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World Year of Physics 2005
Martial Ducloy Chair, WYP Int. Steering
Committee European Physical Society
and Université Paris XIII - CNRS
www.eps.org www.wyp2005.org
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WYP2005

• HISTORICS
• Initiative launched by EPS in 2000
• Occasion 2005 is the 100th anniversary of
  the Annus Mirabilis" of Albert Einstein Theory
  of relativity, quantum theory, theory of Brownian
  motion
• Endorsed by
• World Congress of Physical Societies, Berlin,
  Dec. 2000
• EPS Council, Mulhouse, March 2001
• General Assembly of IUPAP, Berlin, Oct. 2002
• General Conference of UNESCO, Paris, Oct. 2003
• 58th General Assembly of United Nations, New
  York, 10 June 2004
• Thus officially the International Year of
  Physics
• Creation of an International Steering Committee
  (2002)
• Supported by EU Commission (Brussels, 2004)

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European Commission Contract (Science/Society)
25 contractants 2 international
contractants EPS (coordinator), IAPS 16
European Countries (Albania, Austria, Belgium,
Croatia, Estonia, Italy, Moldavia, Nederland,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro,
Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland) EC
grant 2.1 M (total budget 3.4 M) Finally
signed in May 2005
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INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS EVENTS
Kick-off meeting at UNESCO (Paris) Physics
for Tomorrow, 13-15 January 2005
www.wyp2005.org/unesco/ 2d IUPAP Conference on
Women in Physics, Rio, Brasil, May 2005
International Physics Olympiads, July 2005,
Salamanca, Spain 13th General Conference of
the European Physical Society, EPS13 Beyond
Einstein Physics for the 21st Century 1114
July 2005, Bern, Switzerland (www.eps13.org/)
International Conference of Physics Students
(ICPS), Coimbra (Portugal), August 2005 IUPAP
World Conference on Physics and Sustainable
Development 31 October - 2 November 2005,
Durban, South Africa
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WYP Launch Conference  Physics for Tomorrow 
January 13-15, UNESCO, Paris, France
Organizers EPS, SFP, IUPAP, UNESCO 1030
participants 500 students (aged 16-21) from
over 60 countries all over the world (all
continents 1/4 female) impact in media (TV,
radio, press)
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WYP Launch Conference Organisation
International Steering Committee Marcia Barbosa
(IUPAP) Edouard Brézin (Académie des Sciences,
SFP) Martial Ducloy (EPS) Walter Erdelen
(UNESCO) Judy Franz (APS) Martin Huber (EPS) Chen
Jia-Er (NSFC) José Luis Moran-Lopez (IUPAP) Yves
Petroff (IUPAP) Katepalli Sreenivasan
(ICPT) Sukekatsu Ushioda (JPS)
Organizing Committee Martial Ducloy (EPS),
Chair Johannes Orphal (SFP), Secretary Minella
Alarcon (UNESCO) Daniel Iagolnitzer (CEA) Michèle
Leduc (SFP) David Lee (EPS) Chris Rossel
(EPS) Jean Vannimenus (SFP)
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WYP Launch Conference Programme
Invited Talks Zhores Alferov (Russia), Nobel
Prize (Physics) 2000 Physics and information
technology Georges Charpak (France), Nobel Prize
(Physics) 1992 Teaching and education in
physics Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (France), Nobel
Prize (Physics) 1997 Quantum physics and its
impact on daily life Gerard tHooft (Pays Bas),
Nobel Prize (Physics) 1999 Unified theories for
elementary particles and forces Masatoshi
Koshiba (Japan), Nobel Prize (Physics)
2002 Cosmology and astrophysics in the 21st
century Harold Kroto (UK), Nobel Prize
(Chemistry) 1996 2010 A NanoScience
Odyssey Denis Le Bihan (France) Physics and
Life Sciences C. N. R. Rao (India) Chemistry-Ph
ysics interface over the decades Myriam Sarachik
(USA) Nanophysics and nanotechnologies their
impact in the real world Claus Weyrich (Siemens
AG, Germany) Innovation a challenge for
science and industry Katepalli Sreenivasan
(India and ICTP, Italy) Physics and Development
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WYP Launch Conference Programme

