EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities July and August 2019
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff in summer:
8th EPS Young Minds Leadership Meeting
On 24-25 May 2019, the 8th leadership meeting of the Young Minds Programme of the European Physical Society was held at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), in Erlangen, Germany. This Leadership Meeting was organized by the hbar Omega student chapter and the Young Minds (YM) section of Erlangen, supported by MPL and funded by the European Physical Society (EPS), Europhysics Letters (EPL), International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), The Optical Society (OSA), OHB Systems AG, and Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT).
Dutch and US students win 2019 CERN Beamline for Schools competition
Two teams of high-school students, one from the Praedinius Gymnasium in Groningen, Netherlands, and one from the West High School in Salt Lake City, USA, have won the 2019 Beamline for Schools competition.
Call for nominations for the IUPAP Physics for Development Medal 2020
The Commission on Physics for Development (C13) opens nominations for its IUPAP Physics for Development Medal 2020.
Call for nominations – EPS president-elect
A number of vacancies will arise on the European Physical Society (EPS) Executive Committee in 2020, including the position of President-elect. According to the EPS bylaws, a Selection Committee has been created to establish a list of candidates for the replacement of outgoing members, and for the President-elect.
La Silla 50th anniversary culminates with total solar eclipse
Visitors enjoy outreach programme at ESO’s first observatory
DPG renews warning of serious consequences of man-made climate change
More than four decades ago, the German Physical Society warned of the dangers of man-made climate change. Coinciding with the Bonn Climate Change Conference in June 2019, the DPG now renews its appeal to do everything in its power to reduce the resulting additional greenhouse effect to a tolerable level.
NASA’s TESS Mission Finds Its Smallest Planet Yet
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the tiniest discovered by TESS to date.
4th International Conference on the History of Physics
We are pleased to announce that the next in this biennial series will take place at Trinity College Dublin from 17-19 June 2020.
IoP report on LGBT+ physical scientists
IoP’s launched a ground-breaking research report, “Exploring the workplace for LGBT+ Physical Scientists”, which has been produced in partnership between Institute of Physics, Royal Society of Chemistry and Royal Astronomical Society.
Towards an update of the European Particle Physics Strategy
The European Strategy for Particle Physics is the cornerstone of Europe’s decision-making process for the long-term future of the field. Mandated by the CERN Council, an update of the Strategy is currently under way. A major step in this process was the Open Symposium, attended by some 600 physicists, held in Granada, Spain from 13-16 May 2019.
