FIP Sponsored Events at the APS April Meeting 2008
Some members of the FIP Executive Committee at the April 2008 meeting. Seated Left to Right: Noemie Koller, Noemi Mirkin, Betty Tsang; Standing Left to Right: Satoshi Ozaki, John Clark, Leo Violini, Cherrill Spencer, Herman Winick
Sessions
"International Gender Issues in Physics" (Panel Discussion)Saturday, April 12, 2008 1:30 PM - 3:18 PM
Physics Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront Promenade D
Co-sponsor: FPS
Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, APS President, Stanford University
- Women Physicists in the European Union : how Brussels is moving toward gender equality
Giulia Pancheri, INFN Frascati National Laboratories, Italy - Keeping Women in Physics
Meg Urry, Yale University - Women in Physics in Latin America: why so few in leadership positions?
Marcia Barbosa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Panel and audience discussion
Saturday, April 12, 2008, 3:30 - 4:30 PM
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront , Boardroom 23
- Meet the FIP Executive Commitee
- Update of FIP programs, and financial and membership status
- Opportunity to share your suggestions for future programs and activities.
Saturday, April 13, 2008 8:30AM - 10:18AM
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront, Promenade D
Co-sponsor: DBP
- Indian Participation in LHC and a Glimpse of the Road Ahead
Vinod Chandra Sahni, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology & Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India - Impact of Pohang Accelerator on Large-scale Science Programs in Korea
Won Namkung, POSTECH, Korea - The Impact of the SESAME Project on Science and Society in the Middle East
Herman Winick, SLAC/SSRL/Stanford University
