The Open Symposium on African Strategy for Fundamental and Applied Physics (ASFAP)

22 Sept 2025, 09:00 → 25 Sept 2025, 22:00 Africa/Lome

Fairouz Malek (LPSC-Grenoble, CNRS -UGA, France and Stellenbosch University, SA), Farida Fassi (Universite Mohammed V (MA)), Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Shaaban Khalil Ibrahim (ENHEP Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics (EG)), Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg (ZA))

The Open symposium to present the ASFAP report to the international communities for feedback.

https://africanphysicsstrategy.org/

Monday 22 September

09:00 → 11:30 Overview

09:00 Welcome addresses from host authorities

09:45 Introduction

10:00 Feedback from UNESCO

10:15 ASFAP report — Executive Summary

10:30 Ethics in Physics

10:45 Observers' feedback

11:30 → 12:00 Break

12:00 → 14:00 Societal Engagements

12:00 Physics Education

12:30 Community Engagements

13:00 Women in Physics

13:30 Young Physicists Forum

14:00 → 15:00 Break

15:00 → 16:00 Societal Engagements

15:05 Feedback on Societal Engagements

Physics Education
Young Physicists Forum
Women in Physics
Community Engagements

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 18:00 Particles & Related Applications

16:30 Particle Physics

17:00 Nuclear Physics

17:30 Medical Physics

Tuesday 23 September

09:30 → 11:10 Particles & Related Applications

09:30 Fluid & plasma physics

10:05 Astrophysics & cosmology

10:40 Applications in Air Quality, Agricultural Science, Waste Management

11:10 → 11:40 Break

11:40 → 12:40 Particles & Related Applications

11:40 Feedback on particle related fields

12:40 → 14:00 Break

14:00 → 15:30 Light Sources & Applications

14:00 Light Sources

14:30 Earth Physics

15:00 Condensed Matter & Materials Physics

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 18:30 Light Sources & Applications

16:00 Atomic & Molecular Physics

16:30 biophysics

17:00 Energy

17:30 Feedback on light sources and applications

Wednesday 24 September

09:25 → 11:00 Cross-cutting Fields

09:25 Accelerator physics

10:00 Computing in Physics

10:30 Instrumentation & Detectors

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 13:00 Cross-cutting Fields

11:30 Feedback on the cross-cutting fields

Accelerators
Computing
Instrumentation & detectors

13:00 → 14:30 Break

14:30 → 16:30 Summary, Conclusions and recommendations for imrpoving the report

14:30 Societal engagements

15:00 Particles & Related Applications

15:30 Light sources and applications

16:00 Cross-cutting fields

Thursday 25 September

09:30 → 10:30 IAC Feedback

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 13:00 IAC, Steering Committee & Working Group Conveners Meeting (Closed session)