22nd General Assembly of IUPAP (1996) - Resolutions on commission matters

Appendix 6: Resolutions from the Council, presented to the General Assembly, on commission matters

6. 1. Commission on Acoustics - C7 - change in Status

Whereas C7, the Commission on Acoustics has determined that a reorganization would allow it to improve its services to the international acoustics community and would improve its ability to relate to national acoustical societies,

whereas the environment in which it operates closely parallels that of the affiliated Commission AC1 (International Commission for Optics),

and whereas C7 has consulted with the Council in the formulation of Draft Statutes,

the General Assembly of IUPAP approves the reorganization of C7 into an affiliated Commission AC3 (International Commission on Acoustics) as described in the Draft Statutes approved by the International Committee on Acoustics in Antwerp, March 31, 1996. The current structure remains valid until the first General Assembly of the International Commission on Acoustics.

6. 2. Commission on Atomic and Molecular Physics - C15 - Change in name and mandate.

Whereas C15 has requested a change in name and in the wording of its mandate in order to improve the description of the work of its community,

it is resolved that the name be changed from: Commission on Atomic and Molecular Physics (and Spectroscopy)

to: Commission on Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

and that the mandate be changed from:

(a) the properties of charged and neutral atoms and molecules;

(b) the dynamics and these entities, including interaction with electromagnetic radiation, and with electric and magnetic fields, and the results of collisions;

to:

(a) the properties of charged and neutral atoms and molecules;

(b) the dynamics of these entities, including interaction with electromagnetic radiation, and with electric and magnetic fields, and the results of collisions;

(d) the application of atomic and molecular physics to technology.

6. 3. Formation of a new Commission on Computational Physics.

Whereas the 1993 General Assembly of IUPAP in Nara established a Working Group for Computational Physics in order to prepare the foundation for a commission in 1996

it is resolved that the Working Group on Computational Physics be constituted as the Commission on Computational Physics with the mandate:

"To promote the exchange of information and views among the members of the international community of physicists in the area of computational studies of problems originating in or relevant to physics, including

(a) numerical and symbolic models and algorithms for the simulation of physi cal systems;

(b) computational control and data processing of experiments;