International Association of Physics Students
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The International Association of Physics Students (IAPS) is a non-profit umbrella organization
for physics students associations. Its official seat is in Mulhouse
, France
in the headquarters of the European Physical Society
. It was founded in 1987 in Debrecen
, Hungary
.
(ICPS) is the annual conference of IAPS, which is held in a different city every year. Besides being a scientific conference for physics students, it houses the Annual General Meeting of IAPS.
Umbrella organization
An umbrella organization is an association of institutions, who work together formally to coordinate activities or pool resources. In business, political, or other environments, one group, the umbrella organization, provides resources and often an identity to the smaller organizations...
for physics students associations. Its official seat is in Mulhouse
Mulhouse
Mulhouse |mill]] hamlet) is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. With a population of 110,514 and 278,206 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2006, it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin département, and the second largest in the Alsace region after...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
in the headquarters of the European Physical Society
European Physical Society
The European Physical Society is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote physics and physicists in Europe. Formally established in 1968, its membership includes the national physical societies of 41 countries, and some 3200 individual members. The Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft,...
. It was founded in 1987 in Debrecen
Debrecen
Debrecen , is the second largest city in Hungary after Budapest. Debrecen is the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar county.- Name :...
, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
.
Membership
Its members may be national physics student organisations, called National Committees (NC), physics student association localised at one university or city, called Local Committees (LC) and individual members (IM) if none of the before are present where one studies. In a broad sense, members of IAPS are all the members of NC-s and LC-s and the IM-s.International Conference of Physics Students
The International Conference of Physics StudentsInternational Conference of Physics Students
ICPS is an annual conference of the International Association of Physics Students . Usually, up to 400 students from all over the world attend the event, which takes place in another country every year in August.-Program:...
(ICPS) is the annual conference of IAPS, which is held in a different city every year. Besides being a scientific conference for physics students, it houses the Annual General Meeting of IAPS.