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    IUPAP Executive Council and Commission Chairs, October 2026

    26–29 Oct 2026
    Principia Institute
    Europe/Zurich timezone

    Contact: Gabriella Marra

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    1. 1. C1: Committee on Policy and Finance: Financial matters restricted meeting.
      26/10/2026, 14:00

      The material for this meeting will be shared elsewhere.

      Attendees: members of C1
      - President
      - Past-President
      - President-Designate
      - Secretary General for Administrative Affairs
      - Deputy Secretary General for Administrative Affairs
      - Secretary General
      - Deputy Secretary General
      - Associate Secretary General
      - Treasurer
      - Vice President for Membership and Development
      - ...

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    2. 81. Coffee Break if necessary
      26/10/2026, 15:30
    3. 77. C1: Committee on Policy and Finance: Financial matters restricted meeting, continuation (if needed)
      26/10/2026, 16:00
    4. 85. Brief introduction of IUPAP
      Silvina Ponce Dawson
      26/10/2026, 18:15
    5. 86. Brief introduction of active IUPAP territorial members from the region
      26/10/2026, 18:27

      Each person will give a brief description of the physical society and the physics communities in their countries.

      • Argentina (Omar Osenda, 12 minutes)
      • Brazil (Sylvio Canuto, 12 minutes)
      • Mexico (Maria Cetto, 12 minutes)
      • Uruguay (Arturo Marti, 12 minutes)
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    6. 87. Brief introduction of regional organizations related to physics
      26/10/2026, 19:15
      • Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF, https://claffisica.org.br/). Ulisses Barres, 12 minutes
      • Iberoamerican Federation of Physical Societies (FEIASOFI, https://feiasofi.net/). Omar Osenda, 12 minutes
      • Latin American Association for High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (LAA-HECAP,...
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    7. 88. Physical societies from the region associated with territories that are not currently IUPAP members or have lost their voting rights
      26/10/2026, 20:20
      • Chile (Leopoldo Soto)
      • Peru
      • others (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Dominican Republic)
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    8. 89. Discussion of membership and related issues
      Irvy (Igle) Gledhill, Silvina Ponce Dawson
      26/10/2026, 20:55

      Some physical societies in the region cannot pay the minimum membership fee for their territories to be a member of IUPAP. Discussion of the viability of the following options:

      • Associated Territorial Members (this is a temporary status and a progression to full membership should be envisaged; a strategy for the development of the community should be defined)
      • Full territorial...
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    9. 3. Welcome by Presidency
      Silvina Ponce Dawson, Michel Spiro, Sunil Gupta
      27/10/2026, 14:00
    10. 23. Introduction of the Participants
      Jens Vigen
      27/10/2026, 14:05
    11. 22. Approval and adoption of the Agenda
      Silvina Ponce Dawson
      27/10/2026, 14:20
    12. 26. Report on the Trieste Office
      Marina Cobal, Stefano Fantoni
      27/10/2026, 14:25
      • IUPAP administrative issues
      • Communication channels
      • IUPAP awards and medals
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    13. 27. Report on the Association in Geneva
      Jens Vigen
      27/10/2026, 14:40
      • IUPAP tax exempt for a period of five years, starting in 2021. Needs to be renewed for the fiscal year 2026. It's advancing.
      • Continuation with accountant and auditor: Moore Stephens Refidar...
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    14. 49. Minutes of the previous EC&CC meeting, "to do list" and matters arising
      Silvina Ponce Dawson
      27/10/2026, 14:45

      Approval of the minutes of the EC&CC meeting held online on October 28-30, 2025 available here.

      We include below the to do list that came from this EC&CC meeting:

      • Advance with designated Commission Chairs.
      • Advance...
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    15. 50. Decisions made by Council since the 34th IUPAP General Assembly
      Michel Spiro, Silvina Ponce Dawson
      27/10/2026, 15:00

      Resolution to be presented for the approval of the 35th GA:

        The 35th IUPAP General Assembly notes the decisions made by Council after the previous GA and approves them all (see details in the agenda for the GA).
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    16. 59. Group photo
      27/10/2026, 15:10

      Most participants are scattered around the world,
      Zoom group photo

      while a part of the Executive Council and Commission Chairs have gathered at the Principia Institute, São Paulo, Brazil.
      <img...

