25th Anniversary Conference of the Academia Europaea
The Academia Europaea will celebrate its 25th anniversary during a conference to be held in Wroclaw on 17-19 September 2013.
The Academia Europaea is a non-governmental association acting as an academy and promoting learning, education and research since 1988. Its members are leading experts from natural sciences, mathematics, social sciences, economics and law…
INFN establishes a new centre in Trento
On 15 January 2013 the University of Trento opened the Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Application [TIFPA]. The TIFPA was created through the collaboration of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics [INFN], the University of Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler [FBK] and the Provincial Agency for Proton Therapy Trento [ATreP].
The new centre conducts research in basic physics, and in innovation and technology transfer, taking advantage of infrastructure, skills and human resources existing in the participating institutions. The Centre will benefit from…
ACAT 2013
The 15h International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research [ACAT 2013] will be held in Beijing, China, on 16-21 May 2013. The Institute of High Energy Physics [IHEP] will host the workshop.
This workshop is the latest of a series created in 1990. Its main purpose is to bring together researchers working in the field of computing. It has established bridges between physics and computer science research, facilitating the advances in the understanding of the Universe at its smallest and largest scales…
ITER gets off the ground
The 20,500-square-metre ITER Headquarters building was inaugurated on 17 January 2013. The ITER site is located in Cadarache, France, that already hosts France’s nuclear research centre [CEA].
Guenther H. Oettinger, EU Commissioner for Energy, and Geneviève Fioraso, French Minister of Higher Education and Research, together with ITER Director-General Osamu Motojima unveiled the commemorative plaque at the entrance of the building. They also visited the ITER construction site where the Tokamak Complex construction will begin…
ICSSUR 2013
The 13th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations [ICSSUR 2013] will take place from 24 to 28 June 2013 in Nuremberg, Germany.
The conference will be the 13th in a series that has been organized nearly every two years since 1991 and the first one organized in Germany. ICSSUR covers a range of topics from quantum optics to quantum atom optics and quantum information. The Nobel laureates Roy J. Glauber and David J. Wineland will give plenary talks as well as…
XXXIII Dynamics Days Europe
The 33rd edition of Dynamics Days Europe will be hosted in Madrid, Spain, from 3 to 7 June 2013.
Since 1980, the yearly conference provides a European forum for developments in the applications of and theory for dynamics. It brings together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds including physics, biology, engineering and mathematics for interdisciplinary research in nonlinear science.
This year the conference will focus on the following topics…
ECAMP11
The 11th European Conference on Atoms, Molecules, and Photons [ECAMP11] will be held in the University of Aarhus, Denmark, from 24-28 June 2013.
The triennial ECAMP conference series, launched in 1981, is the major conference of the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division [AMOPD] of the European Physical Society [EPS]. This series of conferences seeks to promote the dissemination and exchange of scientific knowledge in the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics…
21st DYMAT technical meeting
The 21st DYMAT technical meeting will be held from 18-23 November 2013 in London, UK. This edition is will focus on “High speed imaging for dynamic testing of materials and structures”.
Three main topics will be discussed: metrology, methodology and application. John Field from the University of Cambridge (UK), Phillip Reu from Sandia National Laboratories (USA) and Mikael Sjödahl of Luleå University of Technology (Sweden) are the keynote speakers of the conference…
40th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics
Held the first time in Munich in 1966, the European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics [EPS-CPP] will be organized for the 40th time this year. Hosted by the Aalto University, Finland, the 40th EPS-CPP will take place from 1-5 July 2013.
About 700 participants are expected to discuss the latest results related to fusion research, magnetic confinement fusion, beam plasmas, laser-plasma interaction and inertial confinement fusion, dusty and low temperature plasmas,…
Biomolecules and Nanostructures 4
The Biomolecules and Nanostructure 4 [Bio&Nano4] meeting will take place in Pultusk, Poland, from 15 to 19 May 2013. It is the 4th edition of a series of workshops that began in 2004.
The key topics of the workshop will cover current subjects at the crossroads of molecular biology, physics and chemistry, including biomolecules, nanostructures, nanomachines and biosensors. The specific topics of the conference include: single-molecule manipulation, supramolecular assemblies and aggregates, interactions…
ASEPS 3
The third ASEPS meeting, ASEPS 3, will take place from 14-19 July 2013 in Chiba, Japan as part of the Asia Pacific Physics Conference [APPC].
It will bring together researchers and policy makers from Asia, Europe and the US. Plenary sessions will present latest research in fields such as high energy physics, quantum optics and climate.
Four round tables will be organised, allowing for intense exchange of ideas on topics of particular interest for…
Odysseus Contest deadline extended
The Odysseus contest, launched in July 2012, has extended its submission deadline to 15 February 2013.
Students of 14-18 years of age are invited to design and demonstrate a space-themed project. The pupils are encouraged to develop their critical thought and go beyond their actual scientific knowledge with the help of a teacher.
The contest encourages the use of techniques from the inquiry-based science education. Many resources…
