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Minutes of the Fifteenth AAPPS Council Meeting
July 25, 2005 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
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The 16th AAPPS Council Meeting, Senri-Hankyu Hotel, Osaka,
April 2-4, 2006. |
Present were:
Council Members (8)
Tien T. Tsong, President
Kunio Tada, Vice President
Ching-Ray Chang, Secretary
Pak-Ming Hui
Peter Johnston
Seunghwan Kim
Won Namkung
Hideaki Takabe
Proxy (1)
Kurunathan Ratnavelu (representing Swee-Ping Chia)
Special Adviser (1)
Michiji Konuma
Invited Guests as Observers (3)
Muhamad Rasat Muhamad, Malaysian Institute of Physics
Wong Chiow San, Malaysian Institute of Physics
Bernardine Wong, Malaysian Institute of Physics (note-taker)
1. Opening
The meeting was opened at 0930 hour by Tien T. Tsong,
President of the AAPPS.
2. Quorum
It was noted that the presence of eight members and proxy
of one member met a quorum for a council meeting, and that
therefore the meeting was valid (Bylaw item 13).
3. Approval of Agenda
The agenda was adopted.
4. Minutes of Previous Meeting
The Council adopted the Minutes of the Fourteenth Council
Meeting, held on January 31, 2005, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, with
the following amendments:
(1) Delete "Michiji Konuma (Special Adviser)" from the
attendance list of Council Members. Remove Dusadee
Suwannkachorn from Proxies to Invited Guests as
Observers, and remove Maricor Soriano vice versa.
(2) Include item 5 (7): "Approve the Malaysia Account and
signatories."
(3) Item 8 (5) to read: "Membership of APCTP can be applied in
written form, and it needs to be approved by board
of trusties. Membership fee is 10,000 USD. Scientists
from non-member countries can participate in activities of
APCTP."
(4) Item 9 (8) iv: Replace "recommendable" with "recommended."
5. Report from Treasurer
(1) Kurunathan Ratnavelu reported on the status of AAPPS
accounts and balances on behalf of Treasurer,
Swee-Ping Chia. (Refer to Attachment 1.) The
Treasurer's Report was accepted by the Council.
(2) An account has been opened on behalf of the AAPPS by the
Malaysian Institute of Physics. It exists under the
name Institut Fizik
MalaysiaAPPS at the University of Malaya Branch of the
Bumiputra-Commerce Bank.
The Account Number is: 1440-0009395-05-4 and its Swift
Code is BCBMMYKL. The Council approved the
signatories for the Malaysia account, known officially
as the Institut Fizik MalaysiaAPPS
account. They
are: Swee-Ping Chia (Treasurer of AAPPS, President of
Malaysian Institute of Physics) and ONE of the following
two persons: Kurunathan Ratnavelu (Secretary of the
Malaysian Institute of Physics); Chik-Heok Tan (Treasurer of
the Malaysian Institute of Physics).
(3) Hideaki Takabe reported on the Tokyo account. (Refer to
Attachment 2.)
(4) The Council agreed that the Treasurer should supervise,
control, and report on all accounts, i.e. Taiwan, Tokyo
and Malaysia, maintained by the AAPPS. Monies in AAPPS
accounts cannot be disbursed without the
permission of the President of the AAPPS.
(5) The Council agreed that, in future, the Treasurer's Report
needs to accompany the Minutes of the previous
meeting.
6. Report from Member Societies
(1) Australian Institute of Physics (AIP)Peter
Johnston reported (refer to Attachment 3):
950 delegates attended the
Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) National Congress in
Canberra, January 31-
February 4, 2005.
Government funded World Year of
Physics (WYP 2005) events such as public lectures and
Eratosthenes project
involving 100 schools.
AIP accredited B. Sc. (Physics)
program of Kuwait University.
(2) Physical Society of Hong Kong (PSHK)Pak-Ming
Hui reported (refer to Attachment 4)
PSHK executive committee has been
elected for the term 2005-2007.
PSHK organized public lecture
series, mini-exhibition and colloquia for WYP 2005.
PSHK held PRESS project and
science summer camp.
PSHK has mutual membership
agreement with APS (USA), JPS and IOP (UK).
(3) Physical Society of Japan (JPS)Hideaki
Takabe reported:
Web-vote system used for office
bearers elections in JPS.
Spring and autumn meetings of JPS attracted about 5,000
participants.
JPS and PTP planning a new journal in English. Kunio
Tada circulated issues of JSAP International magazine.
(4) Korean Physical SocietyWon
Namkung reported:
Enlightening Festival and Einstein
exhibition held for WYP 2005.
Signature campaign launched
against high school curriculum changes.
(5) Malaysian Institute of Physics Kurunathan
Ratnavelu reported:
Malaysian Institute of Physics (IFM)
has about 1,200 members.
IFM also participated in Enlightening Festival.
IFM is organizing International Meeting on Frontiers in
Physics (IMFP 2005) from July 26-29, 2005.
