News Bulletin: January 2000

Working Groups

In the past three years, a number of IUPAP Working Groups have been formed to tackle special issues that cut across more than one area of physics. These have been modeled on the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) that was established in 1976. The Working Group on Communications in Physics (WGCP) was established to consider challenges arising from electronic publishing, while the Working Group on Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics in Gravitation (PANAGIC) is a joint committee of four commissions, C4, C11, C12, and C19, which will consider large facilities for this interdisciplinary field. The newest Working Groups are those on Facilities for Condensed Matter Physics (WGFCMP) and on Women in Physics (WGWIP). Each of these four working groups is described below and each would be happy to have input from the community at large.

Working Group on Communication in Physics (WGCP)

This Working Group has been established with its primary mission to make a set of recommendations on important issues in the international aspects of physics communication, especially electronic publication, that are appropriate for IUPAP action. In particular, it is considering international internet availability and reliability, linking and mirroring between societies and publishers, availability of electronic communication in isolated areas, archiving, peer review, and intellectual property issues.

The Group met in Atlanta on March 21, 1999 and presented a preliminary report to the IUPAP Council in October. See Council minutes on the IUPAP website. Members of WGCP are:

MARTIN BLUME, Chair
American Physical Society
1 Research Road
Ridge, NY 11961 USA
blume@aps.org

IAN BUTTERWORTH, Secretary
Imperial College
Department of Physics HEP Grp
London SW7 2BZ ENGLAND
i.butterworth@ic.ac.uk

FRANK LALOE
Lab Physique ENS
24 rue Lhomond
F-75005 Paris FRANCE
laloe@physique.ens.fr

HILDA A. CERDEIRA
International Center for Theoretical Physics
Condens Matter Grp
P. O. Box 586
I-34100 Trieste ITALY
cerdeira@ictp.trieste.it

SUKEKATSU USHIODA
Tsu-Ken
Tokoku University
2-1-1 Katahira Aoba-ku
Sendai 980-0812 JAPAN
ushioda@riec.tohoku.ac.jp

Working Group on Facilities for Condensed Matter Physics

This Working Group was formed initially by a resolution of the IUPAP Council and Chairs in September 1998 and its charge was then broadened at the recent Council meeting last October. The Working Group will spawn and oversee committees that will act to:

1. promote international collaboration for planning, construction and exploitation of facilities for condensed matter. This will include the need for new sources and upgrades to existing sources, instrumentation requirements, availability access, and long range planning.
   
   
2. organize international meetings for exchange of information on future plans for regional facilities and the formulation of advice for joint studies and uses.
   
   
3. organize international workshops for the study of problems related to large facilities and to foster research and development on necessary technology.

The WGFCMP's first effort will be to appoint an International Committee on the Future of Neutron Sources. Its members will include members of IUPAP Commissions plus representatives of regional user groups, appropriate labs, developing countries, and other involved organizations. The plan, in the following year, is to set up a similar committee, the International Committee on the Future of Electromagnetic Radiation Sources, which would be concerned with synchrotron light sources, free electron lasers, etc. A third committee on medium-sized facilities might be set up during the third year. Members of this group are:

CHERRY A. MURRAY, Chair
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Room 1D-269, 700 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
camurray@lucent.com

FRITZ PARAK, Vice-Chair
Faculty for Physics E17
Technical University Munchen
Garching 85747 GERMANY
fritz.parak@ph.tum.de

K. BINDER
Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz
Institute fur Physik
Staudingerweg 7
Mainz D-55099 GERMANY
binder@chaplin.physik.uni-mainz.de

HENRI GODFRIN
CNRS-CRTBT
BP 166, Grenoble Cedex 9
38042 FRANCE
godfrin@labs.polycnrs-gre.fr

M. CARDONA
Max-Planck Instute fur Festkorper-forschung
Heisenbergstr. 1
Stuttgart D-70569 GERMANY
cardona@cardix.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de

H. YASOUKA
Advanced Science Research Center
Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun
Ibaraki-Ken 319-1195 JAPAN
hiroshi@popsvr.tokai.jaeri.go.jp

J. L. MORAN LOPEZ
Instituto de Fisica
Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi
Apdo Postal 629
San Luis Potosi, SLP
78000 MEXICO
moran@dec1.ifisica.uaslp.mx

MARTIN BLUME
American Physical Society
1 Research Road
Ridge, NY 11961
blume@aps.org

