SATELLITE EVENTS

List of regional and national events associated to the IUPAP’s centennial celebration. For ideas on activities that could be organized on the occasion of the IUPAP’s centenary, please see below.

Some ideas for satellite events that can be organized at the national level in celebration of the IUPAP centennial:

  • Circulate IUPAP publicity material to physics-related organisations and people. Inform physicists and physics-related organisations in your country about the IUPAP centennial year.
  • Participate and support IUPAP centennial activities, e.g the international symposium that is planned for September 2022.
  • Find out about the history of your country’s involvement in IUPAP. When did you first join, what was the motivation, who played the central role in championing IUPAP membership, what were some of the major IUPAP-related meetings and events that have taken place in your country over the many years, and so on?
  • Discuss the new IUPAP strategic plan which will be approved at the 2021 General Assembly to be held in Oct 2021 and consider ways in which physics can be strengthened in your country.
  • Include an IUPAP celebratory session at a physics workshop/meeting/conference to be held in your country.
  • Find out more about the history of the IUPAP, and the critical roles that it has played in forging an international community of physicists over the past 100 years, and the impact that that has had on growing our discipline.
  • Get more young physicists involved in talking about the future of physics because they are the future.
  • Discuss how physics can be used as a catalyst for social change, e.g., in enhancing diversity.
  • Consider physics as an instrument for development in the developing world.
  • Host public physics lectures and arrange outreach events especially to schools. Use the print media, radio, tv and social media to communicate the beauty and the importance of physics.
  • Hold physics-related competition(s), e.g. Olympiads, or competitions in physics-based innovation or photography.
  • With many events taking place online, try to invite other physics-marginalized countries to participate. Do involve some of them in your activities.
  • Encourage membership of IUPAP
  • Use this opportunity to engage with government and with industry on the importance of physics for our collective futures, in the understanding that there are few human endeavors, whether involving the environment, climate change, energy, materials, communications, urban and rural development, or human health, which will not benefit directly or indirectly from advances in the various disciplines of physics.