APS At-a-Glance...APS Has Offices at 3 Venues American Center for Physics (ACP) which houses 4 physics organizations •APS (4 th Floor) •AIPnd(2 & 3 rd Floors) • AAPT (5 th Floor)

APS At-a-Glance

Kate KirbyExecutive Officer

American Physical Society

APS LEADERSHIP CONVOCATIONFebruary 22, 2013

APS Has Offices at 3 Venues

American Center for Physics (ACP) which houses 4 physics organizations• APS (4th Floor)• AIP (2nd & 3rd Floors)• AAPT (5th Floor)• AAPM (5th Floor)

DC Office ‐ Office of Public Affairs (10th Floor, National Press Building at 14th & F Street, NW)

Ridge NY – APS Editorial Office (Long Island, NY)

APS Is NOT AIP!

APS AIPA membership society of physicists An umbrella organization of 10

member societies: APS; AGU; AAPT; OSA; AAS; AAPM; AVS; SOR; ACA; ASA

Publishes: Physical Review; PRL; RMP AIP,LLC Publishes: J. Chem. Phys; J. Appl. Phys; Appl. Phys. Letters; J. Math Phys; Physics of Plasmas; Physics of Fluids, etc.; Physics Today (still published by AIP)

Organizes Physics Meetings Home of SPS Chapters, ∑∏∑

Programmatic Areas: Public Affairs/Advocacy; International Affairs; Outreach; Education & Diversity

Other Services: Media Relations; Statistical Research Center; Niels Bohr Library; Center for History of Physics

The APS (from 30,000 feet!)“Advancing & Diffusing the Knowledge of Physics”

• More than 25% students• Approximately 21% international• Approximately 12% women

>49,000 members

• March – 2013 in Baltimore, over 9,000 attendees

• April – 2013 in Denver, over 1,200 attendees• Unit meetings very strong• DFD, DPP, DAMOP, DPF, DNP• Geographical Sections

Meetings

•19,000 articles published annually•PRL, Rev. Mod. Phys.•Phys. Rev. A‐E, PRST‐AB, PRST‐PER•“Physics”•PRX – Gold open access, on‐line only

Journals

Programmatic Areas

Public Affairs/AdvocacyInternational AffairsOutreachEducation & Diversity• Supported by small excess revenue from publishing plus investment income, member dues (advocacy), and donations.

• Partnering with other Societies:

AAPT AAS

OSA (Laserfest, 2010) AIP (SPS)

ACS International Partners

Critical Functions of APS Units

Contribute scientific vitality; sense of identity –defining common interest groups• Planning programs for APS Meetings

Provide opportunities for leadership, increased recognition

Nominate fellows, prize/award recipients & selection committees

Vital communications link to APS members (emails, newsletters, etc.)

Critical Functions of APS Units

Provide local venues for physics meetings; opportunities for student talks (Sections)

Programmatic areas of APS highlighted (Forums)

Provide focus on new and emerging areas of physics (Topical Groups)

What APS does for units

Membership• Unit membership records• Unit membership campaigns

Accounting• Financial records; Auditing• Investment of funds• Managing Federal Grants

Special Publications• Meetings posters• Newsletter preparation• Brochure preparations


DC Office• Lobbying and monitoring legislation affecting physicists• Helping unit leaders lobby for their areas of physics within overall APS message

Development• Fund raising and management of unit awards

International• Help with visa issues• International travel grants to unit members


Information Technology•Unit email messages• Electronic voting•Website maintenance for most units• Newsletter distribution

Meetings• Professional guidance on all contracts• Collection of abstracts and posting them on‐line for unit meetings

• Registration and meeting management for some meetings

Diversity is a top priority

Broadening the APS membership to become more diverse and inclusive is a high priority

•Women•Underrepresented minorities•Must ensure that honors (prizes, awards, fellowship), leadership positions, and opportunities to present invited talks at APS Meetings, exhibit diversity


APS Executive Board unanimously endorsed the inclusion of this statement on all Society and Unit calls for prize & award, fellowship, program speaker, and unit election nominations:

• “Attracting and serving a diverse and inclusive membership worldwide is a primary goal for APS. In calling for nominations, we wish to remind you how important it is to give full consideration to qualified women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and scientists from outside the United States.”


Monitoring Diversity within the APS in order to apply metrics•Need to collect Membership Demographics more effectively

•Gender statistics for ~80% of membership

•Racial/ethnic data for ~ 1/3 of US members


How can Units Help?•Make sure the pool of nominees for prizes, awards and fellowships includes women and underrepresented minorities.

• Make sure programs of APS meetings include diversity among the invited speakers.

• Make sure Nominating Committees consider diversity issues when forming slates of candidates for election to unit offices.

• COM & CSWP can help facilitate nominations for outstanding women and minority physicists for APS honors and recognition.

Female Fraction by DivisionDivision % Female Total Members

Biological Physics 19% 1,996

Polymer Physics 17% 1,471

Astrophysics 17% 2,564

Materials Physics 15% 2,983

Chemical Physics 15% 1,624

Nuclear Physics 13% 2,671

Laser Physics 12% 1,319

Fluid Dynamics 11% 3,233

AMO Physics 11% 3,072

Condensed Matter Physics 10% 6,028

Particles & Fields 10% 3,542

Computational Physics 9% 2,475

Physics of Beams 7% 1,116

Plasma Physics 7% 2,553

Female Fraction by Topical Group

Topical Group % Female Total Members

Energy Research 18% 537

Magnetism 13% 963

Plasma Astrophysics 13% 421

Physics of Climate 13% 596

Hadronic Physics 12% 483

Quantum Information 12% 1,238

Gravitation 11% 1,130

Stat. & Nonlinear 11% 1,013

Measurements & Fundamental Const

10% 463

Shock Compression 8% 376

Few Body 7% 279

Instrument & Measurements 7% 559

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APS At-a-Glance...APS Has Offices at 3 Venues American Center for Physics (ACP) which houses 4 physics organizations •APS (4 th Floor) •AIPnd(2 & 3 rd Floors) • AAPT (5 th Floor)