Official Announcements

1983 at Aachen, a Programme Committee has been set up, chaired by E. Hintz (Jü lich). Members are A. Gibson (Abingdon), J. Jacquinot (Fontenay-aux-Roses), D.D. Ryutov (Novosibirsk), F. Troyon (Lau sanne), and R. Wienecke (Stuttgart). As the format of the Moscow Conference was considered to be very satisfactory, it was agreed to follow the same lines at Aachen. The Organizing Committee of the Confe rence will be chaired by G. H. Wolf (Jülich). The EPS Council has approved the appli cation of a new formula for the submission of contributed papers to the Conference. Colleagues who are not individual members of EPS nor members of EPS Member So cieties nor on the staff of organizations which are Associate Members of EPS, will need sponsorship for submitting a con tribution. This can be given either by an in dividual member of EPS (with an upper limit of two papers per individual member) or by a Member Society. The introduction of this rule derives from the conviction of the Board that EPS membership must be made more attractive. The Divisional Con ference at Aachen is taking place in the week following the International Confe rence on Ionization Phenomena in Gases at Düsseldorf, so that participation in both events will be very much eased in 1983. A question which received much atten tion at both this meeting of the Board and in the General Assembly of EPS is that of free access of members to the Conferences organized by the Division. There was com plete agreement on all sides that this was an established right, but it was recognized that there are a number of practical points connected with this right which have to be made more precise. Although the number of members of the Division has somewhat increased during the past year (it totals now about 270), the situation is still far from being satisfactory. Continuing efforts of all members are the refore necessary to convince more col leagues to join EPS and the Division. Only with an increasing number of individual members will EPS and the Division be able EPS Divisions, Sections and Group Astronomy and Astrophysics Division Solar Section Atomic Physics Division Atomic Spectroscopy Section Chemical Physics Electronic and Atomic Collisions Molecular Physics Computational Physics Group Condensed Matter Division Low Temperature Section Macromolecular Physics Magnetism Metals Semiconductors and Insulators Surface and Interface High Energy & Particle Physics Division Nuclear Physics Division Plasma Physics Division Quantum Electronics Division 12 Official Announcements In Istanbul, Council gave tacit agreement to the principle that the unit fee should follow the inflation experienced in Switzerland. As Council will meet only once in 1982 it will be invited at its meeting on 1-2 April 1982 to approve the following: In accordance with the provisions of Rules 34 and 35 of the By-Laws, the Council agrees that the Unit fee shall be raised from Sw.Fr. 9.— to Sw.Fr. 10.— from 1 January 1983. Divisional Boards The following members have been co opted on to Divisional Boards: Condensed Matter Division At the meeting of Council held in Istan bul on 6 Sept. 1981, it was agreed that the Executive Committee should present pro posals to provide for the admission to the EPS, of physicists who are members of other major regional physical societies with which Council has agreed to collaborate. In accordance with this instruction. Council will be invited to approve at its next meeting on 1-2 April 1982, the definition of a new category of individual membership, by agreeing to the following changes to the Constitution and By-laws. Constitution ARTICLE 4 Add: H. Grimmeiss, Lund d) individuals who are members of a socie V. Heine, Cambridge ty or group which is not an Ordinary E. Mooser, Lausanne Member, Category 4b) but has been ap F. Mueller, Nijmegen proved by Council as a Collaborating Nuclear Physics Division Society. G. Tibell, Gustaf Werners Inst., Uppsala I. Ulehla, University, Prague ARTICLE 16 H. Zingl, University, Graz Subsection b), replace line 2 by: New Chairman of the Nuclear Physics individual members of Categories a), c) and Division is: P. von Brentano, Cologne fol d) mentioned in Article 4, as lowing the resignation of V. Meyer. By-Laws to extend its activities and give better ser RULE vice to the physics community in Europe. Add: 1 A number of loose contacts between the Division and the Plasma Physics Sections or a Collaborating Society. of the EPS Member Societies have been RULE 19 established, but in this field also further Replace in line 2, Article 4a) and c) by: Article 4a), c) and d) efforts are necessary. Unfortunately, it was not possible in RULE 35 Moscow to constitute the new Board of Add: the Plasma Physics Division whose term d) Individual Ordinary Members, Constitu starts on 1 January 1982, because only a tion Article 4d, who are thus also members very small number of its members were of a Collaborating Society. able to participate in the meeting that had Such number of units as decided by Coun been arranged. Elections to the Board have cil for each Collaborating Society recently taken place (see Europhysics Note: the two paragraphs in RULE 35 are posi News, 12, (1981) 8/9 p. 12) and the consti tioned opposite each other. tution of the Board is now being establi RULE 36 shed by written procedure. The outcome Replace by: will be communicated as soon as possible. Fellows shall pay as Individual Ordinary F. Engelmann Members, Rule 35a), c) or d). Europhysics News is the official journal of the European Physical Society that comprises 28 National Societies, Academies and Groups, over 3000 Individual Ordinary Members and 30 Associate Members. Governing bodies of EPS are the General Meeting, Council and an elected Executive Committee responsible for detailed policy. EPS promotes the collaboration of physicists through out Europe and encourages all aspects of international exchange in physics. EPS awards scholarships for re search and studies and makes arrangements for tea ching abroad. EPS publishes, in addition to Europhysics News, Europhysics Conference Abstracts, the Procee dings of its General Conferences and (with the l.o.P.) the European Journal of Physics. Individual Ordinary Members receive Europhysics News (subscription for non-members: 82 Sw.Fr./a), substantial rebates on publications and pay reduced fees at conferences. Application for membership is made through the per manent Secretariat in Geneva. Annual subscription for members of a National Society will be Sw.Fr. 36 in 1982. Editor: E.N. Shaw Meetings Compilation: W.S. Newman Editorial Board: K. Appert, A. Baratoff, G.J. Béné, G.R. Macleod, A. Maeder, J. Muller Editorial and Advertising Office at the EPS Secretariat. Address: EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY P.O. Box 69, CH-1213 Petit-Lancy 2 Switzerland Telephone: Geneva (22) 93 11 30 Telex: 23 455 alarm ch Cables: europhys genève Printed by: Pfirter frères SA CH-1213 Petit-Lancy/Switzerland  (...truncated)