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The First African Light Source Conference and Workshop
The First African Light Source Conference will take place from 15-20 November 2015 at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility [ESRF] in Grenoble, France. It is the first in a series of conferences that will be held in Africa in the future.
The conference will review the status of the African User Base at international light sources with presentations of the African research at Light Sources.
ICES 2015 – International Conference on Enhanced Spectroscopies
The 2nd International Conference on Enhanced Spectroscopies [ICES 2015], will take place from 12-15 October 2015 at the Palazzo della Cultura in Messina, Italy.
Following the previous editions of ICES 2012 in Porquerolles (France) and SES 2014 in Chemnitz (Germany), ICES 2015 will bring together scientists experts in the field of plasmon enhanced spectroscopies and plasmonics coming from all around the world, to share their latest results, put forward open questions and address future developments in the field.
EPS Executive and Staff activity for August 2015
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff for August 2015:
10 August: John Dudley, EPS vice-president, represented EPS at an international summer school in Tampere, Finland, presenting progress on IYL2015.
ICMFS-2015 – international colloquium on magnetic films
The 22nd international colloquium on magnetic films [ICMFS-2015] and surfaces took place from 12-17 July 2015 in Kraków, Poland. ICMFS-2015 continues the tradition of previous colloquia started in 1964 in London and brings together scientists from all areas of magnetism in lower dimensions. The Colloquium aims at exchange of new results and ideas for advancing the field of magnetism at surfaces, interfaces, in micro- and nanostructures as well as of spin-dependent phenomena.
LNN2015 – Light in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2015
The conference on Light in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2015 [LNN'2015] will take place in Hissar, Bulgaria, from 19-22 October 2015. LNN’2015 is dedicated to the International Year of Light 2015.
XIX Training Course in the Physics of Strongly Correlated Systems
The XIX Training Course in the Physics of Strongly Correlated Systems will be held at the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies [IASS] in Vietri sul Mare (Salerno), Italy from 5 – 16 October, 2015.
The Training Course – taking place in the enchanting Amalfi Coast – is aimed at graduate students and PostDoc researchers, and offers the fascinating possibility to meet selected experts belonging to different areas in Condensed Matter Physics. Every year the Training Courses cover hot topics of Condensed Matter Physics offering to the participants a deep overview from different prospectives (theoretical, experimental, phenomenological).This year the focus will be on The Iron Age: the Pnictide Superconductors.
A drone flight over ESO’s experimental sites in Chile
Paola Catapano, a member of CERN’s Communication Group, and Mike Struik, a member of the CERN TE Department, were invited to visit ESO’s experimental sites – the ALMA observatory and the Very Large Telescope in Paranal, Chile. Enjoy some of the beautiful images they sent to the Bulletin.
Can Future Energy needs be met sustainably?
Global energy use is increasing rapidly, driven by rising living standards in developing countries. Although the percentage of primary energy provided by burning fossil fuels is falling slowly from its current value of some 80%, their contribution is rising in absolute terms and is expected to increase by around 25% by 2035. This is bad news given the need to decarbonise (to reduce air pollution as well as to moderate climate change): is it inevitable?
EPS Historic Site: The Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid, Spain
The ceremony declaring the Residencia de Estudiantes as an EPS Historic Site took place on 13 May 2015. It was presided over by EPS President Dr Christophe Rossel, Prof. J. Adolfo de Azcárraga, President of the Spanish Physical Society [RSEF], Prof. Emilio Lora-Tamayo, President of the Spanish National Research Council [CSIC] and Alicia Gómez-Navarro, Director of the Residencia de Estudiantes.
Optics in the Land of Morning Calm
The Optical Society of Korea [OSK] held its annual meeting from 13-15 July 2015 in Gyeongju, the ancient capital of Korea located in the south of the country. This conference brought together physicists working in optics and laser-matter interaction. While most of participants came from Asia, some traveled from the US and Europe to celebrate both the 25th Anniversary of OSK and the International Year of Light. Presidents and official representatives of many learned societies (The Optical Society – OSA, IEEE, SPIE, EPS, the Japanese Society of Applied Physics) willingly answered the invitation of the OSK managers to address this meeting and debated the future of light in the world and more particularly in Korea.
EPS Executive and Staff activity for July 2015
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff for July 2015:
- 1 July : John Dudley, EPS vice-president, represented EPS and IYL2015 at a meeting during ICMAT 2015 in Singapore hosted by IYL2015 Founding Partner IEEE Photonics Society on potential IYL follow-up actions..
