POLISH PHYSICAL SOCIETY

International Activity

• The Polish Physical Society is a member of the European Physical Society (see support of participation in conferences).
• The Polish Physical Society has co-operation agreements with:
  • the American Physical Society,
  • the German Physical Society,
  • the Institute of Physics, London,
  • the Eötvös Loránd Physical Society,
  • the Physical Section of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists,
  • the Physical Society of Japan,
  • the Slovak Physical Society,
  • the Lithuanian Physical Society
  • the Ukrainian Physical Society,
  • the Italian Physical Society (text of the agreement),
  • the Belarusian Physical Society,
  • the United Physical Society of Russian Federation (text of the agreement),
  • the Physical Society of the Republic of China.
• The Polish Physical Society is a companion society of the Institute of Physics (text of the agreement).
• The Polish Physical Society is the first Associate of the all-electronic New Journal of Physics - a reduced-rate article charge for members of the Polish Physical Society is agreed at 12% on the full-rate article charge. This Association deepens good relations between physicists of Germany, Great Britain and Poland.
  
• 29 Poles are Individual Members of the European Physical Society and 17 members are engaged in boards of different structures of the European Physical Society:
  • M. Kolwas (Warsaw) - member of the Executive Committee
  • H. Szymczak (Warsaw) - member of the East-West Task Force
  • I. Sosnowska (Warsaw) - member of the Mobility Committee, associated member of EUPEN Executive Committee
  • S. Pokorski (Warsaw) - board member of the High Energy and Particle Physics Division
  • M. Cieplak (Warsaw) - board member of the Physics in Life Sciences Division
  • A. Krasinski (Warsaw) - board member of the Gravitational Physics Section
  • J. Sylwester (Wroclaw) - board member of the Solar Physics Section
  • C. Szmytkowski (Gdansk) - board member of the Electronic and Atomic Collisions Section
  • J. Dunin-Borkowski (Warsaw) - board member of the Pre-University Section
  • J. Wolowski (Warsaw) - board member of the Beam Plasma and Inertial Fusion Section
  • K. Pachucki (Warsaw) - board member of Atomic Spectroscopy (EGAS) Section
  • M. Szymonski (Cracow) - board member of the Surfaces and Interfaces Section
  • A. K. Wroblewski (Warsaw) - board member of the History of Physics Group
  • M. Bubak (Cracow) - co-opted member of the Computational Physics Group
• International informal meetings of physical societies representatives organized by the Polish Physical Society (PPS)
  International, informal meeting of physical societies representatives (Informal Physical Societies Exchange Conference - IPSEC) is organized every two years by the Polish Physical Societies (PPS) on the occasion of the Meeting of Polish Physicists.
  The idea of the informal meetings of physical societies representatives was born in 1997. It was tightly connected to the situation of scientific societies due to the transformation of the political system in Central and East Europe countries. The transformation has influenced scientific societies in many ways. They gained real freedom of activities but lost a great part of the financial and other kinds of the governmental support.
  The international cooperation is essential for the PPS. Among the other things, it allows to present achievements of Polish physicists abroad and, what is also very important, provides influence of Polish scientists on activities and decisions of the international organizations concerning science and physics in particular. Before the transformation, the Polish Academy of Sciences governed and took care of the financial aspects of official international relations of Polish scientific societies. Now, scientific societies do not need any intermediary governmental body for their international cooperation but Cannot expect any substantial help from them also. It was found that informal meetings of representatives of physical societies from different countries could be very useful in these circumstances. It was expected that such meetings gave possibilities to discuss international cooperation and other society problems that appeared after the system transformation in some countries as well as the world political changes.
  The first meeting was organized, with financial support of the IOP, in Katowice in 1997 during the XXXIV Meeting of Polish Physicists (Europhysics News vol. 29, no 1, 23 (1998), Bulletin of the PPS Main Board no 1 (1997/1999)). The representatives of seven societies participated in the meeting: English (IOP), Czech, German, Slovak, Ukrainian, Hungarian and European. In the second meeting, which was organized during the XXXV Meeting of Polish Physicists in Bia³ystok in 1999 took part the representatives of nine physical societies: American, English, Belarusian, Czech, Lithuanian, German, Slovak, Ukrainian and European (Postêpy Fizyki vol. 51, no 1 (2000)). The third informal meeting of physical societies representatives took place during the XXXVI Meeting of Polish Physicists in Toruñ (17 - 20 September, 2001). It should be noticed that the idea of such informal meetings suited very well some expectations of physical societies. The increasing number of physical societies participating in the meetings and the fact that the PPS is encouraged by other societies to continue the organization of the meetings in future are the evidences of it.
  The fourth informal meeting of physical societies representatives was held on September 15, 2003 in Gdansk.
  The fifth informal meeting of physical societies representatives was held on September 12, 2005 in Warsaw.