Particle Physicists Meet Halfway

The APS Division of Particles and Fields held a joint meeting with their colleagues from the Japanese Physical Society in Honolulu. The meeting, which ran from October 29 to November 3, was styled the Joint Meeting of Pacific Region Particle Physics Communities, with about 650 attendees, from not only the US and Japan but other Pacific Rim nations such as China, Korea, Canada and Taiwan. Shown here enjoying a moment of Hawaii sunshine on Waikiki beach are Junko Shigemitsu (Ohio State), Mavourneen Wilcox (U. of Hawaii), Hirokazu Ishino (Tokyo Institute of Technology), and Wei Wang (Boston University)
Photo by Kay Kinoshita