Altarelli and Parisi given prestigious physics awards
The European Physical Society would like to congratulate Guido Altarelli and Giorgo Parisi, who have recently been presented with prestigious awards for their work in the field of physics.
Altarelli – alongside Tornbjorn Sjøstrand and Bryan Webber – is one of the recipients of the 2012 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, which is given by the American Physical Society. He is being presented the award for his “key ideas leading to the detailed confirmation of the Standard Model of particle physics, enabling high energy experiments to extract precise information about quantum chromodynamics, electroweak interactions and possible new physics…”
CERN and Ars Electronica first digital art resident
The first Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN was awarded to Julius Von Bismarck, the noted German artist, at CERN, Geneva, on 6 December 2011. Winning 3 months as artist in residence at CERN and Ars Electronica, along with 10,000 Euros in prize money, Von Bismarck – a growing name in the artistic community – is known for taking inspiration for his from philosophic and scientific ideas.
The jury reportedly chose him for his ability to playfully combine the arts and the sciences, and “his proposal and work which manipulates and criticises our notions of reality in unpredictable ways, often with inventive use of video…”
European Physical Society Physics Education Division
Since 2000, the European Physical Society’s Physics Education Division has been contributing to awareness of the relevance of physics in everyday culture, to interaction amongst schools and universities and to a better quality of physics teaching at all levels.
The Physics Education Division achieves this by addressing and promoting physics, the continued education of teachers, large scale educational changes – such as the Bologna process – and successful new teaching methods, taking into account differences and similarities in the European education systems…
Nominations for 2012 Kavli Prizes open
Nominations have opened for candidates for the 2012 Kavli Prizes, which are given for outstanding research in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. The deadline for nominations is 1 December, 2011.
Each winner, in the three fields covered, will receive gold medal, a scroll and prize money to the sum of $1,000,000. The prize winners will be announced in June next year, with the award ceremony taking place in Oslo, Norway, on 4 September 2012…
Report on European gender consultation
The European Gender Summit has published the results of its Public Consultation on the Future of Gender and Innovation in Europe.
The consultation was designed to complement the European Commission Green Paper ‘From Challenges to Opportunities: Towards a Common Strategic Framework for EU Research and Innovation Funding’, and is hoped will contribute to a better understanding of how Europe can enhance its research and innovation systems, through the addressing of gender issues…
McBean: International Council for Science president-elect
The International Council for Science [ICSU] appointed Gordon McBean president-elect during their General Assembly in Rome, Italy, which was held between 24 September and 1 October this year.
McBean, a geography and political science professor at the University of Western Ontario, is a noted expert in the fields of climate change and risk reduction. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he currently also serves as the chair of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences and the director of Western’s Policy Studies Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction…
Modern Practice in Stress and Vibration Analysis
‘Modern Practice in Stress and Vibration Analysis’ [MPSVA 2012] is the title of a conference being organised by the Applied Mechanics Group of the Institute of Physics, to be held in the Boyd Orr lecture theatre and Wolfson Medical School, Glasgow, on 29-31 August 2012.
The conference will act as a showcase for international research in the fields of stress and vibration analysis, and the technical areas where such intersects…
EGO-ICRR gravitational wave meeting
A meeting between the European Gravitational Observatory [EGO] and the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research [ICRR], on the topic of gravitational wave research, was held at the University of Tokyo’s Kashiwa campus on 4-5 October this year.
The meeting, held within the framework of “Italy in Japan 2011”, was intended to foster the collaboration between the Large-scale Cryogenic Gravitational wave Telescope [LCGT], which has been recently funded for construction in the Kamioka mine; and the Virgo Gravitational Wave Observatory, which has been in operation for several years…
2012 EUROPHOTON Conference
“Solid State, Fibre, and Waveguide Coherent Light Sources” is the title of the 5th EUROPHOTON Conference of the European Physical Society’s Quantum Electronics and Optics Division, which is being held in at the AlbaNova University Centre, Stockholm, Sweden, on 26-31 August 2012.
The conference will provide a forum for the discussion of the latest breakthroughs in the fields of fibre, solid-state, and wave-guided light sources. In addition, the event will play host to vendor displays, informal breakout sessions, summer school sessions for PhD and postdoctoral students and half-day special symposium…
IHEP appoints Wang Yifang as new institute director
The Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has appointed Wang Yifang as their new director. The decision was announced during a meeting held at the institute on the 24 October.
The Institute of High Energy Physics [IHEP] is the biggest basic science research centre in China. Fields studied at the institute include accelerator physics and technologies, astrophysics, particle physics and synchrotron and nuclear radiation applications. IHEP has extensive relationships with many high energy physics laboratories worldwide, and participates in many international experiments. The institute is employs over 1,200 people, and supports…
International Energy Agency 2011 World Energy Outlook
The International Energy Agency has published the 2011 edition of its World Energy Outlook. The booklet brings together the latest data and policy developments, and serves to analyse the current and future global energy markets.
The 2011 World Energy Outlook can be downloaded from the International Energy Agency website.
Conference on nanoscience and technology
The 2012 International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology [ICN+T] will be held in the Sorbonne University, Paris on 23-27 July 2012.
Over 600 attendees are anticipated at the event – where leading scientists present on the latest developments in nanoscale science and technology and the recent advances in scanning probe microscopy and related techniques. The plenary speakers will lecture in the great amphitheatre of the Sorbonne University. In addition, vendors will be able to exhibit their equipment for nanoscale measurement…
