ILLUMINATING THE

2015 A I P ANNUAL REPORT

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ILLUMINATING THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES What does the American Institute of Physics do, fundamentally? What is its purpose? What is its role in our society? These questions arise from those on the periphery of the scientific community, but they also are considered on a recurring basis by those most closely associated with the Institute to make sure we stay on track. Simply put, AIP exists to illuminate science—to bring it into the public eye, to underscore its impact on our way of life, to advocate for its broad-based support, to cultivate a diversity of students in their education and physical scientists in their careers. AIP exists to shine light on the physical sciences community, its history, makeup, and infusion into varied fields and sectors of our economy. The ten Member Societies of AIP work fervently to support their disciplines and their individual members; AIP extends their reach and augments their offerings in our shared mission to advance the physical sciences.

We have chosen “Illuminating Science” for the theme of this report not only because it is our raison d’être, but also in honor of the 2015 International Year of Light (IYL). This initiative aimed to highlight “to the citizens of the world the importance of light and optical technologies in their lives, for their futures, and for the development of society” (light2015.org). AIP is proud to have been a founding sponsor of IYL, whose activities and events were largely carried out by Member Societies APS and OSA, Affiliated Society SPIE, and a host of other organizations and corporations throughout the world. Together, we amplify our collective voice.

We hope that you learn a little more about AIP through our 2015 high-lights, and we invite you to join us in our efforts to shine the light on science—now and in the years to come.

Robert G.W. Brown Chief Executive Officer

Rudolf Ludeke Chair, 2016 Board of Directors

A IP ADDS BENEF ITS FOR EVERY MEMBER SOCIETY

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AAPM American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 1973

AAPT American Association of Physics Teachers, 1932

AAS American Astronomical Society, 1966

ACA American Crystallographic Association, 1966

AMS American Meteorological Society, 2013

APS American Physical Society, 1931

ASA Acoustical Society of America, 1931

AVS Science & Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing, 1976

OSA The Optical Society, 1931

SOR The Society of Rheology, 1931

*AIP also has 24 Affiliated Societies

OTHER MEMBER ORGANIZAT IONSSigma Pi Sigma

(the physics honor society)

Society of Physics Students

Corporate Associates

Professional pieces of journalism, high-production-value videos, and insightful commentaries written by reporters and scientists comprise Inside Science News Service—AIP’s only news product completely aimed at the general public.

The Huffington Post published an Inside Science TV video exploring what Earth would be like with no moon. The exposure helped to make it the most viewed Inside Science TV video on YouTube, with more than 126,000 views to date.

The Washington Post printed its first Inside Science articles in 2015, including arti-cles on the marching dynamics of ants and the physics of golf.

In 2015 AIP worked to get exciting research content from scientific society meetings of APS, ASA, AVS, BPS, and OSA into mainstream media. This infographic was prepared to promote a talk given at AVS’s International Symposium.

For the last several years, we have been building Inside Science’s distribution, forming partnerships with national and international mainstream media outlets and translating more content into Chinese.

PHYSICS TODAYPhysics Today magazine is sent to all 120,000 mem-bers of AIP’s Member Societies. In a popular July 2015 feature article, former OSA president Philip Bucksbaum of Stanford University and APS fellow Nora Berrah of the University of Connecticut surveyed recent progress in harnessing one of the most remarkable new tools for probing the nanostructure of matter on ultrashort time scales: the x-ray free-electron laser.

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF LIGHT CORNERSTONE EVENTIn September, AIP’s Society of Physics Students (SPS) and Inside Science teamed up with OSA, APS, and many organizations and government agencies to hold “Wonders of Light: Family Science Fun” at the Smithsonian’s American Indian Museum.

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF LIGHT

2015IYL inspired hundreds of local events around the world. The SPS chapter at the Univ. of Oregon partnered with a local OSA chapter for an outreach event at a Title I school.

This infographic hit the media wires in time for Halloween.

At Inside Science’s green screen exhibit, children became TV correspondents, reporting live in front of the Aurora Bo-realis or the International Space Station.

