33rd IUPAP General Assembly

10 Oct 2024, 16:00 → 14 Oct 2024, 21:00 Asia/Shanghai

The IUPAP General Assembly is an in-person meeting. Online participation will be facilitated for registered users—see video link (Zoom). 

The initial nominations of members for Commissions are made by the Liaison Committees of Territorial Members. They are urged to complete their nominations before 1st June 2024. The closing date for these nominations is 14th June 2024.

Liaison Committees may, with a closing date of 7th August 2024, make nominations for members of the Executive Council. 

For more details, please refer to Procedure for Nominations of Members to Commissions and Executive Council at the 33rd General Assembly of IUPAP.

Information about travel, visa and accomodation is provided by the Chinese Physical Society on a dedicated web page. 

Thursday 10 October

16:00 → 18:00 Registration

IUPAP_GA_Registration.jpg

18:00 → 19:30 Welcome receiption hosted by the Chinese Physical Society

Friday 11 October

07:30 → 08:30 Registration

08:30 → 08:50 Welcome by IUPAP President Michel Spiro, CPS Secretary General Zhong Fang

Speakers: Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Prof. Zhong Fang (CPS)

A Joy to Have Friends Come from Afar.pdf

welcome addressp MS.pdf

08:50 → 08:55 Verification of quorum

Total number of votes 149 out of which 127 votes registered. Required quorum 100 votes.

Speaker: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN)

08:55 → 09:00 Adoption of the agenda and approval of minutes of the 32nd General Assembly

Main outcomes of the IUPAP General Assembly 20231009.pdf

Minutes IUPAP General Assembly 9_Oct 2023.docx

Minutes IUPAP General Assembly 9_Oct 2023.pdf

09:00 → 09:05 Membership adjustments and new quorum

Total number of votes 150 out of which 127 votes registered. Required quorum 100 votes.

• Change of membership category for South Africa: move from category 3 to 5
• Change of membership category for Jordan: move from category 2 to 1
• Resumption of membership for Nigeria under specific conditions (Adhering body: Nigerian Institute of Physics) in category 1

Speaker: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN)

Resolutions_Membership.pdf

09:05 → 09:10 Presidential address

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

Sad and good news.pdf

09:10 → 09:50 Presentation of slates for members of the Commissions and the Executive Council

Speaker: Silvina Ponce Dawson

elaboration_slates.pdf

nominations_data_base_EC.pdf

nominations_for_commissions_EC.pdf

Procedure for Nominations of Members to Commissions and Executive Council ...dates.docx

09:50 → 10:15 Tea break

10:15 → 10:20 Group photo—including participants in Zoom

IUPAP_GA_group_photo.jpg

10:20 → 10:50 Reports from the secretariats (Singapore and Trieste) and the Swiss IUPAP association

Speakers: Bruce McKellar, Mr Jens Vigen (CERN), Stefano Fantoni

Geneva_HQ.pdf

Geneva_HQ.pptx

iupap-Heikou-GA-2024.pdf

iupap-Heikou-GA-2024.pptx

10:50 → 11:50 Questions to a panel of commission chairs

How IUPAP commissions can contribute to the International Year of Quantum, to the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development and to iterconnect them

Speaker: Shohini Ghose (Wilfrid Laurier University)

11:50 → 12:15 Presentation of the IUPAP Kennedy Reed Medal for outstanding contributions to the enhancement of physics in developing countries

Introduction of the winner by Kuijuan Jin, Chair of C13

• Presentation of the Medal [see also IUPAP web site]
• Acceptance by Professor Malik Maaza

Speakers: Kuijuan Jin (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Malik Maaza

VF-IUPAP AWARD PRSENTATION-2024.pdf

VF-IUPAP AWARD PRSENTATION-2024.pptx

12:15 → 12:20 The General Assembly adjourns

12:20 → 13:20 Lunch

13:20 → 14:00 Bus transfer to the Convention Center

14:00 → 18:00 Women in physics forum: 25th anniversary of IUPAP Working Group 5: Women in Physics

