EPL 25th Anniversary
EPL is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year – with an international symposium to be held from 2-4 May at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich.
An international group of prominent researchers will present on a selection of the most exciting topics in current physics research. The lectures will be aimed at an audience consisting of interested high-school students, and undergraduates, graduate students and post-docs…
European Quantum Electronics Conference
The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO®/Europe-EQEC), will be held on the 22-26 May this year, in the ICM Centre of the New Munich Trade Fair Centre, Munich, Germany.
The conference – which is sponsored by IEEE Photonics, The Optical Society, The European Physical Journal and the European Physical Society – will be held in English…
38th Plasma Physics Conference
The 38th Plasma Physics Conference of the European Physical Society is being held between the 27 June and 1 July this year, in the Strasbourg Conference Centre, Strasbourg, France.
The conference will take place in English, and will cover the fields of fusion research; magnetic confinement fusion; beam plasmas; laser-plasma interaction; inertial confinement fusion; dusty and low temperature plasmas; space and astrophysical plasmas and basic plasmas…
EPS-HEP Conference
The High Energy and Particle Physics (HEPP) division of the European Physical Society has recently called for nominations for the 2011 EPS HEPP Prizes, which will be presented at the International Europhysics Conference EPS-HEP 2011, to be held in Grenoble on 21-27 July 2011.
With eleven parallel sessions and an extended poster display, EPS-HEP is one of the major international conferences that reviews the state of our knowledge of the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions…
GIREP-EPEC 2011 Conference
The GIREP-EPEC 2011 Conference will be held on the 1-5 August this year in the Agora Building of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Groupe International de Recherche sur l’Enseignement de la Physique (GIREP), founded in 1964, is an organization which meets annually to foster an international discussion on education in the field of physics.
More information on the conference can be found on the conference website.
Passion for Light
Passion for Light, an international workshop being jointly organised by the European and Italian Physical Societies, is to be held on 16 September 2011 at the Villa Monastero, in Varenna, Lake Como, Italy.
The workshop will provide a framework in which to announce a new initiative of the EPS Quantum Electronics and Optics Division – which aims for a declaration of an International Year of Light, to be held…
Asia Europe Physics Summit
The Asia-Europe Physics Summit (ASEPS) will be held on 26-29 October 2011 in Wroclaw, Poland. ASEPS is a platform for the forging of Asia-Europe physics programme strategies, through discussions of the scientific priorities, and possible shared contributions to large-scale infrastructures or networks, in an Asia-Europe cooperation framework.
ASEPS promotes synergy between the different fields of physics…
Alfvèn and Plasma Physics Innovation Prizes
The winners of the 2011 EPS Alfvèn Prize and the EPS Plasma Physics Innovation Prize have been announced by the EPS Plasma Physics Division. The awards are to be formally presented at the EPS plasma physics conference in Strasbourg on 27 June.
For more information, and a list of the prize winners, please visit the Plasma Physics Division website.
New Grant Schemes
The EPS grant schemes for 2011 have been approved by the EPS Executive Committee. The schemes are designed to increase EPS visibility; promote international cooperation and scientific excellence; and support EPS conferences.
The schemes include the EPS Award for Pre-university Physics Competitions, Regional Meeting Grants, travel grants for conferences and University Student Fellowships.
More information can be found on the EPS website.
EPS Who’s Who
EPS Who’s Who is a concept for a new directory resource, put forward by M. Schlenker, the Individual Members’ delegate to Council.
While Individual Members are already listed in the online EPS directory – with basic contact details – it will soon be possible to publish additional information alongside this: such as a photo, CV, research interests, publication lists or a link to outside websites…
EPS Awards, Fellows & Honorary Members
The EPS is pleased to announce the award of the Gero Thomas Memorial Medal to Claude Sébenne, for his significant and long-term contributions to the EPS as editor of Europhysics News.
The EPS Council has recently approved the following individuals as EPS Fellows…
“What’s new in EU higher education initiatives?”
The Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) is pleased to announce the publication of the 7th edition of the Erasmus/Jean Monnet InfoKit, entitled “What’s new in EU higher education initiatives?”
The InfoKit provides information on the new general call for proposals under the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union for 2011; other open, or forthcoming, calls for proposals of direct interest to academics, associations and universities; and EACEA activities…
