EPS Workshop on Technology and Innovation
The first International Workshop on Technology and Innovation of the European Physical Society is being held at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, in Sicily, on the 21-25 October this year. The topic under discussion will be “Nuclear and subnuclear physics technologies and innovations leading to medical and industrial applications”.
For more information, please contact Horst Wenninger, or visit the Ettore Majorana Foundation website.
Hardaker appointed new Institute of Physics CEO
Paul Hardaker has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer [CEO] of the Institute of Physics, it was announced at the end of May. Hardaker will take up the post on 3 September this year.
Hardaker, a visiting professor at the University of Reading’s School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, is the also the CEO of the Royal Meteorological Society. A Met Office employee for 14 years, he served as both Development Programme director and Chief Advisor to Government for the British national weather service…
CLEO®/Europe-IQEC
The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference [CLEO®/Europe-IQEC] are being held at the International Congress Centre in Munich, Germany, on 12-16 May 2013.
CLEO®/Europe will emphasise applied physics, optical engineering and the applications of photonics and laser technology. IQEC emphasises basic research in laser physics, nonlinear optics and quantum optics.
The conference is being managed by the European Physical Society Conference Department…
Primordial QCD Matter in the LHC Era
The “Primordial QCD Matter in the LHC Era: implications of QCD results in the early universe” conference is being held in Cairo, Egypt on 10-14 February 2013.
The event – the second in this series – aims to bring together cosmologists and particle physicists to discussion QCD matter in the light of recent discoveries from the Large Hadron Collider [LHC].
Topics under discussion at the event will include: astrophysical observations and ultra-high energy cosmic rays…
SNOLAB celebrates opening
The Canadian neutrino observatory SNOLAB celebrated its grand opening – and the completion of its construction – on 17 May this year. SNOLAB – shielded, underground, by two kilometres of rock – is now the world’s deepest and cleanest neutrino laboratory, enabling experiments to be conducted with the least interference from environmental and solar radioactivity.
“As SNOLAB marks its formal opening, our science workshop has given us the chance to reflect…
“Relativistic heavy ion collisions” town meeting
A one-day town meeting on relativistic heavy ion collisions will be held on 29 June this year in the Council Chamber at CERN, Geneva. The event is in anticipation of, and aims to gather input for, an update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics.
Topics under discussion at the meeting will include soft probes, flow and hydrodynamic response of the medium; hard probes and quarkonia; and future opportunities for colliders and fixed target experiments…
21st DYMAT technical meeting
The 21st DYMAT technical meeting, “High speed imaging for dynamic testing of materials and structures”, will be held on 18-20 November 2013 at the Institute of Physics [IOP], London.
Topics under discussion at the conference will include: applications, camera/equipment assessment, constitutive behaviour, failure/fracture, full-field measurements data processing, high and ultra-high speed full-field thermal measurements, innovative test design, methodology, metrology…
Nominations open for the 2013 Prism Awards
Nominations are open for the 2013 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation. The awards – given by publishing company Photonics Media and SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics – commemorate excellence in innovation and technology within the optics and photonics industry.
Prism Awards are given in the following categories: defence and security; detectors, sensing, imaging and cameras; green photonics and sustainable energy; industrial lasers; information and communication…
2012 Conference on Computational Physics
The 2012 Conference on Computational Physics [CCP2012] will be held on 14-18 October this year in Kobe, Japan. The event aims to be an international forum for the discussion of computational physics and its applications in research and in industry across a variety of disciplines.
The event, part of a series which has been held annually since 1989, is being organised under the auspices of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics’ commission on Computational Physics [C20]…
Crowdsourced exhibit shows humour behind science
A celebration of the humour to be found within science is being held at the Espace des sciences Pierre-Gilles de Gennes from the 3 May to 30 October this year. The exhibition – entitled “La science, une histoire d’humour” – shows how, through humour, science is reflected in the eyes of both society and the scientific community itself.
The exhibits on display have been entirely crowd-sourced – with such contributors as Jean-Marie Lehn, Hervé This and Catherine Vidal – and visitors are encouraged to add the collection with their own additions…
Report on citizenship education published
European students are getting more involved in school politics – and learning about civic engagement – according to a report published by Eurydice earlier this month. The study, entitled “Citizenship Education in Europe”, analyses the regulations on the promotion of student participation in school governance which are now in effect in all European Countries.
The document – an update on a previous Eurydice study from 2005 – contains information on progress…
Trends in Nanotechnology Conference
The 2012 Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference [TNT 2012] will be held in the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, Madrid, from 10-14 September this year. The conference – the 13th in the TNT series – aims to be a forum for discussing current research in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology and related topics.
Topics under discussion at the event will include: atoms and molecular computing; high spatial resolution spectroscopies under SPM probe; grapheme and carbon nanotube based nanoelectronics and field emission…
