The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) is the only international physics organization that is organized and run by the physics community itself. Its members are identified physics communities in countries or regions around the world.
The IUPAP was established in 1922 in Brussels with 13 Member countries and the first General Assembly was held in 1923 in Paris. It currently has 60 country members.
Components of IUPAP Working Group on Women in Physics (WG5):
Members:
Gillian Butcher, UK (chair) [email protected]
Lilia Meza Montes, Mexico (vice-chair) [email protected]Apriel Kimaada Hodari, USA [email protected] Dina Izadi, Iran [email protected]Francisca Nneka Okeke, Nigeria [email protected]Kui-juan Jin, China: The Chinese Physical Society [email protected]Kwek Leong Chuang, Singapore [email protected] Prajval Shastri, India [email protected] Shohini Ghose, Canada [email protected]
The 3rd Conference on Women in Physics (Seoul,October 2008), with 283 attendees from 57 countries, was dedicated to celebrating the physics achievements of women throughout the world, networking toward new international collaborations, building each participant’s capacity for career success, and aiding the formation of active regional working groups to advance women in physics. Despite the progress, women remain a small minority of the physics community in most countries.
Iranian team had 3 papers:
1- Attracting to Physics by Different Activities in Iran
Dina Izadia, Afshin Mohseni Arasteb, ,Azita Seied Fadaeic
2- Iranian women in Physics
Dina Izadia,,Azita Seied Fadaeib
3- Quick and Easy Measurements of the Inherent Optical Property of Water by Laser
Dina Izadi a and Fereshteh Hajiesmaeilbaigi b
Proceedings Volume 1119, http://icwip2008.org, www.aip.org
The last paper has been published as a full paper in LAJPE journal, 2010 too.
Iran had 5 papers in ICWIP 2011. 5 papers were provided by AYIMI according to the following topics:
1- REPORTS ON ACTIVITIES IN BASIC SCIENCES IN THE LAST THREE YEARS IN IRAN
Dina Izadi, Masoud Torabi Azad, Nafiseh Mahmoudi, Nona Izadipanah , Najmeh Eshghi
ICWIP 2011, Stellenbosch, South Africa April 5-8, 2011
2- THE RELATION BETWEEN THE QUALITY OF PHYSICS EDUCATION AND GAP IS APPEARED IN GIRLS AND BOYS SCORES IN IRAN
Dina Izadi, Masoumeh Shahsavari, Hamidreza Seifan Ahari
ICWIP 2011, Stellenbosch, South Africa April 5-8, 2011
3- PHYSICS EDUCATION BY RESEARCH PROJECTS
Dina Izadi, Hamidreza Seifan Ahari
ICWIP 2011, Stellenbosch, South Africa April 5-8, 2011In general category Iran had two independent papers too one from Sharif university of technology and the other one from The Union of Educational & Scientific Societies of Iranian Physics Teachers.
The 5th ICWIP 2014, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada”
The 5th Conference of IUPAP on women in physics was held in
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada 5-8 Aug. 2014 with 219 participants from 51 countries, 97 scientific papers, and 49 country papers
International Organizing Committee
AYIMI and physical society of Iran had a joint country paper . AYIMI had 3 scientific papers too. Professor Reza Moridi Minister of Research & Innovation was one of the honorable invited person who talked in the opening ceremony.
Outreach activities and events organized by
- The Laurier Centre for Women in Science
- The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
The International Conference on Women in Physics (ICWIP) is a unique triannual event that brings together women and men in physics from all over the world to discuss the latest research in physics as well as gender and diversity issues in the physics community.The proportion of women in physics remains low (typically 20%) all around the world. Recognizing this issue, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) has tasked its Working Group on Women in Physics to organize the ICWIP conferences in order to build a more inclusive physics community. The 6th ICWIP conference was hosted by IUPAP and IOP at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Dr. Igle Gledhill, Chair of the International Organizing Committee, welcomed delegates to the conference, reminding the participants that women’s voices are critically important now more than ever, and urging everyone to ‘keep thinking while it is still legal’.Representatives from each country presented a brief summary and a poster on the current status of women in physics in their country. Delegates also attended interactive workshops on education, gender studies, professional development, cultural bias and workplace improvement.One of the highlights of the conference was an inspiring and informative lecture by Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who was awarded the President’s Medal of the Institute of Physics. She spoke of her painstaking analysis of more than 5km of pages of telescope observations that led her to discover the first pulsars.
PHYSICS EDUCATION: PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE
Hosted by: Australia, Thailand and Indonesia
December 5-9
American Institute of Physics, AIP
This meeting was held on 22-24 July 2019 in Melborne university, to organize everything related to 7th ICWIP which will be in Melbourne, Australia.
The first regional conference on Women in Physics (RCWIP) was held in Pakistan on, April 25-27, 2016 2016 which Jointly Organized by the National Centre for Physics (NCP) Islamabad, Pakistan , the Department of Physics & Electronics, University of Peshawar (UoP) Pakistan , the Centre for Physics Education (CPE) Karachi, Pakistan and The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste, Italy . The event was held at NCP, Quaid-e- Azam University (QAU) Campus, Shahdara Valley Road, Islamabad, Pakistan. The Scientific Secretary was Anisa Qamar (UoP).
The second Regional Conference on Women in Physics (RCWIPN 2019) took place from 27 to 29 March 2019 at Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal. The Nepalese Society for Women in Physics (NSWIP) in association with Tri-Chandra Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University were hosting the conference. The main objective of the conference, adhering to IUPAP principle ‘Universal access to and Participation in science’, was ‘Fostering Professional Development and Nurturing Future Women Leaders’.