New ideas in detection and imaging technologies
As part of the ATTRACT initiative, and co-sponsored by EPS Technology and Innovation Group (TIG), a workshop on new ideas and developments in detection and imaging was held in Tripolis, Greece on May 30th -June 1st .
2017 EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics prizes awarded in Krakow
The year 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of the Polish statistical physicist Marian Smoluchowski, and on this occasion the Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division of EPS organised an anniversary conference in Krakow 3-8 September 2017. Almost 200 statistical physicists from all over the world attended.
44th Annual EPS conference on Plasma Physics
The 44th Annual EPS conference on Plasma Physics was held at the Waterside Centre in Belfast, UK, from 26th to 30th June 2017, with participation by 672 researchers from 43 countries.
Italy and the ILL: two decades of successful collaboration in neutron science
2017 is a milestone year for Italy at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), marking the 20th anniversary of its Scientific Membership. Looking back over the last two decades, the collaboration is particularly impressive in terms of the variety, novelty and importance of its many achievements.
Nanoalloys ten times as effective as pure platinum in fuel cells
A new type of nanocatalyst can result in the long-awaited commercial breakthrough for fuel cell cars. Research results from Chalmers University of Technology and Technical University of Denmark show that it is possible to significantly reduce the need for platinum, a precious and rare metal, by creating a nanoalloy using a new production technique. The technology is also well suited for mass production.
A gender inversion for the Solvay picture at the 103th annual congress of SIF
Within the annual congress of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) the entire morning of September 14 was dedicated to two very interesting round tables, one organized by the University of Trento (Chiara La Tessa and Alessandra Saletti) on “Research: which opportunities are there for women” and another organized organized by SIF (Luisa Cifarelli) on “Physics, singular feminine”.
Europhoton 2018
This conference features the latest breakthroughs in the field of solid-state, fibre and waveguide light sources. World-renowned researchers discuss the latest developments in the scientific community accompanied by Summer School sessions at the PhD student and postdoctoral level, and by informal breakout sessions for discussion and vendor display viewing. This conference will also feature a [...]
EPS-CMD: report on the International Conference on Ultralow Temperature Physics ULT-2017
Report of the conference
Featured in EPN
Europhysics News Vol. 48/4 can be downloaded at the magazine’s website.
ECOSS 2017
The EPS-CMD 33rd European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS-33) was held in Szeged (Hungary) from August 27th to September 1st, 2017. Each year, ECOSS gathers the Surface Science Division of the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA) and the Surface Physics Section of CMD to meet and discuss the latest advances in [...]
ICALEPS2017
The 16th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Control Systems (ICALEPCS 2017) will take place at the “Palau de Congressos de Catalunya” in Barcelona, from the 8th to the 13th of October 2017 and will be hosted by the ALBA Synchrotron. ICALEPCS facilitates fruitful collaborations among the world´s control system specialists from large scientific [...]
VIRGO and LIGO together, in quest of gravitational waves
Cascina, 4 August 2017 – On Tuesday August 1st at 10 UCT the LIGO and VIRGO interferometers officially started taking data jointly.
Two perspectives justify the interest of international physics community on this date, the first concerns the conclusion of the construction and the start of operations of the European detector VIRGO, the second is the beginning of the systematic exploration of the Universe with the global network of new generation interferometers.
