Activity Report of the Second African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics, ACP2021

TL;DR

This paper reports on the second African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics (ACP2022), highlighting its role in promoting physics development in Africa through a virtual event that builds on previous initiatives.

Contribution

It provides a detailed account of the organization, scope, and significance of the second ACP, emphasizing its contribution to physics education and development in Africa.

Findings

Successful organization of the virtual conference in 2022.

Enhanced engagement of African physics community.

Strengthened network for physics development in Africa.

Abstract

The African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications, also known as the African School of Physics (ASP), was initiated in 2010, as a three-week biennial event, to offer additional training in fundamental and applied physics to African students with a minimum of three-year university education. Since its inception, ASP has grown to be much more than a school. ASP has become a series of activities and events with directed ethos towards physics as an engine for development in Africa. One such activity of ASP is the African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics (ACP). The first edition of ACP took place during the 2018 edition of ASP at the University of Namibia in Windhoek. In this paper, we report on the second edition of ACP, organized on March 7--11, 2022, as a virtual event.