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World Year of Physics 2005
Martial Ducloy Chair, WYP Int. Steering
Committee European Physical Society 68060
Mulhouse France
www.eps.org www.wyp2005.org
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WYP2005

• HISTORICS
• Initiative launched by EPS in 2000
• Occasion 2005 is the 100th anniversary of
  the Annus Mirabilis" of Albert Einstein Theory
  of relativity, quantum theory, theory of Brownian
  motion
• Endorsed by
• World Congress of Physical Societies, Berlin,
  Dec. 2000
• EPS Council, Mulhouse, March 2001
• General Assembly of IUPAP, Berlin, Oct. 2002
• General Conference of UNESCO, Paris, Oct. 2003
• General Assembly of United Nations, New York, 10
  June 2004
• Thus officially the International Year of
  Physics
• Creation of an International Steering Committee
  (2002)
• Supported by EU Commission (Brussels, 2004)

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INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS EVENTS
Kick-off meeting at UNESCO (Paris) Physics
for Tomorrow, 13-15 January 2005
www.wyp2005.org/unesco/ International Physics
Olympiads, July 2005, Salamanca, Spain 13th
General Conference of the European Physical
Society, EPS13 Beyond Einstein Physics for the
21st Century 1114 July 2005, Bern,
Switzerland 3 parallel meetings (from Einsteins
1905 articles) 1. Photons, Lasers and Quantum
Statistics 2. Relativity, Matter and
Cosmology 3. Brownian Motion, Complex Systems
and Physics in Biology www.eps13.org/ IUPAP
World Conference on Physics and Sustainable
Development 31 October - 2 November 2005,
Durban, South Africa
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WYP Launch Conference General  Physics for
Tomorrow 
January 13-15, UNESCO, Paris, France Goal over
1000 participants Scientific leaders, policy
makers, students Big event, impact in media
(TV, radio, press)
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WYP Launch Conference Organisation

• programme
• participants student attendees
• WWW site
• invitations
• budget
• sponsors, etc.

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WYP Launch Conference Organisation
International Steering Committee Marcia Barbosa
(IUPAP) Edouard Brézin (Académie des Sciences,
SFP) Martial Ducloy (EPS) Walter Erdelen
(UNESCO) Martin Huber (EPS) Chen Jia-Er
(NSFC) José Luis Moran-Lopez (IUPAP) Yves Petroff
(IUPAP) Katepalli Sreenivasan (ICPT) Sukekatsu
Ushioda (JPS)
Organizing Committee Minella Alarcon
(UNESCO) Martial Ducloy (EPS), Chair Daniel
Iagolnitzer (CEA) Michèle Leduc (SFP) David Lee
(EPS) Johannes Orphal (SFP), Secretary Chris
Rossel (EPS)
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WYP Launch Conference Programme
Invited Talks (one speaker still to be
confirmed) Zhores Alferov (Russia), Nobel Prize
(Physics) 2000 Physics and information
technology Georges Charpak (France), Nobel Prize
(Physics) 1992 Teaching and education in
physics Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (France), Nobel
Prize (Physics) 1997 Quantum physics and its
impact on daily life Gerard tHooft (Pays Bas),
Nobel Prize (Physics) 1999 Unified theories for
elementary particles and forces Masatoshi
Koshiba (Japan), Nobel Prize (Physics)
2002 Cosmology and astrophysics in the 21st
century Harold Kroto (UK), Nobel Prize
(Chemistry) 1996 2010 A NanoScience
Odyssey Denis Le Bihan (France) Physics and
Life Sciences C. N. R. Rao (India) Title
open Myriam Sarachik (USA) Nanophysics and
nanotechnologies impact in the real world Claus
Weyrich (Siemens AG, Germany) Innovation a
challenge for science and industry
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WYP Launch Conference Programme
Round Tables 1. Physics and the socio-economical
challenges of the 21st century Ayse Erzan
(Turkey) Ana Maria Cetto (Mexico) Sylvie
Joussaume (France) Burton Richter (USA), Nobel
Prize (Physics) 1976 Sergio Rezende (Brazil) 2.
Perception of science and physics in the general
public Pierre Léna (France) Chen Jia-er
(China) Marvin Cohen (USA) José Luis Morán-López
(Mexico)
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WYP Launch Conference Participation
Number of participants still open, registration
started in 10/04

• Over 1000 participants (huge lecture hall at
  UNESCO)
• 400-500 students from over 50 countries (1)
• 300-400  open  participants without invitation
• 100-200 invited participants and VIPs
• (1) Strategy
• Contact IPhO organisers and national physics
  societies in different countries to make
  selection of students and to find budget for
  travel expenses (only a maximum of 60 travel
  grants will be possible)

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WYP Launch Conference Participation
Number of participants still open, registration
started in 10/04
Registration now open at www.wyp2005.org/unesco S
election of students in individual countries en
route Many countries are already involved BUT
several  big  countries  (e.g. U.S., U.K.,
China, Japan ) are still open or have not
replied at all
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WYP Launch Conference Participation
Number of participants still open, registration
started in 10/04

• Summary of current status (10.10.2004)
• over 45 countries will participate with a
  delegation of students
• about 10  big  countries (USA, Canada, China,
  Japan ) and more than 10 countries in Europe
  (U.K., Ireland, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy,
  Spain, Norway, Sweden ) are still open or have
  not replied at all (after two invitation letters)
• travel support is important for some countries
  from Asia and Africa

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WYP Launch Conference Other

• Brochures and Posters are being prepared at EPS
• Official invitations will be sent out in 10/2004
• Badges will be prepared in 12/2004 at EPS
• Preparation of a books exhibition is ongoing

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WYP Launch Conference Registration
Registration is open at www.wyp2005.org/unesco
Main activity organise delegations for missing
countries AND please, distribute the
information about the conference