Panel on Public Affairs

The Panel on Public Affairs (POPA) consists of a Chair, Chair-Elect, Vice Chair, immediate Past Chair, the Vice President, the Chair of the Physics Policy Committee (PPC), the Congressional Fellow(s) in the second year following the year of service, thirteen (13) members elected by Council to staggered three (3) year terms, (1) industrial physicist APS-member elected by the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics to a three (3) year term, and (1) member elected by the Forum on Physics and Society to a three (3) year term. The candidates for election as members of POPA are selected by the Nominating Committee. The Vice Chair is elected by Council and serves in that office for one (1) year, then as Chair-Elect for one (1) year, then as Chair for one (1) year, and then as Immediate Past Chair for one (1) year. The POPA Steering Committee consists of the Chair, the Chair-Elect, the Vice Chair, the Vice President, the PPC Chair, and at least two (2) additional members selected from among and by the members of POPA.

POPA is responsible for making recommendations to the President, the Board, and the Council on public affairs activities of the Society that have been designated by the Board or Council. POPA may initiate new public affairs activities for the Society and may recommend new programs to the Council. POPA shall keep minutes and distribute them to POPA members and to the Council and Board. All POPA reports and APS studies shall be approved by the Council before public release.

Chair: William Collins (01/21 - 12/21)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Chair-Elect: C McCurdy (01/21 - 12/21)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Vice Chair: Eric Mazur (01/21 - 12/21)
Harvard University

Past Chair: E. Dan Dahlberg (01/21 - 12/21)
University of Minnesota

Vice President: Robert Rosner (01/21 - 12/21)
University of Chicago

Member: Cynthia Nitta (01/19 - 12/21)
Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

Member: Raymond Orbach (01/19 - 12/21)
University of Texas at Austin

Member: Thom Mason (01/19 - 12/21)
Los Alamos Natl Lab

Member: Barry Klein (01/19 - 12/21)
University of California, Davis

Member: Jonathan Wurtele (01/20 - 12/22)
University of California, Berkeley

Member: Steve Fetter (01/20 - 12/22)
University of Maryland, College Park

Member: Dan Stamper-Kurn (01/20 - 12/22)
University of California, Berkeley

Member: Eric Gawiser (01/20 - 12/22)
Rutgers University

Member: Norbert Holtkamp (01/20 - 12/22)
Stanford University

Member: Despina Louca (01/21 - 12/23)
University of Virginia

Member: Washington Taylor (01/21 - 12/23)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

Member: Sarah Demers (01/21 - 12/23)
Yale University

Member: Marion White (01/21 - 12/23)
Argonne National Laboratory

Chair, Physics Policy Committee: Philip Bucksbaum (01/21 - 12/21)
Stanford University

Representative, Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics: James Adams (01/21 - 12/23)
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Representative, Forum on Physics and Society: Laura Grego (01/19 - 12/21)
Union of Concerned Scientists

Congressional Fellow: Jennifer Dailey (01/21 - 12/21)
Johns Hopkins University

Advisor: Sylvester Gates (01/20 - 12/21)
Brown University

Advisor: Frances Hellman (01/21 - 12/22)
University of California, Berkeley

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