Name: ASFAP Community Town Hall
Start: 2021-07-12T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-07-15T16:00:00+00:00
Location: No location set

ASFAP Community Town Hall

from Monday, July 12, 2021 (11:00 AM) to Thursday, July 15, 2021 (4:00 PM)

Monday, July 12, 2021
11:00 AM Session #1
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Guest of Honor Address - Shamila Nair-Bedouelle (UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences)

11:15 AM ASFAP Overview - Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg (ZA))

11:30 AM Physics strategies in Japan - Setsuko Tajima (Osaka University, Japan)

11:45 AM Physics Strategies in China - Zhengguo Zhao (University of Science and Technology of China)
12:00 PM Break — Join us for online networking in Gather.Town
Break — Join us for online networking in Gather.Town
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM Session #2
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Contributions

12:30 PM Mega Projects in India : status and path ahead - Amol Dighe (TIFR) Rohini M. Godbole (India Institute of Science)

12:45 PM European Physics Strategies - Karl Jakobs (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

1:00 PM USA Physics Strategies - Young-Kee Kim (University of Chicago (US))

1:15 PM Latin American Physics Startegy (LASF4RI) - Marta Alice Losada (NYU Abu Dhabi)
1:30 PM Break — Join us for online networking in Gather.Town
Break — Join us for online networking in Gather.Town
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session #3
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Address by the African Union Commissioner in charge of science - H. E. Prof. Sarah Mbi Enow Anyang Agbor (AU Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology)

2:15 PM Address by the Democratic Republic of Congo Presidential Panel - Raïssa Malu (Directrice - Investing In People (IIP) ASBL, Member of the Democratic Republic of Congo Presidential Panel to the African Union)

2:30 PM The African Physical Society (AfPS) - Ahmadou Wagué (UCAD, Dakar, Senegal)

2:45 PM The Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) - Norbert Hounkonnou (University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin)

3:00 PM The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) - Malik Maaza (UNESCO UNISA ITL/NRF Africa Chair in Nanosciences & Nanotechnology)

3:15 PM African Strategy — Feedback from International Advisory Committee (IAC) - Winston Wole Soboyejo ( Provost, Worcester Polytech. Inst., USA)

3:30 PM End of the day session Discussion
4:00 PM Daily Discussion Session
Daily Discussion Session
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
11:00 AM Session #4
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Ethics Committee - Chilufya Mwewa (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Nithaya Chetty (University of the Witwatersrand) Oumar Ka (Cheikh Anta Diop University) Samira Hassani (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

11:15 AM Accelerators - Ahmed Ali Abdelalim (Helwan University, also at CTP, Zewail City of Science and Tech.) Joele Mira (iThemba LABS)

11:30 AM Astrophysics and Cosmology - Bernard Asabere (GSSTI / AVN Ghana) Lerothodi Leonard Leeuw (University of the Western Cape) Mirjana Povic (Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute)

11:45 AM Atomic and Molecular Physics - Ibrahim Cheik Njifon (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories) Obinna Abah (Queens U. Belfast) Stéphane Kenmoe (U. of Duisburg-Essen)
12:00 PM Break — Join us for online networking in Gather.Town
Break — Join us for online networking in Gather.Town
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM Session #5
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Contributions

12:30 PM Women in Physics - Dephney Mathebula (University of Venda) Iroka Chidinma Joy (National Space Research and Development Agency) Marie Chantal Cyulinyana (University of Rwanda)

12:45 PM Biophysics - Elsie Effah Kaufmann (University of Ghana) Emmanuel Nji (BioStruct-Africa) Tjaart Kruger (University of Pretoria)

1:00 PM Computing & 4IR - Dharm Singh (Namibia University of Science and Technoliogy) Francesco Petruccione (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Gaurav Bajpai (University of Rwanda) Ghita Rahal (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Happy M. Sithole (CSIR, South Africa)

1:15 PM Earth Sciences - Alassane Traoré (Institut de Technologie Nucléaire Appliquée, UCAD) Bjorn von der Heyden (Stellenbosch University)
1:30 PM Break — Join us for online networking in Gather.Town
Break — Join us for online networking in Gather.Town
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session #6
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Particle Physics - Edith Zinhle Buthelezi (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA)) Mohamed Chabab (Cadi Ayyad University) Yasmine Sara Amhis (IJCLab (Orsay))