ENLIGHTENING SOCIETY WITH EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGEBRINGING SCIENCE INTO THE PUBLIC EYE

ILLUMINATING SCIENCE IN LEGISLATIONThe Physical Science Education Policy Coalition (PSEPC)—AIP, AAPT, AAS, AMS, APS, and OSA—continued to be a voice for the physical sciences community in federal STEM education policy and decision making. PSEPC’s 2015 successes include:

FYI: THE AIP BULLETIN OF SCIENCE POLICY NEWS FYI continued to deliver authoritative, timely, and objective updates to leaders and other mem-bers of the physical sciences community. In 2015 FYI began to significantly cover climate science and published a series of updates on Congress’ increasingly assertive oversight of the National Science Foundation and its gold standard peer review process.

Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) speaks with the US Physics Team about science-relevant legislation, encouraging them to find their own way to serve society.

CONGRESSIONAL VISITS AIP Government Relations staff deliver longstanding support to Member Societies in hosting, organizing, and staffing member visits to educate and lobby the US Congress. During the AAPT- and AIP federation–sponsored US Physics Team finals competition, the nation’s top-scoring high school physics students competed for a spot at the 46th International Physics Olympiad in Mumbai, India. AIP also helped arrange a day for them on Capitol Hill to meet their members of Congress.

1The incorporation of APS-suggested bill language in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and 2 Delivering a letter to every member of Congress

endorsing ESSA and highlighting its strong STEM education provisions shortly before enactment.

Federal Funding

Climate Science

NASA

DOE

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SHINING LIGHT ON THE COMMUNITY OF PHYSICAL SCIENTISTSAIP’s Statistical Research Center (SRC) highlighted the situation of African Americans with bachelor’s degrees in the physical sciences and engineering. The number of African-Americans earning bachelor’s degrees in these fields has increased, but the proportion

is down. Moreover, growth in the total degrees granted in these fields far out-paces that of African-Americans.

In 2015 the SRC worked with AAPM, AAPT, AAS, AMS, and APS on various statistical research needs. Collaborations included partnering with AAPT on grants and site visit surveys for the Committee for the Status of Women in Astronomy and Physics with AAS and APS, respectively.

RECOGNIZING SCIENCE’S STRONGEST VOICES2015 Andrew Gemant awardee Ainissa Ramirez was honored for broadly promoting the importance of STEM education to audiences across the United States and around the world. Ramirez gave her award lecture to a public audience at AAPT’s 2015 Summer Meeting at the University of Maryland.

BACHELOR’S DEGREES IN PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING

2013 4.9% 5,074

2013 4.8% 1,365

African American Other Races

2003 5.8% 4,611

2003 5.3% 980

HISTORY OF SCIENCE ALIGHT WITH NEW DIGITAL RESOURCESFor more than 50 years, the AIP Center for History of Physics has interviewed, pre-served, and provided access to the stories of outstanding physical scientists. In 2015 AIP upgraded its Oral History transcript website, making it easier than ever before to browse, search, and locate related items in other collections.

AIP’s Niels Bohr Library & Archives proudly launched a new digital repository, shining a light on its unique collection of books, manuscripts, and ar-chival collections. The repository displays items never before available online, including scans of rare and brittle books documenting the development and history of physics, un-published autobiographies, biographies, and reminiscences of laboratories and other in-stitutions.

Image from an early work on mechanics by Martinus van Marum, 1785.

HISTORY FOR EVERYONEThe Center organized three Lyne Starling Trimble Science Heritage Lectures in 2015. The interested public came to hear historians speak about key figures in science.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE BY WOMEN AND MINORITIESThe Center for History of Physics sponsored a weeklong workshop for K-12 teachers, “Telling the Stories of Women and African Americans in the Physical Sciences.” At the workshop teachers worked to improve AIP’s Teaching Guides, and AIP sought their guidance for improving the resources.

David Kaiser, Germeshausen Professor of History of Science at MIT, shared with a public audience an illuminating overview of Einstein’s Legacy: Studying Gravity in War and Peace.

