The Australian SKA Pathfinder: A ‘next generation’ Radio Telescope
The Australian SKA Pathfinder is a new 36-element radio interferometer designed to be a fast survey telescope. Its key technology, phased-array receivers designed by CSIRO, has shown proven advantages in bandwidth, field of view and adaptability. ASKAP is located at a superbly ‘radio quiet’ site in Western Australia, one of the sites that will house the international Square Kilometre Array.
2018 Lise Meitner Prize for Nuclear Science: call for nominations
The board of the Nuclear Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) calls for nominations for the 2018 “Lise Meitner Prize”. The award will be given to one or several individuals for outstanding work in the fields of experimental, theoretical or applied nuclear science. The board welcomes proposals which represent the breadth and strength of European Nuclear Science.
New Data on Gender Inequality in Sciences Salaries
There is a difference between male and female physics faculty salaries and the culture of physics is partly to blame, according to an article that is available for free this month from Physics Today, the world’s most influential and closely followed magazine devoted to physics and the physical sciences community.
Play it again, PiA! Physics experiments every year at Christmas time
With the motto “24 experiments until Christmas”, the University of Göttingen and the German Physical Society (DPG) offer physics experiments such as an Advent calendar. It is science, fun and you can win lots of prizes.
The IPPOG Particles4U Competition
Particles4U is a competition for young students and teachers, sponsored by the European Physical Society (EPS), and organised by the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG). We at IPPOG are scientists, communicators, and educators engaged in particle physics outreach around the world. But, sometimes, we need the help of experts, and that is where you come in…
Call for EPS Fellows
EPS Members are invited to nominate EPS Individual Members as EPS Fellows. Individuals whose achievements in physics, whether in research, industry or education and/or through commitment to the SOCIETY warrant specific recognition are eligible to become EPS Fellows.
The KM3NeT/ORCA neutrino detector is coming online
On 22 September 2017, after a two-day long sea operation, the first detection unit of the ORCA neutrino telescope came online. This marks an important milestone of the scientific and technological endeavour of the international KM3NeT Collaboration.
Editorial: EPS a utopia?
EDP Sciences has finished digitizing all of back issues of Europhysics News (EPN). Now all EPN issues are in digital format and with a very good quality.
EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities October 2017
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff last month:
Editorial – 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics to Gravitational Waves
On Tuesday the 3th of October, at least the several hundreds members of LIGO & VIRGO collaboration where anxiously waiting for the start of the streaming from the Swedish Academy of Science, around 11:30 CET, to follow the attribution of the Nobel Prize for Physics.
EPS Edison Volta Prize 2018: Call for nominations
Nominations are now open for the Edison Volta Prize of the European Physical Society [EPS]. The award – intended to promote excellence in research – will be given in recognition of outstanding research and achievements in physics.