Working Group on Women in Physics

At the 1999 IUPAP General Assembly, the concern was raised that women are greatly under represented in the field of physics in most countries. A Working Group on Women in Physics was proposed and approved with the following charge: to work with physicists in IUPAP member countries to gather information about women in physics; to analyze and report the data, identify barriers to entry into the field, and difficulties in maintaining and advancing careers for women in physics, and to recommend ways to improve the situation; to suggest ways that IUPAP can ensure that women are fully involved in IUPAP sponsored conferences, and to propose ways they can become more active participants in IUPAP itself, including the Liaison Committees, the Commissions, the Council, and the General Assemblies; to report all findings at the General Assembly in 2002.

The Working Group is to have nine women members and two men. The chair of the Working Group will be Marcia Barbosa, Instituto De Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, C.P. 15051, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, RS. Brazil, barbosa@if.ufrgs.br. Others will be appointed shortly. Please check the IUPAP website for updated information.

Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics in Gravitation International Committee (PaNAGIC)

The field of particle and nuclear astrophysics is an emerging field that will make fundamental contributions to our understanding of nature at the basic level. Progress in this area will depend on actions taken on the global scale. Scientists from different fields will need to join together to form a single culture. For this purpose, PaNAGIC was formed by action of the Council in September 1998, and ratified by the Atlanta General Assembly in March 1999. Its mission is to support international exchange of ideas and help in the convergence of the international scientific community in the large-scale activity in the emerging field of particle and nuclear astrophysics, gravitation and cosmology. It reports to IUPAP Commission C4, but is a joint committee of C4, C11, C12 and C19.

Areas that will be investigated by this Committee are: basic constituents of matter and their interactions by non-accelerator means; sources, acceleration mechanism and propagation of high, energy particles in the universe; nuclear and particle properties and processes of astrophysical interest in the universe; and gravity, including sources of gravitational waves. Members of this group are:

ALESSANDRO BETTINI, Chair
Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
SS. 17 bis Km 18+910
Assergi (AQ) 67010 ITALY
alessandro.bettini@lngs.infn.it

B. C. BARISH, (C11 and Chair of GWIC)
California Insitute of Technology
LIGO - 51-33
1200 E. California Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
barish@ligo.caltech.edu

MASSIMO CERDONIO (C4)
dell'Universit di Padova
Dipartimento di Fisica
Via Marzolo, 8
Padova I-35131 ITALY
cerdonio@padova.infn.it

THOMAS K. GAISSER (C4)
Bartol Research Institute
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716 USA
gaisser@bartol.udel.edu

ISABELLE GRENIER (C12)
Service d'Astrophysique
CE-Saclay
Gif Sur Yvette
91191 FRANCE
isabelle.grenier@cea.fr

W. HAXTON (C12)
University of Washington
Institute of Nuclear Theory
Box 351550
Seattle, WA 98195-1560 USA
haxton@phys.washington.edu

E. LORENTZ (C19)
MPI fur Physik Munchen
Werner-Heisenberg-Institut
Foheringer Ring 6
Munchen D-80505 GERMANY
ecl@dmumpiwh.mppmu.mpg.de

ART B. MCDONALD (C19)
Queen's University
Department of Physics
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 CANADA
mcdonald@sno.phy.queensu.ca

V. MATVEEV (C19)
Institute for Nuclear Physics
Russian Academy of Sciences
60th October Anniversary Revolution Prospect 7A
117312 Moscow RUSSIA
matveev@kaon-inr.msk.su

JOHN PEOPLES (Chair of HENAP)
Fermilab
PO Box 500
Batavia IL 60510 USA
peop@fnal.gov

M. REES (C19)
Cambridge University
Madingley Road
Cambridge CB3 DHA UNITED KINGDOM
mjr@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk

B. SADOULET (C19)
Dept of Phys
UCB
MS 7304
Berkeley, CA 94720
sadoulet@lbl.gov

M. SPIRO
DAPNIA/SPP Ce-Saclay
Gif.sur-Yvette
91191 FRANCE
michel.sprio@ern.ch

Y. TOTZUKA
University of Tokyo
Institute for Cosmic Ray Research
Midori-cho 3-2-1, Tanashi
Tokyo 188-8502 JAPAN
totzuka@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

A. WATSON
University of Leeds
Department of Physics and Astronomy
E C Stoner Building
Leeds LS2 9JT UNITED KINGDOM
a.a.watson@leeds.ac.uk