Engineering

Physical Sciences

The Society of Physics Students (SPS) chartered 16 new undergraduate chapters, bringing the global total to 720. Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honor society housed within SPS, added 12 chapters to the rolls to reach 534. SPS expands awareness of many fields through its joint Member Society membership program.

Outstanding Research Award winners Amanda Landcastle (SUNY Brockport) and Ariel Matalon (Univ. of Chicago) represented SPS at the International Conference of Physics Students in Zagreb, Croatia. Landcastle now serves as vice president of the International Association of Physics Students.

SPS hosted research sessions, workshops, and receptions at national meetings of seven of the ten AIP Member Societies. SPS also expands awareness of many fields through its joint membership program with the Member Societies.

Fifteen zones held regional meetings in 2015. The SPS chapter of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, hosted the Zone 13 Meeting in October in conjunction with regional sections of APS and AAPT. About 300 professors and students gathered for talks, colloquium sessions,

Frank Ashley of Texas A&M with his hands-on creation, assembling and balancing nails. Photo by Lori Scott, Baylor University.

Lancastle and Matalon at the 2015 ICPS in Zagreb, Croatia.

SPS at Eastern Illinois University hosted a do-it-yourself rideable hovercraft race, where teams competed for bragging rights and the illustrious Hover Cup. Audience members also took turns riding the crafts, and students shared their design/build experiences. Photos courtesy of Stevie Momaly.

and hands-on learning, presenting their research across all major fields within physics.

Local SPS chapters play an active role on campus and in their communities; many receive funding and outreach awards from the SPS National Office.

Thanks to generous support, SPS expanded its scholarships to individuals:

- Two scholarships (with Science Systems and Applications, Inc.), for academic excellence and underrepresented minorities

- Mary Beth Monroe Memorial Scholarship (with AAPT), for future educators

- Aysen Tunca Memorial Scholarship (with a donor), for female STEM majors

ENGAGING STUDENTS ON MANY LEVELS

HIGHLIGHTING A FUTURE OF BRILLIANT POSSIBILITIES

AIP enlightens young professionals about the ex-citing—yet often hidden—career opportunities their scientific backgrounds afford them. AVS joined AIP in cohosting the 2015 Industrial Physics Forum on the applications of mesoscale science. SOR also partnered with AIP on a career panel at their an-nual meeting.

AIP’s Statistical Research Center helped illuminate potential careers for PhD physicists in the private sector based on results from a survey of mid-ca-reer PhD physicists. Not only did PhD physicists in the private sector find their jobs intellectually chal-lenging, they also typically had higher salaries than those at government labs and academia.

GRADSCHOOLSHOPPER.COM AIP marked its 50th year in publishing its directory of graduate programs in physics, astronomy, and related fields. GradSchoolShopper.com profiles hundreds of programs with comparative in-formation on degrees, admissions, research specialties, and more, helping prospective graduate students choose the best program for a rewarding career.

AIP’S CAREER NETWORKAIP’s Career Network (the online jobsites of AAPM, AAPT, APS, AVS, the IEEE Computer Society, Physics Today, and SPS) grew the monthly average number of jobs posted to 350, bringing even more varied employment opportunities to the entire community, from students to PhD-level scientists. In 2015, the Network also hosted four career development webinars for job seekers.

A metallic microlattice, one of the lightest structural materials known to science, atop a dandelion seed head. © 2016 HRL Laboratories.

PHYSICAL SCIENTISTS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR

AVS-AIP INDUSTRIAL PHYSICS FORUM

AIP PUBLISHINGAIP Publishing supports the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of AIP as

its not-for-profit scholarly publisher. AIP Publishing’s portfolio comprises 18 highly

regarded, peer-reviewed journals. AIP Publishing is also honored to be the publisher of

choice for six of AIP’s Member Societies—AAPM, AAPT, ACA, ASA, SOR, and AVS—and

two Publishing Partners—Chinese Physical Society and Laser Institute of America.

