Odysseus Contest deadline extended
The Odysseus contest, launched in July 2012, has extended its submission deadline to 15 February 2013.
Students of 14-18 years of age are invited to design and demonstrate a space-themed project. The pupils are encouraged to develop their critical thought and go beyond their actual scientific knowledge with the help of a teacher.
The contest encourages the use of techniques from the inquiry-based science education. Many resources…
Download the EPS calendar 2013
This year the EPS, thanks to the initiative of the EPS Young Minds, has produced a nice calendar in poster format. The calendar has been specially designed to give at glance the essential and attractive information on the many activities of the EPS.
The EPS calendar is currently being sent to all EPS Individual Members but it can also be downloaded…
First Year of Light Planning Meeting at ICTP
After the UNESCO endorsement last year, the EPS-coordinated proposal for an International Year of Light is working its way through the various procedural steps to the United Nations General Assembly. But serious planning for events and activities is already underway, and the first multi-partner planning meeting will take place in early February 2013 at the International Centre of Theoretical Physics [ICTP] in Trieste, Italy.
The planning meeting will involve Steering Committee representatives from the nations of Ghana and Mexico…
New members elected to EPS-NPD Board
The EPS Nuclear Physics Division [NPD] would like to welcome its newly elected Board members, Karlheinz Langanke (GSI and TU Darmstadt – Darmstadt, Germany) and Faiçal Azaiez (Institut de Physique Nucléaire – Orsay, France).
At the same time, the EPS and the NPD would like to thank Héloïse Goutte and Horst Stöcker for their hard work and dedication over the years.
EPS Divisions and Groups are essential to the EPS. They are created by interested and motivated physicists…
DESY reveals hidden paintings of Rembrandt
Underneath the “Old Man in Military Costume” painted by the Dutch artist Rembrandt in the years 1630/31, investigations spotted another portrait which was only faintly distinguishable with all applied technologies. An international team of scientists now used a detailed mock-up to test different methods to look beneath the original painting at DESYs X-ray source DORIS and at the National Synchrotron Light Source [NSLS] of the Brookhaven National Laboratory [BNL] in the United States, as well as with a mobile X-ray scanner. The results are published as the cover story of the “Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry” [JAAS] of the British Royal Society of Chemistry…
Pushing the boundaries of cold atoms
A 4-week programme “Pushing the boundaries of cold atoms” will held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 21 January 2013 to 15 February 2013. It aims to bring together researchers and students working in this field, both theoreticians as well as experimentalists.
The programme focuses on new directions within the field of ultracold atomic gases. Interesting topics include for example: Synthetic gauge fields for cold atoms, Multi-component atoms, spinor condensates…
