“Relativistic heavy ion collisions” town meeting
A one-day town meeting on relativistic heavy ion collisions will be held on 29 June this year in the Council Chamber at CERN, Geneva. The event is in anticipation of, and aims to gather input for, an update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics.
Topics under discussion at the meeting will include soft probes, flow and hydrodynamic response of the medium; hard probes and quarkonia; and future opportunities for colliders and fixed target experiments…
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Optically pumped alkali magnetometers for biomedical applications
Pionic Deuterium
The nature and origin of ultra high-energy cosmic rays
21st DYMAT technical meeting
The 21st DYMAT technical meeting, “High speed imaging for dynamic testing of materials and structures”, will be held on 18-20 November 2013 at the Institute of Physics [IOP], London.
Topics under discussion at the conference will include: applications, camera/equipment assessment, constitutive behaviour, failure/fracture, full-field measurements data processing, high and ultra-high speed full-field thermal measurements, innovative test design, methodology, metrology…
Naples/Uganda education collaboration
Gulunap is an educational-scientific collaboration between the University of Naples “Federico II”, in Italy, and the University of Gulu, in Northern-Uganda.
Northern Uganda has major problems with food, health and education, having been devastated by a twenty-year long insurgence by the Lord’s Resistance Army: with over 100,000 people dead, 20,000 children abducted, and 1,200,000 Ugandan citizens left in internally displaced person camps. The Gulunap project focuses on…
June Executive Committee Meeting
The European Physical Society [EPS] Executive Committee met at the EPS headquarters, in Mulhouse, on 8-9 June this year. Following the 2011 strategy discussion – and the elections earlier this year – the committee is now composed of 13 members, eight of whom are new to the board this year.
The Executive Committee has finalised the EPS statement on the use of bibliometric indices during assessment…
Nominations open for the 2013 Prism Awards
Nominations are open for the 2013 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation. The awards – given by publishing company Photonics Media and SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics – commemorate excellence in innovation and technology within the optics and photonics industry.
Prism Awards are given in the following categories: defence and security; detectors, sensing, imaging and cameras; green photonics and sustainable energy; industrial lasers; information and communication…
2012 Conference on Computational Physics
The 2012 Conference on Computational Physics [CCP2012] will be held on 14-18 October this year in Kobe, Japan. The event aims to be an international forum for the discussion of computational physics and its applications in research and in industry across a variety of disciplines.
The event, part of a series which has been held annually since 1989, is being organised under the auspices of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics’ commission on Computational Physics [C20]…
Crowdsourced exhibit shows humour behind science
A celebration of the humour to be found within science is being held at the Espace des sciences Pierre-Gilles de Gennes from the 3 May to 30 October this year. The exhibition – entitled “La science, une histoire d’humour” – shows how, through humour, science is reflected in the eyes of both society and the scientific community itself.
The exhibits on display have been entirely crowd-sourced – with such contributors as Jean-Marie Lehn, Hervé This and Catherine Vidal – and visitors are encouraged to add the collection with their own additions…
Report on citizenship education published
European students are getting more involved in school politics – and learning about civic engagement – according to a report published by Eurydice earlier this month. The study, entitled “Citizenship Education in Europe”, analyses the regulations on the promotion of student participation in school governance which are now in effect in all European Countries.
The document – an update on a previous Eurydice study from 2005 – contains information on progress…
OPERA: second neutrino tau interaction
The observation of a second neutrino tau interaction at the Gran Sasso Laboratory was announced by the OPERA Collaboration during the 25th Neutrino Conference, in Kyoto, earlier this month. This result follows on from the first observation, made in 2010.
With this new result the OPERA detector is back on track to its original motivations, after a noisy excursion over the measurement of the neutrino time of flight. The OPERA experiment was designed to search for the rare…
Trends in Nanotechnology Conference
The 2012 Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference [TNT 2012] will be held in the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, Madrid, from 10-14 September this year. The conference – the 13th in the TNT series – aims to be a forum for discussing current research in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology and related topics.
Topics under discussion at the event will include: atoms and molecular computing; high spatial resolution spectroscopies under SPM probe; grapheme and carbon nanotube based nanoelectronics and field emission…
Young Minds: connecting to the next gen
European Physical Society [EPS] Young Minds connects working scientists, divisions and groups with young, proactive scientists from across the globe. In this way, the scientific, outreach and networking activities of EPS members and member societies can be energised and expanded. The EPS Young Minds encourages individuals and organisations to reach out to the next generation and to talk to us – just as the International Association of Physics Students and the junge DPG have already done…
