| Acoustical Society of America |
ASA |
| American Association of Physicists in
Medicine |
AAPM |
| American Association of Physics Teachers |
AAPT |
| American Carbon Society |
ACS |
| American Ceramic Society |
ACerS |
| American College of Radiology |
ACR |
| American Council of Independent Laboratories |
ACIL |
| American Crystallographic
Association |
ACA |
| American Geophysical Union |
AGU |
| American Institute of Physics |
AIP |
| American Meteorological Society |
AMS |
| American Nuclear Society |
ANS |
| American Physical Society |
APS |
| American Rock Mechanics Association |
ARMA |
| American Roentgen Ray Society |
ARRS |
| American Society for Gravitational
and Space Biology |
ASGSB |
| American Society for Mass Spectrometry |
ASMS |
| American Society for Nondestructive
Testing |
ASNT |
| American Society for Photobiology |
ASP |
| American Society for Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing |
ASPRS |
| American Society for Precision Engineering |
ASPE |
| American Society for Testing and Materials |
ASTM |
| American Society of Limnology and Oceanography |
ASLO |
| American Solar Energy Society |
ASES |
| American Vacuum Society |
AVS |
| ASM International: The Materials
Information Society |
ASM |
| Asociación Argentina de
la Ciencia del Suelo = Argentine Association of Soil Science [In Spanish.] |
AACS |
| Association for Laboratory
Automation |
ALA |
| Association of Educators in Radiological
Sciences |
AERS |
| Association of Professional Engineers,
Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta |
APEGGA |
| Associazione Italiana del Vuoto = Italian
Vacuum Association [In Italian and English.] |
AIV |
| Associazione Italiana Prove Non Distruttive
Monitoraggio Diagnostica = Italian Society for Nondestructive Testing,
Monitoring and Diagnostics [In English.] |
AIPnD |
| Audio Engineering Society |
AES |
| Australasian Society
for General Relativity and Gravitation |
ASGRG |
| Australian Society of Exploration
Geophysicists |
ASEG |
| Belgische Vereniging voor
Microscopie = Société Belge de Microscopie = Belgian Society
for Microscopy [In Dutch, French, and English.] |
BVM = SBM |
| Biophysical
Society |
BS |
| Biophysical
Society of Hong Kong |
BSHK |
| Bond voor Materialenkennis
= Netherlands Society for Materials Science [In Dutch.] |
|
| British Crystallographic
Association |
BCA |
| British Electrophoresis
Society |
BES |
| British Institute of Radiology |
BIR |
| Canadian Association of Physicists = Association
Canadienne des physiciens et physiciennes |
CAP = ACP |
| Canadian Institute of Geomatics =
Association Canadienne des Sciences Géomatiques [In English
and French.] |
CIG = ACSG |
| Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic
Society = Société Canadienne de Météorologie
et d'Océanographie [In English and French.] |
CMOS = SCMO |
| Canadian Nuclear Society = Société
nucléaire canadienne |
CNS = SNC |
| Canadian Remote Sensing Society |
CRSS |
| Canadian Society for Nondestructive
Testing = Société Canadienne des essais non destructifs |
CSNDT = SCEND |
| Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists |
CSEG |
| Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological
Society of Europe |
CIRSE |
| Catgut Acoustical Society
["...the application of scientific principles to the construction of instruments
in the violin family. "] |
CAS |
| Clay
Minerals Society |
CMS |
| Controlled Release Society |
CRS |
| Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische
Physik = German Society for Medical Physics [In German, with some English.] |
DGMP |
| Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft
= German Meteorological Society [Mostly in German, some in English.] |
DMG |
| Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
= German Physical Society [In German.] |
DPG |
| Deutscher Verband für Materialforschung
und -prüfung = German Association for Materials Research and Testing
[In German and English.] |
DVM |
| Drustvo Matematikov, Fizikov in Astronomov
Slovenije = Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy Society of Slovenia
[In Slovenian.] |
DMFA |
| Enose Fysikon Iatrikes Elladas = Hellenic
Association of Medical Physicists [In Greek.] |
EFIE = HAMP |
| Environmental and Engineering Geophysical
Society |
EEGS |
| European Colloid and Interface Society |
ECIS |
| European Federation of Organisations
for Medical Physics [In English.] |
EFOMP |
| European Optical Society |
EOS |
| European Physical Society |
EPS |
| European Synchrotron Radiation
Society |
ESRS |
| Federation of Analytical Chemistry
and Spectroscopy Societies |
FACSS |
| Federation of Materials Societies |
FMS |
| Fysikersamfundet i
Finland = Suomen fyysikkojen seura rf = Physical Society in Finland
[Primarily in Swedish, but with a brief English summary; intended for Finnish
physicists who have Swedish as their mother tongue.] |
FYSiF |
| Geothermal Resources Council |
GRC |
| Health Physics Society [concerned
