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EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities May 2017
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff last month:
Cracking the code: girls’ education in STEM
The UNESCO International Symposium and Policy Forum will take place from 28-30 August 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand.
IONS Balvanyos 2017 Conference
The IONS Balvanyos 2017 Conference will take place from 25-28 July 2017 in Balvanyos, Romania.
Triangular Current Profile for Future High-energy Accelerators
Beam-driven, collinear wakefield acceleration is one of the most promising methods proposed for the next generation of high-energy physics accelerators. This method has some similarities to a transformer where the wakefield plays the role of the voltage. A high-current drive beam experiences a low wakefield when it passes a media (e.g. plasma, dielectric structure, etc), and this is transformed into a high wakefield to accelerate a trailing low-current witness beam.
Communicating Science
Communicating science is a notoriously thorny subject. On the one hand, there has never been a greater acknowledgement of our collective need for scientific understanding. In our technologically sophisticated age, it is often maintained, it is paramount to develop a scientifically literate society to allow us to best grapple with a litany of pressing, often science-related, issues.
Editorial – It is thanks to you
The annual Council Meeting of the European Physical Society was held on 31 March – 1 April 2017 at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany. The EPS Council is composed of representatives of the 42 EPS Member Societies and the chairpersons of the 12 Divisions, 6 Groups, and 6 Committees. Individual Members and Associate Members are each represented by 5 elected delegates. A more extensive summary of the Council meeting can be read in the report by G. Gunaratnam.
New prize of the Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division of EPS – call for nominations
The Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division (SNPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) calls for nominations for two newly created prizes of this Division: the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize and the EPS-SNPD Early Career Prize.
Report on the EPS Council 2017
The EPS Council 2017 took place from 31st March to 1st April in Erlangen, Germany.
Hosted in the splendid building of the Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light [MPI], the meeting gathered together more than 60 members, representatives of the main European Physical Societies, as well as numerous Associate Members of the Society.
DPG President Rolf-Dieter Heuer chairs the council of the new SESAME Accelerator Centre in the Middle East
On 16 May 2017 the ultra-modern accelerator centre opened in the presence of King Abdullah II of Jordan. A scholarship program of the German Physical Society enables young scientists to carry out research there.
The March for Science in France: a great success
The day before the first round of the presidential election in France was also the day of the ‘March for Science’. One might have feared a massive abstention for this last event. This was not the case.
Science around me: physics for all
On 2012 in Messina, a city located in the north-east of Sicily, a little group of Physics Master and PhD students joined the Young Mind Project starting a chapter with the aim of fostering scientific discussions and the spread of knowledge.
