Panel on Public Affairs
The Panel on Public Affairs (POPA) consists of a Chair, Chair-Elect, Vice Chair, immediate Past Chair, the Vice President, the Chair of the Physics Policy Committee (PPC), the Congressional Fellow(s) in the second year following the year of service, thirteen (13) members elected by Council to staggered three (3) year terms, (1) industrial physicist APS-member elected by the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics to a three (3) year term, and (1) member elected by the Forum on Physics and Society to a three (3) year term. The candidates for election as members of POPA are selected by the Nominating Committee. The Vice Chair is elected by Council and serves in that office for one (1) year, then as Chair-Elect for one (1) year, then as Chair for one (1) year, and then as Immediate Past Chair for one (1) year. The POPA Steering Committee consists of the Chair, the Chair-Elect, the Vice Chair, the Vice President, the PPC Chair, and at least two (2) additional members selected from among and by the members of POPA.
POPA is responsible for making recommendations to the President, the Board, and the Council on public affairs activities of the Society that have been designated by the Board or Council. POPA may initiate new public affairs activities for the Society and may recommend new programs to the Council. POPA shall keep minutes and distribute them to POPA members and to the Council and Board. All POPA reports and APS studies shall be approved by the Council before public release.
Chair:
Eric Mazur
(01/23 - 12/23)
Harvard University
Chair-Elect:
Don Lamb
(01/23 - 12/23)
University of Chicago
Vice Chair:
Brian DeMarco
(01/23 - 12/23)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Past Chair:
C McCurdy
(01/23 - 12/23)
University of California, Davis
Vice President:
John Doyle
(01/23 - 12/23)
Harvard University
Member:
Despina Louca
(01/21 - 12/23)
University of Virginia
Member:
Marion White
(01/21 - 12/23)
Argonne National Laboratory
Member:
Sarah Demers
(01/21 - 12/23)
Yale University
Member:
Washington Taylor
(01/21 - 12/23)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Member: Kristen Pudenz (01/22 - 12/24)
Member:
Dana Dattelbaum
(01/22 - 12/24)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Member:
John Marston
(01/22 - 12/24)
Brown University
Member:
Clifford Johnson
(01/22 - 12/24)
University of Southern California
Member:
Ian Coddington
(01/23 - 12/25)
National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder
Member:
Lisbeth Gronlund
(01/23 - 12/25)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Member:
Raymond Jeanloz
(01/23 - 12/25)
University of California, Berkeley
Member:
Patricia Rankin
(01/23 - 12/25)
Arizona State University
Member:
Marty Baylor
(01/23 - 12/25)
Carleton College
Chair, Physics Policy Committee:
Frances Hellman
(01/23 - 12/23)
University of California, Berkeley
Representative, Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics:
James Adams
(01/21 - 12/23)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Representative, Forum on Physics and Society: Laura Grego (01/22 - 12/24)
Congressional Fellow:
David Somers
(01/23 - 12/23)
University of Maryland, College Park
Advisor:
Robert Rosner
(01/22 - 12/23)
University of Chicago
Advisor:
Young-Kee Kim
(01/23 - 12/24)
University of Chicago
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