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    17. 31. Membership issues
      Irvy (Igle) Gledhill
      27/10/2026, 15:35
    18. 79. Special Projects and Sponsorship
      Boris Sharkov, Christine Darve (ESS - European Spallation Source (SE)), Christophe Rossel, Jens Vigen, Kuijuan Jin, Sandro Scandolo, Silvina Ponce Dawson
      27/10/2026, 15:55
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    19. 53. Conferences proposed for sponsorship
      Rudzani Nemutudi
      27/10/2026, 16:15
    20. 90. Regional projects, networking and institutions of regional impact
      Sandro Scandolo
      27/10/2026, 18:15

      Existing institutions, networks and projects

      • International Centre for Theoretical Physics-South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR, https://www.ictp-saifr.org/). Nathan Berkovits.
      • Latin American Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure (LAS4FRI, https://lasf4ri.org/). Rogerio...
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    21. 91. Final discussion and action plan
      27/10/2026, 20:15
    22. 51. Review of Day 1
      Silvina Ponce Dawson
      28/10/2026, 14:00
    23. 34. Commission Matters
      Alfonso Munoz Gonzalez, Carola Dobrigkeit Chinellato, Daniel Varela Magalhaes, Prof. Gloria Platero Coello (ICMM, CSIC), Jens Vigen, Michael Rubinstein, Michel Spiro, Ralph Richard Engel (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)), Silvina Ponce Dawson, Sunil Gupta
      28/10/2026, 14:10
      • a) Reports from Commissions and Affiliated Commissions. (Jens)
        • Please see attached documents below for the reports received.
      • b) Commission Prizes and fund allocation. New prize in C4. Also, see Word file below with form that could be...
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    24. 75. Advancement with IUPAP's rejuvenation and new initiatives.
      Joseph Niemela, Prof. Manjula Sharma (The University of Sydney), Roberto Nardi, Silvina Ponce Dawson
      28/10/2026, 15:00

      Advancement with ACs (particularly, AC5 and AC6): (6 min)

      Ideas on how to...

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    25. 82. Standing Committees
      Christophe Rossel, David H. Shoemaker (MIT), Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Sandro Scandolo, Silvina Ponce Dawson, Sunil Gupta, Ursel Edith Fantz
      28/10/2026, 15:25

      Advancements with SCs. Should we assign a number to each of them?

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    26. 69. Working Groups
      Igle Gledhill, Silvina Ponce Dawson, Mr Jens Vigen (CERN), Jens Vigen (CERN)
      28/10/2026, 16:25
      • a) Progress reports from Working Groups (Jens)
        • Please see documents attached below for the reports received so far.
      • b) Presentations by selected WGs
        • WG21: its future, its possible transformation into an...
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    27. 40. Financial matters
      Boris Sharkov, Mr Jens Vigen (CERN), Jens Vigen (CERN)
      28/10/2026, 17:00

      Before IUPAP's treasurer, Boris Sharkov, makes his presentation, let us share with you a document about eliglible expenses prepared by Jens.

      • [Auditor's report on the 2025 accounts][1].
      • <a...
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    28. 65. Review of Day 2
      Silvina Ponce Dawson
      29/10/2026, 13:00
    29. 70. Communications
      Sandro Scandolo, Sunil Gupta
      29/10/2026, 13:10
      • IUPAP internet, website
      • Newsletter
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    30. 74. Outreach activities
      Christine Darve, Irvy (Igle) Gledhill, Silvina Ponce Dawson
      29/10/2026, 13:25
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    31. 68. Report from Vice President for DEI
      Rudzani Nemutudi (South African National Research Foundation: iThemba LABS)
      29/10/2026, 13:35

      The Vice President for DEI, Gillian Butcher, recently resigned to her position. We have advanced to identify candidates who could occupy this position starting in January 2027.

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    32. 71. Activity report
      Jens Vigen
      29/10/2026, 13:50
    33. 67. Discussion on the 2027 EC&CC meeting, GA and ICP. Call for the 2030 GA.
      Irvy (Igle) Gledhill, Silvina Ponce Dawson
      29/10/2026, 14:00
    34. 80. ISC matters, IDSSD and relationship with other bodies
      Irvy (Igle) Gledhill, Jaewook Ahn, Michel Spiro, Sandro Scandolo, Silvina Ponce Dawson, Sunil Gupta
      29/10/2026, 14:20
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    35. 64. Comments from observers and any other business
      Sunil Gupta
      29/10/2026, 14:50
      • Comments
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    36. 63. Review of meeting, resolutions proposed for GA and future procedures
      Silvina Ponce Dawson
      29/10/2026, 15:00
      • Resolution proposed by C11 in support of LASF4RI
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    37. 62. Close of EC&CC meeting
      Silvina Ponce Dawson
      29/10/2026, 15:15
    38. 61. Executive Council Meeting [IUPAP Zoom room. The link will be sent to the EC members by the Secretariat via email]
      Silvina Ponce Dawson
      29/10/2026, 15:35
      • To consider decisions proposed by EC&CC meeting and resolve on them
      • To consider future actions and assign responsibility for them
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    39. 92. Visit to IFUSP
      29/10/2026, 18:15

      We have been invited to visit the Physics Department of the University of Sao Paulo located in the Butantã neighborhood of São Paulo city. We will arrange how to go once in SP. The schedule is not fully fixed yet. There is going to be a slot at 16:00 to make a presentation about IUPAP to the community of the Physics Department. All attendants of the EC&CC meeting are encouraged to take...

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    40. 93. Colloquium "The International Union of Pure Applied Physics: vision, challenges and actions".
      Silvina Ponce Dawson
      29/10/2026, 20:00
    41. 95. Closing and wrap up
      29/10/2026, 21:00

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