Conveners: Prof. Gillian Butcher (University of Leicester), Prof. Irvy Gledhill (U. Witwatersrand, South Africa), Prof. Lilia Meza-Montes (B. Autonomous University of Puebla), Prof. Silvina Ponce Dawson (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

14:00 Opening

Transmitted online: Youtube and KouShare

Speaker: Prof. Lilia Meza-Montes

WomenInPhysics.jpg

14:05 Panel

How did it happen? The beginnings

Speakers: Prof. Beverly Hartline (Montana Technological University), Jackie Beamon-Kiene (APS (retired)), Prof. Ling-An Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Prof. Marcia Barbosa (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)

15:05 Coffee break

15:35 Women in physics in China

Speaker: Prof. Kuijuan Jin (chair WiP team from China, Beijing)

15:55 Panel

Women in physics activities across regions: Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean

Speakers: Prof. Irvy Gledhill (Africa), Prof. Lilia Meza-Montes (Latin America and the Caribbean), Prof. Prajval Shastri (Asia)

16:35 The present and future of the Working Group Women in Physics

Speaker: Prof. Prajval Shastri (Raman Research Institute)

16:45 The future of IUPAP equity, diversity, and inclusion policies

Speaker: Prof. Gillian Butcher (University of Leicester)

Future of Diversity in IUPAP.pdf

Future of Diversity in IUPAP.pptx

16:55 Discussions in groups about the future

17:25 Sharing conclusions of the discussions

17:45 Final words

Speaker: Prof. Silvina Ponce Dawson (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

18:00 → 19:00 Dinner

19:00 → 22:00 Public lectures by Nobel laurates

19:00 Gravitational waves: Unraveling the mysteries of our Universe

• YouTube recording (Prof. Barish' talk starts at 18'15'').
• KouShare recording (Prof. Barish' talk starts at 1 hr 13'42'').

Speaker: Prof. Barry Barish (Caltech, US)

Barish.jpg

20:00 Neutrinos: Key particles for understanding the smallest particles and the largest Universe

• YouTube recording (Prof. Kajita's talk starts at 1 hr 11'25'').
• KouShare recording (Prof. Kajita's talk starts at 2 hr 8'13'').

Speaker: Prof. Takaaki Kajita (University of Tokyo, Japan)

241011-takaaki kajita.pdf

Kajita.jpg

21:00 Fifty years since the November Revolution in physics and unearthing the secrets of the cosmos

• YouTube recording ( Prof. Ting's talk starts at 2 hr 6'23'').
• KouShare recording (Prof. Ting's talk starts at 3 hr 2'13'').

Speaker: Prof. Samuel Ting (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, US)

Ting.jpg

Saturday 12 October

08:00 → 08:05 33rd IUPAP General Assembly: welcome back

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

08:05 → 08:20 Conferences approved for 2025

Speaker: Rudzani Nemutudi (South African National Research Foundation: iThemba LABS)

2025 IUPAP-Conferences Aprpoved - 2024 C&CC&GA.pdf

08:20 → 08:50 IUPAP membership

Admission of new Corporate Associate member: CAEN with one unit. Resolution, see point 1.2.

Speakers: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN), Nithaya Chetty

Membership Matters GA Oct 2024 v2.pdf

Membership Matters GA Oct 2024 v2.pptx

08:50 → 09:30 Presentation of the external evaluation report for a restructuring of IUPAP

• Introduction, Silvina Ponce Dawson, 5 min
• Presentation of the report, Atlas Varsted, 15 min
• Preliminary analysis of current IUPAP structures and possible avenues for change, Silvina Ponce Dawson, 8 min
• Open discussion and establishment of future steps, 12 min
  • Resolution on IUPAP restructuring

Speakers: Atlas Varsted, Silvina Ponce Dawson

2024IUPAP-ExternalReview-Report.pdf

Internal Evaluation (presented to the 32nd IUPAP GA in October 2023)

