Report from the Commission C12 (Nuclear Physics)to theIUPAP Council and Commission Chairs MeetingOctober 13-14, 2008 |
C12 had five significant activities during the past year as discussed at the Annual General Meeting of C12 held at CERN, Geneva;
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C12 Annual General Meeting:The Commission Meeting was held on May 30th at CERN in Geneva . In addition to discussions of general interest, such as the consolidation and merger of related conference series traditionally sponsored by IUPAP into a single series, and the credit to be given to young researchers now that also nuclear physics manuscripts quite often have large authorships (sometimes 100 or more authors), [Both discussions are ongoing], and with reports on liaison activities with other Commissions, a significant part of the meeting was devoted to presentations on conferences asking for IUPAP sponsorship and subsequent in camera discussions about the C12 support for sponsorship. The C12 recommendations on conference sponsorship are attached as an Appendix. In addition there was an extensive report and discussion by the Chair of the IUPAP Working group WG.9 on the participation of WG.9 in the OECD Global Science Forum Working Group on Nuclear Physics and its findings, published in May 2008, distributed at the C12 meeting. The OECD Report has a number of recommendations and requests pertaining to the nuclear physics community at large. (See also the progress report submitted by Anthony W. Thomas, Chair of WG.9) to this C & CC Meeting). |
IUPAP Young Scientist Award in Nuclear Physics:The C12 rules provide for up to three prizes every three years to be awarded at the International Nuclear Physics Conference (the next one will be INPC2010 in Vancouver , BC , organized by TRIUMF). The prizes will be awarded in a plenary prize session in which the prize winners are requested to present a talk on their prize-winning work. |
Nominations for Membership in C12 (2009-2011):Under the current IUPAP rules eight of the thirteen members of C12 will end their terms at the end of 2008. Great concern was expressed about the continuity of C12 working towards the international cooperation in nuclear physics. For instance together with WG.9 it has initiated the formation of the Nuclear Physics Asian Collaboration Committee (NuPACC) and it is in the process of stimulating the formation of a similar committee for South-America with terms similar as for NuPECC, the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee. In addition there are the significant interactions with WG.9 with both the Chair and Vice-Chair of C12 serving on WG.9. The question of continuity is exacerbated by the fact that both the Chair and Vice-Chair of C12 will end their term in December 2008. A further strong consideration was proper gender representation on C12. After various discussions with the IUPAP Secretariat the following slate of nominees is proposed:
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