International Association of Physics Students

The IAPS Executive Committee (EC) is currently composed of 9 students, elected between representatives of the different member societies. The 2018/19 EC is composed of:[3]

Students of physics or related subjects who do not have access to an NC or LC may join as IMs. Only IAPS members may attend IAPS events such as ICPS. Currently IAPS has around 100 individual members.

The following people were elected Honorary Fellows by an IAPS AGM:

• Sir Arnold Wolfendale
• Sir Joseph Rotblat (Nobel Laureate), died in 2005
• Patroklosz Budai (2005)
• Tamás Fülöp (2005)
• Ákos Horváth (2005)
• Péter Lévai (2005)
• Péter Ván (2005)
• Jim Grozier (2008)

ICPS International Conference of Physics Students is the International Conference of Physics Students, which is the main event of IAPS, organized yearly by one of its member committees. The purpose of the conference is to create an opportunity for physics students from all around the world to come together, to talk about science and life, to practice presenting their research and, all in all, to have a great time.

The first ICPS was organized by students of the Eötvös Loránd University, in Budapest, Hungary in the year 1986. The event had less than fifty participants, but since then, the conference has grown considerably, nowadays bringing together more than four hundred students.

The one week of the conference has its fair share of scientific, social and touristic programs. One gets a chance to listen to and give lectures on various topics in physics, to check out the laboratories of the host city, to make friends with physics students from all around the world, to get a little glimpse of the foreign cultures that gather here, and to see another part of the world.

The following list contains the venues of the ICPS conferences:

• 2019 Cologne, Germany
• 2018 Helsinki, Finland
• 2017 Turin, Italy
• 2016 Malta
• 2015 Zagreb, Croatia
• 2014 Heidelberg, Germany
• 2013 Edinburgh, United Kingdom[1]
• 2012 Utrecht, The Netherlands
• 2011 Budapest, Hungary
• 2010 Graz, Austria
• 2009 Split, Croatia
• 2008 Kraków, Poland
• 2007 London, United Kingdom
• 2006 Bucarest, Romania
• 2005 Coimbra, Portugal
• 2004 Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
• 2003 Odense, Denmark
• 2002 Budapest, Hungary
• 2001 Dublin, Ireland
• 2000 Zadar, Croatia
• 1999 Helsinki, Finland
• 1998 Coimbra, Portugal
• 1997 Vienna, Austria
• 1996 Szeged, Hungary
• 1995 Copenhagen, Denmark
• 1994 St. Petersburg, Russia
• 1993 Bodrum, Turkey
• 1992 Lisbon, Portugal
• 1991 Vienna, Austria
• 1990 Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1989 Freiburg, Germany
• 1988 Prague, Czechoslovakia
• 1987 Debrecen, Hungary
• 1986 Budapest, Hungary

Since its foundation, IAPS has organised several trips to international research facilities, either directly or through its member societies.

IAPS yearly organises annual tours to CERN, in Geneva (Switzerland). The highly successful iaps2CERN programme usually has approximately 40 participants, representing up to 20 different nationalities. The tour usually comprises visits of the CERN exhibitions, some of the experiments currently accessible and also a visit of the United Nations offices in Geneva.