Observing Mars from Mars
No need to be a rover to go for a stroll on the red planet. You can really spend several days in Mars without taking off from Earth. A very small village in the centre of France, Mars has hosted an astronomy festival every summer for over ten years now.
Inspiring Science Education Academy 2019
The aim of the Inspiring Science Education International Summer Academy is to support the modernisation of science education and training, including curricula, assessment of learning outcomes and the professional development of teachers and trainers, as well as to the wide adoption of the recommendations of the Rocard Report “A new Pedagogy for the Future of [...]
International symposium on Future Circular Collider technologies
The University of Liverpool, in collaboration with CERN, is organising the ‘Particle Colliders – Accelerating Innovation’ Symposium on Future Circular Collider (FCC) technologies. This event will be a public display of the FCC study and will take place at the Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre on 22 March 2019. The largest machine in the World, the Large [...]
ECAMP13
The 13th European Conference on Atoms Molecules and Photons (ECAMP13) will take place in Florence, Italy, April 8-12, 2019. The Conference venue will be Fortezza da Basso in the very heart of the renaissance town. The triennial ECAMP conference series, launched in 1981, is the major conference of the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division [...]
Colloidal Science and Metamaterials
We are glad to bring to your attention the International Conference on “Colloidal Science and Metamaterials“, which will be held next 25th, 26th and 27th February 2019, at the Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Microfluidique, in Paris, under the aegis of the MICROFLUSA Horizon 2020 project. This three-day meeting objective is to foster research [...]
Editorial: Physics in Advent!
University of Göttingen and partners offer education and fun for youngsters at Christmastime.
EPS Historic Site: The observatories on the Haldde mountain
Sunday, August 26 2018, the Observatories on the Haldde Mountain was inaugurated as an EPS Historic Site, the first in Norway, at nearly 70° north.
Call for the EPS Emmy Noether Distinction
In 2013, the European Physical Society launched the Emmy Noether Distinction to recognise noteworthy women physicists.
EPS Survey on Open Science & Career Development for Researchers 2018
A survey was addressed to physicists in Europe, asking as many as possible to express their views on ‘Open Science and Career Development’.
3rd International Conference of History of Physics
The PhysicsEstoire prize was awarded to Jim Bennett on 19 October 2018. The ceremony took place during the Joint 3rd International Conference on the History of Physics, organised under the auspices of the European Physical Society and 4th Early-Career Conference for Historians in the Physical Sciences of the American Institute of Physics, 17-20 October 2018, in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.
Better catalysts with the help of fine-tuning at the atomic level
By studying materials down to the atomic level, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have found a way to make catalysts more efficient and environmentally friendly. The results have been published in Nature Communications. The methods can be used to improve many different types of catalysts.
EUNPC 2018: over 200 physicists met in Bologna to discuss nuclear physics from meV to TeV
The fourth edition of the European Nuclear Physics Conference (EuNPC 2018) has been held in Bologna (Italy), from 2nd to 7th September 2018.
