The International Coordinating Committee for the MG Meetings helps gather input for the planning of the scientific program and other aspects of the meeting and facilitates the attendance of participants from each nation where work in this broad field of science is done.
Coordination of travel funding requests from the participants’ country of origin or making the local organizing committee aware of visa requirements appropriate to a given country are two country specific activities that members of this committee should handle if relevant. In countries with multiple members, these latter activities if necessary would of course be shared. In the USA for example, NSF travel fund application will be arranged through mutual agreement with the International Organizing Committee and a volunteer. It is also important for ICC members to let us know how we can help the scientists of their country in attending the meeting.
In general for most ICC members, participation in this committee amounts to an organized way for us to gather input from you regarding scientific program suggestions via email. At the very least, membership involves agreeing to accept not only our small number of emails but also some attractive paper meeting posters sent by old-fashioned mail and to post at least one in your institution (several if more than one department is appropriate), and the others in nearby (itself a relative term) relevant institutions if possible.
The three key pieces of information we need to function are:
You can check that your information is correct in our data base by consulting the official list which is automatically generated from that database. This is in the process of being updated for MG13 from MG12
We seem to have complete information on everyone on the list, but it is important that you send us an update if it has changed recently.
The Marcel Grossman Meetings were founded with the premise that
scientists of all nations
have a right to meet to exchange knowledge independent of national borders. As
such we
affirm the IUPAP declaration:
"To secure IUPAP sponsorship, the organisers have provided assurance that MG11
will be conducted in accordance with IUPAP principles as stated in the IUPAP
resolution passed by the General Assembly in 2008. In particular, no bona fide
scientist will be excluded from participation on the grounds of national origin,
nationality, or political considerations unrelated to science."
Since most of our work relies on efficient email communication,
we must be able to contact you and get a reply via email.
That means if we are able to establish contact in the first place,
that you put the MG13 email address in your address
book/contacts list or safe list or doing whatever it takes
to allow our incoming emails to pass through to your mailbox.
We also need the string "mg13" somewhere in the subject line of
email sent back to the meeting address when forwarded to individual
mailboxes can be easily filtered into a folder for organizational
purposes, and we need a useful subject line so we can categorize
how to deal with it and find it later in the sea of email if needed.