with radiation protection] |
HPS |
| Hrvatsko Fizikalno Drustvo = Croatian
Physical Society [Information is given in English.] |
HFD |
| Institute of Materials |
IoM |
| Institute of Measurement and Control |
InstMC |
| Institute of Physics |
IOP |
| Institute of Physics and Engineering
in Medicine |
IPEM |
| Inter-Society Color Council |
ISCC |
| International
Association for Boundary Element Methods |
IABEM |
| International Association of Geodesy
= Association internationale de géodésie = Asociación
Internacional de Geodesia = Internationale Assoziation für Geodäsie
[In English.] |
IAG = AIG = AIG = IAG |
| International Association of Mathematical
Physics |
IAMP |
| International Association of Seismology
and Physics of the Earth's Interior = Association Internationale de Séismologie
et de Physique de l'Intérieur de la Terre [In English.] |
IASPEI = AISPIT |
| International Association of Theoretical
and Applied Limnology = Societas Internationalis Limnologiae |
IATAL = SIL |
| International Association of Volcanology
and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior |
IAVCEI |
| International
Biomedical Optics Society ["The IBOS is administered by SPIE."] |
IBOS |
| International Federation for Medical
and Biological Engineering |
IFMBE |
| International Federation
of Nonlinear Analysts |
IFNA |
| International Geosphere-Biosphere
Programme [Established and sponsored by the International Council of
Scientific Unions (ICSU). "Its goal is describe and understand the interactive
physical, chemical and biological processes that regulate the total Earth
system, the unique environment that it provides for life, the changes that
are occurring in this system, and the manner in which they are influenced
by human actions."] |
IGBP |
| International Liquid Crystal Society |
ILCS |
| International Measurement Confederation |
IMEKO |
| International Meteor Organization |
IMO |
| International Organization for Medical
Physics |
IOMP |
| International Organization of Materials,
Metals & Minerals Societies |
IOMMMS |
| International Quantum Structures
Association ["...for the advancement and dissemination of quantum logics
and structures based thereon in their mathematical, philosophical, physical
and interdisciplinary aspects."] |
IQSA |
| International Radiation Protection Association |
IRPA |
| International Society for Magnetic
Resonance in Medicine |
ISMRM |
| International Society for Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing = Internationale Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie
und Fernerkundung = Société Internationale de Photogrammétrie
et de Télédétection |
ISPRS = IGPF = SIPT |
| International Society for
Psychophysics |
ISP |
| International Society for
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization |
ISSMO |
| International Society of Weighing and
Measurement |
ISWM |
| International Thermoelectric Society |
ITS |
| International Union for Physical and
Engineering Sciences in Medicine |
IUPESM |
| International Union for Pure and Applied
Biophysics = Organisation Internationale de Biophysique Pure et Appliquée |
IUPAB = OIBPA |
| International Union of Crystallograpy |
IUCr |
| International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
= Union de Géodésie et Géophysique Internationale
[In English and French.] |
IUGG = UGGI |
| International Union of Materials Research
Societies |
IUMRS |
| International Union of Pure and Applied
Physics = Union Internationale de Physique Pure et Appliquée |
IUPAP = UIPPA |
| International Union
of Soil Sciences = Union Internationale de la Science du Sol = Internationale
Bodenkundliche Union = Union Internacional de la Ciencia del Suelo
[In English.] |
IUSS = UISS = IBU = UICS |
| International Union of Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics |
IUTAM |
| International XAFS Society
[XAFS = X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure] |
IXS |
| ISA - The International Society for Measurement
and Control [Formerly known as "Instrument Society of America."] |
ISA |
| Japan Society for Precision Engineering
[In Japanese and English.] |
JSPE |
| Japanese Society of Sonographers
[In Japanese.] |
JSS |
| Keisoku Jidouseigyo Gakkai = Society
of Instrument and Control Engineers [In Japanese.] |
SICE |
| Materials Research Society |
MRS |
| Microbeam Analysis Society |
MAS |
| Microscopical Society
of Canada = Société de Microscopie du Canada |
MSC = SMC |
| Microscopy Society of America |
MSA |
| Microscopy Society of
Southern Africa |
MSSA |
| Mineralogical Association
of Canada = Association Minéralogique du Canada [In English.] |
MAC = AMC |
| Mineralogical Society of America |
MSA |
| Mineralogicheskoye
obshchestvo pri Rossijskoj Akademii Nauk = Mineralogical Society of the
Russian Academy of Sciences [In English and Russian.] |
MO RAN |
| (The) Minerals, Metals & Materials
Society |
TMS |
| National Weather Association ["...
