Good results for ISE and the best is yet to come

The partners of the Inspiring Science Education [ISE] project have begun to see the result of their work during the first year of the project.

Science education is an investment for both society as a whole and the next generation of scientists. Bringing scientific culture into primary and secondary schools will inspire children to embrace scientific careers as well as enhance scientific awareness of future generations of policy makers, teachers, lawyers, etc…

NANOMETA 2015

The 5th International Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials [NANOMETA 2015] will take place from 5-8 January 2015 in Seefeld, Austria, as a part of the International Year of Light endorsed by the United Nations.

NANOMETA 2015 is continues the series of meetings that began in 2007.

During the plenary and parallel sessions, attendees will be able to discuss the most recent results in the fields of metamaterials, nanophotonics, plasmonics, hybrid and…

ECRYS-2014

The International School and Workshop on Electronic Crystals [ECRYS-2014] will be held in Cargèse, France, from 11-23 August 2014.

ECRYS-2014 will continue the series of triennial conferences on electronic crystals, which have been organized since 1993 in France. As the cross-community research school, ECRYS 2014 aims to bring together young researchers as well as PhD students to exchange information regarding the inter-disciplinary field of electronic crystals…

PM’14

The European Conference Physics of Magnetism [PM'14] will be held from 23-27 June 2014 in Poznań, Poland. The event is the 14th in the series of conferences, which started in 1975.

The Conference is meant as an international forum for the presentation and discussion of novel scientific ideas, in a field of broadly understood magnetic phenomena (including new materials) with special emphasis on the following subjects: strongly correlated electrons and high temperature superconductivity; quantum and classical spin…

EPWS Paris Conference 2014

The European Platform of Woman Scientists [EPWS] Conference “New Perspectives on Women Scientists Careers in Europe” will be held on 11 June 2014 in Paris, France.

In 2003, the EPWS was created as an international non-profit organisation that represents the needs, concerns, interests, and aspirations of more than 12.000 women scientists in Europe and beyond.

The EPWS brings together networks engaged in promoting women scientists as well as…

A common past and future for ESA and CERN

On 28 March 2014, CERN and the European Space Agency [ESA] signed a framework agreement for future cooperation on research and technology in areas of mutual interest. The signature arises from the collaborative vision of Edoardo Amaldi, founding father of both organizations.

Edoardo Amaldi (1908 – 1989) had an strong belief in the open nature of science and the need for international cooperation. After participating in the creation of CERN during the 1950s, he became Secretary General of…

2014 Tycho Brahe Prize awarded to A. Labeyrie

The European Astronomical Society awards its 2014 Tycho Brahe Prize to Antoine Labeyrie in recognition of his outstanding contributions to modern optical imaging at high angular resolution. Since 2007, the Tycho Brahe Prize is awarded annually in acknowledgment of the development or exploitation of European instruments or major discoveries based largely on such instruments.
Having invented holographic gratings, Antoine Labeyrie proposed the technique of speckle interferometry, which allowed reaching the diffraction limit of telescopes especially the largest ones. Then, he was the first…

Measuring scientific performance for improved policy making

In recent decades, developments in European research policy making have led to an enhancement of the role and function of evaluation to cope with the growing globalisation of research and the need to ensure effective research systems at the national level and in the European Research Area. These developments have led to a need for a more integrated way to understand research performance as well as its efficiency and effects, combined with a growing need for a European view.
In April 2014, the European Parliamentary Research Service published the results of a study that analyses…

Better solar cells, superconductors and hard-drives

Using DESY’s light sources, scientists have opened a new door to better solar cells, novel superconductors and smaller hard-drives.
The research reported in the scientific journal Nature Communications enhances the understanding of the interface of two materials, where completely new properties can arise. With their work, the team of Prof. Andrivo Rusydi, from the National University of Singapore, and Prof. Michael Rübhausen, from the Hamburg Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science, have solved a long standing mystery in the condensed matter physics…

Ana Proykova elected to be an expert for Horizon 2020

Since January 2014, Ana Proykova, former member of the EPS Executive Committee from Bulgaria, is a member of the Horizon 2020 Future and Emerging Technologies [FET] Advisory Group.

The FET Advisory Group is part of the Advisory Groups put in place to provide advice to the Commission on the implementation for framework programme for research and innovation Horizon 2020. This particular group will be tasked with the future and emerging technologies objective within the “excellent science” priority…

18th ISQE’2014

The 18th International School on Quantum Electronics “Laser Physics and Applications” [18th ISQE'2014] will be held from 29 September to 3 October 2014 in Sozopol, Bulgaria.

The 18th ISQE’2014 is a traditional event, organized biennially since 1980. The proceeding of previous issues are available on 18th ISQE’2014 website.

The topics cover investigations of the basic physical phenomena, processes of interaction of laser radiation with…

MSCMP 2014

The 7th International Conference on Materials Science and Condensed Matter Physics [MSCMP 2014] dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Applied Physics will be held from 16–19 September 2014, in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.

MSCMP 2014 is a biennial international conference, which brings together academics and research-oriented practitioners in the areas of physics and electrochemistry. It is an interdisciplinary conference, which aims at…