Fwd: Launch of the African Physical Society, 11-16 January 2010

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From: Professor Francis K.A. Allotey <pres...@africanphysicalsociety.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 5:37 AM
Subject: Launch of the African Physical Society, 11-16 January 2010
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Dear Colleagues,

As some of you may know by now, several physicists and astronomers working on the African continent have been working on forming an African Physical Society.   The resolution to do so was made at the 2007 EBASI meeting at iThemba labs in Cape Town, South Africa.    At the same time it was resolved to establish the African Physical Review as the official scholarly publication of the African Physical Society.

On 14 November 2009,  there was an SAIP and IOP organized meeting in Cape Town, South Africa of several of the established national physical societies in Africa.    There was again unanimous and enthusiastic support for establishing the African Physical Society to be a voice for African physics and astronomy across the continent and around the world. 

We will be officially launching the African Physical Society at a meeting in Dakar, Senegal,  11-16 January 2010.  This meeting will also be a meeting of the African Association of Physics Students (AAPS).   The formal launch ceremony will commence at 10:00am. on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 on the campus of the University of Cheikh Anta Diop.  

 

I extend to you my warmest invitation to participate in this historic meeting.

The launch meeting is jointly organized by the LAM Network, EBASI and the National Society of Black Physicists. 

The scientific program will consist of invited and contributed papers, poster sessions, exhibitions, and laboratory demonstrations open to scientists, engineers and medical professionals from all countries.  

 

In addition to launching the African Physical Society, there have been colleagues from Birkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda, working to establish an African Astronomical Society;   and there is an expectation that the groundwork will be layed to establish an Optics and Photonics Society of Africa.   These three professional societies will undoubtedly work together to better organize and network physicists, astronomers and others working in these respective fields.   They will also reach out to sister-societies around the world and be a global on-ramp for the rest of the world to see the work going on in Africa in physics, astronomy and photonics.

 

You can find out more about, and register for, the Dakar meeting and the African Physical Society and the African Association of the Physics Students at the organizations' respective websites.    You can also contact me directly at pres...@africanphysicalsociety.org or by phone at +233-21-501360.


Very best regards,


Professor Francis K. A. Allotey
Interim President
African Physical Society
pres...@africanphysicalsociety.org