You will find below the activities of the members of the EPS Executive Committee and of the EPS Staff.

January 2023

Luc Bergé had the following activities:
January 11: Attending the IYBSSD Steering Committee Meeting.
January 16: Greetings from the EPS for the 150th Anniversary of the French Physical Society. Sorbonne Amphitheater, Paris, France.
January 18: Online meeting with Joachim Mnich - CERN
January 19: ion in the TIG Meeting.
January 23: 3rd Meeting of the EPS Forum Committee
January 24: Participation in the 14th WG1 Meeting.
January 30-31: EPS Executive Committee Meeting, Bruxelles, Belgium.

February 2023

Luc Bergé had the following activities:
9th of February: Meeting with M. Spiro and CERN member about a workshop on nuclear dissuasion 
24th of February: Participation in the EPS Forum organisation committee 
27th of February: Participation in the 13th WG3 Meeting 
28th of February: Participation in the TIG Board Meeting

March 2023

Luc Bergé had the following activities:
1-2 March: Participation in an International Advisory Committee at Leibniz University Hannover
3 March: Online meeting with EPS Secretariat about the 2024 Forum Committee
7 March: Meeting with CEA Scientific Director Philippe Chomaz (EPS Associate Memberbship) -
7 March: Participation in an IYBSSD Steering Committee meeting
14 March: Online meeting with Secretary General and Honorary Treasurer about EPS budget 2023
21 March: Online meeting with Energy Group Chairs (current and future)
23 March: Meeting with EPS Secretariat members
24 March: ExComm meeting (morning) + Extraordinary Council meeting (afternoon)
27 March: First preparatory meeting of the 2024 EPS Forum

31 March: Kees van der Beek interviewed Monika Ritsch-Marte, laureate of the EPS Emmy Noether Distinction 2022, together with Hripsime Mkrtchyan, member of the EPS Young Minds.

April 2023

Luc Bergé had the following activities:
4 April 2023: Participation in the IYBSSD Steering Committee meeting
11 April 2023: 2nd Preparatory Meeting of the 2024 EPS Forum
11 April 2023: Participation in the TIG meeting
19 April 2023: Inauguration of the Racah Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

May 2023

Luc Bergé had the following activities:
10 May: Participation in the HCERES evaluation of Université de Corse as EPS President
16 May: 3rd Preparatory Meeting of the EPS Forum
18-19 May: Participation in the 2023 Young Minds Leadership Meeting in Naples, Italy
22 May: Participation in the TIG Meeting
25 May: Participation in the ExComm Meeting in Porto, Portugal
25 May: Participation in the 2023 EPS Council in Porto, Portugal

25-27 May: Anne Pawsey, Patricia Helfenstein, Ophélia Fornari, Milan Milićević, Ahmed Ouarab and Gina Gunaratnam worked for the EPS Council in Porto, PT
26-27 May: Anna Di Ciaccio participated in the EPS Coucil meeting and was elected as EPS Executive Committee member

June 2023

Luc Bergé had the following activities:
June 12: Organisation and chairing the 16th WG1 Meeting and 14th WG3 Meeting
June 15: 4th Preparatory Meeting of the 2024 Forum
June 20: Visit Freie Universität Berlin for the 2024 Forum
June 22: Online meeting with representatives of the Ukrainian Physical Society
June 23: Participation in the Round Table EPS & European Integration of the Albanian Physics Community
June 24: Opening Ceremony for the Balkan Physics Olympiads

24th-30th June: Patricia Helfenstein, Milan Milicevic and Mariusz Meca, EPS conference assistants, Anne Pawsey, Xavier de Araujo, Ophélia Fornari, Chahira Boudeliou, Gina Gunaratnam, Ahmed Ouarab and Tomy Zede worked for the CLEO®/EQEC Conference in Munich.

July 2023

Luc Bergé had the following activities:
July 7-9: Plenary talk and participation in the Hands-on EPS-TIG Event in Petrovac, Montenegro
July 10: 5th Preparatory Meeting of the 2024 Forum
July 13: Participation in the ISE Executive Committee Meeting

4th-6th July: Gina Gunaratnam participated in the Congress of the French Physical Society celebrating its 150th anniversary.

August 2023

August 29 – Sept. 02: Luc Bergé had a plenary talk and participated in the 39th International Physics Congress of the Turkish Physical Society and in the 8th Turkish Physics Students Congress.

