You will find below the activities of the members of the EPS Executive Committee and of the EPS Staff.
January 2022
Luc Bergé had the following activities:
6 January: Meeting with the EPS Secretariat
10-11 January: Interview of the candidates for the position of EPS Secretary General in Mulhouse
18 January: (Short) participation in the IYBSSD 2022 Steering Committee meeting + 7th Preparatory meeting of the EPS Forum
20 January: Interview of candidates for the position of Conference Manager’s assistant
26 January: Participation in the EPS Extraordinary Council at Mulhouse
27 January: Meeting with the Organisation Committee’s members of the EPS Forum + Attending the APS Leadership Meeting + Meeting with Joachim Burgdörfer on EPS Publication issues.
February 2022
Luc Bergé had the following activities:
2 February: Online meeting with Sorbonne University (EPS Forum)
16 - 17 February: Meetings with the EPS Secretariat
17 February: Participation in the TIG Board meeting
18 February: Participation in the Steering Committee Meeting of the IYBSSD 2022.
24 February (morning): Organisation and participation in the 11th WG1 Meeting (link with industry)
24 February (afternoon): Organisation and participation in the 8th preparatory meeting of the EPS Forum
25 February: Organisation and participation in the 10 WG3 Meeting (Physics for development & actions for Eastern Europe)
26 February: Writing of the EPS Statement on the Ukrainian crisis with the Executive Committee Members.
28 February: Relay of the EPS Statement on the social networks and exchange with the Divisions, Groups and EPS Member Societies.
March 2022
28th March: Kees van der Beek, chair of the Equal Opportunities Committee, remitted the Winter 2020 Emmy Noether Distinction to Prof. Maria Garcia Parajo of ICFO (Casteldefells, Spain).
April 2022
April 6 : Interview for PhoenixD Cluster of Excellence - Hannover University
April 8: Point with the EPS Secretariat on the stands at EPS Forum.
April 13: Participation to the Executive Committee, Mulhouse.
April 14: Meeting the EPS Secretariat + Meeting at CICSU, Sorbonne University, Paris for the EPS Forum.
April 19: 10th Preparatory Meeting for the EPS Forum.
April 25: Meeting with EPS Secretariat for the EPS Forum + WG4 Meeting for the recruitment of the next Secretary General
May 2022
5th May 2022: Kees van der Beek met with IOP representatives in
Manchester, U.K. in the framework of the preparations for the CMD29
conference.
25th May: Petra Rudolf inaugurated the Zeeman Laboratory as an EPS Historic Site in Amsterdam.
June 2022
June 2-4: Petra Rudolf was at the EPS Forum and gave a talk on "The landscape of
Physics graduates’ career tracks" in the Young Minds Leadership meeting.
June 28: Petra Rudolf gave a talk on "Best practices to improve diversity &
inclusion" at the Women in Plasma Physics lunch of the EPS Plasma 2022
Online conference.
June 28-29 Petra Rudolf represented the EPS as observer at the 40th Sesame Council Meeting in Ankara.
September 2022
Luc Bergé had the following activities:
1-2 September: Plenary talk on THz science given in the framework of
the BPU11 Congress in Belgrade, Serbia. Attending the closing ceremony
of BPU11 Congress with the signature of a cooperation agreement between
EPS and the Balkan Physical Union (BPU).
6 September: Attending the Kavli prizes banquet in Oslo, Norway.
8 September: 2nd WG5 meeting on the revision of the EPS constitution and by-laws.
14 September: Meeting DPG about the 2nd EPS Forum.
16 September: Inauguration of the Physics Department of Milan University (Aldo Pontremoli), Italy, as EPS Historic Site.
20-22
September: Attending the IYBBSD 2022 World Conference on Sustainable
Development in Belgrade, Serbia (moderation of Session 2).
23 September: Inauguration of the Croatian meteorological and hydrological institute of Zagreb, Croatia, as EPS Historic Site.
29-30 September: Attending the Executive Committee Meeting, Mulhouse, France (online).
Petra Rudolf had the following activites:
9th September: Closing the gender gap: avoid dropout in the postdoc and junior
professor phase", DPG-Tagung der Sektion Kondensierte Materie,
Regensburg, Germany, September 9th, 2022.
27th September: The EPS Young
Minds programme and how to avoid dropout in the postdoc and junior
professor phase ", 71th Annual Meeting of the Austian Physical
Society, Leoben, Austria, plenary opening talk.
29th-30th September 29 & 30: participated in the EPS ExComm meeting in Mulhouse
October 2022
Luc Bergé had the following activities:
7 October: Inauguration of the Institute of Scientific Studies (IES) Cargèse, France, as EPS Historic Site
11 October: Attending the 12th WG3 Meeting
14 October: Attending the TIG Meeting
19 October: Attending the 13th WG1 Meeting
25 October: First WG Meeting on the EPS publications
28th October 28th: Petra Rudolf gave a lecture on "Molecular Motors and Switches
at Surfaces" at the 2nd Physics for Physicists (P4P) Students
Conference, organized by the Skopje Young Minds
November 2022
5 November: Petra Rudolf chaired the EPL Board of directors meeting, in Bilbao, Spain
December 2022
Luc Bergé had the following activities:
5 December 2022: Online meeting with Eugenio Nappi, ExCom member.
6 December 2022: 2nd Meeting of the EPS Forum Committee
8 December 2022: Inauguration of the Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory as EPS Historic Site
9 December 2022: 2nd Meeting for the organisation of a Working Group on the EPS publications
14 December 2022: Online meeting with Dr. Christiane Koch, Freie Universität Berlin for hosting the 2nd EPS Forum
16 December 2022: Visit to the EPS Secretariat, Mulhouse, and discussion with IAPS board members.
Members of the EPS Executive Committee:
Luc Bergé (president), Petra Rudolf (vice-president), Andreas Schopper, Cornelis van der Beek, David Lee, Eliezer Rabinovici, Eugenio Nappi, Gertrud Zwicknagl, Ian Bearden, Mairi Sakellariadou, Roberta Caruso, Stuart Palmer, Teresa Peña and Ursel Fantz.
Members of the EPS Staff:
David Lee (secretary general), Manon Couqueberg, Xavier de Araujo, Ophélia Fornari, Patricia Helfenstein, Gina Gunaratnam and Ahmed Ouarab.
Members of the EPL Staff:
Frédéric Burr (staff editor), Kevin Desse and Tomy Zede.