The Passion for Knowledge 2019 festival: set to mobilise 10,000 people
The Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) is organising Passion for Knowledge (P4K) 2019, an open science festival in which thousands of citizens will be participating.
Editorial: Celebrate Astronomy in 2019 Under One Sky
Astronomy is a science that fascinates humankind. On the one hand astronomy touches on the largest philosophical questions facing us: Where do we come from? Where will we end? How did life arise? On the other hand, the beauty of the night sky is breathtaking, making astronomy quite attractive to the general public.
EPS Historic Site in Heidelberg: The birthplace of spectral analysis
The former laboratories of Gustav Robert Kirchhoff and Robert Wilhelm Bunsen in Heidelberg have been distinguished as an EPS Historic Site.
EPS Historic Site: The Laboratorium in Bergara
On October 20th 2018, the Laboratorium in Bergara was officially declared an Historic Site of the European Physical Society.
The 2018 APS/EPS Landau-Spitzer Award
For the development of a new and highly efficient scenario for heating of fusion plasmas using Ion Cyclotron Resonant Heating (ICRH), the joint team consisting of Yevgen Kazakov and Jef Ongena, from the Laboratory for Plasma Physics of the Royal Military Academy (Brussels, Belgium) and John Wright and Steven Wuktich from the Plasma Science and Fusion Centre at MIT (Boston, USA) was awarded last July the prestigious Landau-Spitzer Award.
Season’s Greetings from the European Physical Society
The European Physical Society would like to thank you for your interest and support throughout 2018.
Lutz Schröter becomes President of the German Physical Society from 2020 to 2022
In its most recent meeting, the DPG Council elected Lutz Schröter, Industry Manager, as the future President of the world’s largest physical society with over 60,000 members. In April 2020, he will take over from Dieter Meschede, who will then take up his duties as Vice President.
Launch of the European Open Science Cloud
The official launch of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was organized in Vienna on 23 November 2018 under the auspices of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It took place at the Vienna University library with about 250 participants.
On Zientzia contest will award the best science videos
The 9th edition of the On Zientzia video contest has just started. It is organised by Donostia International Physics Center and Elhuyar.
EU Particle Physics & Astronomy commit to the Research Data Revolution making the EOSC a reality
First quarter 2019 sees the exciting launch of one out of the five successfully retained INFRA-EOSC-04-2018 Cluster projects, which the European Commission supports with €16 million to boost the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Featured in EPN
Europhysics News Vol. 49/5-6 can be downloaded at the magazine’s website. View it also as a flipbook. Flipbook of EPN – issue 49/5-6 Physics and its current and future applications Christophe Rossel and Markus NordbergPublished online: 30 November 2018DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2018501 Materials for the 21st century Jessica Wade and Sebastian WoodPublished online: 30 November 2018DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2018502 From classical optics to nanophotonics François Flory, [...]
EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities November 2018
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff in summer:
