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EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities summer 2018

By e-EPS. Published on 24 September 2018 in:
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The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff in summer:

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The EPS wishes you a great summer!

By e-EPS. Published on 19 July 2018 in:
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2018 Lise Meitner Prize for Nuclear Science

By Silvia. Published on 19 July 2018 in:
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The 2018 Lise Meitner Prize has been jointly awarded to Peter Ring (Technische Universität München) and Peter Schuck (Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay and Laboratoire de Physique et de Modélisation des Milieux Condensés Grenoble) for “Their enormous impact on both theoretical and experimental many-body nuclear physics. In particular P.Ring developed new investigations in high-spin phenomena, collective vibrations and relativistic nuclear energy density functionals while P.Schuck introduced new approaches for nuclear matter in connection with nuclear superfluidity and alpha-particle condensation”.

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The International Day of Light and the 2018 EPS-Edison-Volta prize

By Giuseppe Grosso. Published on 19 July 2018 in:
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The International Day of Light, chosen by UNESCO to celebrate the light, all over the world, on May 16 of each year, had its first edition in Italy in the beautiful setting of the Teatro Sociale in Como. The ceremony took place in a gala evening where the scientific event was accompanied by music, readings and illusionism performance having light as an inspiring theme.

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EPS Historic Sites—Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences

By Victor Zadkov. Published on 19 July 2018 in:
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The Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISAN), which is located in science city Troitsk, Moscow, was inaugurated as an Historic Site of the European Physical Society (EPS). The EPS President, Rüdiger Voss and the EPS Secretary General, David Lee attended the ceremony, which was held on June 20, 2018, at the 50th jubilee of the ISAN.

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Call for bids to host the Applied Nuclear Physics Conference in 2020

By Sivlia Niccolai. Published on 19 July 2018 in:
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The board of the Nuclear Physics Division (NPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) is seeking candidates to host a new EPS-NPD divisional conference in 2020. The conference will have a particular emphasis on Applied Nuclear Physics (ANP), with sections specifically devoted to themes such as energy, health, space, security, environment, material science, preservation and study of cultural heritage.

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Physics in YOUR life: celebrate physics with the EPS!

By e-EPS. Published on 19 July 2018 in:
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In 2018 the European Physical Society is celebrating its 50th anniversary. To mark the event, the EPS created a series of twelve banners covering several topics of physic

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ESRF blazes a trail with the Extremely Brilliant Source programme

By Anya Joly. Published on 19 July 2018 in:
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Since its inception thirty years ago as the world’s first third-generation synchrotron light source for research, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, has become a centre of scientific excellence, breaking records for its scientific output (30,000 publications, four Nobel prizes) as well as for the brilliance and stability of its X-ray beams.

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PolarQuest 2018: tracking History and hunting cosmic rays

By e-EPS. Published on 19 July 2018 in:
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Nanuq, the self-sufficient experimental sailboat of the scientific expedition PolarQuest 2018, is about to cast off for a long journey. The expedition aims to bringing together scientific research and communication on several relevant phenomena involving the Arctic environment. It will take onboard an international team of scientists and communication experts.

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EUROfusion takes over EIROforum presidency

By EUROfusion. Published on 19 July 2018 in:
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In July 2018, EUROfusion is taking over the EIROforum Presidency. EIROforum combines the resources, facilities and expertise of its eight members (CERN, EMBL, EUROfusion, ESA, ESO, ESRF, European XFEL and ILL) to exploit European science to its fullest potential.

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The Council of Europe adopts its Gender Equality Strategy 2018-2023

By e-EPS. Published on 19 July 2018 in:
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On 7 March 2018, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers adopted the new Council of Europe Gender Equality Strategy 2018-2023.

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FRESCA2: a record field for an extraordinary magnet

By Corinne Pralavorio. Published on 19 July 2018 in:
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In its quest for knowledge, CERN pushes technologies to the limits. In the Laboratory’s workshops, scientists are inventing magnets that will equip the accelerators of the future.

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