33rd IUPAP General Assembly

Oct 10, 2024, 4:00 PM → Oct 14, 2024, 9:00 PM Asia/Shanghai

The IUPAP General Assembly was organized as an in-person meeting. In parallel, online participation was facilitated for registered users. Records from the proceedings can be consulted in Zenodo.

Thu, October 10

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM Registration

IUPAP_GA_Registration.jpg

6:00 PM → 7:30 PM Welcome receiption hosted by the Chinese Physical Society

Fri, October 11

7:30 AM → 8:30 AM Registration

8:30 AM → 8:50 AM Welcome by IUPAP President Michel Spiro, CPS Secretary General Zhong Fang

Speakers: Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Prof. Zhong Fang (CPS)

A Joy to Have Friends Come from Afar.pdf

welcome addressp MS.pdf

8:50 AM → 8:55 AM Verification of quorum

Total number of votes 149 out of which 127 votes registered. Required quorum 100 votes.

Speaker: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN)

8:55 AM → 9:00 AM Adoption of the agenda and approval of minutes of the 32nd General Assembly

Main outcomes of the IUPAP General Assembly 20231009.pdf

Minutes IUPAP General Assembly 9_Oct 2023.pdf

9:00 AM → 9:05 AM Membership adjustments and new quorum

Total number of votes 150 out of which 127 votes registered. Required quorum 100 votes.

• Change of membership category for South Africa: move from category 3 to 5
• Change of membership category for Jordan: move from category 2 to 1
• Resumption of membership for Nigeria under specific conditions (Adhering body: Nigerian Institute of Physics) in category 1

Speaker: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN)

Resolutions_Membership.pdf

9:05 AM → 9:10 AM Presidential address

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

Sad and good news.pdf

9:10 AM → 9:50 AM Presentation of slates for members of the Commissions and the Executive Council

Speaker: Silvina Ponce Dawson

elaboration_slates.pdf

nominations_data_base_EC.pdf

nominations_for_commissions_EC.pdf

Procedure for Nominations of Members to Commissions and Executive Council ...dates.docx

9:50 AM → 10:15 AM Tea break

10:15 AM → 10:20 AM Group photo—including participants in Zoom

IUPAP_GA_group_photo.jpg

10:20 AM → 10:50 AM Reports from the secretariats (Singapore and Trieste) and the Swiss IUPAP association

Speakers: Bruce McKellar, Mr Jens Vigen (CERN), Stefano Fantoni

Geneva_HQ.pdf

Geneva_HQ.pptx

iupap-Heikou-GA-2024.pdf

iupap-Heikou-GA-2024.pptx

10:50 AM → 11:50 AM Questions to a panel of commission chairs

How IUPAP commissions can contribute to the International Year of Quantum, to the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development and to iterconnect them

Speaker: Shohini Ghose (Wilfrid Laurier University)

11:50 AM → 12:15 PM Presentation of the IUPAP Kennedy Reed Medal for outstanding contributions to the enhancement of physics in developing countries

Introduction of the winner by Kuijuan Jin, Chair of C13

• Presentation of the Medal [see also IUPAP web site]
• Acceptance by Professor Malik Maaza

Speakers: Kuijuan Jin (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Malik Maaza

VF-IUPAP AWARD PRSENTATION-2024.pdf

VF-IUPAP AWARD PRSENTATION-2024.pptx

12:15 PM → 12:20 PM The General Assembly adjourns

12:20 PM → 1:20 PM Lunch

1:20 PM → 2:00 PM Bus transfer to the Convention Center

2:00 PM → 6:00 PM Women in physics forum: 25th anniversary of IUPAP Working Group 5: Women in Physics

Conveners: Prof. Gillian Butcher (University of Leicester), Prof. Irvy Gledhill (U. Witwatersrand, South Africa), Prof. Lilia Meza-Montes (B. Autonomous University of Puebla), Prof. Silvina Ponce Dawson (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

