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DRAFT Minutes<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2019 CAP Congress DNP Annual Business Meeting Minutes<\/p>\n

The meeting was called to order at Simon Fraser University by DNP Chair Gerald
\nGwinner (GG) circa 12:30 on Monday, 3 June 2019. Thirty two DNP members were
\npresent.<\/p>\n

Secretary-Treasurer Barry Davids (BD) moved that we approve the agenda, the
\nmotion was seconded by Past Chair Reiner Kruecken, and in the absence of
\nobjections or additions the agenda was adopted. The Chair pointed out that the
\nminutes of the 2018 business meeting could be found on the DNP website at
\nhttp:\/\/dnp.phys.uregina.ca\/content\/2018-annual-business-meeting. Vice Chair
\nCorina Andreoiu (CA) moved that the minutes of the 2018 meeting be approved; BD
\nseconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. GG then introduced the
\n2017-2019 CAP DNP Executive Committee:<\/p>\n

Gerald Gwinner, Manitoba, Chair
\nCorina Andreoiu, Simon Fraser, Vice Chair
\nReiner Kruecken, TRIUMF & UBC, Past Chair
\nBarry Davids, TRIUMF, Secretary-Treasurer<\/p>\n

BD presented a financial and membership report which is summarized below.<\/p>\n

In the year starting Jan 1st, 2018, we began with a bank balance of $3750 and
\nran an operating deficit of $1764, leaving a year-end balance of $1986. Our
\noperating expenses during 2018 consisted of $1364 to support DNP-suggested 2018
\nCAP Congress plenary speaker E. Cornell, $1000 for the 2016-17 DNP thesis prize,
\n$500 paid to the University of Regina for website hosting and programming
\nservices, $250 for student prizes at the 2019 Winter Nuclear and Particle
\nPhysics Conference (WNPPC), and $400 for student prizes at the 2018 CAP
\nCongress. Partially offsetting these expenditures of $3514 were revenues of
\n$1750 in membership fees. Although we were promised monthly accounting
\nstatements starting in July 2016, they have not been forthcoming. The statement
\nreceived by BD prior to the business meeting was incomplete. A corrected
\nstatement was received after the business meeting and these minutes reflect the
\nupdated figures.<\/p>\n

As of March 24th, 2019 the DNP had 121 full members, 6 college and secondary
\nschool teacher members, and 186 student members, for a total of 307 members.
\nThis represents a 4% decrease from 2017\u2019s 119 full members and 200 student
\nmembers. There are currently 56 graduate student members and 130 undergraduate
\nmembers. Total membership has declined 8% from the 2017 peak that was driven by
\nstudent recruitment efforts, but the number of full members has been rather
\nconstant. With respect to last year, there was a 15% increase in graduate
\nstudent members and the decline in student members is due to lapsing
\nundergraduate memberships.<\/p>\n

Annual membership dues increased from $10 to $15 in 2016. If our full (paid)
\nmembership numbers remain roughly constant as they have recently and dues remain
\nat the current level, we can expect revenues of ~$1800 per year. With the usual
\nannual expenditures of $1000 for the DNP thesis prize, $300 for CAP Congress
\nstudent prizes, $250 for WNPPC student prizes, and an average of $250 to support
\nCongress registration fees and travel for DNP-invited speakers, we can balance
\nour budgets. Since the thesis prize is not awarded every year and we don\u2019t
\nalways support invited speakers at this level, this is not a financially risky
\napproach. We have maintained the ~$2k bank balance we agreed in 2016 would be
\nappropriate.<\/p>\n

As this is an odd-numbered year, an election of a Vice Chair and
\nSecretary-Treasurer to serve 2 year terms during the 2019-2021 period was
\nrequired. The new Vice Chair will succeed the Chair in 2021. Nominations were
\nsolicited by BD via an email sent by the CAP on February 15th, 2019 with a due
\ndate of April 20th. One nomination for Vice Chair and one for
\nSecretary-Treasurer were received. Michael Gericke (Manitoba) and Barry Davids
\n(TRIUMF) were therefore elected Vice Chair and Secretary-Treasurer,
\nrespectively, by acclamation. The service of departing Chair GG and Past Chair
\nReiner Kruecken was acknowledged by the assembled members with applause.<\/p>\n

