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.
21st DYMAT technical meeting
The 21st DYMAT technical meeting will be held from 18-23 November 2013 in London, UK. This edition is will focus on “High speed imaging for dynamic testing of materials and structures”.
Three main topics will be discussed: metrology, methodology and application. John Field from the University of Cambridge (UK), Phillip Reu from Sandia National Laboratories (USA) and Mikael Sjödahl of Luleå University of Technology (Sweden) are the keynote speakers of the conference…
Featured in EPL
Most recent highlights from EPL:- Negative correlation between frequency-magnitude power-law exponent and Hurst coefficient in the Long-Range Connective Sandpile model for earthquakes and for real seismicity
- On the transition between complementary medium and zero-refractive-index medium
- Electrospray cone-jet breakup and droplet production for electrolyte solutions
- Helices at interfaces
40th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics
Held the first time in Munich in 1966, the European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics [EPS-CPP] will be organized for the 40th time this year. Hosted by the Aalto University, Finland, the 40th EPS-CPP will take place from 1-5 July 2013.
About 700 participants are expected to discuss the latest results related to fusion research, magnetic confinement fusion, beam plasmas, laser-plasma interaction and inertial confinement fusion, dusty and low temperature plasmas,…
Biomolecules and Nanostructures 4
The Biomolecules and Nanostructure 4 [Bio&Nano4] meeting will take place in Pultusk, Poland, from 15 to 19 May 2013. It is the 4th edition of a series of workshops that began in 2004.
The key topics of the workshop will cover current subjects at the crossroads of molecular biology, physics and chemistry, including biomolecules, nanostructures, nanomachines and biosensors. The specific topics of the conference include: single-molecule manipulation, supramolecular assemblies and aggregates, interactions…
“Hoza 69″ in Warsaw designated EPS Historic Site
The EPS Historic Sites programme of the European Physical Society [EPS] commemorates places in Europe important for the development and the history of physics. Laboratories, buildings, institutions, universities, towns, etc. associated with an event, discovery, research or body of work, by one or more individuals, that made considerable contributions to physics at the national or European/international level, can be considered for the Historic Site distinction from the EPS.
The “Hoza 69″ building in Warsaw, Poland, was the first EPS Historic Site declared by the EPS Selection Committee…
Honours abound for physicists in 2013
In the New Year’s Honours List of the United Kingdom, Professor Peter Higgs, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour, and two Fellows of the Institute of Physics were made Knights Bachelor – Professor Keith Burnett, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield, and Professor David Payne, Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton. Professor Burnett has carried out many pioneering studies in quantum optics and has been recognised for his services to science and higher education. Professor Payne was recognized for his services…
Editorial – The European Physical Society is 45 years old
2013 marks the 45th anniversary of the European Physical Society [EPS], sealing the maturity of our Society.
The EPS was founded in 1968 as “a demonstration of the determination of scientists to collaborate as closely as possible in order to further strengthen the European Cultural unity”. Since then the EPS has grown, both in dimensions and objectives.
In the last two years, following the guidelines of its strategy plan, the EPS has been developing a number of…
LHC stops … to regenerate more powerful!
2012 was quite a year for the CERN Large Hadron Collider [LHC]! A year of fundamental achievements both in physics and technology, successfully marking the end of the first 3 years period of data taking of LHC. A two years technical stop is now foreseen to allow improvements that will not only permit the machine to reach its full design energy (7 TeV per beam) and increased luminosity, but also allow the experiments to reach their utmost performance.
So far the LHC has been making continuous progress, exceeding the more optimistic luminosity goals and beam…
ASEPS 3
The third ASEPS meeting, ASEPS 3, will take place from 14-19 July 2013 in Chiba, Japan as part of the Asia Pacific Physics Conference [APPC].
It will bring together researchers and policy makers from Asia, Europe and the US. Plenary sessions will present latest research in fields such as high energy physics, quantum optics and climate.
Four round tables will be organised, allowing for intense exchange of ideas on topics of particular interest for…
The EPS PED Secondary School Teaching Award
Nominations are open for the 2012 EPS-PED Secondary School Teaching Award for contributions by a secondary school teacher to physics education. The award consists of a diploma and Euro 1000 cash prize.
The award is made to an individual secondary school teacher for work that directly affects students in physics in one or more European secondary schools. The award should recognize a specific contribution to teaching, particularly one that might be taken up in a range of countries…
Physics in primary schools
Teaching physics in an interactive way, showing concretely what we are talking about, is one of the most important goals of outreach projects promoted by European Physical Society [EPS] Young Minds. With the help of Sara Lombardi, a high school physics teacher who has been involved in outreach projects in primary schools for many years, the Naples YM Section decided to focus on the challenge of teaching physics in primary schools.
They worked with the Italian national project “Lauree Scientifiche per la Fisica”, in particular with Giovanni Chiefari…