2:00 PM Opening

Transmitted online: Youtube and KouShare

Speaker: Prof. Lilia Meza-Montes

WomenInPhysics.jpg

2:05 PM Panel

How did it happen? The beginnings

Speakers: Prof. Beverly Hartline (Montana Technological University), Jackie Beamon-Kiene (APS (retired)), Prof. Ling-An Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Prof. Marcia Barbosa (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)

2024 IUPAP WIP Forum-LAWu.pdf

barbosa.pdf

WIP Panel-Jackie's talk print.docx

WIP Panel-Jackie's talk print.pdf

3:05 PM Coffee break

3:35 PM Women in physics in China

Speaker: Prof. Kuijuan Jin (chair WiP team from China, Beijing)

CPS-WIP-2024JIN1forIUPAP-GA3.pdf

3:55 PM Panel

Women in physics activities across regions: Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean

Speakers: Prof. Irvy Gledhill (Africa), Prof. Lilia Meza-Montes (Latin America and the Caribbean), Prof. Prajval Shastri (Asia)

Africa WIP v04.pdf

Meza-Montes_WG-LatinAmerica.pdf

PShastri_Asia_WIP_IUPAPGAfin.pdf

4:35 PM The present and future of the Working Group Women in Physics

Speaker: Prof. Prajval Shastri (Raman Research Institute)

4:45 PM The future of IUPAP equity, diversity, and inclusion policies

Speaker: Prof. Gillian Butcher (University of Leicester)

Future of Diversity in IUPAP.pdf

Future of Diversity in IUPAP.pptx

4:55 PM Discussions in groups about the future

5:25 PM Sharing conclusions of the discussions

5:45 PM Final words

Speaker: Prof. Silvina Ponce Dawson (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM Dinner

7:00 PM → 10:00 PM Public lectures by Nobel laurates

7:00 PM Gravitational waves: Unraveling the mysteries of our Universe

• YouTube recording (Prof. Barish' talk starts at 18'15'').
• KouShare recording (Prof. Barish' talk starts at 1 hr 13'42'').

Speaker: Prof. Barry Barish (Caltech, US)

Barish.jpg

8:00 PM Neutrinos: Key particles for understanding the smallest particles and the largest Universe

• YouTube recording (Prof. Kajita's talk starts at 1 hr 11'25'').
• KouShare recording (Prof. Kajita's talk starts at 2 hr 8'13'').

Speaker: Prof. Takaaki Kajita (University of Tokyo, Japan)

241011-takaaki kajita.pdf

Kajita.jpg

9:00 PM Fifty years since the November Revolution in physics and unearthing the secrets of the cosmos

• YouTube recording ( Prof. Ting's talk starts at 2 hr 6'23'').
• KouShare recording (Prof. Ting's talk starts at 3 hr 2'13'').

Speaker: Prof. Samuel Ting (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, US)

Ting.jpg

Sat, October 12

8:00 AM → 8:05 AM 33rd IUPAP General Assembly: welcome back

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

8:05 AM → 8:20 AM Conferences approved for 2025

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

2025 IUPAP-Conferences Aprpoved - 2024 C&CC&GA.pdf

8:20 AM → 8:50 AM IUPAP membership

Admission of new Corporate Associate member: CAEN with one unit. Resolution, see point 1.2.

Speakers: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN), Nithaya Chetty

Membership Matters GA Oct 2024 v2.pdf

Membership Matters GA Oct 2024 v2.pptx

8:50 AM → 9:30 AM Presentation of the external evaluation report for a restructuring of IUPAP

• Introduction, Silvina Ponce Dawson, 5 min
• Presentation of the report, Atlas Varsted, 15 min
• Preliminary analysis of current IUPAP structures and possible avenues for change, Silvina Ponce Dawson, 8 min
• Open discussion and establishment of future steps, 12 min
  • Resolution on IUPAP restructuring

Speakers: Atlas Varsted, Silvina Ponce Dawson

2024IUPAP-ExternalReview-Report.pdf

Internal Evaluation (presented to the 32nd IUPAP GA in October 2023)

