Executive and Staff Activity for September 2013

If you want to see how EPS works to support its members in different ways, here is a selection of the activities of EPS Executive Committee members and staff for the last month. Click here for the list.

• 11 September: EPS Vice-President L. Cifarelli inaugurates as EPS Historic Site the Observatory of Tycho Brache at Hven Island, Landskrona, Sweden.
• 13 September: EPS President J. Dudley inaugurates as EPS Historic Site the LAL-LURE Complex at Orsay…

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Dispersed stable states spectrum of the wave equation with space-time periodic potential
Nonlocal current-voltage characteristics of gated superconducting sketched oxide nanostructures
Antiferromagnetic long-range order in the uniform resonating valence bond state…
Information erasure in copolymers
Re-entrant magnetic-field–induced charge and spin gaps…

ICTR-PHE 2014

The upcoming ICTR-PHE conference will be held from 10-14 February 2014 at the International Conference Centre of Geneva, Switzerland.

This event is a joint conference that attracts experts in physics, engineering, medicine, computer science and biology, creating a unique opportunity to discuss the latest advances in all these disciplines and to catalyse new collaborations.

The International Conference on Translational Research in Radiation Oncology [ICTR] was first held in 2000…

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The European Mathematical Society: the home for Mathematics in Europe by Marta Sanz-Solé
Letter to the Editor: crossing borders by Herman C.W. Beijerinck
An eye-witness report on how the WWW came about by Horst Wenninger
Surprises in the Hard X-ray Sky by Thierry J.-L. Courvoisier

EPS Executive and Staff Activity for July 2013

What follows is a short list of the various activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for the last month. By providing a summary every month, we hope to inform all EPS’s members of the various ways in which the Executive Committee and Secretariat can provide support.

• 1-5 July: M. Knoop (EPS Honorary Secretary) attends French Physical Society [SFP] Meeting in Marseille, France….

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Electron pockets and pseudogap asymmetry observed in the thermopower of underdoped cuprates by J. G. Storey, J. L. Tallon and G. V. M. Williams
Dynamic jamming fronts by S. R. Waitukaitis, L. K. Roth, V. Vitelli and H. M. Jaeger

EPS Executive and Staff Activity for June 2013

If you want to see how EPS works to support its members in different ways, here is a selection of the activities of EPS Executive Committee members and staff for the last month. Click here for the list.

• 4 June: EPS Secretary General D. Lee attends Board Meeting of Condensed Matter Division in Paris (FR)
• 5 June: EPS Secretary General D. Lee, and EPS EPN Editor C. Sebenne attend EPN Core Group meeting in Avignon (FR)…

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The SRB solar thermal panel by C. Benvenuti
The force of a tiny synthetic machine by Tiziana Svaldo-Lanero and Anne-Sophie Duwez
Making the Elements in the Universe by Karlheinz Langanke and Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

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Bound states in the continuum driven by AC fields by C.González-Santander, P.A.Orellana and F.Domínguez-Adame
Interaction of a point charge with the surface of a uniaxial dielectric by P. R.Ribič and R.Podgornik
Node-weighted interacting network measures improve the representation of real-world complex systems by M.Wiedermann, J.F.Donges, J.Heitzig and J.Kurths

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Opening a new window on the Universe: the future Gravitational Wave detectors by Michele Punturo
My amazing experience by Ofri Kahana
Inspiring learning environment, the school as a three-dimensional text book by Mirjana Božić
Beauty in disguise – the physics behind the power grid by Christian Ohler

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Evidence for nodeless superconducting gap in NaFe1−xCoxAs from low-temperature…

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Water is a vital substance for life on planet Earth. This is obvious for liquid water with its crucial role for any species living on the globe. But also solid water plays a more important role than one might expect.

Surprises in cycling aerodynamics, by Bert Blocken, Thijs Defraeye, Erwin Koninckx, Jan Carmeliet and Peter Hespel…