First Bern Cyclotron Symposium
The first Bern Cyclotron Symposium took place on 6-7 June this year in Bern, Switzerland. The event featured review talks from international experts on research with medical accelerators, with an emphasis on activities at the new Bern Cyclotron Laboratory.
The symposium is sponsored by: ANS Architekten und Planer, Berthold Technologies, Dehnel Particle Accelerator Components and Engineering, IBA, NEST Consulting, SWAN Isotopen, Tema Sinergie and Zyklotron; with support from…
EPS responds to consultation on European research funding
The European Physical Society has submitted a response to the European Commission’s consultation on the Green Paper entitled ‘Towards a Common Strategic Framework for EU research and innovation funding’.
The Green Paper proposes major changes to EU research and innovation funding in order to make participation easier, to increase the scientific and economic impact and provide better value for money…
CERN celebrates 75th birthday of former Director General
The 75th birthday of Robert Aymar – a former Director General (DG) of CERN – was celebrated at CERN last month with a commemorative colloquium. The event, organised on 24 May by current DG Rolf Heuer, featured a number of presentations and was held in the CERN Council Chamber.
Aymar, who was CERN’s DG between 2004 and 2008, has had a storied career: he has also worked at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, with the CEA and headed up the TORE SUPRA Project. In 1994 he was appointed…
Winner of the 2011 IBA Prize announced
The winner of the 2011 IBA-Europhysics Prize has been announced by the EPS Nuclear Physics Division. The awards will be presented at the first International Conference on Advances in Radioactive Isotope Science, which is taking place between 29 May and 3 June in Leuven, Belgium.
The 2011 IBA Prize for Applied Nuclear Science and Nuclear Methods in Medicine is awarded to Elisabetta Boaretto, in recognition of her significant contribution to the development of precise quality controlled radiocarbon dating…
Grid computing to help investigate climate change
The ‘Conference on the role of e-Infrastructures for Climate Change Research’ was held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, in Trieste, on 16-20 May this year. The event brought together scientists and policy makers from across the world, in order to address climate change from economic, political and scientific perspectives.
e-Infrastructures is a term given to advanced computer systems and networks which are capable of running simulations based on massive data sets – such as, in the field of climate change, models of monsoon rainfall. Such systems can…
Winners of EPS High Energy Physics Division prizes
The winners of the EPS High Energy Physics Division prizes have been announced. The awards will be presented at the 2011 Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics, which is being held between 21-27 July in Grenoble, France.
The 2011 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, for an outstanding contribution to the field, is awarded to Sheldon Lee Glashow, John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani, for their crucial contribution to the…
13th European Solar Physics Meeting
The 13th European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-13) will take place at Ixia, Rhodes between 12-16 September this year. The event, which is being held within the Rodos Palace Convention Resort, has been declared a Europhysics Conference by the European Physical Society.
ESPM-13 will play host to a discussion of the following topics: chromospheric and coronal heating; emergence and evolution of magnetic flux in the solar atmosphere; origin and properties of the solar wind; the science of…
EPS AG Accelerator Prizes announced
The EPS Accelerator Group (EPS AG) is pleased to announce the recipients of the EPS AG Accelerator prizes of 2011. The awards will be presented at the International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’11) in San Sebastian, Spain on the 4-9 September this year.
There are three main EPS AG awards: The Rolf Wideröe Prize for outstanding work in the field of accelerator physics, the Gersh Budker Prize for a recent, significant contribution to the field and the…
Week of Innovative Regions in Europe
The Week of Innovative Regions in Europe 2011 (WIRE2011) conference is being held between 7-9 June 2011 in Debrecen, Hungary.
The conference – during which consideration is to be given to the documents ‘EUROPE 2020, a strategy for a smart, sustainable and inclusive development strategy’ and ‘Innovation Union Flagship Initiative’ – will focus on knowledge, innovation and competitiveness in the economy, with respect to research infrastructure investments and clusters…
Johanna Stachel to be first female president of the DPG
Johanna Stachel has been elected as the next president of the Deutsche Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG). Stachel, a professor of experimental physics at the University of Heidelberg, will be the first female physicist to head up the DPG.
The presidency of the DPG is a voluntary role, with a two year term. Stachel will take take over the role from the current president, Wolfgang Sander, in 2012. Sander himself will go on to be the next vice-president of the society.
Munich born Stachel, who comes from a background of physics and chemistry, recieved her PhD…
EU consultation on Research and Innovation Funding
The European Commission has launched a consultation on major improvements to EU research and innovation funding, to make participation easier; increase scientific and economic impact; and improve value for money.
The proposed “Common Strategic Framework“, set out in a Green Paper, would cover the current Framework Programme for Research, the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology…
Proposed Benefits for EPS Members
The European Physical Society is developing a series of activities designed to increase its visibility, and to attract new Individual Members. The EPS is envisaging different levels of benefits – with some reserved for Individual Members, and others available to the whole community: in particular, members of Member Societies.
Among the benefits for Individual Members are…
