EPS supports your events
The EPS Conference Department is open to organise and manage events for the EPS divisions and groups. With over 10 years of experience, the conference team can manage all aspects of your conference or event – ensuring that it runs smoothly, looks professional and stays within budget.
Services available include the branding, and logos for your conference; website design and maintenance; marketing and promotion within the physics community; on-site registration and support; packs and badges for conference…
Conference Department: for your event needs
The EPS Conference Department is open to organise and manage events for the EPS divisions and groups. With over 10 years of experience, the conference team will arrange every aspect of your conference or event – ensuring that your project runs smoothly, looks professional and stays within budget.
Services available include the creation or implementation of a brand, and logo, for your conference; event website design and upkeep; marketing and promotion within the physics community; on-site registration and support…
EPS launches new science of light research prize
A new prize for Research into the Science of Light has been launched by the Quantum Electronics & Optics Division [QEOD] of the European Physical Society [EPS]. The award – which is to be given biennially – will recognise recent excellent research, by up to three individuals, in the field of electromagnetic science.
The award will be presented to its winner(s) during a prize ceremony at the EPS Nanometa Conference, which is to be held, in Seefeld, on 3-6 January 2013. The prize will consist of an engraved glass medal, a certificate…
MPE 2013 launches museum exhibit design competition
A competition to design museum quality exhibits has been opened by Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 [MPE2013]. The exhibits – which could be image, video, programme or physically based – will contribute to MPE 2013’s aim of showcasing the ways in which mathematics can be used to tackle worldwide problems.
The top three modules will be awarded respective cash prizes of 5,000, 3,000, and 2,000 USD. Winning exhibits will also be displayed both on the exhibition website and in special exhibitions…
2012 Kavli Prizes awarded
The winners of the 2012 Kavli Prizes – which are awarded in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience – have been announced. The awards – which include a total cash prize of 1 million dollars in each field – were presented by His Majesty King Harald V of Norway at a special ceremony held in Oslo on 4 September this year.
The 2012 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics was awarded to David C. Jewitt, Jane X. Luu and Michael E. Brown, for “discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members…
UK STFC launches new newsletter from CERN
The UK Science and Technology Facilities Council [STFC] has launched a new newsletter at CERN, entitled “UK News from CERN”. The fortnightly publication – which is now in its fourth issue – intends to relay British news from CERN back to the UK and is aimed at both researchers and key stakeholders in the government.
The first four issues of the newsletter can be downloaded…
ENLIGHT publishes tenth anniversary Highlights
The European Network for Light ion Hadron Therapy [ENLIGHT] has published a tenth anniversary newsletter. The anniversary publication – entitled Highlights – details the progress of the various European Union funded hadron therapy projects which have been launched under the ENLIGHT program.
Launched in 2002, ENLIGHT aims to coordinate European efforts in hadron therapy. It is made up of a partnership of over 300 participants from across 20 different countries, from such diverse backgrounds as…
Mathematical Physics & Science Policy meeting
A Joint Meeting on Mathematical Physics and Science Policy is being held in Craiova, Romania, on 19-22 September this year. The event aims to foster connections between theoretical physicists, improve education in south-eastern European countries and to encourage interest in physics and mathematics amongst the young.
The meeting will incorporate the 8th edition of the “Quantum Field Theory and Hamiltonian Systems” workshop and the 4th “Science and Society “meeting. During the former, the title of Doctor Honoris Causa…
Lead ions and protons colliding for first time in LHC
The LHC saw its first collisions of lead ions with protons on 13 September. The largest experiments – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – all recorded lead ion-proton collisions in this test, which precedes the main run planned for January-February next year.
For more information, please visit the CERN website.
EPS launches research in laser science prize
A new prize for Research in Laser Science and Applications has been launched by the Quantum Electronics & Optics Division [QEOD] of the European Physical Society [EPS]. The award – which is to be given biennially – will recognise recent excellent research, by up to three individuals, in the field of laser science and its application.
The award will be presented to its winner(s) during a prize ceremony at the 6th EPS Europhoton Conference on “Solid-State, Fibre and Waveguide Coherent Light Sources”, which is to be held in 2014…
Nominations open for Flerov Prize for nuclear physics
Nominations are now open for the 2013 G.N. Flerov Prize. The commendation is to be given to individuals in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear physics. The award – which is sponsored by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research [JINR] – was established in 1992 in memory of Georgy Nikolaevich Flerov, the Russian nuclear physicist after whom the 114th chemical element, Flerovium, and the JINR Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions – in which it was discovered – have been named. The prize will be presented on the occasion of Flerov’s 100th birthday anniversary on 2 March 2013…
PETRA III X-ray microscope reveals to record resolution
PETRA III is now the world’s most advanced X-ray microscope, with a record-breaking resolution of 10 nanometres. The light source – located at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron [DESY] – can see down to structures ten thousand times thinner than a human hair.
The apparatus – which is already available to users – has many possible applications, including such uses as: imaging the structure of microchips, investigating carbon nanotubes and studying the chemistry of catalyst nanoparticles…