Conferences Approved for IUPAP Sponsorship in 2000

C2 - COMMISSION SUN-AMCO

Conf. on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements
May 14 - 19
Sydney, Australia

Contact:
Dr. Angela Samuel, Secretary
P. O. Box 218
Lindfield NSW 2070 AUSTRALIA
Phone: (61-2) 9314 7788
Fax: (61-2) 9413 7383
E-mail: angela.samuel@tip.csiro.au
http://www.tourhosts.com.au/cpem2000

C3 - COMMISSION ON STATISTICAL PHYSICS

New Trends in the Fractal Aspects of Complex Systems
October 16 - 20
Maceio, AL, Brazil

Contact:
Marcelo Leite Lyra
Departamento de Fisica,
Universidade Federal de Alagoas
Maceio 57072-970 BRAZIL
Phone: (55-82) 214 1423
Fax: (55-82) 214 1645
E-mail: marcelo@fis.ufal.br

C4 - COMMISSION ON COSMIC RAYS

19th Int'l Conf. of Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics - Neutrino 2000
June 16 - 21
Sudbury, ON, Canada

Contact:
Professor Arthur B. McDonald
SNO Institute, Physics Department
Queen's University
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 CANADA
Phone: (613) 533-2702
Fax: (613) 533-6813
E-mail: art@surf.sno.laurentian.ca
http://www.laurentian.ca/www/physics/nu2000

C5 - COMMISSION ON LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS

Int Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids
June 6 - 11
Grenoble, France

Contact:
C. Campbell, W. Zimmerman
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: (612) 624-4141
Fax: (612) 624-4578
E-mail: gfs2000@physics.umn.edu

C6 - COMMISSION ON BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS

Biological Physics and Synchrotron Radiation
November 11 - 14
Grenoble, France

Contact:
Peter F.Lindley
European Synchrotron Radiation
Facility, BP 220
F-38043 Grenoble Cedex, FRANCE
Phone: +33 (0)4 7688 2608/ 2014
Fax: +33 (0)4 7688 2160
E-mail: lindley@esrf.fr
http://www.esfr.fr

C8 - COMMISSION ON SEMICONDUCTORS

25th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors
August 18 - 22
Osaka, JAPAN

Contact:
Hiroshi Kamimura
Science University of Tokyo
1-3 Kagurazaka, Sinjuku
Tokyo 162-8601 JAPAN
Phone: (81-03) 3260 4271
Fax: (81-03) 3260 4021
E-mail: kamimura@klabsun.yy.kagu.sut.ac.jp

C9 - COMMISSION ON MAGNETISM

International Conference on Magnetism
August 8 - 11
Recife, Brazil

Contact:
S. M. Rezende
Chairman ICM 2000
Departimento de F¡sica
Universidade Federa de Pernambuco
50 670-901 Recife, PE BRAZIL
Phone: (55-81) 271-8456
Fax: (55-81) 271-8456
E-mail: smr@df.ufpe.br
http://www.icm2000.org.br

C9 - COMMISSION ON MAGNETISM

High Frustrated Magnetism 2000
June 18 - 22, Halliburton
ON, Canada

Contact:
Professor Michel Gingras
Department of Physics
200 University Avenue, University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 CANADA
Fax: (519) 746-8115
Phone: (519) 888-4567 (ext. 5697)
E-mail: gingras@gandalf.uwaterloo.ca
http://www.isis.rl.ac.uk

C10 - COMMISSION ON THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF CONDENSED MATTER

2000 International Conference on Excitonic Processes in Condensed Matter
August 22 - 25
Osaka, Japan

Contact:
Atsuo Matsui
Organo-Optic Research Laboratory
Kobe 6-2-1
Seiwa-dai Kita-ku
Kobe 651-1121 JAPAN
Phone: (81-78) 594 8420
Fax: (81-78) 594 8420
E-mail: ahmatsui@center.konan-u.ac.jp or excon-officeWETL.go.jp
http://www.soc.nacsis.ac.jp/camp/indexEXCON2000.html-

C11 - COMMISSION ON PARTICLES AND FIELDS

International Conference on High Energy Physics
July 27 - August 3
Osaka, Japan

Contact:
Yoriko Nagashima
Faculty of Science, Osaka University
1, Machikaneyamaco, Toyonaka, Osaka JAPAN
Phone: (81-6) 850 5356
Fax: (81-6) 850 5332
E-mail: naga@hep.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp
http://chep2000.hep.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp/