IUPAP External Review - Presentation.pdf

IUPAP_restructuring_intro_external_evaluation.pdf

support_info_commissions.pdf

support_information_to_discuss_about_ACs.pdf

support_information_to_discuss_about_WGs.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Tea break

10:00 → 10:30 Panel discussion: Physics outside academia

Speakers: Cyrus Walther, Stefano Fantoni, Sunil Gupta, Prof. Young Dong Kim (Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea)

10:30 → 11:00 Re-nominations to the slate of commissions and Executive Council members

11:00 → 11:20 Activity report, Communication

Reports from Commissions and Working groups are available from the EC&CC meeting (see Wednesday 9 October).

Speakers: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN), Sandro Scandolo

Activity_report.pdf

Activity_report.pptx

communication_2024.pdf

communication_2024.pptx

IUPAP activity report 2023_24.pdf

11:20 → 12:00 Introduction of proposed resolutions, including recommendations by the Executive Council

• Proposed change to Article 7—Executive Council and Officers (minor modification to eliminate conflicting text in paragraphs A and F).
• EC resolution on nominations (resolved electronically first week of March 2024)
• IUPAP letter of support for the integrity of Argentina’s science system
• IUPAP co-signed with physics societies around the world the statement Principles and policies for international scientific collaboration
• Specification of Corporate Associate Members rights and number of elected members in the commissions
• Expansion of commissions from 14 to 15 members
  • Required change in Internal Regulations, Articles 5.1 and 5.3.
• Changes in Internal Regulations, Articles 5.5 , 6.2 and 6.6
• Resolutions regarding Working Groups (decided in view of the internal and external evaluations and the future restructuring of IUPAP).
  • Proposal to establish a Working Group in the Field of Major Neutron Research Facilities (submitted by the US Liaison Committee).
  • Proposal to establish a Working Group on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) for the Physical Sciences (submitted by the US Liaison Committee).
• Resolution on IUPAP elections and procedure for handover of responsibilities for EC&CC
• Resolution on position papers, statements and declarations from the IUPAP Executive Council (EC) (submitted by the US Liaison Committee).
• Resolutions related to Conferences (based on proposals submitted by WG5, Women in Physics).
• Exclusion from the Union

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

EC_1_Resolution_for_nominations.pdf

EC_letter_iupap_argentina.pdf

EC_Research-Principles-and-Policies-final.pdf

R1_Proposed_change_to_Article_7.pdf

12:00 → 12:01 The General Assembly adjourns

12:01 → 12:46 Lunch

12:46 → 13:30 Buss transfer from Hilton Haikou to Convention Center

13:30 → 18:00 Inter-Commission Symposium: Physics Research for a Sustainable Planet

Convener: Prof. Irvy Gledhill (U. Witwatersrand, South Africa)

13:30 Opening of the Inter-Commission Symposium

13:31 Welcome address

Transmitted online: Youtube and KouShare

Speaker: Prof. Xiaoyan Shen (Director of International Collaboration for CPS)

13:36 Welcome from IUPAP

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (IUPAP President)

13:40 The intention of this Symposium

Speaker: Prof. Pietro Ubertini (Chair C19)

13:45 WG21 and the topics of this Symposium

Speaker: Prof. Nithaya Chetty (Chair WG21)

13:50 Introduction

13:51 Introduction: International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (IUPAP President)

EHC Presentation 2024 - Canada - 16 July 2024.pdf

EHC Presentation 2024 - Canada - 16 July 2024.pptx

14:10 Physics for a sustainable planet

Speaker: Prof. Giorgio Parisi (Sapienza University of Rome)

14:40 Questions

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

14:50 Climate change and geohazards

14:51 Short and long term evolution of the climate

Speaker: Prof. Ines Camilloni (Vice-Chair, IPCC Working Group I)

15:11 Geohazard monitoring: Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcano, etc.

