EPS Historic Site inaugurated in Frankfurt: Born for Modern Physics
On September 3 2019 the former Institute of Physics of the University of Frankfurt has been awarded the honorary title “EPS Historic Site” by the European Physical Society.
Physics and Life
First French-German Wilhelm and Else Heraeus seminar dealt with physics in living systems / Start of further binational seminars to strengthen the European idea.
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.
“The Four(er) Vectors” won the international physics competition PLANCKS
The winners of the German physics competition DOPPLERS also won the international competition PLANCKS in Odense, Denmark. Sven Jandura from the LMU Munich, Eugen Dizer from the University of Heidelberg and Friedrich Hübner and Kilian Bönisch, both from the University of Bonn, clearly set themselves apart from the other teams with 84 out of 100 [...]
First DPG Fall Meeting addresses Quantum Science
The German Physical Society (DPG) is launching a new meeting dedicated to a research theme identified by its three sections: Condensed Matter / Atomic, Molecular, Plasma Physics and Quantum Optics / Matter and Cosmos. The Fall Meeting complements the well-known DPG Spring Conferences.
Lutz Schröter becomes President of the German Physical Society from 2020 to 2022
In its most recent meeting, the DPG Council elected Lutz Schröter, Industry Manager, as the future President of the world’s largest physical society with over 60,000 members. In April 2020, he will take over from Dieter Meschede, who will then take up his duties as Vice President.
Dieter Meschede new President of the German Physical Society
On 9 April 2018, Dieter Meschede took over the presidency of the German Physical Society (DPG). He succeeds Rolf Heuer, who was president of the world’s largest physical society with about 62,000 members from April 2016 to April 2018 and is now vice president of the DPG on a rotational basis.
Play it again, PiA! Physics experiments every year at Christmas time
With the motto “24 experiments until Christmas”, the University of Göttingen and the German Physical Society (DPG) offer physics experiments such as an Advent calendar. It is science, fun and you can win lots of prizes.
Physical expertise for Europe
The Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society, DPG) welcomes European Commission’s plans to set up a scientific advisory board.
Bad Honnef, 27 May 2015 – As surprising the dismissal of the Chief Science Adviser, Anne Glover, was for many, this decision now opens the opportunity to provide scientific advice to the European Commission on a new and broader basis. Therefore, the German Physical Society welcomes the aim of the EU Commission to establish an advisory board of at least seven scientific experts.
Johanna Stachel new DPG president
Johanna Stachel took office as president of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft [DPG] on 16 March this year. Stachel, a professor of experimental physics at the University of Heidelberg, is the first female physicist to head the DPG since its founding in 1845.
Stachel presented her presidential agenda during her inaugural speech, which took place in the Magnus-Haus Berlin. Besides the promotion of fundamental research, the main concerns of the new president are education…
