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Meetings Price Accessibility for Less-Resourced Countries

Meeting discounts for scientists in lower-income countries

Individuals in lower-income countries pay less to register for the following annual APS meetings: March Meeting, April Meeting, the Joint March Meeting and April Meeting: APS Global Physics Summit, the 2024 Gaseous Electronics Conference, the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Meeting, and the Division of Plasma Physics (virtual attendees only).

  • Residents in lower-income or lower-middle-income countries receive nearly a 90% discount.
  • Residents in upper-middle-income countries receive over a 70% discount.

These discounts reflect APS's commitment to supporting scientists around the world.

Lower-income economies

  • Afghanistan
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Congo, Democratic Republic
  • Eritrea
  • Ethiopia
  • Gambia, The
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Korea, Democratic People's Republic
  • Liberia
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Mali
  • Mozambique
  • Niger
  • Rwanda
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somalia
  • South Sudan
  • Sudan
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Togo
  • Uganda
  • Yemen

Lower-middle-income economies

  • Angola
  • Bangladesh
  • Benin
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Cabo Verde
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Comoros
  • Congo, Republic
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Djibouti
  • Egypt
  • Eswatini
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • India
  • Jordan
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Kyrgyz Republic
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Mauritania
  • Micronesia, Federated States
  • Morocco
  • Myanmar
  • Nepal
  • Nicaragua
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Philippines
  • Samoa
  • São Tomé and Principe
  • Senegal
  • Solomon Islands
  • Sri Lanka
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tunisia
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Vietnam
  • West Bank and Gaza
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Upper-middle-income economies

  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Belarus
  • Belize
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Botswana
  • Brazil
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Fiji
  • Gabon
  • Georgia
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Jamaica
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kosovo
  • Libya
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Marshall Islands
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • Moldova
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Namibia
  • North Macedonia
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Serbia
  • South Africa
  • St. Lucia
  • St. Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Suriname
  • Thailand
  • Tonga
  • Türkiye
  • Turkmenistan
  • Tuvalu
  • Ukraine

How to qualify

Registrants with verified residency in countries that APS has classified as lower-income, lower-middle-income, or upper-middle-income will be automatically promoted to select their discount during the registration process for the following meetings: March Meeting, April Meeting, the Joint March Meeting and April Meeting: APS Global Physics Summit, the 2024 Gaseous Electronics Conference, the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Meeting, and the Division of Plasma Physics (virtual attendees only).

Please note that we monitor the validity of all registrations.

About the price accessibility initiative

Benefits to the physics community

The March, April, and DAMOP Meetings are opportunities for all physicists, regardless of race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, to join together and share their research, learn from others, and collaborate. Accessibility in registration pricing is an important step in removing barriers to attendance for those who can both contribute to and benefit from a global scientific community of peers.

Developing the pricing structure

These tiers were developed using input from the World Bank, each country's average GDP per capita, and its scientific output and investment in science.

A subcommittee within the APS Committee on International Scientific Affairs, in collaboration with APS leadership, carefully constructed this new structure as part of a larger movement toward offering a “welcoming global hub” and serving physicists worldwide.

APS meeting fees are evaluated each year to reflect the current costs of hosting each event.

Contact

Please contact the APS registrar with questions or concerns about the registration process.

Please contact the APS International Affairs team with general inquiries about initiatives for less-resourced countries and the global scientific community.

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