Physics podcast project seeking participants
Passionate physicists are wanted as interviewees and panellists for an up-and-coming series of physics podcasts, aimed at the general public.
The project plans to develop an educational and high quality physics resource – covering a wide-variety of topics within the field – looking at research and developments from across the globe. The first podcast is intended to be released early in 2012.
Volunteers need only a microphone and a skype account to take part. To get involved, please email…
European Physical Society responds to ERA Consultation
The European Physical Society has responded to the ERA Framework Public Consultation: ‘Areas of untapped potential for the development of the European Research Area’. The European Physical Society would like to thank its members for providing their comments and insights.
The response by the European Physical Society, along with those made by other interested individuals and organisations and individuals, will soon be published on the European Commission website. The final version of the European Physical Society’s response can also be downloaded directly here.
9th annual SESAME Users’ Meeting
The 9th annual Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East [SESAME] Users’ Meeting was held in Amman, Jordan on 12-14 November this year. 130 people attended the event – including 50 local participants – during which the SESAME community gathered to discuss current developments and upcoming collaborative efforts.
SESAME, which is being built in Jordan under the umbrella of UNESCO, will be an international synchrotron radiation source.
The meeting programme covered such topics as: archaeology and cultural heritage; atomic, molecular…
Call for nominations for the 2012 Lise Meitner Prize
Nominations are now open for the 2012 Lise Meitner Prize for Nuclear Science, which is given biannually by the European Physical Society’s Nuclear Physics Board in recognition of outstanding work in the fields of applied, experimental or theoretical nuclear science.
The Lise Meitner Prize – which is named after the Austrian physicist who gave a fundamental contribution in the discovery of nuclear fission – is sponsored by CANBERRA. Nominations, which may be put forward for individuals or groups, are hoped will represent the breadth of nuclear science in Europe…
Photon12
Photon12 is being held on 3-6 September 2012 at Durham University, England. The conference – the sixth in the on-going series – is being organised by the Optics and Photonics Division of the Institute Of Physics.
Photon, the largest optics conference series being held in the United Kingdom, is an umbrella series which embraces a large number of important and interconnected topics.
For more information, please visit the Photon12 website.
Pioneering IZEST international laser centre launched
The International Zetawatt-Exawatt Science Technology [IZEST] launching workshop was held at the Ecole Polytechnique, in Palaiseau, France on 28-29 November this year. The programme of the workshop involved a wide variety of lectures relating to the IZEST project – and the signature of the IZEST agreement by Xavier Michel, of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique [CEA], and Daniel Verwaerde, also of the CEA.
IZEST is to be the first international laser centre, which is designed to explore fundamental physics at the highest-energy frontiers. The European Physical Society – which was represented at the meeting by John Dudley – would like to…
Updated astroparticle roadmap welcomed
European funding agencies are welcoming the priorities for the future of astroparticle physics, which have been laid out in the update to the European roadmap for astroparticle physics which was published at the end of last month. The update follows on from the initial roadmap, released in 2008, which aimed to define the research infrastructures which are necessary for the development of this field.
“The update of the roadmap provides a better picture of what will come first on the menu,” said Christian Spiering, the chair of both the Astroparticle European Research Area [ASPERA] and the Astroparticle Physics European…
Science Europe launches to strengthen research ties
The launch of Science Europe was announced at a festive launch event held in Berlin on 21 October this year. The organisation, based in Brussels, will act to bring together 50 research and funding organisations from across Europe, to foster excellence in European research by promoting the interests of its members and streamlining the coordination of policies and activities.
The event, held following the final general assembly and dissolution of the European Heads of Research Councils the day before, was attended by around 150 prominent figures from the scientific and political community: including…
European Commission announces Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020, an 80 billion euro programme for investment in innovation and research, was officially announced by the European Commission on 30 November 2011.
For more information, please visit the new Horizon 2020 website.
Morning on the Open Access Gold model
A brainstorming session focusing on the Open Access Gold model for physics publications is being held at the Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, on 19 January, 2012. The European Physical Society president, Luisa Cifarelli, will be speaking at the event.
The event is being organised by the Société Française de Physique, with support from the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique, EDP Sciences and Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
Registration at the event is free, but required. For more information, please visit the event website.
APMAS 2012
The 2012 Advances in Applied Physics and Material Science Congress [APMAS 2012] is being held in the Kremlin Palace Hotel in Antalya, Turkey, from 26-29 April next year.
Topics which will be covered at the congress include: condensed matter physics; engineering and industrial physics, instrumentation metrology and standards; materials science & engineering; nanoscience and nanotechnology; optical Physics, quantum electronics and photonics; and quantum, atomic and nuclear physics.
The congress is also offering space in the conference area for companies and institutions to showcase their equipment…
CHEP 2012
The 2012 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics [CHEP 2012] conference is being held at New York University’s Skirball and Kimmel Centers, in Greenwich Village, on 21-25 May next year.
The conference, which is being organised by Brookhaven National Laboratory and New York University, is also being sponsored by ACEOLE, Data Direct Networks, DELL and NEXSAN.
Advanced registration for CHEP 2012 is mandatory. Early registration closes on 31 January 2012. The is a discounted fee for students…
