EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities April 2018
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff last month:
Editorial: My experience as EPS Young Minds in the CMD27- EPS-DPG spring meeting
The 2018 joint meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG) and the European Physical Society (EPS) Condensed Matter Divisions took place in Berlin from 11th to 16th of March 2018.
New 2018 EPS Executive Committee members and president-elect
The EPS Council meeting that took place on 6-7 April 2018 elected the members of the Executive Committee as well as the next EPS President-elect.
EPS distinctions 2018
The European Physical Society (EPS) awarded following distinctions during the EPS Council 2018 held in Paris from 6-7 April : Honorary Members, Fellows, Gero Thomas Medal, Achievement Award.
EPS 50th anniversary: Klaus Gottstein, among the first EPS members
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the European Physical Society interviewed members from the very beginning. Klaus Gottstein, a German physicist and member of the EPS since 1968, kindly answered our questions.
EPS Edison Volta Prize 2018
The European Physical Society (EPS), the Fondazione Alessandro Volta and Edison S.p.A. have awarded the 2018 EPS Edison Volta Prize for outstanding contributions to physics to Alain Brillet, Karsten Danzmann, Adalberto Giazotto (†) and Jim Hough.
Dieter Meschede new President of the German Physical Society
On 9 April 2018, Dieter Meschede took over the presidency of the German Physical Society (DPG). He succeeds Rolf Heuer, who was president of the world’s largest physical society with about 62,000 members from April 2016 to April 2018 and is now vice president of the DPG on a rotational basis.
Events in Liechtenstein related to the International Day of Light
News from Naturwissenschaftliches Forum (Liechtenstein Section of EPS)
EPS-PPD PhD Research Award
The EPS Plasma Physics Division Board has pleasure in announcing four winners of its 2018 PhD Research Award. These were selected on the basis of their outstanding PhD theses.
Bulgarian Presidency Flagship Conference on Research Infrastructures
The conference on Long Term Sustainability of the Research Infrastructures, organised under the auspices of the Bulgarian Presidency by the Ministry of Education and Science, attracted 273 participants from 30 countries.
Call for bids for the organisation of the EPS-HEP 2021 Conference
The HEPP Board of the European Physical Society is soliciting Expressions of Interest (EoI) from potential hosts of the EPS-HEP conference in 2021. These EoIs should contain information on the Local Organizing Committee, the Universities and/or Laboratories involved, the location of the conference, the foreseen costs and the expected financial contribution from sources other than conference fees.
The United Kingdom officially joins European XFEL
The UK joined European XFEL as the research organization’s twelfth member state. In a ceremony at the British Embassy in Berlin, representatives of the UK government and the other contract parties including the German federal government signed the documents to join the European XFEL Convention. The UK’s contribution will amount to 26 million Euro, or about 2% of the total construction budget of 1.22 billion Euro (both in 2005 prices) and an annual contribution of about 2 % to the operation budget. The UK will be represented in European XFEL by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) as shareholder.
