Celebrating Madame Curie in Warsaw
The ‘Marie Sklodowska-Curie Symposium on the Foundations of Physical Chemistry’ was held at theCopernicus Center in Warsaw, the birth town of Marie Sklodowska-Curie, on 18-19 November this year. The event was held in celebration of this extraordinary scientist, on the occasion of the International Year of Chemistry and the Polish Presidency of the European Union Council.
The symposium, which featured many distinguished chemists and physicists – including Nobel laureates Gerahrd Ertl and Claude Cohen Tannoudji – was organized by a number of prestigious French, German and Polish institutions…
Editorial
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The year 2011 comes to an end with fireworks from CERN.
On 13 December a special seminar was held in CERN’s main auditorium, where the spokespersons of the two major experimental collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider [LHC], Fabiola Gianotti (ATLAS) and Guido Tonelli (CMS), presented their results from the search for a new particle, a fundamental and desperately wanted ingredient of the Standard Model: the Brout-Englert-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble boson, currently called ‘the Higgs’…
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The Executive Committee of the European Physical Society met in Wroclaw, Poland, at the end of October. News from the meeting, in the now customary summary format by Martina Knoop, can be found herein.
The Executive Committee meeting was held at the eve of the second Asia Europe Physics Summit, ASEPS2, which also took place in Wroclaw on 26-29 October. The summit witnessed a reinforced spirit of collaboration and cooperation…
ASEPS: a success story
The second Asia Europe Physics Summit [ASEPS2] was successfully held in Wroclaw, Poland, on 26-29 October this year, thanks to the careful and effective preparatory work of Maciej Kolwas, Jerzy Langer and the ASEPS Task Force.
The representatives of the European Physical Society and of the Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies had the opportunity to meet; to discuss joint research projects and international contacts; and to examine together a number of relevant issues based on individual and collective excellence through cooperation…
Editorial
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There has been plenty of breaking news in physics this month; from the Nobel Prize awarded to our American colleagues, Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess, for their discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe; to the intriguing results, obtained in Europe, on the velocity of muon-neutrinos.
The neutrino velocity has been measured with unprecedented precision in the OPERA experiment…
Passion for Light webcast
Passion for Light, the Joint EPS-SIF International Workshop which will launch the idea of an International Year of Light (IYOL) in 2015, will take place on 16 September. For the first time with any EPS conference, proceedings will be simultaneously available in a webcast.
The live, streamed video of the event, direct from the beautiful venue of Villa Monastero – at Varenna, Lake Como, Italy – will be provided by the INFN CNAF service. The opening addresses and all the scientific lectures will thus…
Editorial
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Within this, the 5th issue of e-EPS, you will find news about our on-going activities, in our now customary format. We have added a new section dealing with obituaries which are also – alas – to be announced.
The renewal of the EPS website is in progress. e-EPS will, of course, be embedded into this new website, which will include – in addition to the present information – other facilities and services for EPS members, and other visitors…
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Within this issue of e-EPS you will learn that the EPS, having recently responded to the EC consultation ‘From Challenges to Opportunities: Towards a Common Strategic Framework for EU Research and Innovation funding’, is now coordinating replies to two ongoing consultations.
The first is the European Commission consultation on ‘Scientific Information in the Digital Age’, particularly relevant for…
2012 EPS Council meeting
The next EPS Council meeting will be held at CERN, on 30-31 March 2012. The event will be a return of sorts for the EPS – coming back to where the society was founded, 44 years earlier, by its first president, Gilberto Bernardini, the then Research Director of CERN.
The venue for the meeting will be the CERN Council Chamber, where the EPS Constitution was first signed, on the 26 September 1968, by eminent representatives from 20 different national societies, academies and groups; along with the initial sixty-two individual members…
Editorial
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Good news for the EPS! This year the society has seen a sizeable increase in its membership, more so than in the past few years; with the numbers at 291, 220 and 407 new individual members (IMs) in 2009, 2010, and 2011 respectively. Note also that the 2011 additions have only been counted up to 24 June – thus, further recruitment in 2011 is, in principle, still possible. The total number of IMs today exceeds 3200…
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Welcome to the second issue of e-EPS, the online facts and information newsletter of the European Physical Society.
EPS members, committees, divisions and groups are encouraged to submit their news and information for publication in future issues. e-EPS is the place for announcing events, interesting research, obituaries, policy issues and other news for distribution to the European physics community…
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I have the pleasure of introducing e-EPS, the online facts and information newsletter of the European Physical Society. Within you will find timely announcements and information about the EPS and its members, physics, events, and issues relevant to the European physics community. It complements Europhysics News, the bi-monthly magazine of the EPS…