IUPAP External Review - Presentation.pdf

IUPAP_restructuring_intro_external_evaluation.pdf

support_info_commissions.pdf

support_information_to_discuss_about_ACs.pdf

support_information_to_discuss_about_WGs.pdf

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Tea break

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Panel discussion: Physics outside academia

Speakers: Cyrus Walther, Stefano Fantoni, Sunil Gupta, Prof. Young Dong Kim (Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Re-nominations to the slate of commissions and Executive Council members

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Activity report, Communication

Reports from Commissions and Working groups are available from the EC&CC meeting (see Wednesday 9 October).

Speakers: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN), Sandro Scandolo

Activity_report.pdf

Activity_report.pptx

communication_2024.pdf

communication_2024.pptx

IUPAP activity report 2023_24.pdf

11:20 AM → 12:00 PM Introduction of proposed resolutions, including recommendations by the Executive Council

• Proposed change to Article 7—Executive Council and Officers (minor modification to eliminate conflicting text in paragraphs A and F).
• EC resolution on nominations (resolved electronically first week of March 2024)
• IUPAP letter of support for the integrity of Argentina’s science system
• IUPAP co-signed with physics societies around the world the statement Principles and policies for international scientific collaboration
• Specification of Corporate Associate Members rights and number of elected members in the commissions
• Expansion of commissions from 14 to 15 members
  • Required change in Internal Regulations, Articles 5.1 and 5.3.
• Changes in Internal Regulations, Articles 5.5 , 6.2 and 6.6
• Resolutions regarding Working Groups (decided in view of the internal and external evaluations and the future restructuring of IUPAP).
  • Proposal to establish a Working Group in the Field of Major Neutron Research Facilities (submitted by the US Liaison Committee).
  • Proposal to establish a Working Group on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) for the Physical Sciences (submitted by the US Liaison Committee).
• Resolution on IUPAP elections and procedure for handover of responsibilities for EC&CC
• Resolution on position papers, statements and declarations from the IUPAP Executive Council (EC) (submitted by the US Liaison Committee).
• Resolutions related to Conferences (based on proposals submitted by WG5, Women in Physics).
• Exclusion from the Union

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

EC_1_Resolution_for_nominations.pdf

EC_letter_iupap_argentina.pdf

EC_Research-Principles-and-Policies-final.pdf

R1_Proposed_change_to_Article_7.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:01 PM The General Assembly adjourns

12:01 PM → 12:46 PM Lunch

12:46 PM → 1:30 PM Buss transfer from Hilton Haikou to Convention Center

1:30 PM → 6:00 PM Inter-Commission Symposium: Physics Research for a Sustainable Planet

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

1:30 PM Opening of the Inter-Commission Symposium

1:31 PM Welcome address

Transmitted online: Youtube and KouShare

Speaker: Prof. Xiaoyan Shen (Director of International Collaboration for CPS)

1:36 PM Welcome from IUPAP

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (IUPAP President)

1:40 PM The intention of this Symposium

Speaker: Prof. Pietro Ubertini (Chair C19)

1:45 PM WG21 and the topics of this Symposium

Speaker: Prof. Nithaya Chetty (Chair WG21)

1:50 PM Introduction

1:51 PM Introduction: International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (IUPAP President)

EHC Presentation 2024 - Canada - 16 July 2024.pdf

EHC Presentation 2024 - Canada - 16 July 2024.pptx

2:10 PM Physics for a sustainable planet

Speaker: Prof. Giorgio Parisi (Sapienza University of Rome)

2:40 PM Questions

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

2:50 PM Climate change and geohazards

2:51 PM Short and long term evolution of the climate

Speaker: Prof. Ines Camilloni (Vice-Chair, IPCC Working Group I)

3:11 PM Geohazard monitoring: Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcano, etc.

