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Europhysics News Vol. 48/1 can be downloaded at the magazine’s website.
Photovoltaic solar energy: from the photoelectric effect to global power generation and beyond
2017 Kavli Medal and lecture by Professor Henry Snaith FRS.
EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities January 2017
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff last month:
Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics XIV
The international summer school “Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics” is to be held for the fourteenth time in the summer of 2017 in Bruneck, a picturesque town in the Italian Alps.
Announcement of the 2017 Dan David Prize Laureates
Announcement of the 2017 Dan David Prize Laureates in the three Time Dimensions: Past Time Dimension, Present Time Dimension and Future Time Dimension.
Editorial – EPS: Open Science and Open to the World
From several reports and podcasts, it seems that Europe’s leaders are not expecting a smooth ride in 2017 after a year marked by political upheaval, extremist attacks, unchecked immigration, and a rising military instability worldwide. Britain is struggling with its Brexit, America will soon inaugurate a new and surprising president. Elections in the Netherlands, France and Germany will certainly be important factors for European political stability in this New Year.
Rocío Borrego Varillas: doing what you really like helps coping with difficulties
Rocío Borrego Varillas is a young postdoctoral researcher in Physics, who after graduating from the University of Salamanca in Spain, obtained a Marie-Curie fellowship. She is at present Research Fellow at the Politecnico of Milano where she works in the field of ultrafast spectroscopy in the UV range.
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
On 15 December 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/70/212 declaring 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The United Nations invites all Member States including academia, individuals and society in general, to observe the International Day of Women and Girls in Science to promote the full and equal participation of women and girls in education, training, employment and decision-making processes in the sciences.
EPS Young Minds Take IBM’s Qubits for a Spin
This past May, IBM Research announced the Quantum Experience, an experimental cloud-enabled quantum computing platform. The technology essentially made 35 years of IBM’s quantum computing research available to students, researchers and general science enthusiasts, at the click of a button.
EPS Individual Members – new fees in 2017
During the EPS Council held in Mulhouse in April 2016, the Executive Committee presented a new proposal to increase the fees for Individual Members. The delegates voted in favour of it. The categories of EPS membership, as well as the new fees, are shown below and take effect in 2017.
EPS Early Career Prizes – call for nominations
The EPS has two Early Career prizes to be awarded each year, one each for achievements of a mainly theoretical or experimental nature.
Inauguration and first beam of PSI’s X-ray FEL SwissFEL
On December 5th, in the presence of the President of Switzerland Johann Schneider-Ammann, PSI inaugurated the X-ray Free Electron Laser facility, SwissFEL, after 4 years of construction. The facility consists of a low emittance injector, a 6 GeV linear electron accelerator, a string of 12 undulator magnets designed for FEL lasing at photon energies of up to 12.8 keV and photon beamlines and end-stations. The SwissFEL building is located in a forest site near the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). Its total building length is 740m. In its initial configuration, SwissFEL is equipped with two end stations for user experiments dedicated to studies in photochemistry/photobiology, structural biology and condensed matter physics.
