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Monday 15 February 2021
Updated: Tuesday 16 February 2021
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January
- 20 January: Gertrud Zwicknagl, as liaison officer for the Russian Federation in the EPS Executive Committee and member of the EPS Committee on European Integration (EPS-CEI), participates in Zoom meeting with representatives from Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna to discuss possiblities for collaborations EPS-JINR. The meeting was initiated by EPS Executive Committee member Eliezer Rabinovici. Radu Constantinescu participated as chair of the EPS-CEI.
- 25 January: Gertrud Zwicknagl participates in the digital meeting of WG3 Phys4Dev & Eastern/Southern States.
February
- Luc Bergé, EPS President-elect, organised and attended several meetings of the 4 workgroups dedicated to
the EPS links to the industrial sector, the preparation of the EPS
Forum, to future plans on physics for development and the next General
Assembly of the EPS co-organised with the Balkan Physical Union. He also
contributed to the preparation of the next "Rencontres Physique
Entreprise Recherche" in partnership with the French Physical Society.
- 2 February: Luc Bergé attended the EPS Executive Committee meeting.
April
- 21 April: R. Caruso, ExCom member, attended the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee.
May
- 7 May, Luc Bergé, EPS President, and Petra Rudolf, EPS Vice-President, participated in a Panel discussion on "Career Advice for Young Physicists: a Holistic Discussion", at the EPS Young Minds Leadership Meeting (organized as on line event)
- 25 May, Luc Bergé, EPS President, Petra Rudolf, EPS Vice-President, and David Lee, EPS Secretary General, participated in EPS-IoP Code of Conduct workshop organised for representatives of EPS member societies and EPS Divisions and Groups.
June
- 26 June: Petra Rudolf, EPS vice president, gave a
keynote talk about a career in Physics at the Conference for Astronomy
and Physics Students (CAPS '21) is the UK’s premier student physics and
related conference, hosted this year by the University of Birmingham’s
Poynting Physical Society.
- 29 June: Petra
Rudolf, EPS vice president, as EPS representative attended the 38th
SESAME's Council Meeting. SESAME is the Synchrotron-light for
Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East facility
developed in Jordan under the auspices of UNESCO.
- 30 June:
Petra Rudolf, EPS vice president, gave a talk entitled "A PhD is not
enough ... - how to prepare for a career in academia" at the WarmUp
event before the 11th Polish Symposium on Physics in Economy and Social
Science, as part of the initiative to organize EPS Young Minds career
development sessions at conferences throughout Europe.
Luc Bergé, EPS President, had the following activities:
- 7 June: Inauguration of Jena City as EPS Historic Site.
- 8 June: 6th Meeting of the WorkGroup 1 - Link to Industry
- 9 June: Meeting with Jim Gates and Amy Flatten - American Physical Society
- 10 June: Meeting with EDP Sciences - EPS Associate Membership
- 11 June: Meeting with OSA/Europe for Young Minds Webinar Series « From PhD To CEO »
- 14 June: Meeting with the Director of UFR Physique Sorbonne University for the preparation of the 2022 EPS Forum
- 15 June: Participation to the SFP Administration Council
- 16 June: Meeting with OCEM EP representatives - EPS Associate Membership
- 18 June: Meeting Carlos Hidalgo (Physics & Society) + Meeting JINR/Dubna Directorate (JINR Physics Summer School)
- 21 June: Welcome note to the World of Photonics Congress opening ceremony - CLEO/Europe
- 30 June: Preparatory meeting for the RPER event, Paris
July
- 11-16 July: Petra Rudolf, EPS vice president,
attended the 7th IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics,
where she gave a plenary talk and participated in a panel discussion on
the status of Women in Physics in high and low GDP countries together
with Nashawa Eassa from the Al-Neelain University in Khartoum in Sudan.
The panel discussion was moderated by the chair of the ICWIP conference,
Cathy Foley. ICWIP was organized as on line event from Australia.
- 19-23 July:
Petra Rudolf, EPS vice president, attended the EPS-SIF INTERNATIONAL
SCHOOL ON ENERGY, where she was part of the Scientific Committee and
also gave a lecture.
Luc Bergé, EPS President, had the following activities:
- 5 July: Visit to EPS Mulhouse + Participation to the Ex Com Meeting
- 6 July: Interview KPMG + Preparation of the round table on quantum technologies - RPER, ParisJuly 8: 7th Meeting of the WorkGroup 1 - Link to Industry
- 9 July: 7th Meeting of the WorkGroup 4 - search for the next Secretary General
- 12 July: Meeting WorkGroup 1 - new EPS Web platform
- 13 July: Meeting with Karl Grandin - EPS HS Programme and Second preparatory meeting of the 2022 EPS Forum
- 15 July: 7th Meeting of the WorkGroup 3 - Physics for Development and actions for Eastern States
August
- 4-6 August: Petra Rudolf, EPS vice president visited the Uppsala University, where she inaugurated the EPS Historic Site dedicated to Anders Jonas Ångström and met with representatives of the ISP (International Science Programme) to solicit support for the International Training and Research (INTR) Programme.
Luc Bergé, EPS President, had the following activities:
- 23 August: Meeting online with Richard Zeltner, Chair of the Young Minds AC, for the EPS Forum
- 26 - 27 August: Visit to EPS Headquarters, Mulhouse, France
- 30 August am: Debriefing with ATOS for the Round Table on Quantum Technologies - RPER
- 30 August pm: Last preparatory meeting for the RPER, Paris, France
October
Luc Bergé, EPS President, had the following activities:
- Oct. 2: Participation to the award ceremony of the Balkan Physics Olympiads
- Oct. 6: Inauguration of the Ampère Museum as EPS Historic Site - Lyon
- Oct. 12:
Presentation of the T. Gero Medal to Prof. J. Devreese at Antwerp
University and inauguration of the synchrotron hall of UC Louvain as EPS
Historic Site
- Oct. 14: Meeting APS-ICTP-EPS
- Oct. 15: Inauguration of the Magnus Haus, Berlin, as EPS Historic Site
- Oct. 19: Partial preparatory meeting of the EPS Forum
- Oct. 20: Participation to the 30th IUPAP General Assembly
- Oct. 26: 4th preparatory meeting of the EPS Forum
- Oct. 28-29: Participation to the EPS Grand Challenge Meeting - Magnus Haus, Berlin.
November
Luc Bergé, EPS President, had the following activities:
- November 17: Meeting with the EPS Secretariat at Mulhouse.
- November 19: Participation in the EPS Executive Committee Meeting
- November 22: Visit to ITER with the Swiss Physical Society and the Technology and Innovation Group of the EPS
- November 24: Online meeting for the recruitment of a new Associate Member with CMD Chair
- November 26: 5th preparatory meeting of the EPS Forum
December
Luc Bergé, EPS President, had the following activities:
December 6 : 10th WG1 Meeting (Link with industries)
December 10 : Zoom meeting between the EPS and World Quantum Day Initiative
December 13 : 9th WG3 Meeting (Physics for development and actions toward Eastern countries)
December 20 : 6th preparatory meeting of the EPS Forum
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