Young Researcher Prizes in Quantum Electronics and Optics
The European Physical Society is delighted to announce the 2015 winners of its young researcher Prizes in Quantum Electronics and Optics. These prizes are awarded once every two years, and recognise the highest level of excellence amongst emerging researchers. The young researcher prizes include the prestigious Fresnel prize for research achievements obtained before the age of 35, as well as prizes for the best nominated European PhD theses in optics over the last two years. The awards were presented in a ceremony on Tuesday June 23rd at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Europe and the European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC), held during the World of Photonics Congress in Munich, Germany.
German Physics festival to celebrate IYL 2015 in Jena
“Lichtspiele” (light games) is this year’s motto to the science festival organised by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [BMBF], the German Physics Society [DPG], and the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany.
International Year of Light news
Join the Global celebration of the Weekend of Light on 25-28 September 2015.
Join iSPEX-EU and Measure Air Pollution with your Smartphone.
LIGHT2015 – Lighting the Future Video.
Hamamatsu launches an educational website about light in celebration of the International Year of Light
PLANCKS 2015 in Leiden, NL
From the 22-24 May 2015, the second edition of Physics League Across Numerous Countries for Kick-ass Students [PLANCKS] was held. The event started on Friday with a very successful opening symposium, which hosted over 300 people. The main event, the physics Olympiad, was organised on Saturday. A total of 28 teams from 18 countries took up the challenge, but only the best could be praised with the title of ”Best Physics Students of the World”, and winning the grand prize of …
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IYL 2015 at the Zurich Science Days “Scientifica15″
The Zurich Science Days “Scientifica15″ will take place from 4-6 September 2015.
Editorial – The how and the why
Democracy relies on an educated population. High quality schools and teachers, classrooms open for all and interesting and exact teaching materials help to teach successive generations. The western world has known 70 years of peaceful co-existence. And although there is considerable turmoil in the world, parts of Asia, Africa and South America are also experiencing unprecedented growth. There are more people that are receiving a high quality education than ever before.
MGXIV Awards
Celebrating the centenary of Einstein’s equations and the Golden Jubilee of Relativistic Astrophysics during this International Year of Light, the Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting saw nearly 1200 scientists from all over the world converge on the University of Rome Sapienza campus in mid-July for 6 days of impressive plenary talks and about 100 parallel sessions covering a broad range of topics in physics and astrophysics sharing the common thread of Einstein’s theory of gravitation.
Editorial – Advising on Science
One essential question today is how much responsibility must scientists take in advising politicians on science policy issues and other society challenges.
In an article that appeared in EPN45/3 in 2014, entitled ‘Climate change can we afford to wait longer?‘ I expressed my personal view on the need to communicate on important and timely environmental issues. This was an easy process since this opinion was that of a single author. In the meantime, the EPS has published a position paper written by its…
EPS Historic Site: Institut für Radiumforschung Wien
The Institut Radiumforschung (Institute for Radium Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences), in Vienna is the first Historic Site of the European Physical Society in Austria. In a ceremony on 28 May 2015, a commemorative plaque was unveiled by Luisa Cifarelli, Chair of the EPS Historic Site Committee and former President of EPS, and Anton Zeilinger, the President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in front of the building in Boltzmanngasse 3, which was originally constructed for the Institute for Radium Research.
Spring 2015 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
It is a great pleasure to announce that the Spring 2015 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics goes to Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Institut des Matériaux, EPFL, Switzerland. Prof. Fontcuberta i Morral has made pioneering contributions to the physics of semiconductor nanostructures and their applications in mesoscopic physics and energy harvesting.
After a PhD in Materials Science at the Ecole Polytechnique (France), and a postdoctoral contract at the California…
International Year of Light news
International Year of Light at IEEE AFRICON 2015 Conference in Ethiopia
LIGHT2015 – Careers in Photonics Video
FIAT LUX Conference: Let There Be Light
Magic Optics