Speaker: Prof. Gad el-Qadi (National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Egypt)

ADMiR_IUPAP_oct2024.pdf

3:31 PM Energy for the future

3:32 PM Chinese magnetic confinement fusion development for a sustainable planet

Speaker: Prof. Jiangang Li (Vice President CPS, Chief Scientist of EAST, Experimental Adavanced Superconducting Tokamak)

3:52 PM Solar, hydrogen and green fuels

Speaker: Prof. Jon Samseth (Chair, SCOPE, Scientific Commmittee of Problems of the Environment)

4:12 PM Coffee break

4:30 PM New technologies and materials for future development

4:31 PM Sustainable development: a contradiction in terms? or energy transition?

Speaker: Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop (The University of Queensland)

IUPAP Presentation 2024 final.pptx

4:50 PM Open questions and discussion

4:51 PM Open questions and discussion with the audience

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

5:21 PM Prepare to catch bus for banquet

6:00 PM → 6:30 PM Time to leave computers in the hotel room and getting dressed

6:30 PM → 9:00 PM Banquet – Organized by hosts (By invitation only)

Sun, October 13

8:00 AM → 8:05 AM 33rd IUPAP General Assembly: welcome back

8:05 AM → 8:30 AM Election of members of the commissions

8:30 AM → 8:40 AM Election of members of the Executive Council

8:40 AM → 9:25 AM Varia

• ISC matters
• SESAME
• LAAAMP
• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
• International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD) and Earth-Humanity Coalition hosted by IUPAP [Corresponding charter]
• A survey of the United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Networks
  • Related information: ISC position on freedom of movement

Charter for the Earth-Humanity Coalition v3.1.pdf

9:25 AM → 9:30 AM Switching to new Zoom room for Interdisciplinary Prize (ID：837 2095 8411 Password: IDPT2024)

9:30 AM → 10:15 AM Presentation of the IUPAP Interdisciplinary Prize and talks by the awardees

• Evelyn Tang: Topology protects long cycles in stochastic systems
• Stefano Martinian: Play. Pause. Rewind. Measuring local entropy production and extractable work in active matter

YouTube recording

2024_10_13_interdisciplinary_prize_GA_2024_stacks.pdf

smartiniani_presentation_iupap.pdf

Tang IUPAP prize talk.pdf

10:15 AM → 10:35 AM Tea break

10:35 AM → 11:05 AM Financial matters

• Approval of the 2023 report
  • Balance sheet and notes
  • Auditor report
• Financial result of IYBSSD from 2019–2023
• Budget for the cycle 2025–27 (including membership dues, allocation to commissions, affiliated commissions and working groups)
  • IUPAP dues for the cycle 2025–2027
    • Proposed resolution: Dues for 2025–2027 are set to 2580 CHF/unit

Speaker: Boris Sharkov

Auditors_report_2023.pdf

Balance_sheet_31.12.2023.pdf

Financial_matters_cummulated_final.pdf

IYBSSD_result.pdf

Notes_Financial_Statements_31_December_2023.pdf

11:05 AM → 11:35 AM Votes on resolutions

• Resolution on IUPAP elections and procedure for handover of responsibilities for EC&CC
• Resolutions on Membership and Units, including ratification of decisions made by EC on these matters.
• Resolution on dues for 2025, 2026 and 2027
• Ratification of decisions made by EC on matters different from Membership and Units
  • EC resolution on nominations (resolved electronically first week of March 2024)
  • IUPAP letter of support for the integrity of Argentina’s science system
  • IUPAP co-signed with physics societies around the world the statement Principles and policies for international scientific collaboration
• Resolutions regarding modifications to IUPAP's Articles and Internal Regulations
  • Resolution on modifications to Articles I.7.B and I.7.F of IUPAP Minor modification to avoid conflicting statements.
    • Proposed change to Article 7—Executive Council and Officers
  • Resolution to modify Articles II.5.5, II.6.2 and II.6.6 of IUPAP's Internal Regulations ( to adapt to the most recent modifications of the Articles of the Union).
• Resolutions regarding Working Groups (decided in view of the internal and external evaluations and the future restructuring of IUPAP).
  • Proposal to establish a Working Group in the Field of Major Neutron Research Facilities (submitted by the US Liaison Committee).
  • Proposal to establish a Working Group on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) for the Physical Sciences (submitted by the US Liaison Committee).
• Resolution on position papers, statements and declarations from the IUPAP Executive Council (EC) (submitted by the US Liaison Committee).
• Resolutions related to Conferences (based on proposals submitted by WG5, Women in Physics).
• Specification of Corporate Associate Members rights and number of elected members in the commissions
• Expansion of commissions from 14 to 15 members
  • Required change in Internal Regulations, Article 5
• Resolution on IUPAP restructuring
• Exclusion from the Union

