Executive and Staff activity for August 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and the staff for August 2014:
10-12 August: John Dudley, EPS President, and Christophe Rossel, EPS President-elect, attended the International Conference of Physics Students in Heidelberg, Germany. They met with representatives of the International Association of Physics Students and the young DPG.
They also met with Prof. E. Krubasik, President of the DPG and Prof. S. Bethke DPG …
CERN’s 60th anniversary
On 29 September 1954, the CERN Convention entered into force, officially establishing the European Organization for Nuclear Research with 12 European member states. Now the world’s biggest particle physics laboratory, CERN is celebrating in 2014 “60 years of science for peace”, with an official ceremony and several public events taking place throughout September.
The highlight of this anniversary month is the official ceremony on 29 September, which will be attended by many representatives of CERN’s Member States, Associate Member States and Observers…
Featured in EPN
Most recent highlights from EPN:
Unravelling the mystery of the Earth magnetic field by Henri-Claude Nataf
Mental ability and common sense in an artificial society by Krzysztof Malarz and Krzysztof Kułakowski
Giant impact: accretion and evolution of the Moon by J. Geiss, M.C.E. Huber and A.P. Rossi
Executive and Staff activity for July 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff for July 2014:
- 1 July: J. Dudley, EPS President, represented EPS at the 60th anniversary of CERN at UNESCO HQ in Paris, France, and met with UNESCO officials to provide an update on IYL2015 preparations
- 7-8 July: C. Rossel EPS President-elect gave the opening speech at the conference…
Featured in EPL
Most recent highlights from EPL:
Black-hole entropy from complex Ashtekar variables by E. Frodden et al.
From the sine-Gordon field theory to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang growth equation by Pasquale Calabrese et al.
Evidence for a Bose-Einstein condensate of excitons by Mathieu Alloing et al.
Subharmonic oscillations of collective molecular motors by D. Oriola et al.
Uncovering temporal transitions and self-organization during slow aging of dense granular media in the absence of…
Executive and Staff Activity for June 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Find below for the list of the activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for June 2014:
- 6-7 June: O. Fornari, EPS Young Mind Board member, attended the 3rd EPS Young Minds Leadership Meeting in Paris, France
- 13 June: C. Rossel, EPS President-elect and D. Lee, EPS Secretary met in Mulhouse, France, with…
EPS CMD Europhysics Prize honors oxide interfaces research
The Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society is proud to announce the award of the 2014 European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize to Harold Y. Hwang, Jochen Mannhart and Jean-Marc Triscone “for the discovery and investigation of electron liquids at oxide interfaces”.
An outstanding challenge in condensed matter science has been to develop alternatives to conventional semiconductors for the future generations of electronic devices. Of particular interest for such devices are interfaces of…
Featured in EPN
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The lustre of pearls
First result from the AMS experiment: the beginning of a rich cosmic ray program
Does water foam exist in microgravity?
Symmetry of quasi one-dimensional systems: line groups and applications…
Executive and Staff Activity for May 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Find below for the list of the activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for May 2014:
- 5-6 May: B. Huchet, EPS Communication Coordinator, attended the HOPE WG1 meeting in Naples, Italy
- 7 May: D. Lee, EPS Secretary General and J. Ongena, Chairman EPS Energy Group attended a planning meetig of the 4th European Energy Conference, in Karlsruhe, Germany…
Featured in EPL
Most recent highlights from EPL:
Information content: Assessing meso-scale structures in complex networks by M. Zanin et al.
Intense infrared scintillation of liquid Ar-Xe mixtures by A. Neumeier et al.
Strange eigenmodes and chaotic advection in open fluid flows by Alessandro P. S. de Moura.
A paradox in community detection by Filippo Radicchi.
Continuum dynamics of elastocapillary coalescence and arrest by Z. Wei and L. Mahadevan.
Executive and Staff Activity for April 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Find below for the list of the activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for April 2014:
- 1 April: EPS Secretary, M. Knoop participated in Fysica in Leiden, the Netherlands, in order to give the Emmy-Noether prize to Nynke Dekker
- 3 April: EPS Executive Committee met at Trieste, Italy…
International Year of Light News
IYL 2015 presented at Photonics Europe in BrusselsThe aims and plans for IYL 2015 were presented to European researchers in photonics by EPS President John Dudley in Brussels on 14 April 2014. During the opening session of the SPIE Photonics Europe conference, John Dudley…International Year of Light announces Philips Lighting as first Patron SponsorThe IYL 2015 Consortium is delighted to announce a partnership for this International Year with Royal Philips – global leader in lighting solutions – as first Patron Sponsor…