(6) Physical Society located in Taipei, ChinaChing-Ray,
Chang reported:
Government provided USD 2 million
support for WYP 2005. Enlightening Festival was held.
A movie "Women in Physics" has
been produced.
Government will reward IPhO gold
medal winners with 8-year overseas scholarship without bond, and
exemption
from national service.
7. Report from Asia Pacific Center for
Theoretical Physics (APCTP)
(1) Seunghwan Kim distributed a report on the Status of
APCTP to the council members.
(2) The Korean government's budget for APCTP is 1,500 million
KRW for Fiscal Year 2005.
(3) Prof. Laughlin was elected as President of APCTP and Prof.
Seunghwan Kim as Executive Director of APCTP.
They will serve for three year terms.
(4) The APCTP invited the AAPPS to collaborate in the 10th
anniversary celebration event of the APCTP in
September/October 2006.
8. Report from AAPPS Bulletin
(1) Nearly 4,400 copies of the bulletins per issue are
distributed.
(2) The AAPPS website (www.aapps.org) and AAPPS Bulletin website
willl remain separated but online copies are
available at the AAPPS website.
(3) Mongolia will be added to the list of countries appearing in
the Bulletin.
(4) Ching-Ray Chang reported that no contribution had been
received from member countries so far in 2005. The
Japan Physical Society requested an invoice. It was
decided that a cover letter signed by Tien T. Tsong and
W-Y. Pauchy Hwang will accompany the invoice.
(5) Member countries were informed that the Bulletin has an
advertising section which could be used to advertise
gifts of old journals and instruments.
9. Discussions and Suggestions
(1) The Council agreed on the need to strengthen its
functions. Measures proposed include:
1. Every member physical society should explore the possibility
of collaborating with the AAPPS in certain areas of
its national conference.
2. Regional topical conferences can request seed money or
sponsorship from the AAPPS.
3. It was agreed that the APPC be held every three (3) years.
For the intervening two (2) years, the AAPPS hold an
event which is integrated with a national conference. A
proposed schedule
2007, APPC in Korea ?2008, Joint
meeting with member physical societies ?2008, Joint meeting
with, possibly,
Australian national conference
2010, APPC in Japan
4. JSPS Asian CORE programme: The Council agreed to invite
Hideaki Takabe to submit a proposal to set up a
Division within the AAPPS, along with by-laws.
5. The Council decided not to open memberships to AAPPS for
individuals.
6. The Council decided against establishing a journal of the
AAPPS.
7. The Council agreed to invite Peter Johnston to prepare a
multi-lateral agreement document whereby members of
member physical societies will be able to enjoy the same
benefits as local participants at conferences. The
President of AAPPS will then forward this document to all
member societies for discussion and ratification.
8. The Council agreed to the holding of a Joint AAPPS and APCTP
Forum in Korea in September 2006. Suggested
topics include: women in physics, physics education, research
assessment exercise and ranking of departments,
how funding agencies work to support research, the future of
scientific journal.
9. Guest editors are sought for the AAPPS Bulletin. Suggested
focus topics include: application of physics in biology
and medicine-future directions, econophysics, physics
education. Seunghwan Kim agreed to be guest editor for
the October 2006 issue. Editorships for the February 2007 and
April 2007 issues have yet to be filled.
10. Plan for AAPPS Council Meetings in
2006
The Council agreed to hold the
following meetings:
(1) 16th Council Meeting sometime during March/April 2006
in Japan; and
(2) 17th Council Meeting sometime during September/October 2006
in South Korea.
11. Adjournment
The meeting was
adjourned at 1620 hour on July, 2005, following a vote of thanks
to the local committee for hosting the 15th Council
Meeting of the AAPPS. |
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Summit of
Physical Societies in Asia-Pacific Region (SPS) and
the Fourteenth AAPPS Counncil Meeting
Ambassador Hotel, Kaoshiung,
Taiwan,
January 31, 2005
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The first "Summit of
Physical Societies in Asia-Pacific Region (SPS)" was held from
January 31 to February 1, 2005 at Kaoshiung, a beautiful city in
southern Taiwan. The Association of Asia Pacific Physical
Societies and The Physical Society of Republic of China
cosponsored this first meeting in Asia-Pacific Region for the
World Year of Physics 2005 in celebrating the 100 Anniversary of
Einstein's miracle year. Before the SPS, the 14th AAPPS Council
Meeting was also conducted.
After a pre-conference tour of Taipei, the reception for the
14th AAPPS Council Meeting and SPS was held from 18:30 p.m. to
21:00 p.m., January 30, 2005 in the Ambassador Hotel. The 14th
AAPPS Council Meeting was opened by President Tien T. Tsong
(Academia Sinica, Taiwan) at 9:30 p.m. the next day. Besides the
AAPPS council members, non-members were also invited as
observers. In this meeting, in addition to the general reports
(Report from APCTP, Report from AAPPS Bulletin), the dates and venues of the 10th APPC
and the 15th AAPPS Council Meeting were proposed to be in the
summer of 2007 in Korea and on July 25, 2005, in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, respectively.