C12 - COMMISSION ON NUCLEAR PHYSICS

16th Int'l Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics
March 6 - 10
Taipei, TAIWAN

Contact:
Shih Nan Yang
Department of Physics
National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617 TAIWAN
Phone: (886-2) 2362-6937 ext. 206
Fax: (886-2) 2363-9984
E-mail: snygang@phys.ntu.edu.tw
Int'l Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics
March 13 - 17
Adelaide, Australia

Contact:
Professor A. W. Thomas
Director CSSM
University of Adelaide
Adelaide SA 5005 AUSTRALIA
Phone: (61-8) 8303 3547
Fax: (61-8) 8303 3551
E-mail: athomas@physics.adelaide.edu.au
http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au:80/cssm/ISS
14th International Spin Physics Symposium
October 16
Osaka, Japan

Contact:
Hiroyasu Ejiri
Research Center for Nuclear Physics
Osaka University
10-1 Mihigaoka
Ibaraki Osaka 567 0047 JAPAN
Phone: (81-6) 6879 8928
Fax: (81-6) 6879 8899
E-mail: spin2000@rcnplosaka-u.ac.jp or Ejiri@rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp
http://www.server.rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp/_spin2000/

7th Int'l Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
July 3 - 7
Strasbourg, France

Contact:
Mrs. C. Lemaitre
GANIL
BP 5027
F-14076 CAEN Cedex 5 FRANCE
Phone: (33-2) 31 45 45 61
Fax: (33-2) 31 45 45 86
E-mail: NN2000@ganil.fr
http://www.gsi.de/NN2000/

C13 - COMMISSION ON PHYSICS FOR DEVELOPMENT

Conf. on Physics and Industrial Development: Bridging the Gap
September 18 - 21
Durban, South Africa

Contact:
M. Alport
School of Pure and Applied Physics
University of Natal
Durban SOUTH AFRICA
Phone: (27-31) 260 1400
Fax: (27-31) 260 1637
E-mail: copid2000@ph.und.ac.za

III Workshop on Optoelectronic Materials and Their Applications (including solar Cells)
August 28 - September 1
Oaxaca, Mexico

Contact:
Arturo Morales-Acevedo
CINVESTAV
Electrical Engineering Department
Avenida IPN No. 2508
07300 Mexico DF MEXICO
Phone: (52) 5747 7000 (ext. 3156)
Fax: (52) 5747 7002
E-mail: amorales@gasparin.solar.cinvestav.mx
http://gap.sees.cinveastav.mx/amorales

C14 - COMMISSION ON PHYSICS EDUCATION

Training Physics Teachers Beyond 2000
August 27 - September 1
Barcelona, Spain

Contact:
Roser Pint¢
Dep. Didactica Matem, y CC
Experimentales
Fac. Ciencies Educaci¢
Univ. Autonoma
Barcelona SPAIN
Phone: (34-93) 581 3206
Fax: (34-93) 581 1169
E-mail: R.Pinto@cc.uab.es
http://www.uab.es
VII Inter-American Conference on Physics Education
JULY 3 - 7, Porto Alegre, BRAZIL

Contact:
Marco Mopeira
UFRGS Caixa Postal 15051
91501-970 Porto Alegre
BRAZIL
Phone: (55-51) 316 6524
Fax: (55-51) 319 1762
E-mail: moreira@if.ufrgs.br

C15 - COMMISSION ON ATOMIC, MOLECULAR, AND OPTICAL PHYSICS

Int'l Conf. on Atomic Physics
June 4 - 9
Firenze, Italy

Contact:
Massimo Inguscio
University of Florence, Dept of Physics & LENS
L.go E. Fermi 5
Firenze I-50125 ITALY
Fax: 39 055 224 072
Phone: 39 055 2307610
E-mail: inguscio@colonnello.lens.unifi.it
http://icap2000.df.unipi.it/

2nd International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications (ICAMDATA)
March 26 - 30
Oxford, UK

Contact:
Professor Kenneth L. Bell
School of Mathematics and Physics
The Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast BT4 3NA NORTHERN ISLAND
Phone: (44-1232) 335111
Fax: (44-1232) 335218
E-mail: kl.bell@qub.ac.uk