• Round Tables
• What can bring physics to the socio-economical
  challenges of the 21st century?
• Philippe Camus (Executive President, EADS,
  France)
• Carlo Rubbia, Physics Nobel laureate (ENEA,
  Italy)
• Sylvie Joussaume (Director INSU/CNRS, France)
• Sergio Rezende (Director, FINEP, Brazil)
• Burton Richter, Physics Nobel laureate (SLAC,
  USA)
• 2. Perception of science and physics in the
  general public
• Ana Maria Cetto, Deputy Director General, IAEA
  (Mexico)
• Marvin L. Cohen, President, APS (USA)
• Ayse Erzan, Istanbul Technical University
  (Turkey)
• Chen Jia-er, Past-President, CPS and NSFC (China)
• Pierre Léna, Vice-President, Association Bernard
  Gregory (France)
• José Luis Morán-López, Director, ISTR San Luis
  Potosi (Mexico)

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EPS 13

• 13th General Conference of the European Physical
  Society, EPS13
• Beyond Einstein Physics for the 21st Century
• 1114 July 2005, Bern, Switzerland
  (www.eps13.org/)
• 3 parallel meetings (from Einsteins 1905
  articles)
• 1. Photons, Lasers and Quantum Statistics
• 2. Relativity, Matter and Cosmology
• 3. Brownian Motion, Complex Systems and Physics
  in Biology
• 3 plenary talks
• Thibault Damour 100 years of relativity
• Ferenc Krauscz Attosecond physics
• Giorgio Parisi Brownian Motion and later
  developments

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INTERNATIONAL GP EVENTS

• Physics enlightens the world , 18 April 2005
• coordinated by Max Lippitsch (Austria)
  www.wyp2005.at
• Physics talent search , Beverley Hartline
  (APS)
• International Poster Contest , Caitlin
  Watson (IOP)
• (final rating at EPS13 13 July 05)
• WORLD WIDE WEBCAST , 1 December 2005 -
  contact Paola Catapano, CERN
• Etc.
• Plus a lot of national events across the
  world www.wyp2005.org
• (national launch events, etc.)

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International Steering Committee
ALARCON, Minella UNESCO m.alarcon_at_unesco.org AL
LOTEY, F. K. A. SAPAM fka_at_ghana.com BALDWIN,
Ken AIP Kenneth.Baldwin_at_anu.edu.au DUCLOY,
Martial, Chair EPS ducloy_at_galilee.univ-paris13.
fr FRANZ, Judy APS Franz_at_aps.org GINTING,
Masno HFI mginting_at_cbn.net.id HUBER, Martin
EPS mceh_at_bluewin.ch KALMUS, Peter IOP
p.i.p.kalmus_at_qmul.ac.uk LEE, David EPS
d.lee_at_uha.fr LEITE, José Roberto FeLaSoFi
jrleite_at_macbeth.if.usp.br LIPPITSCH,
Max OPG max.lippitsch_at_uni-graz.at NAMKUNG, Won
AAPPS namkung_at_postech.ac.kr PETROFF,
Yves IUPAP petroff_at_esrf.fr RASHID, Khalid PPS
astrophy_at_comsats.net.pk ROSSEL, Christophe EPS
rsl_at_zurich.ibm.com SCHWOERER, Markus DPG
markus.schwoerer_at_uni-bayreuth.de USHIODA, S.
JPS ushioda_at_ushioda.riec.tohoku.ac.jp VAHIA,
M.N. IPA vahia_at_tifr.res.in WEST, Richard
EiroForum rwest_at_eso.org ZINGU,
Edmund SAIP zingu_at_julian.mantec.ac.za