European Nuclear Physics Conference
The second European Nuclear Physics Conference [EuNPC2012] is being held on 17-21 September, 2012, at the Rin Grand Hotel in Bucharest, Romania.
The conference program – covering recent advances in hadron and nuclear physics – will consist of oral and poster sessions in the following fields: accelerators and instrumentation, astroparticle physics, hadron structure and spectroscopy, heavy ion collisions and QCD phases, few body systems, fundamental symmetries…
24th EPS Condensed Matter Division Conference
The 24th Conference of the European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division [CMD-24] is being held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre between 3-7 September this year. The conference is being held in parallel with the 11th European Conference on Surface Crystallography and Dynamics [ECSCD-11], the 29th European Conference on Surface Science [ECOSS-29] and the 2012 UK Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Conference [CMMP-12]…
Show Physics 2012
The ShowPhysics 2012 conference is being held in Bergen, Norway on 16-21 April this year. The event, being organised by EuroPhysicsFun, will include both lectures and workshops, and aims to bring together parties interested in, or presently performing, physics shows.
Invited speakers include French television personality, Michel Chevalet, who will be discussing the relationship between physics shows and scientific journalists; Jérome Damet, of the Radiophysics Institute in Lausanne, who will talk on…
ALPHA takes measurement of antihydrogen atoms
The ALPHA collaboration at CERN has undertaken the first measurements of the antihydrogen spectrum, reported the journal Nature last week. This initial development may pave the way towards a better understanding of why our universe is matter-based.
“We’ve demonstrated that we can probe the internal structure of the antihydrogen atom,” said ALPHA collaboration spokesman, Jeffrey Hangst. “…we’re very excited about that. We now know that it’s possible to design…
European research pilots cloud computing resource
Leading IT providers have teamed up with three of Europe’s largest research centres this month to launch a new cloud computing system. CERN, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the European Space Agency will be the first to enjoy the processing power of the platform – which has been named “Helix Nebula – the Science Cloud” – for such activities as the search for the Higgs Boson, the study of geological disasters and unravelling the secrets of DNA.
This pan-European collaboration – which will offer flexible and robust computing services for research and innovation…
Public Communication of Science and Technology
The 12th International Public Communication of Science and Technology [PCST] conference will be held in Florence, Italy, on 18-20 April this year. The conference, a forum for the discussion of scientific communication, will focus this year on the topics of “quality, honesty and beauty in science communication”.
The conference is being organised by the PCST International Network, and is being hosted by Observa Science in Society, Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, the Galileo Museum Florence and the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica…
Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics
The Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics [AEPSHEP2012] is being held at the Luigans Spa & Resort, in Fukuoka, Japan, on 14-27 October this year. The school, which will be held in English, has places for around 100 PhD, advanced masters’ and junior post-doc students in the fields of experimental particle physics and phenomenology.
Applications for the school are now open. Applicants should complete the online application form, and provide a letter of reference and rank from their supervisor, before 23 April. Limited sponsorship will be available for students…
ESF Junior Summit: “Water: Unite and Divide…”
The “Water: Unite and Divide. Interdisciplinary approaches for a sustainable future” junior summit is being held by the European Science Foundation [ESF] in Stresa, Italy, on 27-30 August this year.
The event, aimed at early career researchers the humanities; life, earth and environmental sciences; physical and engineering sciences; and social sciences will focus on the challenges and opportunities posed by interdisciplinary research…
Call for Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics
Nominations are now open for the 2012 Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics, of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics [IUPAP] Commission on Computational Physics [C20].
The prize, which consists of 1,000 euros, a medal and a certificate, will be given at the commission’s next Conference on Computational Physics [CCP2012], which is being held in Kobe, Japan, on 14-18 October. The winner will also be invited to present a paper at this meeting…
Institute of Physics appoints Palmer temporary CEO
The Institute of Physics Council has appointed Stuart Palmer as temporary CEO, following the vacation of the position by Bob Kirby-Harris, who has stepped down due to health issues. A full-time replacement will be appointed by the council – which is headed by current president Peter Knight – in the summer.
Palmer, who has been honorary secretary since October 2009, has a long standing relationship with the institute. In addition, Palmer was also the pro-vice-chancellor for research at Warwick University, from 1995 to 2001…
Bekenstein receives Wolf Prize in Physics
Jacob Bekenstein has been announced as the recipient of the 2012 Wolf Prize in Physics, in honour of his work in formulating the thermodynamics of black holes.
Bekenstein will be presented with the award – which consists of a certificate and prize money to the sum of 100,000 USD – by Israel President Shimon Peres, at a special ceremony at the Knesset on 13 May.
Bekenstein, who hails from Mexico City, received his PhD at Princeton University in 1972. Since then, he has worked…
Results of EC consultation on scientific publishing
The European Commission has published the results of its ‘Consultation on scientific information in the digital age’. The survey generated much interest, with 1,140 responses received from 42 different countries. The European Physical Society provided input into the consultation in September last year.
The survey noted a general desire for better access to scientific publications; the vast majority of respondents believing that publications and data resulting from publically funded research should be made open access. In addition…
