IOC Meeting

Tuesday 25 Apr 2023, 14:00 → 16:10 Europe/Zurich

Diallo Boye (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Kétévi Adiklè Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Mounia Laassiri (University of Helsinki), Ulrich Goerlach (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))

To discuss the scientific program of ACP2023

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ACP-IOC meeting on April 25, 2023

Present:  Kétévi A. Assamagan, Christine Darve, Azwinndini Muronga, Uli Raich, Ulrich Goerlach, Lawrence Norris, Kenneth Cecire, Obinna Abah, Diploma Kobor, Sanae Samsam, Benard Mulilo, Jesutofunmi Fajemisin, Mounia Laassiri 

• The recording of the meeting is available https://indico.cern.ch/event/1278001/attachments/2631162/4558890/video1774155227.mp4
• The chat of the meeting is available https://indico.cern.ch/event/1278001/#preview:4558891

Salient points

1. [Africa High Energy Physics] Ulrich to confirm with Haifa if she will be able to give this general talk about Africa High Energy Physics, if not we should find someone else who has a broad overview of HEP in Africa. 
2. [Early career sessions] Mounia et al. presented an overview of how they are going to organize their 2 sessions. The slides presented by Mounia are accessible here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1278001/contributions/5368234/attachments/2635268/4558894/ACP2023%20Early%20Career%20Sessions%20.pdf
3. [Conference dinner talk] Azwinndini proposed Dr Derrick Swartz as a guest for the dinner talk on Sep. 28.
4. [Special session on small detector labs] Uli proposed two speakers connected to Africa for his session. Both speakers have already accepted the invitation.
5. [Africa biophysics] Lawrence to confirm with Tebello Nyokong (chemical physics) if she will be able to give a broad talk connected to Africa.
6. [Special session on African countries joining and thriving in large collaborations] Benard with Kétévi gave us an overview of how they are going to organize this session, Christine added a few suggestions to his list of speakers. Please see the proposal on the indico page added by Benard. 
7. [Special session on large research infrastructures / big detectors in Africa]  Next meeting, Ulrich will give us an update on this session 
8. [AMO] Obinna presented one slide with a proposal (program and speakers), the slide will be posted on indico as soon as we receive it from Obinna.
9. [Physics Education & Communication] Kenneth and Funmi presented detailed proposals and the suggested speaker names already added to the ACP2023 google doc.
10. [Physics and climate] In a later communication after the meeting, Azwinndini suggested a climate modeling expert Francois Engelbrecht from Wits. Azwinndini will check for the availability of Francois. 
11. Kétévi will prepare a draft invitation letter for review.
12. The Next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 9. Session leaders will be asked to provide an update on their sessions.

For the details, please follow the recording.

Minutes by Mounia

14:00 → 14:10 ACP2023

ACP2023 will take place on September 25-29, 2023, at Nelson Mandela University, George Campus, George, South Africa

Agenda and suggested invited speakers

14:10 → 14:20 Young Physicists Colloquium: Beauty of Physics

Speakers: Mr Benard Mulilo (University of Zambia), Chilufya Mwewa (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Diallo Boye (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Gopolang Mohlabeng (University of California, Irvine), Mounia Laassiri (University of Helsinki), Sanae Samsam (INFN-Milan)

ACP2023 Early Career Sessions .pdf

14:20 → 14:30 Conference dinner talk

Speaker: Azwinndini Muronga (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa)

14:30 → 14:40 Special session on small detector labs

Speaker: Uli Raich (retired)

14:40 → 14:50 Special session on African countries joining and thriving in large collaborations

Our proposal for this session

1. Highlights of career path and intention to take Zambia into EIC, (20 min); by Benard Mulilo

2. Physics program at the EIC (25 min); Venu Rajugopalan

3. EIC opportunities for emerging countries and MSI (25 min); Abhay Deshpande

4. Discussion (20 min)

Speakers: Mr Benard Mulilo (University of Zambia), Dr Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

14:50 → 15:00 Special session on large research infrastructures / big detectors in Africa

Speaker: Ulrich Goerlach (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))

15:00 → 15:10 Special session on early career African physicists

Speakers: Mr Benard Mulilo (University of Zambia), Chilufya Mwewa (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Diallo Boye (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Gopolang Mohlabeng (University of California, Irvine), Mounia Laassiri (University of Helsinki), Sanae Samsam (INFN-Milan)

ACP2023 Early Career Sessions .pdf

15:10 → 15:20 Physics Education & Communication

Speakers: Jesutofunmi Fajemisin (University of South Florida, USA), Kenneth William Cecire (University of Notre Dame (US))

15:20 → 15:30 Atomic, molecular and laser physics

Speaker: Obinna Abah (Newcastle)

Atomic, molecular, optical physics 2023.pdf

Atomic, molecular, optical physics 2023.pptx

15:30 → 15:35 Speaker for "Africa Biophysics"

Speaker: Lawrence Norris (African Light Source Project)

15:35 → 15:40 Speaker for "Physics and climate change"

Speaker: Azwinndini Muronga (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa)

15:40 → 15:45 One speaker in "Energy appications"

Speaker: Azwinndini Muronga (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa)