Report to the IUPAP Council and Commissions Chairs Meeting and
to the IUPAP General Assembly
from C12 , the IUPAP Commission on Nuclear Physics

1. New Members
2. Conference Sponsorship Recommendations
3. IUPAP Prize in Nuclear Physics
4. IUPAP Working Group

Proposed New Members for C12

Conference Sponsorship

Type A

1. International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC07)
   June 3-8, 2007 Tokyo, Japan Shoji Nagamiya
   …Approved

Type B

1. International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN06)
   August 28 -September 1, 2006 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Mahir S. Hussein
   …Approved (Conf. Fee Support $7K)
2. International Spin Physics Symposium (SPIN2006)
   October 2-7, 2006 Kyoto, Japan Kenichi Imai
   …Approved (Conf. Fee Support $7K)
3. International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (FB18)
   August 21-26, 2006 Santos, Brazil Lauro Tomio
   …Approved (Conf. Fee Support $7K)

Type C

1. International Conference on Nuclei in the Cosmos
   June 25-30, 2006 Geneva, Switzerland Alberto Mengoni
   …Approved (Travel Support $5K)
2. International Conference on Radioactive Nuclear Beams (RNB7)
   July 3-7, 2006 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Cosimo Signorini
   …Approved (Travel Support $5K)
3. International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics (QNP06)
   June 5-10, 2006 Madrid, Spain Antonio Dobado
   …Not Approved

New IUPAP Prizes

The IUPAP Executive Council approved the creation of new prizes for scientists in their early years of research activities. C12 proposed the following prize which was subsequently approved at the IUPAP General Assembly at Capetown, October 25-28, 2005.

Name of the prize

IUPAP Young Scientist Award

Criteria for selection

Independent, outstanding work in the area of physics of hadrons and nuclei (and related research areas) by a scientist within 8 years of obtaining his/her PhD

Procedure for forming the selection committee

Election of 6 members to the selection committee by the C12 Commission from nominations from all IUPAP member states (one nomination per state) and limited to one member from each of the following 6 geographical regions: North America, Middle- and South-America, Europe, Russia and Near East, Far East, Africa and Australia. Non-voting chair of the selection committee is the C12 Chair. Committee membership is for 3 years and not renewable.

Size and type of prize (monetary, medal, etc.)

Medals (IUPAP standard design) and US$ 3000 total for every three years (or travel support to attend the conference where the prize is given).

Frequency (annually, every two years, etc.)

Every three years for up to three scientists. The total amount of $3,000 is shared among the Awardees. Usually the prize is given to three scientists ($1,000 each), but it can on some occasions be given to two scientists ($1,500 each), or, in an exceptional case, to one scientist ($3,000).

Venue for presenting the prize

At the International Conference on Nuclear Physics (INPC), held every three years.

IUPAP Working Group on International Cooperation in Nuclear Physics

CONTEXT

At the 2004 meeting of the IUPAP Council and Commission Chairs it had been reported that C12 had established an international committee to consider future planning in nuclear physics.

Its role will be similar to that of other IUAP Working Groups. Its work will be directed specifically towards nuclear physics and will not overlap with those areas already covered by other Working Groups, such as ICFA.

Initially it was formed as an ad-hoc committee of C12, but following the Annual General Meeting of C12 on August 5, 2005, it was proposed by C12 that it be made an IUPAP Working Group.

The IUPAP Executive Council approved the proposal.

Proposal

It is proposed that this committee be formally established as an IUPAP Working Group on International Cooperation in Nuclear Physics.

Mandate:

1. To provide a description of the landscape of key issues in Nuclear Physics research for the next 10 to 20 years
2. To produce (maintain) a compendium of facilities existing or under development worldwide
3. To establish a mapping of these facilities onto the scientific questions identified above
4. To identify missing components that would have to be developed to provide an optimized, comprehensive network of international facilities
5. To explore mechanisms and opportunities for enhancing international collaboration in nuclear science
6. To identify R/D projects that could benefit from international joint effort
7. To serve as a source of expert advice for governmental or inter- governmental organizations in connection with efforts to coordinate and promote nuclear science at the international level
8. To serve as a forum for the discussion of future directions of nuclear science in the broadest sense
9. To document the cross-disciplinary impact of Nuclear Physics and of nuclear facilities and to identify mechanisms for expanding (fostering) cross-disciplinary research.

Initial Membership

• A. W. Thomas (Jefferson Laboratory) Chair
• R. F. Casten (2005 NSAC Chair, Yale U.)
• S. H. Aronson (BNL, USA)
• J.-M. Poutissou (TRIUMF, Canada)
• M. N. Harakeh (2005 NuPECC Chair, U. Groningen)
• W.F. Henning (GSI, Germany)
• S. Gales (GANIL, France)
• S. Nagamiya (J-PARC, Japan, Chair of C12)
• M. Motobayashi (RIKEN, Japan)
• Wenlong Zhan (Landzou, China)
• A. A. Ogloblin (Kurchatov Institute, Russia)
• A. Lepine-Szily (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil)
• W. T. H. van Oers (U.Manitoba) Secretary
• COMOSITION OF THE WORKING GROUP

The Executive of the Working Group consists of a Chairperson and a Secretary. Among its members will be the Chairs of various long range planning committees, i.e., the Chair of the US Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) or his/her designate, the Chair of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC) or his/her designate, the Chair of the Japanese Nuclear Physics Committee, and further representatives of nuclear physics research establishments worldwide. The Chair and Vice Chair of C12, the IUPAP Commission on Nuclear Physics will be ex-officio members of the Working Group.