2:15 PM Energy - Daniel Ayuk Egbe (ANSOLE) Diouma Kobor (University Assane Seck of Ziguinchor (UASZ)) Mounia Karim (Cranfield University)

2:30 PM Fluid and Plasma Physics - Isaiah M. Blankson (NASA) John Foster (The University of Michigan) Oluwole Daniel Makinde (Stellenbosch University)

2:45 PM Instrumentation and Detectors - Nieldane Pieter Stodart (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA)) Paul Gueye (Michaigan State University) Ulrich Goerlach (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
3:00 PM Daily Discussion Session
Daily Discussion Session
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
11:00 AM Session #7
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Community Engagement - Jamal Mimouni (Mentouri University) Marie Clementine Uwineza Nibamureke (University of Johannesburg) NDEYE ARAME BOYE FAYE (UCAD/ ARSN)

11:15 AM Light Sources - Gihan Kamel (Helwan U., Egypt) Tabbetha Dobbins (Rowan University) Thierry D'Almeida (Sèmè City, Benin)

11:30 AM Materials Physics - Balla Diop Ngom (Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar) David Dodoo-Arhin (University of Ghana) Sonia Haddad (Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University Tunis El Manar)
12:00 PM Break — Join us for online networking in Gather.Town
Break — Join us for online networking in Gather.Town
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM Session #8
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Contributions

12:30 PM Nuclear Physics - Hassan brahim (Cairo Univ., Egypt) Mark Dalton (Jefferson Lab) Sevdalina Dimitrova (BAS, Bulgaria)

12:45 PM ASFAP Tools and Logistics - Kétévi Adiklè Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
1:30 PM Break — Join us for online networking in Gather.Town
Break — Join us for online networking in Gather.Town
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session #9
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Young Physicists Forum - Amani Ebrahim (SLAC) Benard Mulilo (University of Zambia) Diallo Boye (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Mounia LAASSIRI (Mohammed V University)

2:15 PM Physics Education - Khalid Berrada (Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco) Mouhamadou Mansour Faye (Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal) Noella Josiane Umuhoza Karemera (University of Rwanda) Sam Ramaila (University of Johannesburg) Uli Raich (retired)

2:30 PM Optics and Photonics - Alain Dikande (University of Buea, Cameroon) Jérémie T. Zoueu (Institut National de Polytechnique, Ivory Coast) Rim Cherif (Université de Carthage, Tunisia)

2:45 PM Theoretical and Applied Mechanics - Conrad Bertrand Tabi (Botswana International University of Science & Technology)

3:00 PM Medical Physics - Hany Ammar (Medicine-Aswan University) Rajaa Sebihi (Mohmmed V University, Morocco) Stephen Avery (University of Pennsylvania)

3:15 PM End of the day Sessions discussions
3:45 PM Break
Break
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Thursday, July 15, 2021
11:00 AM Session #10
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Observers Committee - Abdesslam Arhrib (AbdelMalek Essaadi university) Claire Lee (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Gopolang Mohlabeng (Queen's University) Jose Salt (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) Lawrence Norris (AfPS) Lydia Roos (LPNHE Paris) Maria Moreno Llacer (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) Mary Bishai (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Mourad Telmini (UniversitéTunis El Manar, Tunisia) Nabila Aghanim (AS, CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay) Oumar Ka (Cheikh Anta Diop University) Peter Jenni (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE)) Samira Hassani (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Uli Raich (retired) Yassine Hassouni (Mohammed V University, Morocco)

11:15 AM Event Summary - Fairouz Malek (LPSC-Grenoble, CNRS and UGA, France)

11:45 AM Next Steps - Farida Fassi (Universite Mohammed V (MA))
12:15 PM Session #11
12:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Contributions

12:15 PM Communications and networking of Physics in Africa - James E Gubernatis (African Physics Newsletter)

12:30 PM Discussion
2:15 PM Break — Join us for online networking in Gather.Town
Break — Join us for online networking in Gather.Town
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM