EPS elections to be held during council at CERN
The next European Physical Society [EPS] council meeting will be held at CERN, Geneva, on 30-31 March this year. The council will see the gathering of around 100 delegates, representing member societies, individual members, associate institutions, divisions and groups.
Elections will take place for both executive committee members and for the EPS president-elect. A large list of executive committee candidates has been formed, covering various European areas and physics fields. John Dudley, of France, the former chair of the EPS Quantum Electronics and Optics Division; and Carlos Hidalgo, of Spain, the former chair of the EPS Plasma Physics Division, are standing for the position of president-elect.
The venue will be the CERN Council Chamber, where the constitution of the European Physical Society was first signed, by its founding fathers, on 26 September 1968, under the inspired initiative of first president Gilberto Bernardini. 62 individual members and 20 national societies, academies and research institutions – including CERN – joined the society in “a further demonstration of the determination of scientists to collaborate as closely as possible in order to make their positive contribution to the strength of European cultural unity”.