Speaker: Prof. Gad el-Qadi (National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Egypt)

ADMiR_IUPAP_oct2024.pdf

15:31 Energy for the future

15:32 Chinese magnetic confinement fusion development for a sustainable planet

Speaker: Prof. Jiangang Li (Vice President CPS, Chief Scientist of EAST, Experimental Adavanced Superconducting Tokamak)

15:52 Solar, hydrogen and green fuels

Speaker: Prof. Jon Samseth (Chair, SCOPE, Scientific Commmittee of Problems of the Environment)

16:12 Coffee break

16:30 New technologies and materials for future development

16:31 Sustainable development: a contradiction in terms? or energy transition?

Speaker: Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop (The University of Queensland)

IUPAP Presentation 2024 final.pptx

16:50 Open questions and discussion

16:51 Open questions and discussion with the audience

Speaker: Prof. Irvy Gledhill (U. Witwatersrand, South Africa)

17:21 Prepare to catch bus for banquet

18:00 → 18:30 Time to leave computers in the hotel room and getting dressed

18:30 → 21:00 Banquet – Organized by hosts (By invitation only)

Sunday 13 October

08:00 → 08:05 33rd IUPAP General Assembly: welcome back

08:05 → 08:30 Election of members of the commissions

08:30 → 08:40 Election of members of the Executive Council

08:40 → 09:25 Varia

• ISC matters
• SESAME
• LAAAMP
• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
• International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD) and Earth-Humanity Coalition hosted by IUPAP [Corresponding charter]
• A survey of the United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Networks
  • Related information: ISC position on freedom of movement

Charter for the Earth-Humanity Coalition v3.1.pdf

09:25 → 09:30 Switching to new Zoom room for Interdisciplinary Prize (ID：837 2095 8411 Password: IDPT2024)

09:30 → 10:15 Presentation of the IUPAP Interdisciplinary Prize and talks by the awardees

• Evelyn Tang: Topology protects long cycles in stochastic systems
• Stefano Martinian: Play. Pause. Rewind. Measuring local entropy production and extractable work in active matter

YouTube recording

2024_10_13_interdisciplinary_prize_GA_2024_stacks.pdf

smartiniani_presentation_iupap.pdf

Tang IUPAP prize talk.pdf

10:15 → 10:35 Tea break

10:35 → 11:05 Financial matters

• Approval of the 2023 report
  • Balance sheet and notes
  • Auditor report
• Financial result of IYBSSD from 2019–2023
• Budget for the cycle 2025–27 (including membership dues, allocation to commissions, affiliated commissions and working groups)
  • IUPAP dues for the cycle 2025–2027
    • Proposed resolution: Dues for 2025–2027 are set to 2580 CHF/unit

Speaker: Boris Sharkov

Auditors_report_2023.pdf

Balance_sheet_31.12.2023.pdf

Financial_matters_cummulated_final.pdf

IYBSSD_result.pdf

Notes_Financial_Statements_31_December_2023.pdf

11:05 → 11:35 Votes on resolutions

• Resolution on IUPAP elections and procedure for handover of responsibilities for EC&CC
• Resolutions on Membership and Units, including ratification of decisions made by EC on these matters.
• Resolution on dues for 2025, 2026 and 2027
• Ratification of decisions made by EC on matters different from Membership and Units
  • EC resolution on nominations (resolved electronically first week of March 2024)
  • IUPAP letter of support for the integrity of Argentina’s science system
  • IUPAP co-signed with physics societies around the world the statement Principles and policies for international scientific collaboration
• Resolutions regarding modifications to IUPAP's Articles and Internal Regulations
  • Resolution on modifications to Articles I.7.B and I.7.F of IUPAP Minor modification to avoid conflicting statements.
    • Proposed change to Article 7—Executive Council and Officers
  • Resolution to modify Articles II.5.5, II.6.2 and II.6.6 of IUPAP's Internal Regulations ( to adapt to the most recent modifications of the Articles of the Union).
• Resolutions regarding Working Groups (decided in view of the internal and external evaluations and the future restructuring of IUPAP).
  • Proposal to establish a Working Group in the Field of Major Neutron Research Facilities (submitted by the US Liaison Committee).
  • Proposal to establish a Working Group on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) for the Physical Sciences (submitted by the US Liaison Committee).
• Resolution on position papers, statements and declarations from the IUPAP Executive Council (EC) (submitted by the US Liaison Committee).
• Resolutions related to Conferences (based on proposals submitted by WG5, Women in Physics).
• Specification of Corporate Associate Members rights and number of elected members in the commissions
• Expansion of commissions from 14 to 15 members
  • Required change in Internal Regulations, Article 5
• Resolution on IUPAP restructuring
• Exclusion from the Union

