Dates

Arrivals Thursday, 22 June 2006
Meetings Friday and Saturday, 23 and 24 June 2006
Departure Sunday, 25 June 2006

Participants

European Physical Society
EPS President, Ove Poulsen
9 Members of EPS Executive Committee (A.-M. Levy unable to attend)
EPS Secretary General, David Lee
Organisers of Journee de Reflexion, Maciej Kolwas, Martin C.E. Huber
Chair of the EPS East-West Committee, Jaroslav Nardchal

Ukrainian Physical Society
UPS President, V.G. Litovchenko
Chairman of the UPS Coordination Board Bureau, V.M.Yashchuk
6 UPS Vice Presidents and other Officials, S.G. Nedilko, V.A. Shenderovskiy, M.F. Shul'ga, V.A. Smyntyna, L.V. Stasyuk and others incl. Treasurer, e.g. (?)
UPS Executive Secretary, C. V. Usenko

Representatives of EPS Member Societies
2 Representatives of Armenian Physical Society
2 Representatives of Physical Society of Belarus
2 Representatives of Georgian Physical Society
2 Representatives of Moldavian Physica Society
2 Representatives of Romanian Physical Society
2 Representatives of Russian Physical Society

Representatives of organisations active in dissemination of physics
Lwiatko, IYPT (Koleboschin?)
Paul Pschenichka (Quasar)
editors of physical journals (popular & professional); Sviet Fizyki - Schopa etc.
Sergij Riabchenko (or, if absent somebody of this type, i.e. with well recognized reputation)

Representatives of Ukrainian Government and Academy
Representative of Ministry of Science & Education
Representative of Academy of Sciences

Representatives of relevant international Organisations as Observers
UNESCO (representing Walter Erdelen, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO for Natural Sciences; consult Maciej Nalecz - Director of the Division of Basic & Engineering Sciences)
Peter Melville, Assoc. Secretary General of IUPAP
Directorate-General of Science and Research of European Commission (representing Commissioner Janez Potochnik)

Number of Participants:
EPS - 15 Participants
Ukraine - 15 Ukrainian Participants (including Ministry and Academy Rep's)
2 Representatives of Armenian Physical Society
2 Representatives of Physical Society of Belarus
2 Representatives of Georgian Physical Society
2 Representatives of Moldavian Physica Society
2 Representatives of Romanian Physical Society
2 Representatives of Russian Physical Society
Relevant International Organisations - 3 Participants
Hosts of Laboratory Visits - up to ca. 5 Participants

Totally, a maximum of 50 participants

Programme

Friday, 23 June 2006
Conference Hall of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (vul. Volodymyrska 55)

8:30-8:40 Opening welcome
President of EPS, Prof. O.Poulsen;
President of UPS, Prof. V.Litovchenko;
Council of President of Ukraine, Acad. I.R.Yukhnovski;
Representatives of National Academy of Sciences and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
8:40-12:30 Regular Meeting of the EPS Executive Committee
12:30-14:00 Lunch of EPS Executive Committee with Ukrainian Participants and the Representatives of the EPS Member Societies from neighbouring states of the Ukraine, and other participants, who will join the afternoon session.
14:00-15:45 Session I of 'Journee de Reflexion' (Chair: Ove Poulsen)
Introduction by Ove Poulsen, EPS President (15 minutes)
Presentation "Ukrainian Physical Society (UPS): current status, activities, problems and proposals on the UPS-EPS cooperation" by Prof. V.Yashchuk, Chairman of the UPS Coordination Board Bureau (Kyiv Nat. Univ.) (15 min)
Presentation "State and problems of Ukrainian physics regular issues - and potential solutions" by Prof. A. Zagorodnii, Editor of Ukr. J. Phys.
"Activity of the West branch of UPS (publications, conferences)" by Prof. I.V.Stasyuk, Vice-President of the UPS
"Popular issues on physics" by Dr. G. Shopa (together-15 min)
"On the state of physics education in Ukraine - where are changes needed" by Deputy Minister of Education and Science Prof. M.Stepko, Ex-President of UPS Prof. V. Baryakhtar (20 min)
"On the scientific achievements in fundamental physics in Ukraine - the way forward" by Prof. V.Loktev (15 min)
"On the technical achievements based on applied physics in Ukraine - how does the future look like?" by Prof. N.Novikov, Prof. V.Litovchenko - 10 min
Clarification and first identification of main issues (all) (15 min)
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:55 Ukrainian Physical Society representatives and observers, on outreach, student competitions etc. (together 20 min):
Ex-President of UPS Prof. S.Ryabchenko: "Steps of interaction of UPS with EPS"
Ex-Vice-President of UPS Prof. O.Slobodyanyk: "UPS - the first independent scientific Society in pre-independent Ukraine"
A.Muskeev (Student Soc.): "Student scientific activity"
Presentations (10 minutes each) by
R. Avakian speaking for the Armenian Physical Society
S. Kilin speaking for the Physical Society of Belarus
J.L. Chkareuli (or V. Dorogan) speaking for the Georgian Physical Society
V.Kantser speaking for the Moldavian Physical Society
A. Calboreanu speaking for the Romanian Physical Society
L.V. Keldysh speaking for Russian Physical Society
Clarifications and second identification of main issues (All) (20 min)
17:55-18:15 Remarks by Representatives of International Organisations
18:15-18:30 Summary by EPS President
18:30-19:30 Welcome by Officials from Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (and potentially Ministry of Education and Science) and response by EPS, followed by drinks
Starting at 20:15- Executive Committee Dinner with Participants of afternoon activities

Saturday, 24 June 2006
Department of Physics, Taras Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Prospekt Gkushkova 2, korpus 1)

Session II of 'Journee de Reflexion' (restricted to EPS and UPS Representatives and Representatives of EPS Member Societies from neighbouring states of Ukraine, plus Observers)
9:00-10:30 Discussion of Possible Activities (Chair: Martin C.E. Huber)
Based on the presentations and the discussions in session I, Fritz Wagner, David Lee, Peter Melville, Maciej Kolwas
will present one proposal each in a time slot of 20 minutes, consisting of:
- 2 min presentation of proposal,
- 10 minutes plenary discussion,
- 3 min summary: the presenter shows the draft version of the proposal
- 5 min clarifications and the presenter shows the final version of the proposal
Each proposal shall take the form of a couple of sentences.
[The resulting proposals will then be submitted to the Executive Committee meeting (11.00-13.00 hrs), and the Executive Committee can then decide on whether to accept, modify or refuse the proposals, and how to implement them.]
10:30-11:00 Joint Coffee Break of EPS/UPS, EPS Member Societies of neighbouring states
11:00-13:00 Regular Meeting of EPS Executive Committee
13.00-14:30 Lunch together
15:00-18:30 Visit to Physics Laboratories in Kyiv
Evening Dinner (and, potentially, a cultural activity)

Sunday, 25 June 2006

Morning Sightseeing or Departure
Afternoon Departure