AIP PUBLISHING’S TEAM OF PUBLISHING PROFESSIONALS PROVIDED THE PRODUCTS,TOOLS, AND EXPERTISE THAT ENHANCED AVS’S PUBLISHING PORTFOLIO. THE AIPPUBLISHING TEAM IS HIGHLY INNOVATIVE, PROACTIVE, AND RESPONSIVE, ALWAYS APLEASURE TO WORK WITH, AND THEY HAVE ESSENTIALLY BECOME AN EXTENSIONOF THE AVS OPERATION.

— Yvonne Towse, Managing Director, AVS

EXTENDING AND AMPLIFYING OUR PARTNERS’ REACHRepresenting the spectrum of the physical sciences, our Member Societies and Publishing Partners are the backbone of AIP Publishing. We deliver strategic leadership and operational and technical excellence to meet the needs of each partner.

SUITE OF SERVICESFrom peer review to sales and marketing and customer support, our suite of publishing services helps our partners achieve their goals by delivering excel-lence with a personal touch.

WORKING IN COLLABORATIONIn 2015, on behalf of our Member Societies and Publishing Partners, our team:

• Fully implemented a team of dedicat-ed journal and marketing managers to more effectively promote partner publications to their traditional com-munities and to an extended global audience.

• Initiated marketing campaigns high-lighting journal content, resulting in a 20% increase in full-text downloads.

• Increased by 30% the numbers of submissions and published articles for Structural Dynamics, co-pub-lished with ACA.

• Began development and testing of a new interactive tool to enable researchers to view spectral data sets.

• Tightened journal editorial workflows to reduce publication times, utilizing the services of Origin Editorial.

• Delivered quarterly journal reports to drive strategic direction and journal goals.

• Improved functionality for online journal presence with journal-spe-cific search, e-first publishing, and a referrer-based access option for society members.

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OUTSTANDING QUALITYIn 2014, with close to 383,000 total citations in the Applied Physics category of the Journal Citation Report (JCR/Thomson Reuters), Applied Physics Letters and Journal of Applied Physics once again retained their positions as first and second most cited, respectively. They accounted for about one- quarter of total citations in this JCR category comprised of 143 journals.

The Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP) continued to lead the Atomic, Molecular & Chemical Physics category in total citations in 2014 with nearly 195,000 citations. In fact, just under one-third of all citations from the 34 journals in this category are attributed to JCP.

Data from the 2014 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015)

APPLIED PHYSICS ATOMIC, MOLECULAR & CHEMICAL PHYSICS

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24.7% of total citationsApplied Physics Letters and Journal of Applied Physics

Other141 journals

AIP2 journals

30.7% of total citationsThe Journal of Chemical Physics

Other33 journals

AIP1 journal

RIGOROUS AND FAIR PEER REVIEWIn 2015, 25,530 researchers served as peer reviewers for AIP Publishing jour-nals, providing balanced, actionable feedback to advance authors’ research and careers. Our reviewers make a vital contribution to advancing science.

GLOBAL DISSEMINATIONResearchers from nearly 4,000 in-stitutions in more than 195 coun-tries across the globe accessed articles from AIP Publish-ing journals over 21.5 million times in 2015.

ACCELERATING SCIENCEAs the pace of global research accelerates, speed to publication is increasingly important to scientists in all disciplines. AIP Publishing has undertaken a series of strategic moves to reduce the time to publication for our peer-reviewed publi-cations. For example, the average number of days from submission to publication in the Journal of Applied Physics dropped from 139 days in 2012 to 105 days in 2015, a 24% reduction.

OPEN ACCESS: SHARING SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENT AIP Publishing’s mission is to accelerate science and broadly disseminate new research results to scientists worldwide. We facilitate this by offering authors Gold, Green, and Hybrid Open Access options. AIP Publishing continues to work in tandem with representatives from the library and research communities as well as funding agencies to develop sustainable solutions for public access to federally funded research, such as the CHORUS initiative. As a founding member of CHORUS, we were one of the first publishers to make articles available via the CHORUS system by publishing the first article with the US Department of Energy on October 1, 2015.

