Nobel Laureates warn against Horizon2020 budget
In an Open Letter to the EU Heads of States and Governments, 42 Nobel Laureates and 5 Fields Medallists have stated their grave concern that the upcoming negotations on the overall EU budget from 2014-2020 will disproportionally hit the research and innovation budget. The letter has been published on 23 October in leading newspapers across Europe:
Financial Times (UK), Le Monde (FR), Der Standard (AT), Irish Times (IE), El Páis (ES), Público (PT), Postimes (EE), Le Temps (CH), Jurnalul National (RO), Corriere della Serra (IT), Berlingske (DK), Svenska Dagbladets (SE)…
Renewable Energy and the Environment Congress
The Renewable Energy and the Environment Congress will be held on 11-15 November 2012 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The congress consists of 4 collocated meetings, which cover optics and photonics in energy generation and conservation.
The event is being organised under the auspices of the Optical Society of America (OSA).
The 4 meetings of the congress will be: Optical Instrumentation for Energy & Environmental Applications (E2); Optical Nanostructures and Advanced Materials for Photovoltaics (V); Optics for Solar Energy (SOLAR); …
SpacePart12
The 4th International Conference on Particle and Fundamental Physics in Space [SpacePart12] will be held on 5-7 November 2012 at CERN. The event, part of a series, which has been held since 2002, brings together space scientists and space policy makers from around the world to exchange views on the developments of space related science and technology programs.
Scientific topics of SpacePart12 will be: the 100th anniversary of Cosmic Ray discovery; status and open issues linking particle physics and the observation of the universe; the multi-messenger universe; the dark universe; …
International Conference on Plasma Physics 2012
The 33rd International Conference on Plasma Physics [ICPP 2012] will be held on 14-16 November 2012 in Venice, Italy.
ICPP 2012 has teamed up with the International Journal of Engineering and Physical Sciences for publishing a Special Journal Issue on Advances in Plasma Physics. All submitted papers will have opportunities for consideration for this Special Journal Issue…
FP7: 2013 Calls for proposals
The European Commission has published 4 new calls for proposals under the Framework Programme 7 [FP7].
• ICT – EU Japan Coordinated Call on topics Optical or wireless communications, cybersecurity, extending the cloud paradigm to the Internet of Things, the Federation of testbeds: Control, tools and experiments, as well as green and content centric networks. Deadline for submission: 29 November 2012.
• Coordination and Support Actions (supporting) : Researchers’ night. Deadline for submission: 8 January 2013…
2012 Nobel Prize in Physics
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Serge Haroche (College de France and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France) and David J. Wineland (National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] and University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) for the development of “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”.
The prize, given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, was announced on 9 October…
The Dark Energy Camera opens eyes and data
The Dark Energy Camera in Chile took its first picture in September 2012. After a series of tests, the 570-megapixels camera is expected to be operational in December 2012.
The Dark Energy Camera is the most powerful survey instrument of its kind, able to see light from over 100 000 galaxies up to 8 billion light years away in each snapshot. This camera is particularly sensitive to red and infrared light through 62 charged-coupled devices…
Editorial – Joining forces for science and scientists in Europe
What a nice initiative from the EuCheMS president Ulrich Schubert to invite me to participate in the General Assembly of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences. This took place on 11-12 October 2012 in Dublin, in the beautiful library of the Irish Royal Academy.
Two round table dicussions were organized, on the following items:
- What are the European needs for Member Societies
- Combining forces for Horizon 2020…
Physics for Development Conference
The first Physics for Development Conference is being held at the Palais des Académies, in Brussels, on 11-12 October this year. The meeting – which will look at research and teaching in those countries with a low overall standard of physics funding – aims to create innovative approaches in this area to benefit the global physics community.
The event – which is being organised by the Physics for Development group of the European Physical Society – is sponsored by the CEA and Horiba Jobin Yvon…
EPS Workshop on Technology and Innovation
The first International Workshop on Technology and Innovation of the European Physical Society is being held at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, in Sicily, on the 21-25 October this year. The topic under discussion will be “Nuclear and subnuclear physics technologies and innovations leading to medical and industrial applications”.
For more information, please contact Horst Wenninger, or visit the Ettore Majorana Foundation website.
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]…
Weak Protein-Ligand Interactions
The “Weak Protein-Ligand Interactions: New Horizons in Biophysics and Cell Biology” thematic meeting of the Biophysical Society will be held in Beijing, China, on 14-18 October this year.
Topics under discussion at the event will include: atomic force microscopy; chemical crosslinking; co-immunoprecipitation and pull-down; computational docking; in vivo fluorescence resonance energy transfer; isothermal calorimetry titration; magnetic tweezers; mass spectroscopy NMR spectroscopy; single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy…
