PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, PROFESSOR LOYAL DURAND

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

American Physical Society (Fellow):
Chair, Nominating Committee, APS Division of Particles and Fields, 1972, 1973 (chair)
Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on International Meetings, APS Division of Particles and Fields, 1974,1975
Nominating Committee, APS Division of Particles and Fields, 1987
 
Advisory positions:
Member, High Energy Physics Visiting Committee, University of Illinois-Chicago, 1968
Member, Physics Advisory Committee, National Accelerator Laboratory, 1969-71
Member, Long-Range Planning Committee, Fermi National Laboratory, 1972-74
ZGS Program Committee, Argonne National Laboratory, May 1977-Dec. 1979
Consultant, Theory Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1976-97
 
Aspen Center for Physics:
Member of the Executive Committee, 1964-68
Chair, Executive Committee, 1968-76
President, 1972-76
Trustee and General Member of the Corporation, 1968-80
Honorary Trustee, 1980--
General Member of the Corporation, 1990-99
Honorary Member of the Corporation, 1999--
Organizing Committee, Aspen Winter Conferences, 1985-88; Chair, 1986, 1987 Particle Physics Conferences
 
Editorial Activities:
Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematical Physics, 1973-75
Editorial Committee, Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science, 1984
Co-editor, High Energy Physics, 1980 (XX International Conference, Madison, Wisconsin), 1981
Editor, Proceedings of the Second Aspen Winter Particle Physics Conference, 1987
Guest editor, Symmetry, Special Issue on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials , January, 2020
 
Conference organization:
Committee, 1969 Spring Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Wisconsin--Madison
Organizer, International Conference on ``Expectations for Particle Reactions at the New Accelerators'' at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 30-April 1,1970
Organizing Committee, Advanced Seminar on Special Functions, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 1975
Co-chair and Principal Organizer, XX International Conference on High Energy Physics (sponsored by IUPAP)
Organizing Committee, Aspen Winter Particle Physics Conferences, 1985-1989; Chair, 1986, 1987
 
Referee for:
American Journal of Physics
Annals of Physics
Astrophysical Journal
European Physics Journal C
EuroPhysics Letters
International Journal of Modern Physics A
Journal of Approximation Theory
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Modern Physics Letters A
Physical Review C, D, E
Physical Review Letters
Physics Letters B
SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis
Zeitschrift für Physik C
 
Reviewer, Research Proposals for:
National Science Foundation (Theoretical Physics Division)
U.S. Department of Energy (Physical Research Program)
Research Corporation
International Science Foundation
 
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society:
Board of Electors, Wisconsin Chapter of Sigma Xi, 1985-88
President, 1989-90
 

UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

Faculty Senate, 1971-75, 1988-91, 1992-94 (alternate), 1997-2000
Physical Sciences Division Executive Committee, 1979-82, spring 1984, 1995-98
      vice chair 1996-97, chair 1997-98
Committee on Women in the University, 1995-99
Planning group on faculty hiring, Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute, 2002-
Sexual harassment workshop leader (provost's initiative), 2000-
Ad Hoc Committee on Research Remodeling Problems, 1998-99 (chair)
Academic Staff Area Review Committee for Administration/Student Services/Library, 1990-93
Hilldale Lectures Committee, 1981-82
Chancellor's Research-Service Grant Committee, 1979
Faculty Consultative Committee on Financial Emergency, 1980-81
Executive Committee, Center for Mathematical Sciences, 1993--
L&S Graduate Fellowships Committee, 1992, 1993 (chair)
L&S Review Committee for the Astronomy Department, 1986 (chair)
L&S Review Committee for the Mathematics Department, 1993-4 (chair)
Judge, Engineering Expo, 1985

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