You will find below the activities of the members of the EPS Executive Committee and of the EPS Staff.
January
16 January: A. Di Ciaccio and A. Fantoni, EPS Executive Committee members, participated in the tenth preparatory meeting of the 2nd EPS Forum
17 January: Mairi Sakellariadou participated in a workshop dedicated to the International Year of Basic Sciences and Sustainable Development; online meeting with short presentation as elected President of the EPS
20 January: A. Di Ciaccio and A. Fantoni, EPS Executive Committee members, participated in the awards and distinction committee meeting
29 January: A. Di Ciaccio and A. Fantoni, EPS Executive Committee members, participated in the EPS Exec Committee board
February
Luc Bergé had the following activities:
Feb. 2: participation in the Technology & Innovation Group Meeting
Feb. 5: Meeting on the 2024 budget with the EPS Secretary General, President-elect and Honorary Treasurer,
Feb. 8: participation in a zoom meeting with the American Physical Society for the preparation of Council 2024
Feb. 16: participation in the EPS Young Minds Action Committee Meeting in Barcelona
Feb. 16: participation in the 16th WG3 Meeting (online)
Feb. 19: 11th Preparatory Meeting of the Forum
Feb. 22: Online Meeting with Commissioner Ivanova’s cabinet
March
1st March: Mairi Sakellariadou
gave a short presentation on behalf of EPS at Herwig Schopper's birthday event at CERN
20 March : A. Di Ciaccio and A. Fantoni, EPS Executive Committee members, participated in the EPS Exec Committee board
22nd March: M. Sakellariadou participated online in the EPS-DPG hybrid meeting (Berlin)
Luc Bergé had the following activities:
March 7: Meeting with the EPS Secretariat for the logistics of the Forum
March 19: Attending the Award Ceremony of the DPG March Meeting in Berlin
March 22: Attending online the Meeting of the EPS European Integration Committee and the DPG
March 25-26: participation in the second EPS Forum
March 27: participation in the Council meeting - End of the current presidency.
April
April 11&12: Mairi Sakellariadou visited the EPS headquarters in
Mulhouse. She worked on the website renewal project with
Ahmed Ouarab and Gina Gunaratnam
April 11: Alessandra Fantoni
participated in the online e-EPS board meeting ; Luc Bergé participated
in the online workshop on BPU11 Congress - Publications.
April 12:
Alessandra Fantoni, Anna Di Ciaccio and Luc Bergé: Participation in the
EPS Executive Committee online meeting : Luc Bergé: online participation
to the Technology & Innovation Group meeting
April 18: Interview for candidates to the conference manager position at EPS
April
24: Anna Di Ciaccio, Participation in the EPS Awards and Distinctions
Committee online meeting. Production of a short document with guidelines
for the EPS prizes
May
7th May: Alessandra Fantoni, Anna Di Ciaccio, Luc Bergé participated in the online meeting between ExComm and EPS D/G chairs
7th-8th May: Anna Lipniacka participated in the conference of the Nordic Network for Diversity in Physics, NORNDiP, financed by NordForsk.
Alessandra Fantoni also had following activities:
9th-10th May: Nuclear Physics Division Board meeting in Oslo
14th-15th May: participation in the Energy Group meeting at Cadarache and visit of ITER
17th May: participation in the online meeting of the Editorial Board e-EPS newsletter
June-July-August
Luc Bergé prepared a call for receiving proposals to recruit the next EPS president-elect
Anna di Ciaccio participated in a meeting of the EPS HEPP division and sent a proposal for an EPS Historical Site
4th July: Alessandra Fantoni participated in the EPS Executive Committee meeting (online)
10th July: Alessandra Fantoni participated in the EPS Group Salaries meeting (online)
September
Luc Bergé had the following activitites:
September 6th: Participation in the TIG meeting (online)
September 18th: Organisation and participation in the 1st meeting of the Presidential Search Committee (online)
September 10: Mairi Sakellariadou participated in the panel discussion: “Collaboration, Outreach, and
Engagement for the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and
Technology” Bologna on SIF annual meeting
September 16th-20th: Alessandra Fantoni participated in the NPA-XI conference in Dresden with talk on EPS&NPD
September 23rd-27th: Alessandra Fantoni participated in the Second ANP conference in Thessaloniki with talk on EPS&NPD
September 25th: Alessandra Fantoni, Anna Di Ciaccio and Luc Bergé participated in the EPS Executive Committee Meeting (online)
October
October 2nd: Alessandra Fantoni and Luc Bergé participated in the EPS Meeting with EPS Member Societies
October 14th: Alessandra Fantoni and Luc Bergé participated in the working group on EPS salaries
October 22nd: Luc Bergé organised and participated in the 2nd Presidential Search Committee
Anna Di Ciaccio had the following activities:
Participated in the meeting between the executive committee and EPS member societies.
Participated in the Science Europe meeting with the NSFC
Participated in the Governing Board meeting of Science Europe
Participated in the 2024 European regional meeting of the global Research Council of Science Europe in Tallin
Anna Lipniacka had the following activities:
Participated in the meeting between the executive committee and EPS member societies.
Participated in a preparatory meeting for the next conference for the Nordic Network for Diversity in Physics (NORNDIP),
that will take place in May 2025, in Gothenburg Sweden, at the Chalmers
University. This will be the seventh yearly conference of this network.
28th-29th October: Alessandra Fantoni organised and participated in the 88th NPD Board meeting in Orsay
November
Anna Di Ciaccio had the following activities:
Nov 1th: chair of the meeting of the Distinctions and Awards Committee
Nov 13th: Participation to the Exec Committee meeting
Nov 19th-20th: Participation to the High Level Workshop of Science Europe - Budapest (Hungary)
Nov 20-22th: invitation to the Science World Forum - Budapest (Hungary)
Luc Bergé had the following activities:
November 13th: Participation to the Executive Committee of the EPS
November 22nd: Meeting with the EPS Secretary General in Mulhouse about the EPS salaries
November 27th: Third online meeting of the EPS Presidential Search Committee
November 7th-9th: Mairi Sakellariadou participated in the Falling Walls Science Summit 2024
November 13th: Alessandra Fantoni participated in the EPS Executive Committee (online)
November 19th: Alessandra Fantoni participated in the NuPECC Long Range Plan Symposium at Bruxelles with a talk on the EPS-NPD activities
December
December 17th: Luc Bergé participeted in the TIG Board meeting
December 17th: Anna Di Ciaccio organised a meeting on the reactivation of the EPS-Alessandro Volta Prize
Anna Di Ciaccio took part in the discussions on the formulation of the EPS Quantum Statement
Members of the EPS Executive Committee:
Mairi Sakellariadou
(EPS President), Luc Bergé (EPS Past-President), Anne Pawsey (EPS Secretary General), Karin Zach, Anna
Lipniacka, Andreas Schopper, Katharina Lorenz, Christian
Beck, Alessandra Fantoni, Stuart Palmer, Anna Di Ciaccio, Eugenio
Coccia, Ian
Bearden and Roberta Caruso.
Members of the EPS Staff:
Anne Pawsey (EPS Secretary General), Xavier de Araujo,
Milan Milicevic, Ophélia Fornari (working with Sophie Baumann), Chahira Boudeliou, Gina Gunaratnam, Ahmed Ouarab, Jean-François Kammerlocher and Amy Guibal (currently replacing Adriana Zerafa.)
Members of the EPL Staff:
Frédéric Burr (EPL Staff Editor), Kevin Desse and Tomy Zede.