The Council of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) expresses its concern at recent developments in Turkey The Council of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), noting the IUPAP Resolution on the Universality of Science, adopted in 2011, and Statute 5 (the Principle of Universality (freedom and responsibility) of […]

The Four New Elements are Named Released 8 June 2016 The four newly discovered elements now have proposed names: nihonium (atomic number 113), moscovium (atomic number 115), tennessine (atomic number 117), and oganesson (atomic number 118). The discovery of these elements  was confirmed earlier this year by the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party [1,2] and now […]

Accelerators have become prevalent as powerful tools for scientific discovery and as versatile instruments for societal applications. The science of accelerators is rich and challenging and becoming increasingly international. It is driven not only by both the size and complexity of accelerator projects, but also by the necessity to combine efforts in order to effectively […]

Ref 1: 2017 IUPAP CONFERENCE SPONSORSHIP APPLICATIONS DEADLINE Please kindly note that the 1st of June 2016 is the due date for the submission of IUPAP sponsorship application forms for conferences that will be held  anytime  in 2017 (i.e. anytime between 1 January and 31 December 2017). All conference organizers are to be informed that […]

The claims for four new elements have been validated in a new report from the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party (JMP) and are to be published in Pure and Applied Chemistry [1]. The addition of the four elements 113, 115,117, and 118 is exciting because it completes the seventh row of the Periodic Table. Elements are […]

  The International School on Ultra-Intense Lasers will be held at the Hotel@Resort “Yunost”, 40 km from Moscow, Russia, from 4 to 9 October, 2015.   The School is organized by the International Committee on Ultra-Intense Lasers (ICUIL), the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS), the National Research Nuclear […]

Claudio Kopper was awarded the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Astroparticle Physics 2015 for his outstanding contribution to the analysis of the IceCube Neutrino-Telescope data, leading to the first-ever observation of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. Claudio received his PhD from the University of Erlangen, Germany, in 2010. As a graduate student, he worked on optimizing the […]

IUPAP Working Group on Women in Physics, Supporting Women in Physics in Developing Countries We have received funding to launch a new round of the IUPAP Travel Grants Program.  This program was created to help fund women from developing and low income countries, who may not have another opportunity, to attend a regional or international conferences, […]

­ Young Scientist Prize 2016 nominations The deadline for the nominations of the C10 2016 Young Scientist Prize in the Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter is 15 July 2015. Nominations should be sent to Commission Chair Professor J. Raynien Kwo. Please click here for submission details