The 2019-2021 CAP DNP Executive Committee will be as follows.<\/p>\n

Corina Andreoiu, Simon Fraser, Chair
\nMichael Gericke, Manitoba, Vice Chair
\nGerald Gwinner, Manitoba, Past Chair
\nBarry Davids, TRIUMF, Secretary-Treasurer<\/p>\n

In discussing the activities of the Division, the Chair mentioned that we
\nhaven\u2019t supported any conferences since 2016 due to financial limitations and
\nthe CINP does this now. GG summarized the Division\u2019s participation at the 2019
\nCongress as follows. We had 22 students enter the prize competition for best
\noral presentation; no poster competition was held. This is the largest number of
\nstudent competitors from any division. GG said that we didn\u2019t provide financial
\nsupport to any invited DNP speakers this year but that it was a blockbuster
\nmeeting by our usual standards, presumably due to TRIUMF\u2019s close proximity. The
\nDNP had 58 talks in this year\u2019s Congress, nearly twice as many as the 31 given in
\nHalifax in 2018. Of the 58 talks, 45 were contributed. In addition, there were
\n10 invited talks during the John D\u2019Auria memorial symposium. The talks were
\nspread over 12 DNP sessions, of which 5 were joint with other divisions and 7
\nwere solo. GG thanked CA, Pascal Reiter, and Thomas Brunner, who served as judges
\nin the student competition. The Chair noted that there were fewer parallel session
\nslots this year than in the past, which required undesirable scheduling, e.g.,
\nsimultaneous nuclear structure and astrophysics parallel sessions. The program
\ncommittee was exploring the effect of the Tuesday Symposia as a way of driving
\nincreased attention in some areas. DNP\u2019s entry was the D\u2019Auria memorial
\nsymposium. This experimental format may or may not persist but the scheduling
\npressure on the DNP is not expected to continue. If the Program Committee
\ndecides to pursue it this fall, a call would go out to the membership to propose
\nsymposium topics.<\/p>\n

DNP Chair GG next described the CAP Council meetings he had attended in October
\n2018 in Ottawa and June 2019 in Burnaby, which included discussions of the CAP
\nwebsite transition and the plan to use the DNP\u2019s website as a test case for
\nother divisions. Previous DNP Chair and continuing DNP webmaster Zisis
\nPapandreou is meeting with the CAP for this purpose. The existing Drupal-based
\nweb hosting at Regina has become time-consuming. If additional hosting services
\nare required we may need to pay for them. Iris Dillmann mentioned that the CINP
\njust moved its website to TRIUMF. Other topics discussed at the executive
\ncommittee meetings included the push to revitalize and increase the size of CAP,
\nwith the pool of industrial physicists mentioned as potential recruits. Other
\ndivisions reported that there is some lack of interest among young faculty
\nmembers and a reluctance to join has been noted. This has not been observed in
\nthe DNP, in which it is believed the whole field is adequately represented.<\/p>\n

GG reported on the 2018\u20132019 DNP Thesis Prize competition. The application
\nprocedures are explained on the webpage
\nhttp:\/\/dnp.phys.uregina.ca\/content\/how-apply-next-dnp-thesis-competition . There
\nwere only two entries this year. As there were fewer than the minimum required 3
\nentries, the chief judge CA confirmed that a competition was not held this year
\nand the two submitted theses will be entered into the next competition. GG
\nopined that the prize will likely be awarded only biannually, due to the
\nnumber of entrants.<\/p>\n

During the discussion of other business not explicitly included on the agenda,
\nthe Chair raised the issue of ambiguous language regarding financial support for
\nthe DNP Thesis Prize winner to give a seminar at TRIUMF and a talk at the CAP
\nCongress. TRIUMF\u2019s Marcello Pavan expressed the view that the funding obligations of
\neach institution were not clearly identified. GG wondered if the DNP shouldn\u2019t pay for the
\nCongress trip. BD pointed out that in the past, the DNP has not routinely
\noffered travel expenses to the winner for either of these trips, whereas TRIUMF
\nroutinely supports the travel costs of its seminar and colloquium speakers.
\nCINP Treasurer Iris Dillmann mentioned that the CINP has funds available and BD
\nsuggested that the Chair write to the CINP to make a standing request that it
\nsupport the travel of future DNP Thesis Prize winners to the CAP Congress.<\/p>\n

All business having been discussed, BD moved to adjourn the meeting circa 13:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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