IZEST-Helmholtz Beamlines Workshop
The Joined IZEST-Helmholtz Beamlines Workshop is being held at GSI Darmstadt, in Germany, on 23-25 April this year. The event will explore potential collaborations between the IZEST and atomic/plasma physics communities with regarding to coupling lasers at the planned Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research.
Topics under discussion will include atomic physics; high-energy, high-intensity laser technology; high field physics; and plasma physics…
European Nuclear Physics Conference
The second European Nuclear Physics Conference [EuNPC2012] is being held on 17-21 September, 2012, at the Rin Grand Hotel in Bucharest, Romania.
The conference program – covering recent advances in hadron and nuclear physics – will consist of oral and poster sessions in the following fields: accelerators and instrumentation, astroparticle physics, hadron structure and spectroscopy, heavy ion collisions and QCD phases, few body systems, fundamental symmetries…
Show Physics 2012
The ShowPhysics 2012 conference is being held in Bergen, Norway on 16-21 April this year. The event, being organised by EuroPhysicsFun, will include both lectures and workshops, and aims to bring together parties interested in, or presently performing, physics shows.
Invited speakers include French television personality, Michel Chevalet, who will be discussing the relationship between physics shows and scientific journalists; Jérome Damet, of the Radiophysics Institute in Lausanne, who will talk on…
24th EPS Condensed Matter Division Conference
The 24th Conference of the European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division [CMD-24] is being held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre between 3-7 September this year. The conference is being held in parallel with the 11th European Conference on Surface Crystallography and Dynamics [ECSCD-11], the 29th European Conference on Surface Science [ECOSS-29] and the 2012 UK Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Conference [CMMP-12]…
ALPHA takes measurement of antihydrogen atoms
The ALPHA collaboration at CERN has undertaken the first measurements of the antihydrogen spectrum, reported the journal Nature last week. This initial development may pave the way towards a better understanding of why our universe is matter-based.
“We’ve demonstrated that we can probe the internal structure of the antihydrogen atom,” said ALPHA collaboration spokesman, Jeffrey Hangst. “…we’re very excited about that. We now know that it’s possible to design…
EPS elections to be held during council at CERN
The next European Physical Society [EPS] council meeting will be held at CERN, Geneva, on 30-31 March this year. The council will see the gathering of around 100 delegates, representing member societies, individual members, associate institutions, divisions and groups.
Elections will take place for both executive committee members and for the EPS president-elect. A large list of executive committee candidates has been formed, covering various European areas and physics fields…
EPS Individual Member travel grants
A limited number of grants are available for European Physical Society [EPS] Individual Members to attend EPS Europhysics and sponsored conferences.
Those with an accepted oral or poster contribution to the conference are eligible. Grants are only available to Individual Members whose membership fee payments are up-to-date; only one grant will be awarded per person per year. Applications should be made at least two months before the conference in question…
European research pilots cloud computing resource
Leading IT providers have teamed up with three of Europe’s largest research centres this month to launch a new cloud computing system. CERN, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the European Space Agency will be the first to enjoy the processing power of the platform – which has been named “Helix Nebula – the Science Cloud” – for such activities as the search for the Higgs Boson, the study of geological disasters and unravelling the secrets of DNA.
This pan-European collaboration – which will offer flexible and robust computing services for research and innovation…
ERASMUS programme celebrates 25th anniversary
2012 marks the silver anniversary of the European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students [ERASMUS], the European Union’s best known and most popular student exchange programme.
In commemoration of this milestone a series of national festivities, to be held throughout the year, were announced at the end of January by the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, Androulla Vassiliou.
Close to three million students have benefited from a study period or work placement abroad since the establishment…
Physics and the news media
Dear Readers,
Just a few lines concerning the issue of physics results with respect to communication and outreach.
The ever growing development of modern communication tools has changed the “scientific communication system” and unavoidably along with it our mentality as researchers. The immediate access to scientific information has changed more than just the time to publication. Today the preliminary and/or provisional results of ongoing research can reach…
Public Communication of Science and Technology
The 12th International Public Communication of Science and Technology [PCST] conference will be held in Florence, Italy, on 18-20 April this year. The conference, a forum for the discussion of scientific communication, will focus this year on the topics of “quality, honesty and beauty in science communication”.
The conference is being organised by the PCST International Network, and is being hosted by Observa Science in Society, Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, the Galileo Museum Florence and the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica…
Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics
The Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics [AEPSHEP2012] is being held at the Luigans Spa & Resort, in Fukuoka, Japan, on 14-27 October this year. The school, which will be held in English, has places for around 100 PhD, advanced masters’ and junior post-doc students in the fields of experimental particle physics and phenomenology.
Applications for the school are now open. Applicants should complete the online application form, and provide a letter of reference and rank from their supervisor, before 23 April. Limited sponsorship will be available for students…
