Young Physicists Members Meeting Minutes 

10/27/2021

Meeting Attendees:

Benard Mulilo, Diallo Boye, Mounia Laassiri, Dr. María Moreno Llácer, Jean Baptiste Fankam Fankam, Jesutofunmi Fajemisin, Xola Mapekula, Kayode Ayodeji DADA, Victor EKPO, Chimdessa Gash Feyisa, Nchinda Leonato Tambua, Somiealo Azote 

Agenda:

• Introduction;
• ASFAP— YPF Survey update;
• Letters of Interest;
• ASFAP Community Planning Meeting;
• Discussion on Initiatives.

Full Agenda found here:

Young Physicists Members Meeting (27 October 2021), Indico (cern.ch)

Note: This meeting is recorded and will be uploaded to the Twiki

ASFAP— YPF Survey update

• Mounia gave an update of the ASFAP Survey via one slide presentation;
  • up to now, we have  a total of more than 51 respondents, they represented 23 countries. We still need more statistics, we would like to reach a target of 100 responses at least!
  • Mounia sent an email to OWSD (Organization for women in science for the developing world) and Mothers in science to help us target more people.
    • OWSD has accepted to disseminated our survey through their networks (email and Twitter)
    • Mothers in Science has also accepted to disseminated our survey through their networks (Twitter)

Letters of Interest

• Benard gave an overview of LOI via a slide presentation. the side will be available on the indico page;  
  • The link to the LoI submission page is accessible from the main page of the African Strategy, www.africanphysicsstrategy.org.
• Our role compared to other ASFAP WGs is unique
  •  Other ASFAP WGs focus directly on Fundamental and Applied Physics;
  • We are focusing on Promoting the next generation of leaders in  Physics.
• What would our LoIs look like?
  • LoI can be a description of ASFAP Survey preliminary results;
  • Separate or Single LoIs

ASFAP Community Planning Meeting;

The ASFAP Community Planning Meeting (CPM) was scheduled for December 12-18, 2021, as an in-person event during the African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics, ACP2021 at the Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech, Morocco: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1060503/

Considering travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure the health and safety of our ASFAP Members. The ASFAP SC decided to postpone this event to March 7-11, 2022. 

At this ASFAP CPM, we will gather to:

• Review the LOIs received;
• Start categorizing the LOIs into White paper topics;
• Define the outline of the Strategy report.

Minutes by ASFAP-YPF Conveners.

Amani, Benard, Diallo *Mounia