iaspei opening plenary

IASPEIOPENING PLENARY

IUGG 2011, Melbourne, Australia

Agenda

1) Welcome address by IASPEI President 2) In memoriam (2009-2010)

3) Composition of Committees4) Nominations of 2011-2015 Officers5) General Assembly in 2013

6) Grants7) Statutes and Bylaws

8) Housekeeping items 9) Closing Plenary announcement

10) Presidential address

1 Presidential Welcome

2 In memoriam (2009-2010)

Pierre BERNARD France (1915-2009)

Jörg Ansorge Switzerland (1935-2008)

Paul Silver USA (1948 – 2009)

2 In memoriam (2009-2010)

Luigi BURLINI

Switzerland (1962-2009)

Renato VIDRIH Slovenia (1957-2010)

2 In memoriam (2009-2010)

John H Hodgson

Canada (1913-2011)

Leon Knopoff USA (1925-2011)

3 COMMITTEE COMPOSITIONS

AUDITING COMMITTEE

• D Rhoades New Zealand

• B Dost The Netherlands

3 RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE

• Ian Jackson (Chair) Australia

• Gerhard Graham South Africa

• Ding Zhifeng China

SUBMISSION OF RESOLUTION PROPOSALS

All resolution proposals have to be received by the Resolutions Committee by

Saturday 20:00 at the latest

• Please provide the draft of the resolution proposal in digital form on a USB to one of the members of the Resolutions Committee or leave it in the IASPEI office (Room 201.5).

4 NOMINATIONS COMMITTEECape Town, 2009

• E R ENGDAHL (Chair) USA• Soren Gregersen (Denmark)• Kiyoshi Suyehiro (Japan)• Raoul Madariaga (France)• David Rhoades (New Zealand)• Gennadiy Sobolev (Russia)

SLATE OF IASPEI OFFICERS(2011-2015)

proposed by the Nominating Committee

IASPEI BUREAU

President: Domenico Giardini (Switzerland)

1st Vice-President: Ian Jackson (Australia)

2nd Vice-President: Thorne Lay (USA)

Secretary-General: Peter Suhadolc (Italy)

IASPEI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Members: Marcelo Assumpcao (Brazil)

Kenji Satake (Japan)

Michelle Grobbelaar (South Africa)

Alexey Zavyalov (Russia)

Wu Zhongliang (China)

5 IASPEI 2013 General Assembly

IASPEI will have its 37th General Assembly in

GOTHENBURG, SWEDENJULY 22-26, 2013

IASPEI 2013 scientific program to be discussed on Saturday Jul 2

at the joint meeting of the Executive Committee and Commission Chairs

MR108

6 GRANTS

• IASPEI has set aside about USD 50,000 for grants to help participants

attend this meeting.

• The grants are distributed by the LOC at registration.

7 STATUTES & BYLAWS

IASPEI Statutes and Bylaws have beenupdated and revised to better reflect current

practice

The new version has been sent to all National IASPEI Correspondents

The revised Statutes and Bylaws will be voted during the Closing Plenary

8 HOUSEKEEPING - 1

IASPEI office is located on

the second floor Room MR201.5

8 HOUSEKEEPING - 2

• IASPEI SOCIAL DINNERat the “SYKLINE” venue

Price: ASD 60.00Tickets available at the IUGG Booth

and in the IASPEI Office

20:00 on Monday July 4, 2011300 Flinders str.,

Victoria University, 12th floor

9 CLOSING PLENARYannouncement

To be held on

Monday, July 4, at 18:00

Room MR211

10 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

IASPEI Co-operate internationally

to better understand our Earth

Wu Zhongliang

Thank you for your presence!