33rd IUPAP General Assembly

10 Oct 2024, 16:00 → 14 Oct 2024, 21:00 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.

Thursday 10 October

16:00 → 18:00 Registration

IUPAP_GA_Registration.jpg

18:00 → 19:30 Welcome receiption hosted by the Chinese Physical Society

Friday 11 October

07:30 → 08:30 Registration

08:30 → 08:50 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

08:50 → 08:55 Verification of quorum

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

Speaker: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN)

08:55 → 09:00 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

09:00 → 09:05 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

09:05 → 09:10 Presidential address

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

Sad and good news.pdf

09:10 → 09:50 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

09:50 → 10:15 Tea break

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

IUPAP_GA_group_photo.jpg

10:20 → 10:50 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 → 11:50 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 → 12:15 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 → 12:20 The General Assembly adjourns

12:20 → 13:20 Lunch

13:20 → 14:00 Bus transfer to the Convention Center

14:00 → 18:00 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)

14:00 Opening

Transmitted online: Youtube and KouShare

Speaker: Prof. Lilia Meza-Montes

WomenInPhysics.jpg

14:05 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

15:05 Coffee break

15:35 Women in physics in China

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

CPS-WIP-2024JIN1forIUPAP-GA3.pdf

15:55 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

16:35 The present and future of the Working Group Women in Physics

Speaker: Prof. Prajval Shastri (Raman Research Institute)

16:45 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

16:55 Discussions in groups about the future

17:25 Sharing conclusions of the discussions

17:45 Final words

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

18:00 → 19:00 Dinner

19:00 → 22:00 Public lectures by Nobel laurates

19:00 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

20:00 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

21:00 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

Saturday 12 October

08:00 → 08:05 33rd IUPAP General Assembly: welcome back

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

08:05 → 08:20 Conferences approved for 2025

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

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

08:20 → 08:50 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

08:50 → 09:30 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

09:30 → 10:00 Tea break

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

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

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

11:00 → 11:20 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 → 12:00 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 → 12:01 The General Assembly adjourns

12:01 → 12:46 Lunch

12:46 → 13:30 Buss transfer from Hilton Haikou to Convention Center

13:30 → 18:00 Inter-Commission Symposium: Physics Research for a Sustainable Planet

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

13:30 Opening of the Inter-Commission Symposium

13:31 Welcome address

Transmitted online: Youtube and KouShare

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

13:36 Welcome from IUPAP

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (IUPAP President)

13:40 The intention of this Symposium

Speaker: Prof. Pietro Ubertini (Chair C19)

13:45 WG21 and the topics of this Symposium

Speaker: Prof. Nithaya Chetty (Chair WG21)

13:50 Introduction

13:51 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

14:10 Physics for a sustainable planet

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

14:40 Questions

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

14:50 Climate change and geohazards

14:51 Short and long term evolution of the climate

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

15:11 Geohazard monitoring: Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcano, etc.

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

ADMiR_IUPAP_oct2024.pdf

15:31 Energy for the future

15:32 Chinese magnetic confinement fusion development for a sustainable planet

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

15:52 Solar, hydrogen and green fuels

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

16:12 Coffee break

16:30 New technologies and materials for future development

16:31 Sustainable development: a contradiction in terms? or energy transition?

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

IUPAP Presentation 2024 final.pptx

16:50 Open questions and discussion

16:51 Open questions and discussion with the audience

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

17:21 Prepare to catch bus for banquet

18:00 → 18:30 Time to leave computers in the hotel room and getting dressed

18:30 → 21:00 Banquet – Organized by hosts (By invitation only)

Sunday 13 October

08:00 → 08:05 33rd IUPAP General Assembly: welcome back

08:05 → 08:30 Election of members of the commissions

08:30 → 08:40 Election of members of the Executive Council

08:40 → 09:25 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

09:25 → 09:30 Switching to new Zoom room for Interdisciplinary Prize (ID：837 2095 8411 Password: IDPT2024)

09:30 → 10:15 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 → 10:35 Tea break

10:35 → 11:05 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 → 11:35 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 → 11:45 Any other business

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

Gupta-IUPAP.pdf

IUPAP-SKG.mp4

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

some_words_silvina.pdf

words_new_iupap_president.pdf

12:15 → 12:35 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 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:01 Joint activity: Inter-Commission Symposium "Physics research for a sustainable planet".

Convener: Silvina Ponce Dawson

IUPAP ICS Programme v08.pdf

14:15 Opening of the second day

Speaker: Silvina Ponce Dawson

14:19 Nuclear weapons production, control, and threat

14:20 Where have all our good minds gone?

Speaker: Prof. Ana María Cetto

Cetto IUPAP symp Haikou 2024.pdf

Cetto IUPAP symp Haikou 2024.pptx

14:45 Artificial Intelligence

14:46 Gen AI? - What is the influence of AI on the young generation of scientists?

Speaker: Cyrus Walther

IUPAP Inter-Commission Symposium-Walther.pdf

15:06 Physics for the people: Academia and school, research and schooling

15:07 Environmental injustice and the need for physics for and by the people

Speaker: Prof. Geraldine Cochran

Cochran_IUPAP_Symposium.pdf

Cochran_IUPAP_Symposium.pptx

15:32 Coffee break

16:00 Questions and discussion

16:01 Open questions and discussion with the audience

Speaker: Prof. Sunil Gupta (Facilitator)

16:35 Concluding remarks

16:36 Concluding remarks

Speaker: Prof. Silvina Ponce Dawson

16:44 End of the Inter-Commission Symposium

16:45 Short break

17:00 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

17:30 Time to get prepared for the dinner

18:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Monday 14 October

09:00 → 17:00 Free programme: Excursions