Post - QFS98 -- The Continuity of QFS Meetings: Post - QFS98 -- The Continuity of QFS Meetings: 
Frequency of QFS meetings:
At the QFS98 meeting held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, there
was a whole-group discussion on the question of the desirability of holding
a QFS meeting every year. The result of the discussion was considerable
support for an annual meeting to be held in every non-LT conference year. It was
concluded that the QFS community should move ahead with plans for a meeting in every
non-LT year.
Creation of a QFS Steeering Committee:
In an effort to provide some continuity to the planning of QFS meetings and a format for the selection of conference sites, a new committee was formed. The QFS Steering Committee will consist of the chairman of the next to be held QFS conference, the three most recent conference chairs, and at most two additional people to ensure that there is at least one representative from Europe, Japan and the United States. The identification of a QFS chairman for the next future meeting will result in the retirement of the most past QFS chairman, ensuring a rotation of committee membership with a continuity of experience. The QFS committee decided that it would select sites for the QFS conferences in a manner that would provide approximately two years advance notice to the conference organizers. The chair of the immediate past QFS meeting will serve as the Chair of the steering Committee until the next meeting of a QFS conference and which point the chair of that conference will assume the steering committee Chair until the time of the next QFS meeting.
The current membership (as of the end of QFS2010) of the QFS Steering Committee is:
Vladimir Dmitriev* (representing the FSU) (dmitriev@kapitza.ras.ru )
Henri Godfrin (QFS2010), Chair (henri.godfrin@grenoble.cnrs.fr )
Robert Hallock* (QFS98) (hallock@physics.umass.edu )
William Halperin (QFS2009), (w-halperin@northwestern.edu )
Yuichi Okuda (representing Japan), (okuda@ap.titech.ac.jp )
George Pickett (QFS2012), Chair-elect (g.pickett@lancaster.ac.uk )
John Saunders* (representing IUPAP-C5) (J.Saunders@rhul.ac.uk )
[* A representative from the Quantum Fluids and Solids community from IUPAP-C5 is also included on the committee; currently this position is filled by John Saunders. Since the time of the QFS2003 meeting it has been requested by the Committee that Bob Hallock remain a member for long-term continuity (he is also currently Chairman for IUPAP, C5). He has agreed to do so, serving at the pleasure of the committee, and has agreed to continue to maintain the home web page for the conference series. At the QFS2004 meeting it was decided to add to the committee a quantum fluids representative from the FSU and Vladimir Dmitriev accepted an invitation from the committee and joined the committee; his membership was renewed at the QFS2009 meeting. ]
Past members of the QFS committee:
Murat Tagirov (QFS2007), replaced by Vladimir Dmitriev (representing FSU),
Takao Mizusaki (QFS2006) stepped down from the committee, replaced by Yuichi Okuda,
George Pickett (represented C-5),
Franco Dalfovo (QFS2004),
Paul Leiderer (QFS2001),
Hiroshi Fukuyama (represented Japan),
William Zimmerman (QFS2000),
Sebastien Balibar (QFS97),
Moses Chan (QFS92),
Jeevak Parpia (QFS95)
The QFS Steering Committee
will also maintain contact with the C5 Commission by providing full information on
QFS plans and activities to a QFS-cognizant member of C5. This C5 member is envisioned to be
the Chairman of C5 if that person is a QFS community member, or
another member of C5 if it should happen that the C5 Chair is not an active member of the QFS
community. The current contact person at C5 is John Saunders,
and he participates in the QFS Steering committee meetings.
Location of Future Meetings:
The QFS committee recognizes that the IUPAP C5 Commission has the
responsibility for selecting the site of the LT conferences.
The QFS Steering Committee meets at each QFS meeting and at the LT series
meetings and also conducts some of its activity electronically. This committee selects the
site of future QFS meetings in a manner that allows approximately two and one half years of advance notice of the
meeting site. The selection meeting for QFS2009 took place at the QFS2007 meeting, and the selecton meeting
for QFS2010 took place at the LT meeting in Amsterdam in 2008. 2011 will be a LT year and the selection of the host
for the QFS2012 meeting will take place shortly after the proposal submission deadline. A call for
proposals will
be issued by the current QFS Chairman with a due date determined by the QFS Steering Committee for each particular meeting.
Further details are given in link in the paragraph below and should be carefully consulted, especially with regard to the deadline for
poropsal submissions.
Proposals to host future QFS meetings:
A general process for the submission of propsals has been agreed to and
the process is relatively simple and streamlined.
The guidelines are available and should be consulted for proposal format and
the specific due date for proposals for a given QFS meeting.
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