: Course Packets (Pre-semester preparations) (Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3)
Webinar II: Flipped Classrooms and Remote Learning (Pt 1, Pt 2)
Webinar III: Establishing the Student-Teacher Relationship (Pt 1, Pt 2)
Webinar IV: Lab skill sets, thesis, mentoring, and remote collaborations (Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3)

During the webinars, the following panel members will share their unique experiences and challenges related to remote learning and describe how they overcame these challenges.

• Webinar I: July 21 (Tuesday, 2pm-3pm)
  Ivan Culaba, AdMU
  Jacque Lynn Gabayno, Mapúa University
  Maria Veronica Torralba, PSHS
  Cristine Villagonzalo, NIP UPD
  Percival Almoro (Moderator, SPP)
• Webinar II: July 21 (Tuesday, 3pm-4pm)
  Jose Perico Esguerra, NIP UPD
  Jo-Ann Mesias, Bicol University
  Romeric Pobre, DLSU
  Reinabelle Reyes, Science Says, Knowledge Channel
  Rhenish C. Simon, UPM and Pueblo Science PH
  Percival Almoro (Moderator, SPP)
• Webinar III: July 28 (Tuesday, 2pm-3pm)
  Eduardo Cuansing, UPLB
  Sarah Johnson, UPM
  Jae Lord Dexter Filipinas, MSU Marawi
  Sheryl Lyn C. Monterola, UPD
  Giovanni Tapang, NIP UPD
  Percival Almoro (Moderator, SPP)
• Webinar IV: July 28 (Tuesday, 3pm-4pm)
  Cesareo Bermundo, ScienceStar Corporation
  Eric Galapon, NIP UPD
  Giovanni Malapit, UPB
  Arnel Salvador, NIP UPD
  Vallerie Ann Samson, PNRI
  Percival Almoro (Moderator, SPP)

Academician Jose B. Cruz, Jr. will be the keynote speaker for the 38th SPP Physics Conference in Legazpi City, Albay. He will share his ideas and thoughts on Complexity Challenges in Engineered Systems.

Jose B. Cruz, Jr. received the BS degree (summa cum laude) from the University of the Philippines, SM degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and PhD degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), all in electrical engineering.  He had been Dean of the College of Engineering at Ohio State University (OSU), Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) and Associate Head of the ECE Department at UIUC. He is Professor Emeritus at UIUC, UCI, and OSU.

Dr. Cruz is a Life Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He received the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award; the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal; the ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Research Award; the IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award; and the IEEE Education Society William E. Sayle III Achievement Award. He is a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and an Academician of the National Academy of Science and Technology of the Philippines.

Dr. Cruz authored or coauthored seven books and more than 300 journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters on sensitivity analysis in circuits and systems, and feedback strategies in decision making for complex systems.

Dr. Cruz served as President of the IEEE Control Systems Society, a member of the IEEE Board of Directors, IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities, and IEEE Vice President for Publications. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in Illinois and Ohio and a Licensed Professional Electrical Engineer (PEE) in the Philippines.