SPS was opened by President Tien T. Tsong at 13:20 p.m.,
January 31 in the Ambassador Hotel. The first and second forums
highlighted "Physics for Tomorrow in Asia" and "Physics
Education in Asia." Professor Tien T. Tsong and Professor
Michiji Konuma (Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan) had
presentations for the first forum, chaired by Professor Ching-Ray
Chang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan). For the second,
chaired by Professor Hsiung Chou (Natioinal Sun Yat-Sen
University, Taiwan), Professor Swee Ping Chia (INTI College,
Malaysia) talked about "New Approach to Teaching of Physics,"
and Professor Kunio Tada (Kanazawa Institute of Technology,
Japan) lectured on "Some Measures for Problems of Physics
Education in Japan." The two forums were again held on February
1 in National Sun Yat-Sen University. For the third forum
entitled " Woman in Physics in Asia," chaired by Professor Ray Nien Kwo (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Professor
Setsuko Tajima (Osaka University, Japan) and
Professor Li-Chyong
Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) talked about "Problems
for Woman Physicists in Japan" and " From Einstein's Wife to an
'Asian Female Einstein'," respectively.
Professor
Won Namkung (Pohang University of Science and Technology,
Korea) and
Professor Hideaki Takabe (Osaka University, Japan) had
presentations for the last forum entitled "The Role of AAPPS in
Asia," chaired by Professor Tien T. Tsong. There were fruitful
discussions for each forum and conclusions were reached.
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The 9th Asia Pacific
Physics Conference (9th APPC)
Hanoi, October 25 -31, 2004.
GENERAL INFORMATION
You are cordially invited to participate in the 9th Asia
Pacific Physics Conference (9th APPC), to be held in Hanoi,
Vietnam on October 25-31, 2004. The Conference will include
plenary, invited and contributed reports.
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1A. High Energy Physics: Experiment
1B. High Energy Physics: Theory
2A. Nuclear Physics: Experiment
2B. Nuclear Physics: Theory
3A. Condensed Matter Physics: Experiment
3B. Condensed Matter Physics: Theory
4A. Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics: Experiment
4B. Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics: Theory
5. Mathematical & Computational Physics
6. Statistical Physics
7. Astrophysics & Cosmology
8. Biophysics
9. Plasma Physics
ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS
. Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS)
. Vietnam National Centre for Natural Sciences and Technology (NCST)
. Vietnam Physical Society (VPS)
The
second announcement PDF (176KB)
http://www.ims.ac.vn/appc03/ |
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Minutes of the Twelfth Council
Meeting of
The Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS)
Hotel Hyundai Gyeongju, Gyeongju, Korea, May 31June 1, 2004 |
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Front: Left to right: Kunio
Tada（JSAP）、Tien T. Tsong (AAPPS Vice President, Taiwan), Nguyen
Van Hieu
(Councilor, Vietnam), Michiji Konuma(AAPPS Special Advisor), Won
Namkung (AAPPS President, Korea), Jiaer Chen (Councilor, China)
Back: from left to right; Ching-Ray Chang(Taiwan), Swee-Ping
Cia(Councilor, Malaysia), Hiroshi Toki(Councilor, JPS), Hideaki
Takabe(JPS), In Soo Ko(Treasurer, Korea), Chung Nam Whang(KPS
President, Korea), Vinod Chandra Sahni (India), Seunghwan Kim (APCTP,
Korea), Dongchul Son (Korea) |
1. OPENING
The meeting was opened at 09: 30, May 31 by Prof. Won Namkung,
President of AAPPS.
2. QUORUM
It was noted that the presence of seven members and proxies of
eight members meet a quorum for a council meeting, and that
therefore the meeting was valid. (Bylaw item 13)
3. AGENDA
The agenda was adopted.
4. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
The Secretary reported the Minutes of the Tenth Council Meeting
held on July 13-14, 2002 in Hanoi. The minutes were corrected
for the typos and confirmed.
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Minutes of the
Twelfth Council Meeting of The Association of Asia Pacific
Physical Societies (AAPPS)
Hotel Hyundai Gyeongju, Gyeongju, Korea
May 31 June 1, 2004 (PDF,
30K)
(Draft) Minutes of the Thirteenth Council Meeting, Joint with
the
Fifth Ordinary General Meeting of the Association of Asia
Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS)
Solo Room, Horison Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam
13:00, October 24, 2004 (PDF,
17K)
(Draft) Minutes of the Fifth Ordinary General Meeting of the
Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS)
Solo Room, Horison Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam
08:30, October 24, 2004 (PDF,
17K)
(Draft) Minutes of the New Council Meeting of the Association of
Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS)
Solo Room, Horison Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam
October 24-26, 2004 (PDF,
20K) |
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