EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities October 2018
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff in summer:
Editorial – Celebrating 50 years of EPS
As every reader of e-EPS knows, our society is celebrating this year its 50th anniversary – to be precise, on 26 September, the day in the year 1968 when the EPS was formally launched in the Aula Magna of the University of Geneva.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin, from Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, USA, “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”. The other half goes jointly to Gérard Mourou, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France) and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA)and to Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo (Canada) “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”.
2018 NPD prizes awarded at EuNPC
The Nuclear Physics Division of the European Physical Society awarded its 2018 prizes during the recent European Nuclear Physics Conference, which took place in Bologna (Italy), September 2-7 2018.
Call for nominations for the 2019 Vladilen Letokhov Medal
The European Physical Society, The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division, The Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division and The Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences are happy to announce the 2019 Vladilen Letokhov Medal.
Call for nominations for the EPS-PPD Prizes
The Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS PPD) opens calls for its 2019 prizes.
The first telescope on a Cherenkov Telescope Array site makes its debut
La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain – On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, more than 200 guests from around the world gathered on the northern array site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to celebrate the inauguration of the first prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST).
Cooperation Between AAPPS-DNP (ANPhA) and NuPECC: Efforts Toward Long-range Plans for Nuclear Physics
This article is part of a series of contributions from the AAPPS.
Scientific animation: when science is pop
What happens when a group of young researchers decides to mix together passion for science and “pop culture”?
HBSM-2018 Conference in Suzdal, Russia, and the activities of the Russian EPS Young Minds section
Suzdal, an ancient small city in Russia 260 km away from Moscow, hosted on August 6-11 the 13th International Conference on “Hole Burning, Single Molecules, and Related Spectroscopies: Science and Applications” (HBSM-2018), which was organised in Russia for the first time.
Science Institutions in Trieste and Friuli Venezia Giulia to Support Researchers Displaced by War
(Trieste, Italy) The leaders of 10 high-level science centres based in Trieste and Friuli Venezia Giulia in Italy have agreed to develop research and study opportunities for scientists forced to flee from war and conflict in their home countries. The agreement was signed at a ceremony on Monday 17 September 2018, at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.
Dr. Ursula Bassler elected as next President of the CERN Council
The CERN Council announced the election of Dr Ursula Bassler as its 23rd President, for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2019. She will take over from Professor Sijbrand de Jong, who concludes his three-year term at the end of December.
