A breakfast at ESA
On 16 January 2015, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain met the press to provide an overview of ESA’s achievements in 2014 and the opportunities ahead in 2015. The event took place at ESA headquarters in Paris, France.
After a successful Council meeting at Ministerial level, held on 2 December, 2015 will be another year when ESA launches missions that cover all the domains of the space sector, in partnership and cooperation with other European institutions and industry, demonstrating the strength of the European space programme.
Within human spaceflight, the year will start with the undocking from the International Space Station of ATV Georges …
EPN IYL2015 special issue
In the EPN Editorial Advisory Board meeting, held in Paris on 27 September 2014, it was decided to have a special issue devoted to the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies [IYL 2015].
All the features in the EPN 46/5-6, with more pages than the other four issues, will be devoted to subjects related to the IYL2015. Prof. Luc Bergé, Chair of the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the EPS, will be the Guest Editor of this special issue.
EPS Executive and Staff activity for December 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Click here for the list of the activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for the last month.
5 December 2014: J. Dudley, EPS President, D. Lee, EPS General Secretary, and J. Rivero, IYL 2015 Outreach Officer, attended a meeting organised by the European Commission in Brussels (BE) to discuss coordination of activities of the three projects financed to promote photonics in Europe.
42nd Annual Spring Conference on Plasma Physics
The 42nd Annual IOP Spring Conference on Plasma Physics will run from 30 March to 2 April at the Kents Hill Park Training and Conference Centre in Milton Keynes and will cover all disciplines including Magnetic and Inertial confinement fusion, Astrophysical Plasmas and Low Density and Technological/Industrial Plasmas to name a few.
Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics
This meeting is the thirteenth in a series initiated in 1980 and will be held in Castiglione della Pescaia and La Biodola, Italy, devoted to advanced detectors for high energy and astroparticle physics experiments. It will take place from 24-30 May 2015.
CLEO®/Europe-EQEC 2015 invites prestigious speakers
The International Conference CLEO®/Europe-EQEC 2015, Europe’s premier joint conference on Lasers, Electro-optics and Fundamental Quantum Electronics, will take place from Sunday June 21st, 2015 to Thursday June 25th, 2015 at the Munich International Congress Centre [ICM], Germany. It will be held in conjunction with Laser World of Photonics 2015, the largest European Exhibition of laser and electro-optic equipment and services.
Open Readings 2015
The 58th international scientific conference for students of physics and natural sciences “Open Readings 2015″ is searching for support!
The conference will take place from 24-27 March 2015. It is a non-profit event each year attracting promising young scientists of physics and natural sciences from all over the world (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, USA, Serbia, etc.) Students’ Scientific Association of Vilnius University Faculty of Physics, expects over 200 participants this year and even more visitors.
42nd European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics
This conference continues a series of plasma physics conferences organized by the EPS Plasma Physics Division covering the wide field from nuclear fusion research to low temperature plasmas, as well as space and astrophysical plasmas.
The venue of the 42nd EPS conference will be in Centro Cultural de Belem, located between the famous Jerónimos Monastery and Belém Tower, in Lisbon, Portugal.
Playing with Light
Are you an Inspiring Science Teacher? Would you like to share some of your most inspiring teaching moments? If the answer is yes – then take part in the Inspiring Science Education [ISE] Competition 2014–2015 for a chance to visit London and some of its really exciting science museums and exhibitions.
This competition is all about recognising and rewarding inspirational science teaching practice and is aimed at teachers who are planning to run an exciting experiment in their science class between now and 31 March 2015, to coincide with the International Year of Light.
E2C – EST
The 4th European Energy Conference [E2C] will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany, from 20-22 May 2015. It will be held under the auspices of the ENERGY, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY – International Conference and Exhibition, EST 2015, in the “Kongresszentrum” Karlsruhe.
The three central topics will be renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy systems and grids. EST 2015 will be an opportunity for researchers and engineers from all over the world to…
NPA VII
The Nuclear Physics in Astronomy VII conference [NPA VII] will be held in York, United-Kingdom, from 18-22 May 2015.
NPA VII is the 7th edition of a series of conferences held every 2 years, organised by the EPS Nuclear Physics Division. The 2015 conference will bring together experts from different backgrounds: nuclear physicists, astronomers, cosmo-chemists, etc. They will discuss all topics related to astrophysics including the Big Bang, the latest observation and …
CLEO®/Europe – EQEC 2015
The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics [CLEO®/Europe] and the European Quantum Electronics Conference [EQEC] 2015 will be held at the International Congress Centre in Munich, Germany, from 21-25 June 2015.
The CLEO®/Europe-EQEC conference series has a long tradition as a gathering of optics and photonics researchers and engineers in Europe. Held every two years, CLEO®/Europe-EQEC conference has become the benchmark …
