Policies and Procedures
Honors policies, procedures, and guidelines
The APS honors policies, procedures, and guidelines oversee the nominations, eligibility, processes, selection, and more for our forms of funding and recognition.
Prepare your nomination materials and review the submission process to recognize your colleagues and students.
Prepare your Fellowship nomination materials and review the submission process.
Selection Committees recommend recipients to the appropriate entity for approval, if qualified nominees are available.
As approved by the Council of Representatives on April 12, 2023.
All payments and travel reimbursements are made via ACH direct deposit to US bank accounts or wire transfer for non-US bank accounts.
Selection Committees are formed by the related APS unit.
Rules and instructions for nominating a historic site in physics
Discover the process for establishing a prize or award and fundraising to sustain it.
Meetings and events policies and guidelines
These policies and guidelines oversee abstracts, sessions, attendee conduct, health and safety, and other aspects of APS meetings and events.
Membership policy
APS reciprocal membership policy outlines benefits for both APS and reciprocal society members.
Society and organization policies and procedures
Policies and procedures overseeing the governance of APS, including the selection of and responsibilities of leaders.
As approved by the APS Board of Directors on February 13, 2024, and adopted for use on April 18, 2024.
As approved by the APS Council of Representatives, April 18, 2024.
Unit policies
Ethics policies, procedures, and guidelines
The APS ethics guidelines influence our policies and procedures to ensure our members, awardees, leaders, and others associated with our organization uphold proper conduct.
Physicists wield the power of truth and compassion in the global pursuit of knowledge. Ethics guide our journey, shaping the integrity of our profession.
All members of the APS are expected to meet standards of professional scientific integrity as described in the APS Ethics Guidelines.
APS's revocation procedure lays out the process for enacting our revocation policy and Ethics Guidelines to ensure scientific integrity and commitment to our values of diversity, inclusion, and respect.
A request for revocation should be made in writing to the Ethics Committee of the APS.
Web policy
APS's web policy oversees the personal data we collect related to our site visitors.
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APS honors exceptional contributions to the physics community, including travel support for students and early career physicists.
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