September 2023

2 September 2023 Karin Zach participated in the „Informal Physical Societies Exchange Conference“ (IPSEC) of the Polish Physical Society in Gdansk
12 September: Anna Di Ciaccio, EPS Executive Committee member, participated in the 6th preparatory meeting to organize the second EPS Forum in Berlin
13-14 September: Anna Di Ciaccio, Alessandra Fantoni, Karin Zach, Ian Bearden, Christian Beck, Anna Lipniacka, Katharina Lorenz, EPS Executive Committee members, Luc Bergé, EPs President, Mairi Sakellariadou, EPS President-elect and Anne Pawsey, EPS Secretary General, participated in the EPS Executive Committee meeting

Luc Bergé had the following activities:
Sept. 1st - 2nd: Participation in the 39th International Physics Conference of the Turkish Physical Society, Bodrum, Turkey (in person) and 14th IPSEC Conference (online)
Sept. 4: Internal meeting with the EPS Secretariat (2024 Forum)
Sept. 6 - 8: Participation in the 48th Meeting of Polish Physicists, Gdansk, Poland
Sept. 12: 6th preparatory meeting of the 2024 EPS Forum
Sept. 15th: Historic Site inauguration (Milutin’s Office), Belgrade, Serbia
Sept. 25-29th: Participation in the 67th IAEA General Conference and Scientific Forum as Observer, Vienna, Austria.

October 2023

Luc Bergé had the following activities:
13 October 2023: Inauguration EPS Historic Site - Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay.
17 October 2023: 7th preparatory meeting of the EPS Forum
20 October 2023: Meeting with the Taiwan Physical Society + Meeting with the Accelerator Group’s representatives
24 October 2023: Participation in the EPS TIG Meeting
24 - 26 October 2023: Participation in the 45th National Conference of the Lithuanian Physical Society, Vilnius, Lithuania
26th October 2023: Mairi Sakellariadou participated in the EENET-MTP Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting at ICTP, Trieste (on line). She also met with Anastasiia Vasylchenkova, president of the International Physicists' Tournament

November 2023

Anna Di Ciaccio participated in the organization of the EPS Forum and set up the distinctions and awards committee.

Members of the EPS Executive Committee until 31st May 2023:
Luc Bergé (EPS President), Petra Rudolf (EPS Vice-President), Andreas Schopper, Cornelis van der Beek, David Lee (EPS Secretary General until 31st March 2023), Anne Pawsey (EPS Secretary General), Eliezer Rabinovici, Eugenio Nappi, Gertrud Zwicknagl, Ian Bearden, Mairi Sakellariadou, Roberta Caruso, Stuart Palmer, Teresa Peña and Ursel Fantz.

Members of the EPS Executive Committee from 1st June 2023:
Luc Bergé (EPS President), Mairi Sakellariadou (President-Elect), 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), Manon Couqueberg, Xavier de Araujo, Ophélia Fornari, Patricia Helfenstein, Chahira Boudeliou, Gina Gunaratnam, Ahmed Ouarab and Jean-François Kammerlocher.

Members of the EPL Staff:
Frédéric Burr (EPL Staff Editor), Kevin Desse and Tomy Zede.

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

The Action Committee of the Young Minds Project is happy to congratulate Dr. Roberta Caruso, our former chair, with being elected a member of EPS Executive Committee!

Roberta’s EPS journey began in 2010 when she subscribed to the society as individual member to create the Naples YM section (now PONYS). Since then, she has worked to organize local and national events within the section, until November 2015, when she joined the YM Action Committee. At that point, Roberta decided to step back from the front row in the local section, and assist the new members from a certain distance. In May 2018, she became YM program chair and played this role until 2020.  Along with organization of joined sessions during conferences, Roberta worked towards strengthening the relations between YM and other EPS Divisions and Groups and paid great deal of attention to promoting networking between the sections and the Action committee. During her term the committee has also instituted a new grant program for student-organized conferences (YM Conference Award), and put the basis for a mentoring program for YM members. Right after the end of her term as YM chair, she joined the EPS Executive Committee, where Roberta plans to continue working with YM towards the implementation of the mentoring project and towards the engagement of the physics community in the International Year for Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development.

Congratulations, Roberta, on your well-deserved success and good luck with bringing all your initiatives to life!

The Action Committee is also proud to welcome its new members on board: Mattia Ostinato (Naples, Italy) and Carmen Martin (Valladolid, Spain). We are sure that your extensive experience in outreach activities of your sections and organization of large scientific events, your skills that you mastered being part of the YM Project and willingness to take responsibility will help you make great contributions to the Young Minds development.