CONFERENCE RELATED RESOLUTION ENTREPRENEURSHIP WORKSHOPS AND ABSTRACT REVIEWS.pdf

R1b_Resolution_dues.pdf

R2a_Resolution Neutron Research Facilities.pdf

R2b_AI and ML Resolution.pdf

R4_IUPAP Position Papers.pdf

R5_Specification of Corporate Associate Members rights.pdf

R6_Expansion_of_commissions.pdf

R7_Exclusion_members_6years_arrearsa_.pdf

Resolution_articles.pdf

Resolution Decisions Council.pdf

Resolution_internal_regulations.pdf

Resolution on IUPAP elections and procedure for handover of responsibilities_final.pdf

Resolution on IUPAP restructuring.pdf

resolutions_working_groups.pdf

11:35 AM → 11:45 AM Any other business

11:45 AM → 12:05 PM Introduction of the President Designate

Gupta-IUPAP.pdf

IUPAP-SKG.mp4

12:05 PM → 12:15 PM Some words from the New President

some_words_silvina.pdf

words_new_iupap_president.pdf

12:15 PM → 12:35 PM Few words,Thanks, Handover of the hammer and Closing of the General Assembly

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

Newsletter September 2024 MS. v2.pdf

12:35 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 6:01 PM Joint activity: Inter-Commission Symposium "Physics research for a sustainable planet".

Convener: Silvina Ponce Dawson

IUPAP ICS Programme v08.pdf

2:15 PM Opening of the second day

Speaker: Silvina Ponce Dawson

2:19 PM Nuclear weapons production, control, and threat

2:20 PM Where have all our good minds gone?

Speaker: Prof. Ana María Cetto

Cetto IUPAP symp Haikou 2024.pdf

Cetto IUPAP symp Haikou 2024.pptx

2:45 PM Artificial Intelligence

2:46 PM Gen AI? - What is the influence of AI on the young generation of scientists?

Speaker: Cyrus Walther

IUPAP Inter-Commission Symposium-Walther.pdf

3:06 PM Physics for the people: Academia and school, research and schooling

3:07 PM Environmental injustice and the need for physics for and by the people

Speaker: Prof. Geraldine Cochran

Cochran_IUPAP_Symposium.pdf

Cochran_IUPAP_Symposium.pptx

3:32 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM Questions and discussion

4:01 PM Open questions and discussion with the audience

Speaker: Prof. Sunil Gupta (Facilitator)

4:35 PM Concluding remarks

4:36 PM Concluding remarks

Speaker: Prof. Silvina Ponce Dawson

4:44 PM End of the Inter-Commission Symposium

4:45 PM Short break

5:00 PM Book launch: Globalizing Physics: One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

• Globalizing Physics: One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, edited by Roberto Lalli and Jaume Navarro
• Article featuring the book and how science be a route to peace and common understanding, Nature 633 (2024) 515–517
• Article featuring the birth of StatPhys, Eur. Phys. J. H 49 (2024) 16

Speaker: Roberto Lalli

IUPAP GA Presentation_Globalizing Physics_FINAL.pdf

IUPAP GA Presentation_Globalizing Physics_FINAL.pptx

5:30 PM Time to get prepared for the dinner

6:00 PM → 9:00 PM Dinner

Mon, October 14

9:00 AM → 5:00 PM Free programme: Excursions