International Consultative and Planning Meeting of Physical Societies

这笔赠款将为美国物理学会将于1997年10月8日至10日在华盛顿特区举行的国际物理学会规划会议提供部分支持。规划会议将包括来自最大的国家成员学会(德国物理学会、英国物理研究所、日本物理学会和日本应用物理学会、中国物理学会)和五个国际地区性学会(欧洲物理学会、拉丁美洲物理学会联合会、亚太物理学会协会、欧亚物理学会、非洲物理学家和数学家学会)的代表。出席会议的观察员将包括国际理论与应用物理联合会主席和加拿大物理学家协会主席。本次会议的目的是探讨影响国际物理事业的重要共同问题，并参与解决这些问题的联合规划。所有与会者都认为最重要的议题是：1)国家和国际科学政策的制定和实施，2)电子出版对研究成果传播的影响，3)物理教育和公共教育的现状和需求，4)发展中国家的物理和能力建设，5)可能组织一个国际物理学会理事会或大会，以此作为维持国际合作的一种手段。会议将围绕旨在概述问题和替代解决办法的全体会议进行组织，然后是分配具体任务的分组会议。最后一次全体会议将汇集各种讨论的内容，包括成果和任务的汇编。预计会议将就讨论的每个主要议题产生一份协商一致的文件，并为进一步采取协调一致的行动制定一项总体计划。

This grant will provide partial support of a planning meeting of international physical societies to be held in Washington, DC, on October 8-10, 1997, organized by the American Physical Society. The planning meeting will include representatives from the largest national membership societies (Deutsche Physikallische Gessellschaft, the UK's Institute of Physics, the Japanese Physical Society and the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, the Chinese Physical Society) and the five international regional societies (the European Physical Society, the Federation of Latin-American Physical Societies, the association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies, the Euro-Asian Physical Society, the Society of African Physicists and Mathematicians). Observers to the meeting will include the President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and the President of the Canadian Association of Physicists. The purpose of this meeting is to explore important common issues affecting the international physics enterprise and to engage in joint planning to address these issues. The topics which have been identified as most important by all participants are: 1) the formulation and implementation of national and international science policy, 2) the impact of electronic publishing on the dissemination of research results, 3) status and needs for physics education and public education, 4) physics and capacity building in developing nations and 5) the possible organization of an international council or congress of physical societies as a means to sustain international collaboration. The meeting will be organized around plenary presentations designed to outline the problems and alternative solutions, followed by break-out groups assigned specific tasks. A concluding plenary will bring together the elements of the various discussions to include a compilation of outcomes and assignments. The meeting is expected to produce a consensus paper on each of the principal topics of discussion and a general plan for further concerted action.