POLISH PHYSICAL SOCIETY
International Activity
- The Polish Physical Society is a member of the
European Physical Society
(see support of participation in
conferences).
- The Polish Physical Society has co-operation agreements with:
- the American Physical Society,
- the German Physical Society,
- the Institute of Physics, London,
- the Eötvös Loránd Physical
Society,
- the Physical Section of the
Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists,
- the Physical Society of
Japan,
- the Slovak Physical
Society,
- the Lithuanian Physical Society
- the Ukrainian Physical
Society,
- the Italian Physical Society (text of the agreement),
- the Belarusian
Physical Society,
- the United Physical Society of
Russian Federation (text of the
agreement),
- the Physical Society of the
Republic
of China.
- The Polish Physical Society is a companion society of the Institute of Physics (text of the agreement).
- The Polish Physical Society is the first Associate of the
all-electronic New Journal of
Physics - a reduced-rate article charge for members of the
Polish Physical Society is agreed at 12% on the full-rate article charge.
This Association deepens good relations between physicists of Germany,
Great Britain and Poland.
- 29 Poles are Individual Members of
the
European Physical Society and 8 members are engaged in boards of
different
structures of the European Physical Society:
- M. Kolwas - vice-president (president 2009 - 2011)
and board member of Young Minds Committee
- M. Cieplak - chair of the Division of Physics in Life Sciences
and board member of Conference Committee
- K. Pachucki - board member of European Group on Atomic Systems
- S. Pokorski - board member of High Energy and Particle Physics
Division
- T. Matulewicz - board member of Nuclear Physics Division
- J. Luczka - board member of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Division
- A. Wolski - board member of Accelerators Group
- R. Sosnowski - fellow
- International informal meetings of physical societies representatives
organized by the Polish Physical Society (PPS)
International, informal meeting of physical societies representatives
(Informal Physical Societies Exchange Conference - IPSEC) is organized
every two years by the Polish Physical Societies (PPS) on the occasion of
the Meeting of Polish Physicists - see a note on the e-EPS.
The idea of the informal meetings of physical societies
representatives was born in 1997. It was tightly connected to the
situation of scientific societies due to the transformation of the
political system in Central and East Europe countries. The transformation
has influenced scientific societies in many ways. They gained real
freedom of activities but lost a great part of the financial and other
kinds of the governmental support.
The international cooperation is essential for the PPS. Among
the other things, it allows to present achievements of Polish physicists
abroad and, what is also very important, provides influence of Polish
scientists on activities and decisions of the international
organizations concerning science and physics in particular. Before the
transformation, the Polish Academy of Sciences governed and took care of
the financial aspects of official international relations of Polish
scientific societies. Now, scientific societies do not need any
intermediary governmental body for their international cooperation but
Cannot expect any substantial help from them also. It was found that
informal meetings of representatives of physical societies from different
countries could be very useful in these circumstances. It was expected
that such meetings gave possibilities to discuss international
cooperation and other society problems that appeared after the system
transformation in some countries as well as the world political changes.
The first meeting was organized, with financial support of the IOP,
in Katowice in 1997 during the XXXIV Meeting of Polish Physicists
(Europhysics News vol. 29, no 1, 23 (1998), Bulletin of the PPS Main
Board no 1 (1997/1999)). The representatives of seven societies
participated in the meeting: English (IOP), Czech, German, Slovak,
Ukrainian, Hungarian and European. In the second meeting, which was
organized during the XXXV Meeting of Polish Physicists in Białystok in
1999 took part the representatives of nine physical societies: American,
English, Belarusian, Czech, Lithuanian, German, Slovak, Ukrainian and
European (Postepy Fizyki vol. 51, no 1 (2000)). The
third informal meeting of physical societies representatives took
place during the XXXVI Meeting of Polish Physicists in Toruń (17 - 20
September, 2001). It
should be noticed that the idea of such informal meetings suited very
well some expectations of physical societies. The increasing number of
physical societies participating in the meetings and the fact that the
PPS is encouraged by other societies to continue the organization of the
meetings in future are the evidences of it.
The fourth informal meeting of
physical societies representatives was held on September 15, 2003 in
Gdansk.
The fifth informal meeting of
physical societies representatives was held on September 12, 2005 in
Warsaw.
The sixth informal meeting of
physical societies representatives was held on September 10, 2007 in
Szczecin.
The seventh informal meeting of
physical societies representatives was held on September 7, 2009 in
Krakow.
The eighth informal meeting of physical societies
representatives was held on September 5, 2011 in
Lublin (presentations of Y. Kuramoto, V. Litovchenko, P.
Golkiewicz and J. Kozlowski).
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