James P. Vary is Professor of Physics and Past Director of the International Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physics (IITAP) at Iowa State University (ISU). He graduated from Boston College (B.S., 1965, Magna Cum Laude), and Yale University (M.S. ,1966 and Ph.D., 1970). He spent two postdoctoral years at MIT's Center for Theoretical Physics and three years at Brookhaven National Laboratory as Assistant then Associate Physicist. In 1975, he joined the faculty at Iowa State University and has fostered the development of a 10-member high-energy nuclear theory group.

Professor Vary's research activities span strong interaction physics from ab-initio nuclear structure theory to include fundamental tests of nature's symmetries and to nuclear applications of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD).

He has authored or co-authored more than 250 refereed publications, 4 books of conference proceedings, and has delivered more than 350 invited lectures at conferences and at universities in 45 countries.

Prof. Vary recently served a 4-year term (2002-2005) on the Council of the American Physical Society and a two-year term on the Executive Board of the American Physical Society (2004-2005).

Email Address: jvary@iastate.edu