Short Biography of Invited Speakers: Gene D. Sprouse is the Editor ...

Short Biography of Invited Speakers:
Gene D. Sprouse, Editor in Chief, the
American Physical Society (APS)
Title: After fifty years of Physical
Review Letters, where do we go from
here?
Gene D. Sprouse is the Editor in Chief of the American Physical Society (APS) since March,
2007. He is on leave from Stony Brook University, where he is Distinguished Professor of Physics.
Sprouse received his PhD at Stanford in 1968, and joined the faculty at Stony Brook in 1970. He rose
through the ranks to become full professor in 1979, and served as department chair from 1990 to 1996. He
served as director of the Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Stony Brook for 13 years. His research interests
include nuclear structure, neutral atom trapping, and laser spectroscopy of the radioactive atom francium,
the heaviest alkali. He is also interested in the development of radioactive beams. Sprouse was elected an
APS Fellow in 1984.
The APS Editor In Chief is one of the Society's three operating officers, and oversees the editorial
staff and the journal production staff associated with all of APS's research journals: The Physical Review,
Physical Review Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics. Since joining APS, Sprouse has initiated new
programs to recognize outstanding referees and to allow authors with Japanese, Korean and Chinese names
to have their names listed in characters if they wish. APS has recently started a new free online journal
"Physics" that contains introductions to recent work that are written for non-specialists, with the goal to help
communicate new developments at a level that all physicists can understand.

Chih-Kang (Ken) Shih, Dept. of Physics,
The University of Texas at Austin
Title: Quantum control of nanostructures:
From atomic scale control of physical
properties to coherent control of electronic
states
Professor Chih-Kang (Ken) Shih received his PhD at Stanford in 1988. After 2 years of
postdoctoral research at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center NY, he joined the faculty at the University of
Texas at Austin in 1990. He rose through the ranks to become full professor in 2001. In 2004 he was
appointed Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. He was
elected APS Fellow in 2007. His research interests include Quantum engineering of metallic
nanostructures; Collective and quasiparticle properties in nanostructures; and Quantum information
processing and coherence/decoherence in semiconductor quantum dots.
Li-Chyong Chen, Center for Condensed
Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University
Title: Get involved in international
professional activities: Bridging East and
West, making friends and impacts in scientific
world
Li-Chyong Chen is now a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Condensed Matter
Sciences (CCMS) at National Taiwan University (NTU). She received her B. S. in Physics from NTU (1981)
and Ph. D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University (1989). In 2007, she was offered an honorary
doctoral degree from Linkoping University, Sweden. After completing her graduate study, she joined the
Materials Research Center at General Electric Corporate Research and Development, Schenectady, NY
(1989-1994), as a technical staff member. She returned to Taiwan in 1994 assuming a faculty position at
NTU. Over the last decade, her expertise has been mainly in the field of carbon and nitride materials. Her

group has established a strong program on one-dimensional nanomaterials, including carbon nanotubes,
group-III nitride nanowires and Si nanotips. She is also specialized in integrated micro-devices for optical,
electrical, energy and sensing applications. Dr. Chen owns 8 patents and has written 7 book chapters and
published over 220 papers in internationally referred journals, including Nature Material and Nature
Nanotechnology. Her work on nanopeapod published in Nature Material 2006 has been selected as a Fast
Breaking Paper and a few other papers have also been listed as highly-cited papers by ISI. Dr. Chen has
organized quite a number of professional meetings, among which the most recent one is the MRS 2009 Fall
Meeting wherein she is appointed as one of the four Meeting Chairs, and served on the Editorial Advisory
Board of a few journals, including the Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences, Taylor and
Francis since 2004. She was also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology
B-Microelectronics and Nanostructures (2004-2006). In recognition of her academic accomplishment, she
has received a few national and international awards such as the Academia Sinica Outstanding Young
Scholar Research Award in 2000, the National Science Council Outstanding Research Award in 2007, the
Distinguished Visiting Research Fellowship, by Royal Academy of Engineering, UK in 2008 and
International Federation of Inventors’ Association Lady Prize in 2009. More recently, she was named a
Laureate of the 22 nd Khwarizmi International Award, Iran in 2009.