IUPAP

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IUPAP A Brief Overview

• The International Union of Pure and Applied
  Physics
• Willem T.H.van Oers
• University of Manitoba/TRIUMF

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The Beginning

• 1919 International Research Council formed,
  largely through representatives of the National
  Academy of Sciences, Washington, and of the Royal
  Society of London
• to coordinate efforts in the different branches
  of science, toward forming respective
  international unions

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1922 General Assembly of the International
Research Council

• Brussels
• physicists present decided formation of a Physics
  Union was imperative
• 13 countries
• Belgium Canada
• Denmark France
• Holland Japan
• Norway Poland
• Spain Switzerland
• United Kingdom United States of America
• Union of South Africa

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Steering Committee (1922)

• Sir William Bragg (President)

• M. Brillouin
• O.M. Corbino
• M. Knudsen
• M. Leblanc
• R.A. Millikan
• H. Nagoda
• E. Van Aubel
• H. Abraham

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1st General Assembly

• Paris 1923
• Added Italy, Sweden, Czechoslovakia
• Confirmed the membership of the Executive, with
  one replacement
• expressed concern about the proliferation of
  scientific reports!

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IUPAPs Mission

• to assist in the worldwide development of physics
• to foster international cooperation in physics
• to help in the application of physics toward
  solving problems of concern to humanity

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Activities

• sponsoring international meetings
• encouraging research and education
• fostering the free circulation of scientists
• promoting international agreements on symbols,
  units and nomenclature
• cooperating with other organizations on
  disciplinary and interdisciplinary problems
• fostering communications and publications

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Members

• Originally, Countries were Members
• Now members are identified physics communities in
  a geographical region
• Membership is through a designated Adhering
  body. Adhering body sets up a Liaison Committee
• Delegates appointed by the Liaison Committee
  attend the General Assembly of the Union

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General Assembly

• Governing body
• Delegates from liaison committees
• Officers
• Chairs or secretaries of the commissions
• held every 3 years
• elects the incoming Executive Council and members
  of the International Commissions
• appoints physics representatives to other
  international bodies

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IUPAP Executive Council 2005-2008

• President Alan Astbury
• Past President Yves Petroff
• President Designate Sukekatsu Ushioda
• Secretary-General Judy Franz
• Associate Secretary-General Peter Melville
• Vice Pres. (elected at large) Jia-Er Chen,
  Carmen Cisneros, Bruce McKellar
• Vice Pres. (Commissions) Dan Dahlberg, Pavel
  Exner, Pratibha Jolly, Leslie Pendrill, Annick
  Suzor-Weiner

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-Commissions

• Finance
• SUNAMCO
• Statistical Physics
• Cosmic Rays
• Low Temperature Physics
• Biological Physics
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• Semiconductors
• Magnetism
• Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter

• 11. Particles and Fields
• Nuclear Physics
• Physics for Development
• Physics Education
• Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
• Plasma Physics
• Quantum Electronics
• Mathematical Physics
• Astrophysics
• Computational Physics

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Examples of Commission Activities

• Hold conferences in their field
• Award medals
• Authoritative web sites for their area of
  expertise
• brief comprehensive reviews of the current
  activities in their fields
• links to other authoritative sites, e.g. best
  values of fundamental constants, atomic masses
• Representation on related bodies, e.g. C2 has
  connections to BIPM, CCU, ISO, IOML, IUPAC
• Red Book on standard usage of symbols and
  nomenclature

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Affiliated Commissions

• AC1 International Commission for Optics
• AC2 International Commission on General
  Relativity and Gravitation
• AC3 International Commission for Acoustics

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Working Groups

• WG1 ICFA - Int. Committee on Future Accelerators
  
• WG2 Communication in Physics
• WG3 Facilities for Condensed Matter Physics
• - Int. Committee on the Future of Neutron
  Sources (ICFNS)
• - Int. Committee on High Magnetic Field
  Facilities (HMFF)
• WG4 PANAGIC - Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
  and Gravitation International Committee

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Working Groups - continued

• WG5 Women in Physics
• WG7 International Committee on Ultrahigh
• Intensity Lasers
• WG8 Nanoscience
• WG9 International Cooperation in Nuclear
• Physics (ICNP)

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WG1 ICFAInternational Committee on Future
Accelerators (1976)

• Chair A.Wagner (DESY) www.fnal.gov/director
  ate/icfa/
• Promote international collaboration in all
  phases of the construction and exploitation of
  very high energy accelerators
• organize meetings
• formulate advice on future plans for regional
  facilities
• formulate advice on joint studies and uses.
• organize workshops
• problems of super high energy accelerator
  complexes and their international exploitation
• foster rd of necessary technology

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WG.9 Working Groupon International Cooperation
in Nuclear Physics (ICNP)

• Mandate
• To provide a description of the landscape of key
  issues in Nuclear Physics research for the next
  10 to 20 years
• To produce (maintain) a compendium of facilities
  existing or under development worldwide
• To establish a mapping of these facilities onto
  the scientific questions identified above
• 4) To identify missing components that would have
  to be developed to provide an optimized,
  comprehensive network of international facilities
  

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• To explore mechanisms and opportunities for
  enhancing international collaboration in nuclear
  science
• To identify R/D projects that could benefit from
  international joint effort
• 7) To serve as a source of expert advice for
  governmental or inter- governmental organizations
  in connection with efforts to coordinate and
  promote nuclear science at the international
  level
• 8) To serve as a forum for the discussion of
  future directions of nuclear science in the
  broadest sense
• 9) To document the cross-disciplinary impact of
  Nuclear Physics and of nuclear facilities and to
  identify mechanisms for expanding (fostering)
  cross-disciplinary research.

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• COMPOSITION OF THE WORKING GROUP
• The Executive of the Working Group
  consists of a Chairperson and a Secretary. Among
  its members will be the Chairs of various long
  range planning committees, i.e., the Chair of the
  US Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) or
  his/her designate, the Chair of the Nuclear
  Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC)
  or his/her designate, the Chair of the Japanese
  Nuclear Physics Committee, and further
  representatives of nuclear physics research
  establishments worldwide. The Chair and
  Vice-Chair of C12, the IUPAP Commission on
  Nuclear Physics, will be ex-officio members of
  the Working Group.