Current month March 2010 (L03001-L03004, P03001-P03011)

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2008 JSTAT Young Scientist Prize
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 JSTAT prize for young scientists. Till Bargheer, Niklas Beisert and Florian Loebbert (Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam, Germany) have won the award for their letter "Boosting nearest-neighbour to long-range integrable spin chains". We congratulate the winners.

We want to thank all of the entrants of the 2008 competition as well as the panel of JSTAT Advisory Board members and editors who assessed the nominated papers. Part of the assessors' report on the winning article follows:

"The letter by Bargheer, Beisert and Loebbert treats a relatively new class of integrable quantum spin chains, with 'perturbatively long-range' interactions. The novel feature of these models is that they involve an expansion parameter λ, and the range of the interaction grows with the order of expansion in λ. The work makes several important steps in the development of this theory: it is shown how the notions of bi-local charges and the boost operator extend to this class of models, thus giving rise to Yangian symmetry. It looks plausible that the construction extends to all orders in λ. If so, interestingly, the symmetry gives a natural explanation for the structure of the 'dressing factor', Eq. (29), conjectured previously in [14]. It is possible that understanding the role of the 'boost' will eventually lead to an understanding of the mysterious 'crossing relations' that are at the heart of all recent progress in these models. Obviously, the main interest of this class of models is in the realm of Maldacena's gauge/AdS duality. "

StatPhys24
The 24th IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics, StatPhys24, will be held from 19-23 July 2010 in Cairns, Australia. Cairns lies in the tropical north of Australia. Various satellite meetings will be held in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region in the lead up to and following StatPhys24. The registration for StatPhys24 is now open at www.statphys.org.au.

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