EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities November 2018
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff in summer:
Inspiring Science Education Academy 2019
The aim of the Inspiring Science Education International Summer Academy is to support the modernisation of science education and training, including curricula, assessment of learning outcomes and the professional development of teachers and trainers, as well as to the wide adoption of the recommendations of the Rocard Report “A new Pedagogy for the Future of [...]
International symposium on Future Circular Collider technologies
The University of Liverpool, in collaboration with CERN, is organising the ‘Particle Colliders – Accelerating Innovation’ Symposium on Future Circular Collider (FCC) technologies. This event will be a public display of the FCC study and will take place at the Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre on 22 March 2019. The largest machine in the World, the Large [...]
ECAMP13
The 13th European Conference on Atoms Molecules and Photons (ECAMP13) will take place in Florence, Italy, April 8-12, 2019. The Conference venue will be Fortezza da Basso in the very heart of the renaissance town. The triennial ECAMP conference series, launched in 1981, is the major conference of the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division [...]
2019 APS Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics to Helge Kragh
The 2019 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics was awarded to Helge Kragh, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, “For influential contributions to the history of physics, especially analyses of cosmological theories and debates, the history of the quantum physics of elementary particles and the solid state, and biographical studies of Paul Dirac and Niels Bohr, and his early quantum atom.” Helge Kragh was awarded the first EPS Echophysics PhysicsEstoire Prize in 2016.
EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities October 2018
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff in summer:
Setting Their Table: Women & the Periodic Table
The International Symposium “Setting Their Table: Women and the Periodic Table” will be held from 11-12 February 2019 in Murcia, Spain.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin, from Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, USA, “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”. The other half goes jointly to Gérard Mourou, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France) and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA)and to Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo (Canada) “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”.
Science Institutions in Trieste and Friuli Venezia Giulia to Support Researchers Displaced by War
(Trieste, Italy) The leaders of 10 high-level science centres based in Trieste and Friuli Venezia Giulia in Italy have agreed to develop research and study opportunities for scientists forced to flee from war and conflict in their home countries. The agreement was signed at a ceremony on Monday 17 September 2018, at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.
2018 Gentner-Kastler Prize awarded Luc Bergé
The Gentner-Kastler Prize is awarded by the German Physical Society (DPG) and the French Physical Society (SFP) to a physicist whose research has led to top level breakthroughs during his/her whole carrier carried out mainly in France or in Germany.
Featured in EPN
Europhysics News Vol. 49/4 can be downloaded at the magazine’s website. View it also as a flipbook. Flipbook of EPN – issue 49/4 Topological insulators: how the deep controls the superficial Author: Janos K. Asboth Published online: 14 September 2018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2018401 PDF (323.3 KB) Not every dipole is the same: the hidden patterns of dipolar near fieldsAuthors: [...]
