In this era of globalization, international issues cut across essentially ALL aspects of the APS and physics community.

• Science: International R&D collaborations are on the rise; countries are partnering to build big facilities.
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• Industry:  Companies are increasingly multi-national; US companies are moving R&D facilities offshore.
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• Education:  The US competes for the world's best talent; it needs to attract and retain first-rate students and scientists.
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• Policy:  National S&T policies are affected by global events; federal R&D funding influences US participation in international large-scale collaborations.

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APS International Travel Grant Award Program

The International Travel Grant Award Program (ITGAP) was established to promote international scientific collaborations between APS members and physicists in developing countries. Grant recipients receive up to US$2,000 for travel and lodging expenses for international travel while visiting a collaborator for at least one month.

Congratulations to our recent travel grant recipients for cycle 8 of the International Travel Grant Award Program!  The two collaborative teams receiving grants are:

1) Michael Famiano, Western Michigan University, USA (Member of DAP & DNP) and Cristina Bordeanu, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania (Member of DAP & DNP)

2) Claudia Scoccola, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina and Benjamin Wandelt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (Member of DAP)

International Partnerships

Workshop in Ghana

Morning session at meeting in Accra, Ghana.

APS, IOP (UK), and the Kumasi Institute of Technology, Energy and Environment (Ghana), hosted west African scientists, industrialists, and policy makers at a workshop in Accra, Ghana, to develop strategies for biomass energy projects in rural west Africa. 

Defining practical energy strategies is a follow-up project to the World Conference on Physics and Sustainable Development. The purpose of the workshop was to define strategies for the practical application of biomass gasification and bio-oil in rural areas. Attendees participated in small working groups to outline projects to be implemented in 2008-2009.

  Biomass Technology Workshop in Accra, Ghana

Physicist and Graduate Student Exchange

APS and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) have signed an agreement establishing program that will sponsor the exchange of physicists and physics graduate students between India and the United States.

U.S.- India Travel Program

  APS News:  "Signing Launches International Program"

International Affairs Committees & Forums

• Committee on International Scientific Affairs
• Committee on International Freedom of Scientists
• Forum on International Physics
• International Affairs Officer of the Forum on Graduate Student Affairs