NANOMETA 2013
The 4th International Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials [NANOMETA 2013] will be held at the Seefeld ski resort in Tirol, Austria, on 3-6 January. The event aims to bring together the materials, nanotechnology and photonics research communities to discuss recent developments and results within their fields.
The meeting will be organised into two parallel oral sessions – concerning nanophotonics and metamaterials – with mid-day breaks to allow participants to socialise and participate in recreational activities…
Hungarian Centre wins CERN IT contract
The CERN data centre earlier this month. The Wigner centre will accommodate CERN equipment which will boost both the capabilities and the security of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid.
“Installing computing capacity at the Wigner Centre allows us to power additional equipment, as well as secure our operations, due to the remote nature of the resources” said Frédéric Hemmer, the head of CERN’s IT Department…
Nominations open for 2013 Boltzmann Award
Nominations are open for the Boltzmann Award, of the Commission on Statistical Physics [C3] of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics [IUPAP]. The prize is given in commemoration of outstanding achievements in statistical physics.
The award, which consists of a gilded medal, will be presented at Statphys25, which is being held in Seoul, Korea, on 22-26 July next year…
Call for 2013 IUPAP C10 Young Scientist Prize
Nominations are now open for the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize for the Commission on the Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter [C10]. The prize, which is given annually, is presented in recognition of exceptional achievement and future promise in the study of the structure and dynamics of condensed matter by scientists at a relatively junior stage of their career.
The award, consisting of a medal, certificate and 1,000 euros in prize money, will be presented in 2013…
STEPS TWO results published on new website
The Stakeholders Tune European Physics Studies Two [STEPS TWO] programme has launches a new “dissemination” website. The site contains information on the STEPS TWO outcomes, results and recommendations, for public consumption.
The project, which ran from 2008-11, acted to gather input from stakeholders in European physics education, with the aim of increasing the number and quality of European physics graduates…
Philippe Grangier receives Charles H. Townes award
Philippe Grangier has been awarded the Charles H. Townes award of the Optical Society of America, in recognition of his research in fundamental quantum optics.
Grangier, a research director at CNRS and a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, leads the Quantum Optics group at the Laboratory Charles Fabry and the Institut d’Optique Graduate School. His research focuses on studies of the non-classical properties of light, with regards to the application of quantum information…
Weak Protein-Ligand Interactions
The “Weak Protein-Ligand Interactions: New Horizons in Biophysics and Cell Biology” thematic meeting of the Biophysical Society will be held in Beijing, China, on 14-18 October this year.
Topics under discussion at the event will include: atomic force microscopy; chemical crosslinking; co-immunoprecipitation and pull-down; computational docking; in vivo fluorescence resonance energy transfer; isothermal calorimetry titration; magnetic tweezers; mass spectroscopy NMR spectroscopy; single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy…
Hot Quarks 2012 workshop
The 2012 Hot Quarks workshop will be held in Copamarina, Puerto Rico, on 14-20 October this year. The event is aiming to enhance information exchange between the younger members of the relativistic heavy ion community.
Topics under discussion at the conference will include: applications of string theory and AdS/CFT; baryons and strangeness; correlations and fluctuations; experimental techniques and future programs; heavy flavour, dileptons and photons; initial state effects and color glass condensate; jets in the vacuum and in the medium…
Physics Students in UK Higher Education report
The Institute of Physics has published a new statistical report, ‘Physics Students in UK Higher Education Institutions’. The document provides an overview of students in undergraduate, masters and doctoral programmes, in physics and a select number of other subjects, in the United Kingdom.
The report – the third in a series aiming to provide comprehensive data on all higher education and research matters – is based on data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, the central source for the statistics on publicly funded…
2012 Euroscience Open Forum travel grants
A number of travel grants are currently available to attend the 2012 Euroscience Open Forum [ESOF2012], which is being held in Dublin on 11-15 July this year. Held biennially, ESOF is a pan-European meeting dedicated to scientific research and innovation.
The event will bring together over 5,000 scientists, business leaders and government officials to discuss current global scientific challenges, such as climate change, energy, food and health…
SESAME receives funding agreement for 2012-2016
Four members of Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East [SESAME] – Iran, Israel, Jordan and Turkey – have agreed to each provide contributions of $5 million USD towards the construction of the facility over the next four years. The decision, made during a meeting on 8 March has been well received by the SESAME members.
“The agreement on voluntary contributions will allow us to move ahead rapidly with the construction…
“For Women In Science” Awards call
Nominations are open for the 2013 “For Women in Science” L’OREAL-UNESCO Awards in the Physical Sciences. The five awards – of $100,000 each – are given in recognition of outstanding contributions to scientific advancement.
The awards will be presented in March next year, at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. To date, the L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards have recognised 72 eminent female scientists.
Nominations are limited to registered nominators. To apply to register, please email the award organisers…
