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The Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas, in partnership with the Ateneo de Manila University School of Science and Engineering, will hold an optics and photonics symposium and exhibit in celebration of the International Day of Light (Pandaigdigang Araw ng Liwanag) on 16 May 2019. The event will take place at the new arts and education building at The Ateneo Doreen Black Box, Areté.

The event is open to the public and will include hands-on optical demonstrations and discussions with emphases on inter-disciplinary researches in the applied sciences and the arts.

For more information and pre-registration please visit https://forms.gle/Xvx42vPY8QC76acz6.

SPP is a member society of the AAPPS and is now accepting nominations for the AAPPS-APCTP Chen Ning Yang Award.  Please send your nominations to hq@spp-online.org on or before 24 April 2019.  Nominees should demonstrate a commitment to both excellence in scientific research and development of leaders in physics in the Asia Pacific region. The following award guidelines are provided in the CN Yang Award website.

Background

The CN Yang Award has been established to honor young researchers with prominent research achievements and to promote the development of leaders in physics in the Asia Pacific region. The Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) and the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) have jointly established the AAPPS-APCTP Chen-Ning Yang Award (CN Yang Award).

Eligibility

1. The awardee must have obtained a PhD in physics or an equivalent degree no more than 10 years
   prior to the date of nomination.
2. The awardee must have done the work to be awarded when s/he had an affiliation to an institution in a member country/region.
3. The awardee must have an affiliation to an institution in a member country/region at the time of 
   nomination.

Nomination Package

1. A letter of not more than 5000 characters explaining the nominee’s achievements
   with a citation having less than 300 characters.
2. The nominee’s contact information.
3. The nominee’s biographical information, including the date when the nominee’s PhD was received and the institution where the PhD was awarded.
4. The nominee’s publication list, including the URL information where the complete texts of five of the nominee’s foremost publications can be retrieved.

Sessions of the APPC14

1. Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Gravitation
2. Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics
3. Condensed Matter, Semiconductor & Materials Physics
4. Particle Physics
5. Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
6. Optics & Laser
7. Synchrotron Radiation
8. Statistical Physics & Bioinformatics
9. Complex Systems, Mathematical Physics & Computational Physics
10. Biological and Medical Physics
11. Physics Education
12. Magnetism & High Magnetic Field
13. Nuclear Physics
14. Plasma Physics
15. Quantum Information

Selection Process

A selection committee, appointed by the AAPPS Division, the AAPPS and the APCTP, shall determine the recipient of the prize from the nominations, taking into account the overall quality and significance of the contribution and the creativity exhibited in the contribution. 

Prize

The prize consists of a US$1000 monetary prize and a certificate for each recipient. The prizes will be presented to the awardees by the AAPPS President at the APPC 2019, and the recipients are invited to give talks at APPC 2019 and publish review papers to the AAPPS Bulletin.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought Remote Learning to the grassroots level of education in all disciplines including physics. This webinar series aims to start a dialogue on remote learning in physics and document the challenges and best practices from stake holders.

Webinar I: Course Packets (Pre-semester preparations) (Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3)
Webinar II: Flipped Classrooms and Remote Learning (Pt 1, Pt 2)
Webinar III: Establishing the Student-Teacher Relationship (Pt 1, Pt 2)
Webinar IV: Lab skill sets, thesis, mentoring, and remote collaborations (Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3)

During the webinars, the following panel members will share their unique experiences and challenges related to remote learning and describe how they overcame these challenges.

• Webinar I: July 21 (Tuesday, 2pm-3pm)
  Ivan Culaba, AdMU
  Jacque Lynn Gabayno, Mapúa University
  Maria Veronica Torralba, PSHS
  Cristine Villagonzalo, NIP UPD
  Percival Almoro (Moderator, SPP)
• Webinar II: July 21 (Tuesday, 3pm-4pm)
  Jose Perico Esguerra, NIP UPD
  Jo-Ann Mesias, Bicol University
  Romeric Pobre, DLSU
  Reinabelle Reyes, Science Says, Knowledge Channel
  Rhenish C. Simon, UPM and Pueblo Science PH
  Percival Almoro (Moderator, SPP)
• Webinar III: July 28 (Tuesday, 2pm-3pm)
  Eduardo Cuansing, UPLB
  Sarah Johnson, UPM
  Jae Lord Dexter Filipinas, MSU Marawi
  Sheryl Lyn C. Monterola, UPD
  Giovanni Tapang, NIP UPD
  Percival Almoro (Moderator, SPP)
• Webinar IV: July 28 (Tuesday, 3pm-4pm)
  Cesareo Bermundo, ScienceStar Corporation
  Eric Galapon, NIP UPD
  Giovanni Malapit, UPB
  Arnel Salvador, NIP UPD
  Vallerie Ann Samson, PNRI
  Percival Almoro (Moderator, SPP)