13th SESAME Users’ Meeting
The 13th SESAME users’ meeting will take place in Amman on November 25 and 26, 2015. It will include:
1. updates on the project,
2. invited speakers on selected topics related to SESAME scientific plans
The XXVII International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics
The XXVII International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2016) will be held in London from Monday 4 July to Saturday 9 July 2016.
2015 Nobel Prize in Physics to T. Kajita and A.B. McDonald
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 to Takaaki Kajita, Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, and Arthur B. McDonald, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Featured in EPL
Recent updates and changes at EPL can be found on the journal website
IPCC elects Hoesung Lee of Republic of Korea as Chair
DUBROVNIK, Croatia, Oct 6 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) elected Hoesung Lee of the Republic of Korea as its new Chair on Tuesday.
Hoesung Lee was elected by 78 votes to 56 in a run-off with Jean-Pascal van Ypersele. A total of six candidates had been nominated for the position.
“I am honoured and grateful that the Panel has elected me as the IPCC’s new Chair,” said Hoesung Lee. “The IPCC remains deeply committed to providing policymakers with the highest quality scientific assessment …
EPS Executive & Staff activity for September 2015
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff for September 2015:
1-4 September: Christophe Rossel, EPS president, attended the joint annual Meeting of the Austrian and Swiss Physical Societies at TU Wien, Vienna, delivering one opening address and chairing two sessions (one plenary and one on Condensed Matter Physics)
Séminaire Dautreppe
Since 1969, the French Physical Society has organised the Daniel Dautreppe seminar. This annual meeting, held in Grenoble (FR), gathers together experts of a specific field of physics to have an overview of the situation.
Unifying physics and technology in light of Maxwell’s equations
Anatoly Zayats, John Ellis and Roy Pike are the organisers of a discussion meeting on Unifying physics and technology in light of Maxwell’s equations, to be held in the Royal Society, London, UK, from 16-17 November 2015.
Kavli Prize – Call for Nominations 2016
The call for nominations for the 2016 Kavli Prizes is open from September 1 through December 1, 2015. The winners of the 2016 Kavli Prizes will be announced June 2, 2016 and the award ceremony will take place in Oslo, Norway on September 6, 2016.
Nominations for the Kavli Prizes should be submitted to The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters by way of the online nomination form.
Featured in EPN
Most recent highlights from EPN:
Rosetta’s journey to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
How many gold atoms make gold metal?
Light – cosmic messages from the past
The First African Light Source Conference and Workshop
The First African Light Source Conference will take place from 15-20 November 2015 at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility [ESRF] in Grenoble, France. It is the first in a series of conferences that will be held in Africa in the future.
The conference will review the status of the African User Base at international light sources with presentations of the African research at Light Sources.
EPS Executive and Staff activity for August 2015
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff for August 2015:
10 August: John Dudley, EPS vice-president, represented EPS at an international summer school in Tampere, Finland, presenting progress on IYL2015.
