During IAC 2006 in
Place: The Chief Justice
Courtroom, Courtroom 430,
Time: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 12:40-14:00
Participants:
President:
Chiu-sen Wang CAART
cswang@ntu.edu.tw (delegate)
Secretary General:
Kaarle Hämeri FAAR kaarle.hameri@helsinki.fi (delegate)
Treasurer:
Alan
Delegates:
Phil Hopke AAAR hopkepk@clarkson.edu (delegate)
David Pui AAAR dyhpui@umn.edu (delegate)
Susanne Hering AAAR susanne@aerosols.us (delegate)
Erik Swietlicki NOSA erik.swietlicki@nuclear.lu.se (delegate)
Denis Boulaud ASFERA denis.boulaud@irsn.fr (delegate)
Evelyne Gehin ASFERA gehin@umv-paris12.fr (delegate)
Veli-Matti Kerminen FAAR veli-matti.kerminen@fmi.fi (delegate)
Charles Clement AS charles.f.clement@btinternet.com (delegate)
James
Chuen-Jinn Tsai CAART cjtsai@mail.nctu.edu.tw (delegate)
Helmuth Horvath GAeF helmuth.horvath@univie.ac.at (delegate)
Michael Shapiro IAAR mersm01@technion.ac.il (delegate)
Chaim Gutfinger IAAR gutfinge@tx.technion.ac.il
Mansoo CHOI KAPAR mchoi@snu.ac.kr (delegate)
Sang Soo KIM KAPAR sskim@kaist.ac.kr (delegate until 12/06)
Jungho Hwang KAPAR hwangjh@yonsei.ac.kr (not delegate)
Wolfgang Kreyling ISAM kreyling@gsf.de (delegate)
Yoshio Otani JAAST otani@t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp (not delegate)
Martijn Schaap DBAS martijn.schaap@tno.nl (delegate)
Coen van Gulijk DBAS coen.vangulijk@tno.nl (delegate)
Aladar Czitrovszky HAS/invited czi@szfki.hu (not delegate)
Gilmore Sem invited gsem@tsi.com
1.
The minutes of the 2005 IARA Delegates Meeting were approved.
2.
No matters arose from the minutes.
3.
Report on finance: On behalf
of the Treasurer, Don Clark presented the current situation. IARA account is
located in
4.
Report from the International Aerosol Fellow Award (IAFA) Committee: Committee
chair Helmuth Horwath presented. The award is given every 2nd year
and will be given this year for two winners.
5.
Report
from the Fissan-Pui-TSI (FPT) International Collaboration Award Committee: Committee chair Kaarle Hämeri presented.
The award is given for the first time and in future every 4 years in connection
with the International Aerosol Conference. There were 4 nominations
(collaborating pairs) and the award will be given for one winning pair.
Chiu-Sen Wang thanked Gil Sem and TSI for the original donation.
6.
Discussion of the Fissan-Pui-TSI International Collaboration Award
Bylaws and approval of the investment plan: a) Investment plan: Chiu-Sen Wang
thanked Tony Wexler (former AAAR president) for investing the money through
AAAR. The investment is done following the investment plan of AAAR. The
investment plan was approved unanimously. b) Bylaws: Member associations have
sent several suggestions for changes to the bylaws. These were collected to one
document which was distributed for the delegates. The award will be given for
the next time after 4 years and it was decided to postpone the discussion on
changes to next IARA delegates meeting.
7.
Report from the Fuchs Award
Committee: Committee member Helmuth Horwath presented. The award will be given
during the meeting.
8.
Report of the IARA Web Coordinator. Web-coordinator Chuen-Jinn Tsai
presented. The www-site exists and was updated last year. It provides links to
member associations and contains other material such as minutes, bylaws etc.
Monthly rent is $11.30.
9.
Report of the IAC 2006 Co-Chairs: Presented by conference chairs Gil Sem
and David Pui. Currently 1225 registered participants, 48 participants followed
the History symposium, 470 registered for dinner, tutorials had an average of
40-45 participants/tutorial,
10. Report of the IAC 2010. Presented by the
conference chair Kaarle Hämeri: The preparations have started. The advisory
committees will be formed and discussions with IAC 2006 organizers will be
conducted.
11. Report on other international conferences to be hosted by representative
organizations. Tsai: Two conferences will be held in
12. Application for membership from Hungarian Aerosol Society (HAS). The
application was presented by Aladar Czitrovszky. HAS was accepted unanimously
as a member.
13. Other business. International Aerosol Fellow
Award committee asks for candidates for the committee (6 needed). This will be
organized through member organizations. David Pui invited current presidents to
come up to stage for the AAAR celebration during the conference.
14. Election of Officers. New elected officers
are: David Pui President, Kaarle Hämeri Vice-president, Mansoo Choi Secretary
General, Alan Cussens Treasurer, Helmuth Horvath IAFA Chair. FPT award chair
has still 3 years left.
15. Dates and venues of the next two meetings.
The meetings will be organized in connection with EAC in Saltzburg 2007 and
AAAR annual meeting in Orlando 2008.
Minutes written by Kaarle
Hämeri