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2000 Assembly of Delegates
Nominees for Southwest Geographic Regional Directors

November 10-12, 2000, Albuquerque, New Mexico
In conjunction with the Sigma Xi Forum, November 9-10, 2000

Name: James F. Baur

Present Position: President
Organization: Science Solutions Inc.

Address: Science Solutions Inc.
7968 Arjons Drive, Suite D
San Diego, CA 92126-6362
USA

Telephone: 858-578-3511
FAX: 858-578-3512
E-mail:
SciSolns@msn.com

Chapter Affiliation: San Diego

Sigma Xi and Other Activities: Sigma Xi: Director-at-Large & Member, Board of Directors, 87-89; Chair, International Committee (1997 - 2004) & Member, Board of Directors, 97-99; Member, Sigma Xi International Committee, 90-; Member, Sigma Xi Committee on Qualifications, 88-94; Member, Sigma Xi Committee on Program Initiaives, 87-88; Member, Sigma Xi Committee on Audit Review, 88-89; member, Sigma Xi Committee on Awards, 87-89. San Deigo Chapter: President, 84-85 and 96-97; Secretary, 82-83; Admissions Committee (10 yrs); Delegate, 82-86, 88-91, 93-; Centennial Celebration Site Coordinator (1 of 8), 86. Southwest Region: Regional Nominating Committee, 84-87; Chair Regional Nominating Committee, 85-87. Other: Optical Society of America, San Diego Chapter President, 78-79.

Biographical Information: BAUR, JAMES FRANCIS. b. McKeesport, Pa. Oct. 22, 38; m 60; c 2. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, PLASMA DIAGNOSTIC INSTRUMENTATION. Educ: Univ Fla, BS, 60, MS, 61; Univ Colo, PhD (physics), 75. Prof. Exp: Airborne, Ranger, command & staff, US Army Corps Eng. 60-68, asst prof, lab dir, physics, US Military Acad, West Point, 65-68; Sci Fac Fel, Nat Sci Found, 68-70; res asst Joint Inst Lab Astrophysics, 70-75; sr scientist, staff scientist, sr staff scientist, physics coordr, fusion div, General Atomics, 75-90; PRESIDENT, SCIENCE SOLUTIONS INC., 90- Concurrent Pos: Infrared consult, Atlantic Missile Range, Pan Am World Airways, 60-61; prin investr, radiation hardening prog, US Dept Energy, 81-88; Dept of Energy National Design Teams: Tokamak Fusion Core Experiment, 83-86, Compact Ignition Tokamak (CIT), 86-88; Dept. of Energy National Review Teams: Superconducting Supercollider (SSC); CIT Diagnostics Plan; Pellet Injectors for TFTR Mem: Sigma Xi (life); Am Phys Soc (life); Optical Soc Am; AAAS (life); Res: Spectroscopy; plasma diagnostics; nuclear radiation hardening; emerging technology. Mailing Add: Science Solutions Inc., 7968 Arjons Drive, Suite D, San Diego, CA 92126-6362.

Recommended by: Southwest Regional Nominating Committee

Name: Virginia L. Trimble

Present Position: Professor of Physics, University of Calfornia, Irvine
Visiting Professor of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park

Organizations: University of California, Irvine and
University of Maryland, College Park

Address: (Jan-June) Physics Dept., FRH 4129
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-4575
Telephone: 949-824-6948
FAX: 949-824-2174
E-mail:
vtrimble@uci.edu

(June-Jan) Astronomy Dept., CSS 1204
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-2421
Telephone: 301-405-5822
FAX: 301-314-9067
E-mail: vtrimble@astro.umd.edu

Chapter Affiliation: University of California, Irvine

Sigma Xi and Other Activities: Sigma Xi: Director-at-Large 1996-99; Sigma Xi Committee on Awards, 1996-99; Sigma Xi Committee on Meetings, 1997-; Sigma Xi Committee on Qualifications and Membership, 1996-97;President, University of California, Irvine Chapter (several terms). Other: Vice President, American Astronomical Society 1997-2000; Member, Executive Board, American Physical Society 1998-2001; Past chair, Astronomy Section, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Biographical Information: VIRGINIA L. TRIMBLE. Education: BA UCLA 1964 (physics and astronomy); MS Caltech 1965 (physics and astronomy); PhD Caltech 1968 (astronomy); MA Cambridge University 1969 (honorary). Recent publications:Highlight of astrophysics in the past century and in 1999, January and February issues of Sky & Telescope; "Astrophysics in 1999", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (in press, April, with M. Aschwanden); "The First Explosions" in Cosmic Explosions (2000, in press) ed. S.S. Holt et al, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings (and similar historial introductions to 6 or 7 earlier conferences in the same series, all ed. SS Holt et al.). Research Interests: Structure and evolution of stars and galaxies and of the communities of scientists who study them.

Recommended by: Southwest Regional Nominating Committee

 

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