After a few years hiatus, the GCGM returns! The 9th Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting will be held at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS, on March 13 and 14, 2020. In keeping with its tradition, this will be an open, relaxed, and informal conference. We are inviting researchers and students interested in all areas of gravitational physics: classical and quantum gravity, general relativistic astrophysics and cosmology, quantum cosmology, gravitational waves, and experimental gravity. Because this is a regional meeting, many attendees will be from the southeastern United States, but all are welcome. Unfortunately the meeting had to be postponed until after the coronavirus pandemic ends.

Dr. Anuradha Gupta has just joined us as an Assistant professor. She received her Ph.D. from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mubai (India). She was postdoctoral researcher with the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos at Pennsylvania State University, where she was studying gravitational waves from compact binary mergers.

Henry E. Bass Basic Acoustics Summer School

The BASS 2020 EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROGRAM.
The program will take place June 8 – July 31, 2020. Application deadline is February 21, 2020.

The 2020 Basic Acoustics Summer School Program (BASS) will celebrate its 11^th year this summer. The program was first created in memory of Dr. Henry E. Bass, who was a physicist and acoustics researcher that led efforts to create the National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA) in the 1980s and served as the Center’s director from 1992 until his passing in 2008. He was a talented researcher and a gifted teacher. Up-to-date, 20 undergraduate students from various backgrounds and universities have successfully completed the program. Please see the web page: https://ncpa.olemiss.edu/bass-2020/ for more information. Canceled due to the coronavirus.

Dr. Joel Mobley, Professor of Physics and Astronomy has been elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. Professor Mobley’s citation is for “contributions to the ultrasonic characterization of dispersive systems.” Announcement of the election and presentation of the Fellowship certificate will be made during the at the 179th meeting in Chicago, Illinois on 13 May 2020. In addition to his position in the Physics Department, he is a Senior Scientist of the National Center for Physical Acoustics at Ole Miss.

More information is presented on the NCPA’s website.

Dr. James M. Sabatier has won the Acoustical Society of America 2019 Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics.