35th IUPAP General Assembly

Friday 30 Oct 2026, 12:30 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

The IUPAP General Assembly is an online meeting. Registered users shall participate via the Zoom room: [[to be provided later]]

Registered participants will receive the access code per email. If you do not have the code, contact secretariat@iupap.org.

This is a preliminary agenda. We might move the starting time by half an hour to 12:30PM CET if necessary once we have the final agenda. 

All the times in the agenda correspond to the Europe/Zurich time zone (CET). 

12:30 → 12:45 Buffer for people to arrive and connect.

12:45 → 13:05 Welcome to the IUPAP General Assembly

• Opening words
• Presentation of the 2026 delegates

Speakers: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN), Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Silvina Ponce Dawson, Sunil Gupta

13:05 → 13:10 Verification of quorum

Speakers: Gabriella Marra, Mr Jens Vigen (CERN)

13:10 → 13:20 Adoption of the agenda and approval of the minutes from the 34th IUPAP General Assembly (2025)

• Approval of the agenda
• Minutes of the 34th IUPAP GA
• Resolutions adopted by the 34th General Assembly

Speaker: Silvina Ponce Dawson

IUPAP 34th GA Minutes Oct 2025.pdf

13:20 → 13:35 Membership adjustments, approval of new members and new quorum

Speakers: Igle Gledhill, Prof. Irvy (Igle) Gledhill (U. Witwatersrand, South Africa)

13:35 → 13:55 Reports from Secretariats and news about the status of IUPAP as a Swiss association

• Trieste
• Geneva, IUPAP Headquarter (Swiss IUPAP association)
• Renewal of tax exempt status

Speakers: Stefano Fantoni, Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Mr Jens Vigen (CERN), Marina Cobal (Universita degli Studi di Udine (IT))

13:55 → 14:05 IUPAP activity report for the period 27 October 2025 through October 26 2026

You can find below the Union's activity report. If you are interested in looking at the reports submitted by IUPAP Commissions, ACs and WGs, please visit the agenda of the 2026 EC&CC meeting, here.

Speaker: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN)

14:05 → 14:20 Resolution to approve decisions made by EC since the last GA + information on other decisions that do not require GA approval.

Resolution 1. Ratification of Decisions made by Council since the 34th IUPAP General Assembly

The 35th IUPAP General Assembly notes the decisions made by Council after the previous GA and approves them all (see details here). This implies approving:
It also takes note of other decisions made by Council that do not require the specific approval of the GA (see details here). They are:
The rest of the resolutions will be discussed later.

Speaker: Silvina Ponce Dawson

14:20 → 14:35 Highlights of 2026 activities and related news

• IYQ 2025 Closing ceremony. Participation in UNESCO led Global Quantum Initiative as a founding partner.
• Participation in the Quantum Diplomacy in Action Conference on May 6, 2026 and in the 2026 Global Conference on the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development 2024-2034.
• IUPAP presence at IAEA 2nd International Conference on Accelerators for Research and Innovation
• IUPAP/UNESCO series of colloquia on Physics for Society.
• IUPAP Presence at the 2026 COSPAR Scientific Assembly. New MOU with COSPAR. Discussions with representatives of IAU, COSPAR and other organizations to advance with the creation of a SC on Multi-messenger Astrophysics and to draft a statement on the use of space for research and other purposes.
• Participation in the Beijing Science Dialogue and ISC mid-term meeting, October 2026 where, among other things, we co-organized with IAU, COSPAR and Chinese colleagues and organizations a one-day symposium on Space Science.
• Agreement with Frontiers
• MOUs with various organizations

Speakers: Igle Gledhill, Prof. Irvy (Igle) Gledhill (U. Witwatersrand, South Africa), Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Silvina Ponce Dawson, Sunil Gupta

14:35 → 14:45 Report on the advancement of IUPAP's rejuvenation

• Standing Committees
• New Commission on Soft Matter
• New WGs
• New Commission on QT
• Other activities

Speaker: Silvina Ponce Dawson

14:45 → 15:05 News about Special Projects

• LAAAMP (4 minutes by Kuijuan)
• Project presented by (former) WG16 on Physics and Industry and collaborators on Education and Physics outside academia. (4 minutes by Kuijuan)
• Transdisciplinary Research Platform (Zenodo). Proposal developed with CERN colleagues to expand the the use of Zenodo for transdisciplinary research initiatives associated with the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development. (Jens)
• Project to strengthen the relations with IAEA and the accelerator science community. (Silvina)
• Contribution with Physics without Frontiers (silvina)

Speakers: Jens Vigen (CERN), Mr Jens Vigen (CERN), Kuijuan Jin (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Silvina Ponce Dawson

15:05 → 15:20 News about the 2027 GA and ICP

Speaker: Prof. Irvy (Igle) Gledhill (U. Witwatersrand, South Africa)

15:20 → 15:40 Conferences approved for 2027

Speaker: Rudzani Nemutudi (South African National Research Foundation: iThemba LABS)

15:40 → 15:55 Financial matters

Speaker: Boris Sharkov

15:55 → 16:05 Presentation of candidates to be voted as designated Commission Chairs.

Speaker: Silvina Ponce Dawson

16:05 → 16:25 Presentation of resolutions not yet presented

Speaker: Silvina Ponce Dawson

16:25 → 16:35 Vote on Resolutions

16:35 → 16:50 Comments from members and observers. Any other business

16:50 → 17:00 Closing of the General Assembly by the President

Speaker: Silvina Ponce Dawson