Foundation
The representatives from China, Japan, and Korea held the first preparatory meeting in RIKEN’s Tokyo office to establish the Asian Nuclear Physics Association (ANPhA) in October 4, 2008. (Here, the “representatives” do not necessarily mean that they were officially appointed by the member societies to which they belong.) After an additional preparatory meetings in Seoul and Beijing, the ANPhA was finally established in July, 2009 with the four initial membership countries including Vietnam. Currently, ANPhA consists of 14 membership countries and regions: Australia, China, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mongolia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Region of Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
The establishment of the Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) was approved in the 32nd AAPPS council meeting held in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in January 22-23, 2016. The Chair of ANPhA concurrently chairs the DNP of AAPPS.
Objectives
1. The objective of ANPhA is to strengthen “Collaboration” among Asian nuclear research scientists through the promotion of nuclear physics and its transdisciplinary and applications.
2. The objective of ANPhA is also to promote “Education” in Asian nuclear science through mutual exchange and coordination.
3. ANPhA also aims at “Coordination” among Asian nuclear scientists by actively utilizing existing research facilities.
4. It will help to discuss future planning of nuclear science facilities and instrumentation in Asia.
Member countries and regions
(In alphabetical order)
Australia, China, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mongolia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Region of Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.
ANPhA Board
Chairs
Chair: Tomohiro Uesaka (Japan, uesaka[at]riken.jp)
Vice chairs: Anthony Thomas (Australia), Zhiyu Sun (China), Jung Keun Ahn (Korea)
Secretary to Chair: Fuminori Sakuma (RIKEN, sakuma[at]ribf.riken.jp)
​​
Board Members
Australia
Anthony Thomas (University of Adelaide)
China
Bing Guo (CIAE, China)
Yugang Ma (Fudan University)
Zhiyu Sun (IMP)
Furong Xu (Peking University)
India
Vandana Nanal (TIFR, Mumbai)
Avinash C. Pandey (IUAC, Delhi)
Sumit Som (VECC, Kolkata)
Japan
ShinIchi Esumi (Tsukuba University)
Masayasu Harada (Nagoya University)
Hirokazu Tamura (Tohoku University)
Tomohiro Uesaka (RIKEN)
Kazakhstan
Kairat A. Kuterbekov (Eurasian National University)
Korea
Byungsik Hong (Korea University)
Jung Keun Ahn (Korea University)
Jin-Hee Yoon (Inha University)
Mongolia
To be determined
Myanmar
Nyein Wink Lwin (University of Mandalay)
The Philippines
Denny Lane Sombillo (National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines)
Region of Taiwan
Chia-Ming Kuo (National Central University)
Singapore
Andrew Anthony Bettiol (National University of Singapore)
Thailand
Thawatchai Onjun (Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology)
Uzbekistan
Avazbek Nasirov (Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Science of Uzbekistan)
Vietnam
Le Xuan Chung (Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology)
​
Observers
Byungsik Hong (Past Chair, Korea University)
Weiping Liu (Past Chair, Southern university of science and technology)
Kazuhiro Tanaka (Past Chair, KEK, Japan)
Dong-Pil Min (Past Chair, Seoul National University)
Yanlin Ye (Past Chair, Peking University, China)
Hideyuki Sakai (Past Chair, RIKEN, Japan)
Shoji Nagamiya (RIKEN and KEK, Japan)
Tohru Motobayashi (RIKEN, Japan)
Jenny Hui Ching Lee (The University of Hong Kong)
Eberhard Widmann (Chair of NuPECC, Stefan Meyer Institute, The Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Sissy Körner (Secretary of NuPECC, Editor of Nuclear Physics News)