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  • January 2008...
    ICMT director, Paul Goldbart elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) .

  • December 2007...
    A commemorative stamp is scheduled to be released by the U.S. Postal Service on March 6, 2008, with this description: "Theoretical physicist John Bardeen (1908-1991) co-invented the transistor, arguably the most important invention of the 20th century. Bardeen also collaborated on the first fundamental explanation of superconductivity at low temperatures, a theory which has had a profound impact on many fields of physics." [N.Y. Times article about John Bardeen: When Superconductivity Became Clear (to Some), 01/08/2008]

  • October 2, 2007...
    ICMT member Gordon Baym is to share the 2008 American Physical Society Lars Onsager Prize for his "fundamental applications of statistical physics to quantum fluids, including Fermi liquid theory and ground-state properties of dilute quantum gases, and for bringing conceptual unity to these areas." Honored with Baym will be Christopher Pethick of NORDITA and Tin-Lun Ho of the Ohio State University.

  • October 2, 2007...
    ICMT member Ken Schweizer will be the recipient of the 2008 American Physical Society Polymer Physics Prize for his "outstanding theoretical contributions to the fundamental understanding of the structure and dynamics in polymer melts, polymer blends, polymer-particle composites, and glasses."

  • September 26, 2007...
    ICMT member Nigel Goldenfeld has been named to a Swanlund chair at the University of Illinois, the highest endowed title at the university.