individuals interested in operational meteorology and related activities."] |
NWA |
| Natuurkundig Gezelschap te
Utrecht = Natuurkundig Gezelschap Utrecht = Physical Society of Utrecht
[In Dutch.] |
NGU |
| Nederlandse Natuurkundige Vereniging =
Netherlands' Physical Society [Some English; mostly in Dutch.] |
NNV |
| Nederlandse Vacuümvereniging =
Netherlands Vacuum Society [In Dutch, with some English.] |
NEVAC |
| Nederlandse Vereniging voor Klinische
Fysica = Dutch Society for Medical Physics [In Dutch, with some English.] |
NVKF |
| New Zealand Limnological
Society |
NZLS |
| Nihon Zairyo Gakkai = Society of Materials
Science, Japan [In Japanese and English.] |
JSMS |
| Nippon Seramikkusu Kyokai = Ceramic
Society of Japan [In Japanese and English.] |
CerSJ |
| Oceanography Society |
OS |
| Optical Society of America |
OSA |
| Radiation Research Society |
RRS |
| Radiological Society of North America |
RSNA |
| Remote Sensing Society |
RSS |
| Royal Australian and New Zealand
College of Radiologists |
RANZCR |
| Royal Meteorological Society |
RMS |
| Royal Microscopical Society |
RMS |
| Schweizerische Gesellschaft
für Kristallographie = Société Suisse de Cristallographie
= Swiss Society for Crystallography [In German and French, with some
English.] |
SGK = SSC |
| Schweizerische Gesellschaft für
Optik und Elektronmikroskopie = Société Suisse d'Optique
et de Microscopie Électronique = Swiss Society for Optics and Electron
Microscopy [In English.] |
SGOEM = SSOME = SSOEM |
| Schweizerische Gesellschaft
für Photogrammetrie, Bildanalyse und Fernerkundung = Société
Suisse de Photogrammétrie, d'Analyse d'Image et de Télédétection
= Swiss Society for Photogrammetry, Image Analysis and Remote Sensing
[In German.] |
SGPBF = SSPAIT |
| Schweizerische Gesellschaft für
Strahlenbiologie und Medizinische Physik (SGSMP) = Société
Suisse de Radiobiologie et de Physique Médicale (SSRPM) = Società
Svizzera di Radiobiologia e di Fisica Medica (SSRFM) = Swiss Society of
Radiobiology and Medical Physics [In German, Italian, and English.] |
SGSMP = SSRPM = SSRFM |
| Scientific
Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics |
SCOSTEP |
| Seismological Society of America |
SSA |
| Società Italiana di Fisica = Italian
Society of Physics [In Italian, with some English.] |
SIF |
| Società
Italiana di Relatività Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione = Italian
Society of General Relativity and Physics of Gravitation [In English.] |
SIGRAV |
| Société Française
de Physique = French Society of Physics [In French.] |
SFP |
| Société Météorologique
de France = Meteorological Society of France [In French.] |
SMF |
| Société Suisse de Physique
= Schweizerische Physikalische Gesellschaft = Swiss Physical Society
[In English.] |
SSP = SPG = SPS |
| Society for Applied Spectroscopy |
SAS |
| Society
for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences |
SCTPLS |
| Society
for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics |
SNDE |
| Society of Nuclear Medicine |
SNM |
| Society for the Advancement of Material
and Process Engineering |
SAMPE |
| Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers |
SDMS |
| Society of Exploration Geophysicists |
SEG |
| Society of Rheology |
SoR |
| Soil Science Society of America |
SSSA |
| SPIE -- The International Society for
Optical Engineering |
SPIE |
| Suomen Fyysikkoseura
= Finnish Physical Society [Mostly in Finnish.] |
SF = FPS |
| Svensk Förening för
Radiofysik = Swedish Society of Radiation Physics [In English and Swedish.] |
SFfR = SSRP |
| Svenska OptikSällskapet
= Swedish Optical Society [In English and Swedish.] |
SOS = SOS |
| UK Solar
Energy Society = Solar Energy Society = UK Branch of International Solar
Energy Society |
UK-SES = SES = UK-ISES |