C16 - COMMISSION ON PLASMA PHYSICS

2000 International Congress on Plasma Physics
October 23 - 27
Quebec, PQ, Canada

Contact:
Rial DeCoste
1804 boul. Lionel-Boulet
Varennes, PQ, J3X 1S1 CANADA
Phone: 450-652-8715
Fax: 450-652-8625
E-mail: decoste@ccfm.ireq.ca

International Topical Conference on Plasma Physics: Physics of Colloidal Plasma Science
July 3 - 7
Trieste, Italy

Contact:
Professor Dr. Padma K. Shukla
Fakultat fur Physik und Astronomie
Ruhr-Universitat Bochum GERMANY
Phone: (49-234) 700 3759
Fax: (49-234) 709 4177
E-mail: ps@tp4.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

C17 - COMMISSION ON QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

XVII Int'l Conference on Raman Spectroscopy
August 20 - 25
Beijing, China

Contact:
Shu-Lin Zhang
Physics Department
Beijing University
Beijing 100871 CHINA
Phone: +86 10 6275 1750
Fax: +86 10 6275 9117
E-mail: icors@pku.edu.cn
http://www.hkics.com/icors2000

C18 - COMMISSION ON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

International Conference on Mathematical Physics
July 17 - 22
London, UK

Contact:
Professor Boguslaw Zegarlinski
Department of Mathematics
Huxley Building, Imperial College
180 Queen's Gate
London SW7 2BZ UK
Phone: (44-171) 594 8491
Fax: (44-171) 594 8517
E-mail: b.zegarlinski@ic.ac.uk

23rd Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, "Group 23"
July 31 - August 5
Dubna, Russia

Contact:
George Pogosyan
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Dubna
Moscow Region 141980 RUSSIA
Phone: (7-09621) 63153
Fax: (7-09621) 65084
E-mail: pogosyan@thsunl.jinr.ru or Group23@thsun1.jinr.ru

C19 - COMMISSION ON ASTROPHYSICS

Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting
July 2 - 8
Rome, Italy

Contact:
Professor Remo Ruffini
ICRA Physics Department
University of Rome
Piazzale Aldo Moro 2
I-00195 Rome ITALY
Phone: (39-6) 49914304
Fax: (39-6) 4454992
E-mail: ruffini@icra.it
http://www.icra.it?MGmg9/mg9/htm

C20 - COMMISSION ON COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

Conference on Confrontational Physics
July 3 - 7
Brisbane, Australia

Contact:
Dr. Peter Drummond
Physics Department
University of Queensland
St. Lucia 4072
Queensland AUSTRALIA
Phone: (61-7) 3365-3404
Fax: (61-7) 3365-1242
E-mail: drummond@physics.uq.edu.au
http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/CCP2000/

COSPAR - 33rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly

July 16 - 23
Warsaw, Poland

Contact:
G. Schafer
c/o COSPAR
51 Bd de Montmorency
75016 Paris, FRANCE
Phone: (33-1) 4525 0679
Fax: (33-1) 4050 9827
E-mail: Cospar@paris7.jussieu.fr
http://www.cospar.itodys.jussieu.fr

CONFERENCES FOR 2001 AND LATER FOR WHICH APPROVAL HAS BEEN GIVEN

C6 - COMMISSION ON BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS

4th Int'l Conf. on Biological Physics
July 30 - August 3, 2001
Kyoto, Japan

Contact:
Nobuhiro Go
Department of Chemistry
Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Kitashirakawa Sakyo-ku
Kyoto 606-8502 JAPAN
Phone: +81 75 753 4017
Fax: +81 75 753 3669
E-mail: go@qchen.kuchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp

C11 - COMMISSION ON PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Int Conference on Lepton Photon Interactions
July 23 - 27, 2001
Rome, Italy

* TO BE DETERMINED

C12 - COMMISSION ON NUCLEAR PHYSICS

Int Conference Nuclear Physics
Berkely, CA

* TO BE DETERMINED

C14 - COMMISSION ON PHYSICS EDUCATION

Computer and Information Technology in Physics Educ.
December 4 - 6, 2001
Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Contact:
Vivien Talisayon
Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development
University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City PHILIPPINES
Fax: (632) 928-1563
Phone: (632) 928-2621
E-mail: vmt@ismed.upd.edu.ph
http://www.ismed.upd.edu.ph

C11 - COMMISSION ON PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Int Conference on High Energy Physics
YEAR 2002
Amsterdam, Netherlands

* TO BE DETERMINED