Nine scientific pioneers receive the 2014 Kavli Prizes
Nine pioneering scientists have been named this year’s recipients of the Kavli Prizes – prizes that recognize scientists for their seminal advances in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience.
The 2014 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics is shared between Alan H. Guth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Andrei D. Linde, Stanford University, USA, and Alexei A. Starobinsky, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. They receive the prize “for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation”. The theory of…
First beam of antihydrogen atoms
ASACUSA at CERN, Antiproton Decelerator [AD], a Japanese-European collaboration working on antihydrogen production for the CPT symmetry test, has unambiguously detected an antihydrogen beam 2.7 meters downstream from the production region, for the first time. This is an important milestone towards high precision tests of the CPT symmetry via antihydrogen spectroscopy.
It is well-known that matter and antimatter are always created in equal amounts in laboratory experiments. It is …
New appointments for EPL Association Board of Director
At the EPL Editorial Board meeting on 16 May 2014, Dr. Christophe Rossel was appointed as Chairman of the EPL Association [EPLA], responsible for the operation of the EPL journal. He takes over from Prof. Markus Schwoerer who has held that role for the past 3 years.
C. Rossel has been a member of the Board of Directors of the EPLA since 2012. Receiving a PhD in solid-state physics in 1981 from the University of Geneva in the field of superconductivity he continued research at the University of…
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NANOMETA 2015
The 5th International Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials [NANOMETA 2015] will take place from 5-8 January 2015 in Seefeld, Austria. It will be included as an activity in the International Year of Light endorsed by the United Nations. NANOMETA 2015 continues the series of meetings that began in 2007.
During the plenary and parallel sessions, attendees will be able to discuss the most recent results in the fields of metamaterials, nanophotonics, plasmonics, hybrid and quantum materials as well as localisation of light and…
CLEO®/Europe – EQEC 2015
The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics [CLEO®/Europe] and the European Quantum Electronics Conference [EQEC] 2015 will be held at the International Congress Centre in Munich, Germany, from 21-25 June 2015.
The CLEO®/Europe-EQEC conference series has a long tradition as a gathering of optics and photonics researchers and engineers in Europe. Held every two years, CLEO®/Europe-EQEC conference has become the benchmark …
Executive and Staff Activity for May 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Find below for the list of the activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for May 2014:
- 5-6 May: B. Huchet, EPS Communication Coordinator, attended the HOPE WG1 meeting in Naples, Italy
- 7 May: D. Lee, EPS Secretary General and J. Ongena, Chairman EPS Energy Group attended a planning meetig of the 4th European Energy Conference, in Karlsruhe, Germany…
PM’14
The European Conference Physics of Magnetism [PM'14] will be held from 23-27 June 2014 in Poznań, Poland. The event is the 14th in the series of conferences, which started in 1975.
The Conference is meant as an international forum for the presentation and discussion of novel scientific ideas, in a field of broadly understood magnetic phenomena (including new materials) with special emphasis on the following subjects: strongly correlated electrons and high temperature superconductivity; quantum and classical spin…
CEWQO 2014
The 21st Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics [CEWQO 2014] will be held from 23-27 June 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.
The CEWQO 2014 is part of a series of workshops started in the 1990s to encourage collaboration with Central-European countries. It has become a central annual meeting for European researchers working in quantum optics, its applications to quantum information, and foundations of quantum mechanics.
Some student grants, mainly for students and postdocs from economically disfavoured regions…
41st EPS conference on Plasma Physics
The 41st EPS conference on Plasma Physics will be held from 23-27 June 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
This conference continues the series of plasma physics conferences organized by the European Physical Society covering the wide field from nuclear fusion research to the low temperature plasmas, as well as space and astrophysical plasmas.
A number of scientists accepted to prepare plenary talks of general interest for the participants. Invited talks will be given for the four topics separately, namely on Magnetic Confinement Fusion, on Beam Plasmas and Inertial Fusion…
