EUCALL finishes its first year, bearing new technologies

Project successes include new open-source simulation program

The European Cluster of Advanced Laser Light sources (EUCALL), a European Union-funded project that aims to foster links between accelerator- and laser-driven X-ray facilities, has completed the first year of its three year project period. The project successfully met all twenty milestones for the year, producing a new open-source tool for experiment simulations and developing specifications for several pieces of new scientific equipment.

Welcome to the new Young Minds Action Committee members – 15th YMAC meeting

The 15^th Young Minds Action Committee meeting took place in London on October 28^th.  It was a short but intense meeting, resulting in some big news we are eager to share with you.

First of all, we would like to welcome three new Action Committee members, as well as thank the members who are going to leave us.  

Information from Liechtenstein 2016

Electricity Museum

This year the Liechtenstein Scientific Society held its annual meeting in the premises of the “Lawena-Museum”.

That is an interesting Electricity Museum situated in the oldest hydro-electric Power Plant in Liechtenstein in the Lawena valley. Last Year Dr. Cyril Deicha donated hundreds of historic scientific, technical and didactic objects to complete the original collection of the museum. Now it is the largest collection of its kind in the region. In the summer the museum is open to the public on several weekends (www.lkw.li.)

Philatelics

IUPAC approved the names of the elements 113, 115, 117, and 118

On 28^th  November 2016, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced that the elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 are now formally named.

The name nihonium with the symbol Nh for element 113 was proposed by the discoverers at RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science (Japan); the name came from Nihon which is one of the two ways to say “Japan” in Japanese, and literally mean “the Land of the Rising Sun”.

EU Space Awareness: Inspiring a new generation of Space Explorers

The EU Space Awareness Project [EUSPACE-AWE] – funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme – uses the excitement of space to attract young people to science and technology and to stimulate European and global citizenship. The main goal of the project is to increase the number of young people that choose space-related careers.

Pioneering SESAME light source circulates first beam

Allan, Jordan, 12 January 2017. A beam circulated for the first time in the pioneering SESAME synchrotron at 18:12 (UTC+3) yesterday. The next step will be to store the beam.

This is an important milestone on the way to research getting underway at the first light-source laboratory in the Middle East. SESAME was established under the auspices of UNESCO before becoming a fully independent intergovernmental organisation in its own right in 2004.

Dedicated to EPS Individual Members

EPS Individual Members can access for free, from the EPS web page, the current latest issues of two appealing journals.

EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities December 2016

The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff last month:

EGAS 2017

With great pleasure, we invite you to attend EGAS 2017 – the 49^th Conference of the European Group on Atomic Systems. The conference will be held at Durham University in the UK, July 17 – 21 2017.  As with previous editions, the EGAS conference will be the annual venue for meeting distinguished specialists in the field and a source of scientific inspiration.

Norwegian Physicist meeting

The Norwegian Physicist meeting will be held from 7–9 August 2017 in Tromsø, Norway.

The venue is the new Technology building, home of the Physics and Technology, and Engineering departments at University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway.

ERL17 workshop

We are pleased to announce that the 59^th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on Energy Recovery Linacs (ERL17) will be held at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, from 18-23 June 2017. This will be the 7^th in the series of international workshops covering accelerator physics, technology and applications of Energy Recovery Linacs.

Status of Accelerator Driven Systems Research and Technology Development

A workshop on the “Status of Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS) Research and Technology Development” is being organised at CERN on 7-9 February 2017. As the last one in a series of workshops dedicated to ADS-related subjects.