2012 Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena
The 2012 International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena [UP2012] is being held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, on the 8-13 July 2012.
The 2012 Ultrafast Phenomena Conference – the eighteenth in a series of conferences – serves as an international forum for discussion amongst scientists and engineers working in the field of ultrafast phenomena.
UP2012, a europhysics conference, is being organised by the European Physical Society’s conference department…
New European Physical Society Facebook page
The European Physical Society has just launched its new Facebook page, at facebook.com/europeanphysicalsociety. Here you will be able to keep up with all the current news from the European Physical Society – and the articles here on e-EPS – from the comfort of your own Facebook account. So do drop by and give us a ‘like’!
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Fernando Ferroni appointed as the new INFN president
Fernando Ferroni was appointed the president of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [INFN], by a ministerial decree, on 26 October this year. Ferroni replaces former head Roberto Petronzio, who led the INFN for the last seven years.
The Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – the National Institute for Nuclear Physics – was founded in 1951 to oversee astroparticle, nuclear and particle physics in Italy. With sections in four of Italy’s national laboratories and most major Italian Universities, the INFN acts as the main funding agency for high energy physics in Italy, and engages in collaborations with many laboratories worldwide, including CERN and Fermilab…
Schultheiß awarded Jürgen Geiger Foundation Prize
The Professor Dr. Jürgen Geiger Foundation has awarded its 17th annual Dissertation Prize to Helmut Schultheiß, for his work entitled “Coherence and damping behavior of spin waves in magnetic microstructures”. The award, prize money to the sum of 1,000 Euros, was presented to Schultheiß during a ceremony at the Stadtsparkasse Kaiserslautern at the end of October this year.
Schultheiß, who undertook his dissertation at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, under the supervision of Burkard Hillebrands, is currently employed at the Argonne National Laboratory, in the United States…
Erasmus Mundus Doctoral College in Fusion Science
Erasmus Mundus, the European programme which promotes training schemes, launched a new International Doctoral College in Fusion Science and Engineering last month. The college, Fusion DC, has a five million euro support – and is providing 40 doctoral scholarships for work in the field of fusion research, to tackle the varied challenges on the way to conceiving a working fusion power plant.
The college is placing emphasis on an international exchange of experience. During their three years of funded doctoral work, the students in the programme will undertake research at a variety of institutions, spending at least six months…
2011 Dark Workshop at GGI
The 2011 Dark Workshop will be held at the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI), in Arcetri, Florence, between the 25-27 October this year.
The workshop, a joint initiative by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare commissions II and IV, will bring together the fields of astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics for a discussion on the future of research into dark energy and dark matter – culminating in a roundtable on the nature of dark energy on the afternoon of the 27 October…
EC publishes consultation on the ERA Framework
The European Commission has published its ‘Consultation on the ERA Framework: Areas of untapped potential for the development of the European Research Area (ERA)’; the EPS is preparing a response.
The consultation, in the form of a questionnaire, covers the following areas sections: cross border operation of research actors, coordination of science and technology actions, knowledge circulation, respondent identification, managing and monitoring the ERA partnership, researchers and research infrastructures…
100 years of superconductivity
In commemoration of 2011 – the 100 year anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes – the European Physical Society would like to highlight some fascinating websites which offer information on superconductors, one of the most exciting fields within condensed-matter physics.
All about superconductivity is a website by the Institut de Physique du CNRS, the Triangle de la Physique, and the Société Française de Physique, offering an interactive and exciting look into the world of superconductors…
The SIF awards 2011 Enrico Fermi prize
The 2011 Enrico Fermi prize of the Italian Physical Society (Società Italiana di Fisica, SIF) has been awarded, for work in the field of experimental particle physics, to Dieter Haidt of the DESY Laboratory at Hamburg and to Antonino Pullia of the University of Milano Bicocca and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, “for their fundamental contribution to the discovery of weak neutral currents with the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN”.
The prize is awarded yearly to members of the society who especially honour physics by their discoveries. The prize was first awarded in 2001, to commemorate the centenary of the great scientist’s birth…
Gautam Desiraju elected president of the IUCr
Gautam Desiraju has been elected president of the International Union of Crystallography [IUCr] during the IUCr General Assembly, in Madrid, on the 27 August this year. Desiraju, whose term will last three years, hails from the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore.
“I am pleased and honoured to be elected President of the International Union of Crystallography. The IUCr is unique among scientific unions in the success of its publishing activities, the educational slant in many of its endeavours and in its ability to cater to the priorities of scientists in both developed and developing nations,” said Desiraju…
IoP publishes new booklet on ‘The age of the qubit’
‘The age of the qubit – A new era of quantum information in science and technology’ is a new booklet published by the UK’s Institute of Physics, which examines the innovative research being undertaken in the field of quantum information processing.
The behaviour of physical systems at the quantum level is being used to process and transfer information in a new and powerful way, which could potentially lead to the creation of a new type of information processing device – the quantum computer – with many applications for society…
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Symposium
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Symposium on the Foundations of Physical Chemistry will be held on 18-19 November this year at the Copernicus Science Center, in Warsaw. This event – held during both the International Year of Chemistry as well as the 100th anniversary of the presentation of the Nobel Prize to Marie Skłodowska-Curie – aims to present an overview of modern physical chemistry, with an emphasis on its highly interdisciplinary character.
Topics which will be discussed include concepts of modern catalysis, molecular switches and the optical and chemical behaviour of nanoparticles. Financial support – covering accommodation and travel costs – will be available for…