CONFERENCE RELATED RESOLUTION ENTREPRENEURSHIP WORKSHOPS AND ABSTRACT REVIEWS.pdf

R1b_Resolution_dues.pdf

R2a_Resolution Neutron Research Facilities.pdf

R2b_AI and ML Resolution.pdf

R4_IUPAP Position Papers.pdf

R5_Specification of Corporate Associate Members rights.pdf

R6_Expansion_of_commissions.pdf

R7_Exclusion_members_6years_arrearsa_.pdf

Resolution_articles.pdf

Resolution Decisions Council.pdf

Resolution_internal_regulations.pdf

Resolution on IUPAP elections and procedure for handover of responsibilities_final.pdf

Resolution on IUPAP restructuring.pdf

resolutions_working_groups.pdf

11:35 → 11:45 Any other business

11:45 → 12:05 Introduction of the President Designate

Gupta-IUPAP.pdf

12:05 → 12:15 Some words from the New President

some_words_silvina.pdf

words_new_iupap_president.pdf

12:15 → 12:35 Few words,Thanks, Handover of the hammer and Closing of the General Assembly

Speaker: Dr Michel Spiro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

Newsletter September 2024 MS. v2.pdf

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:01 Joint activity: Inter-Commission Symposium "Physics research for a sustainable planet".

Convener: Silvina Ponce Dawson

IUPAP ICS Programme v08.pdf

14:15 Opening of the second day

Speaker: Silvina Ponce Dawson

14:19 Nuclear weapons production, control, and threat

14:20 Where have all our good minds gone?

Speaker: Prof. Ana María Cetto

Cetto IUPAP symp Haikou 2024.pdf

Cetto IUPAP symp Haikou 2024.pptx

14:45 Artificial Intelligence

14:46 Gen AI? - What is the influence of AI on the young generation of scientists?

Speaker: Cyrus Walther

IUPAP Inter-Commission Symposium-Walther.pdf

15:06 Physics for the people: Academia and school, research and schooling

15:07 Environmental injustice and the need for physics for and by the people

Speaker: Prof. Geraldine Cochran

Cochran_IUPAP_Symposium.pdf

Cochran_IUPAP_Symposium.pptx

15:32 Coffee break

16:00 Questions and discussion

16:01 Open questions and discussion with the audience

Speaker: Prof. Sunil Gupta (Facilitator)

16:35 Concluding remarks

16:36 Concluding remarks

Speaker: Prof. Silvina Ponce Dawson

16:44 End of the Inter-Commission Symposium

16:45 Short break

17:00 Book launch: Globalizing Physics: One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

• Globalizing Physics: One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, edited by Roberto Lalli and Jaume Navarro
• Article featuring the book and how science be a route to peace and common understanding, Nature 633 (2024) 515–517
• Article featuring the birth of StatPhys, Eur. Phys. J. H 49 (2024) 16

Speaker: Roberto Lalli

IUPAP GA Presentation_Globalizing Physics_FINAL.pdf

IUPAP GA Presentation_Globalizing Physics_FINAL.pptx

17:30 Time to get prepared for the dinner

18:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Monday 14 October

09:00 → 17:00 Free programme: Excursions