Superstripes 2014
The Superstripes 2014 conference will be held in Erice, Italy from 25 – 31 July 2014.
The conference is a course of the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture International School of Solid State Physics directed by Giorgio Benedek, also Editor in Chief of EPL.
The conference will cover many aspect of material sciences especially related to superconductivity: Fermi liquids, defects, ferroelectricity and multiferroics, 2D metals, electron-lattice intercations and polarons, structural and orbital…
SPIG 2014
The 27th Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases [SPIG 2014] will take place from 26-29 August 2014 in Beograd, Serbia.
SPIG 2014 is part of a series of events that began 50 years ago as an international conference in the fields of atomic collision processes, particle and laser beam interactions with solids, low temperature and general plasmas. It has become rare that such a wide range of topics is covered at a single conference. As these fields often overlap…
NIC-XII
The 13th International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos [NIC-XIII] will be held in Debrecen, Hungary from 7-11 July 2014.
NIC-XII is part of a series of biennal conferences addressed to nuclear physicists, astrophysicists, cosmochemists to survey the recent achievements in nuclear astrophysics.
The NIC-XIII program will cover in particular the following topics: cosmology and big bang nucleosynthesis…
France supports the European XFEL
With a contribution of 36 million euro toward the facility’s construction, France has officially joined the European XFEL as a shareholder country. France joins the 12 countries that have signed the European XFEL convention.
The European XFEL, currently under construction in the Hamburg area, will be an international research facility of superlatives: 27.000 X-ray flashes per second and a brilliance that is a billion times higher than that of the best conventional X-ray sources will open up completely new opportunities for science. The facility starts user operation in 2017…
First proposal about WWW from 1989
Exactly 25 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal addressing the complex issue of information management at CERN. The project was based on linked information using hypertexts. Revolutionising the idea of archiving documents, it laid the foundation of the Internet.
In 1984, Tim Berners-Lee took up a fellowship at CERN, 8 years after his graduation from the Queen’s College at Oxford University, United Kingdom. His first job there was related with the distributed real-time systems for scientific data acquisition and system control. In this context T. Berners-Lee submitted the proposal that would provide…
Positive conclusions for ERA
Since 2008, the European Research Area [ERA] has facilitated the circulation of researchers, scientific knowledge and technology in the European Union. In February 2014, the Council of the European Union [EU] reaffirmed its support to ERA as a key factor to create growth and jobs.
Over the years, ERA has been reinforced with focus on 5 priorities: more effective national research systems; optimal transnational co-operation and competition; an open labor market for researchers; gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research; and optimal circulation, access…
EPS-SIF International School on Energy
The EPS together with the Italian Physical Society [SIF] will organise the 2nd Course of the Joint EPS-SIF International School on Energy in Varenna, Italy, on the Lake Como from 17-23 July 2014. The title of this Course is: “Energy: Basic concepts and forefront ideas”.
The primary goal of the School will be to present all physics fields with relevance for the technologies of energy production, conversion, transmission and savings. Their potential will be presented but also the need for more research and development to fully unfold it will be indicated. For this purpose, basic lectures and topical seminars will be…
CEWQO 2014
The 21st Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics [CEWQO 2014] will be held from 23-27 June 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.
The CEWQO 2014 is part of a series of workshops started in the 1990s to encourage collaboration with Central-European countries. It has become a central annual meeting for European researchers working in quantum optics, its applications to quantum information, and foundations of quantum mechanics.
Some student grants, mainly for students and postdocs from economically disfavoured regions…
SigmaPhi2014
The International conference on Statistical Physics [SigmaPhi2014] will be held from 7-11 July 2014 in Rhodes, Greece.
The conference will cover all the topics of statistical physics: foundations and theoretical aspects of classical, quantum and relativistic statistical physics and thermodynamics; applications to physical systems; applications to non-physical systems. The SigmaPhi2014 conference is organised in symposia dealing with general aspects and applications. Some workshops will cluster talks dedicated to special topics and poster sessions will be also part of the programme.
The Annual Meeting of the European Physical Society – Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division will be held…
EAS’s recommendations on Open Access
The European Astronomical Society [EAS] published a report entitled “Exploring the road to Open Access Publishing”. The report examines many aspects of open access with regard to publishing in the domain of astronomy, and provides 6 recommendations.
The EAS report explores the benefits and limitations of open access publication. The recurrent and main concern is the financial uncertainty arising from the transition from the traditional system and open access publication.
The conclusions of the report underline the importance of informing the members of the scientific community…
IYL 2015 – Draw the magic of light
The International Year of Light 2015 [IYL 2015] will foster the creativity all over the world. The students from the media field of the University of Offenburg, Germany, did not wait until 2015 to bring their skills and innovative ideas to promote light. Under the guidance of their professor Dan Curticapean, they designed dozens of posters for IYL 2015.
From 2013 encouragements to participate and engage activities for the IYL 2015 are multiplying. The initiative from the University of Offenburg, lead by D. Curticapean is one of the first success stories of IYL 2015…
FCC and more after LHC
Particle physics takes the long-term view. Originally conceived in the 1980s, the LHC took another 25 years to come into being. This accelerator, which is unlike any other, is just at the start of a longer programme, which is expected to run for another 20 years.
Even now, plans are being hatched for a large-scale upgrade to increase luminosity and thereby exploit the LHC to its full potential. The high luminosity LHC is CERN’s number-one priority and will increase the number of collisions accumulated in the experiments by a factor of 10 from 2024 onwards…