AIP Publishing’s Gold Open Access journals (publication funded by an article processing charge paid by the author or other sponsor) continued to develop in 2015:

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AIPThe American Institute of Physics is a federation of scientific societies in the physical sciences, representing scientists, engineers, and educators. AIP offers authoritative information, services, and expertise in physics education and student programs, science communication, government relations, career services for science and engineering professionals, statis-tical research in physics employment and education, industrial outreach, and history of the physical sciences. AIP publishes Physics Today, the most influential and closely followed magazine of the physics community, and is also home to the Society of Physics Students and the Niels Bohr Library and Archives. AIP owns AIP Publishing LLC, a scholarly publisher in the physical and related sciences. www.aip.org

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MEMBERS OF THE AIP BOARD OF DIRECTORSLouis J. Lanzerotti, 2015 ChairRobert G.W. Brown,

Chief Executive Officer Judith Flippen-Anderson,

Corporate SecretaryJ. Daniel Bourland (AAPM)Charles Carter (ACA)

Beth Cunningham (AAPT)Robert Doering (At-Large)Judy R. Dubno (ASA)Michael D. Duncan (OSA)Kate Kirby (APS)Rudolf Ludeke (AVS)Kevin B. Marvel (AAS)Faith Morrison (SOR)Dian Seidel (AMS)Note: Rudolf Ludeke became

Chair in January 2016

AIP OFFICERSLouis J. Lanzerotti,

2015 Chair, Board of DirectorsRobert G.W. Brown,

Chief Executive OfficerCatherine O’Riordan,

Chief Operating OfficerCatherine “Gigi” Swartz,

Chief Financial OfficerJudith Flippen-Anderson,

Corporate Secretary

AIP PublicationsPhysics TodayComputing Science & Engineering

(jointly with the IEEE Computer Society)Graduate Programs in Physics,

Astronomy, and Related FieldsHistory NewsletterInside Science news productsFYI, science policy news bulletinFocus on, statistical reportsAIP Matters, newsletterSPS Observer (Society

of Physics Students)Radiations Magazine (Sigma

Pi Sigma)

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MEMBERS OF THE AIP PUBLISHING BOARD OF MANAGERS Louis J. Lanzerotti, 2015 Chair John Haynes, Chief Executive

Officer Robert G.W. Brown David Campbell Beth Cunningham Judith Flippen-Anderson A. Jeffrey Giacomin Marsha Lester Greg Tananbaum Charles Schmid Alan Singleton Ivan Petrov John Regazzi Note: Rudolf Ludeke became

Chair in January 2016

AIP PUBLISHING IS THE PUBLISHER OF: AIP Advances AIP Conference Proceedings Applied Physics Letters APL Materials Applied Physics Reviews Biomicrofluidics Chaos Journal of Applied Physics The Journal of Chemical

Physics Journal of Mathematical

Physics Journal of Physical and

Chemical Reference Data Journal of Renewable and

Sustainable Energy

Low Temperature Physics Physics of Fluids Physics of Plasmas Review of Scientific Instruments Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics

Co-published with the Chinese Physical Society

Journal of Laser Applications Co-published with the Laser Institute of America

Structural Dynamics Co-published with the American Crystallographic Association

MEMBER SOCIETY JOURNALS PUBLISHED THROUGH AIP PUBLISHING The Journal of the Acoustical

Society of America – ASA Medical Physics – AAPM American Journal of Physics – AAPT The Physics Teacher – AAPT JVST A – AVS JVST B – AVS Biointerphases – AVS Surface Science Spectra – AVS Journal of Rheology – SOR

MEMBER SOCIETIES AND YEAR OF JOINING AIPAAPM American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 1973

AAPT American Association of Physics Teachers, 1932

AAS American Astronomical Society, 1966

ACA American Crystallographic Association, 1966

AMS American Meteorological Society, 2013

APS American Physical Society, 1931

ASA Acoustical Society of America, 1931

AVS Science & Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing, 1976

OSA The Optical Society, 1931

SOR The Society of Rheology, 1931

*AIP also has 24 Affiliated Societies

OTHER MEMBER ORGANIZATIONSSigma Pi Sigma

(the physics honor society)

Society of Physics Students

Corporate Associates