New insights in accelerator-driven systems
As part of EUCARD2 activities, and co-sponsored by EPS Technology and Innovation Group (TIG), a workshop on the status of new developments in Accelerator-Driven Systems or ADS was held at CERN on February 7-9.
Editorial
Dear Readers,
I have the pleasure of introducing e-EPS, the online facts and information newsletter of the European Physical Society. Within you will find timely announcements and information about the EPS and its members, physics, events, and issues relevant to the European physics community. It complements Europhysics News, the bi-monthly magazine of the EPS…
Earthquake in Japan
The European Physical Society has sent letters of support to the physical societies in Japan, as well as the Japanese Embassy in Poland following the earthquake and tsunami.
The European Physical Society (EPS) would like to express its profound sympathy to the Japanese people following the twin catastrophes of the earthquake and the tsunami of 11 March 2011. We grieve with you for the loss of life and destruction. Our thoughts go out to everyone affected by these tragic events…
EU consultation on Research and Innovation Funding
The European Commission has launched a consultation on major improvements to EU research and innovation funding, to make participation easier; increase scientific and economic impact; and improve value for money.
The proposed “Common Strategic Framework“, set out in a Green Paper, would cover the current Framework Programme for Research, the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology…
Proposed Benefits for EPS Members
The European Physical Society is developing a series of activities designed to increase its visibility, and to attract new Individual Members. The EPS is envisaging different levels of benefits – with some reserved for Individual Members, and others available to the whole community: in particular, members of Member Societies.
Among the benefits for Individual Members are…
EAS-EPS: collaboration in the sky
We could debate endlessly as to whether astronomy is physics applied to the cosmos, and the objects found therein, or whether physics is a special branch of astrophysics, one that deals with the phenomena accessible to the laboratory. What is certain is that both sciences have deep common roots.
The communities of (particle) physics and astrophysics are getting closer now, not only in their intellectual goals, but also through the development and use of common tools, like ground based or space borne telescopes, and laboratory…
EPL 25th Anniversary
EPL is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year – with an international symposium to be held from 2-4 May at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich.
An international group of prominent researchers will present on a selection of the most exciting topics in current physics research. The lectures will be aimed at an audience consisting of interested high-school students, and undergraduates, graduate students and post-docs…
European Quantum Electronics Conference
The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO®/Europe-EQEC), will be held on the 22-26 May this year, in the ICM Centre of the New Munich Trade Fair Centre, Munich, Germany.
The conference – which is sponsored by IEEE Photonics, The Optical Society, The European Physical Journal and the European Physical Society – will be held in English…
38th Plasma Physics Conference
The 38th Plasma Physics Conference of the European Physical Society is being held between the 27 June and 1 July this year, in the Strasbourg Conference Centre, Strasbourg, France.
The conference will take place in English, and will cover the fields of fusion research; magnetic confinement fusion; beam plasmas; laser-plasma interaction; inertial confinement fusion; dusty and low temperature plasmas; space and astrophysical plasmas and basic plasmas…
EPS-HEP Conference
The High Energy and Particle Physics (HEPP) division of the European Physical Society has recently called for nominations for the 2011 EPS HEPP Prizes, which will be presented at the International Europhysics Conference EPS-HEP 2011, to be held in Grenoble on 21-27 July 2011.
With eleven parallel sessions and an extended poster display, EPS-HEP is one of the major international conferences that reviews the state of our knowledge of the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions…
GIREP-EPEC 2011 Conference
The GIREP-EPEC 2011 Conference will be held on the 1-5 August this year in the Agora Building of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Groupe International de Recherche sur l’Enseignement de la Physique (GIREP), founded in 1964, is an organization which meets annually to foster an international discussion on education in the field of physics.
More information on the conference can be found on the conference website.
Passion for Light
Passion for Light, an international workshop being jointly organised by the European and Italian Physical Societies, is to be held on 16 September 2011 at the Villa Monastero, in Varenna, Lake Como, Italy.
The workshop will provide a framework in which to announce a new initiative of the EPS Quantum Electronics and Optics Division – which aims for a declaration of an International Year of Light, to be held…
