Science by Women
The Women in Africa foundation, true to its mission of contributing to the development of Africa through its women, is launching the fourth edition of the SCIENCE BY WOMEN programme with the aim to promote African women’s leadership in scientific research and technology transfer and to foster the capacity of the research centres in their home countries. The main goal is to enable African women researchers and scientists to tackle the great challenges faced by Africa through research in health, agriculture and food security, water, energy and climate change, which can be transferred into products and technologies with an impact on people´s lives.
Playing a true Parrondo’s game with a three-state coin on a quantum walk
This article was written by Jishnu Rajendran and Colin Benjamin and published in EPL on 28 June 2018 (Volume 122, Number 4, Copyright © EPLA, 2018).
Visualising ultra-fast phenomena
Professor Carsten P. Welsch, EuPRAXIA’s Director of Communication, Group Leader at The Cockcroft Institute and Head of Physics at Liverpool University, explains how the EuPRAXIA network is collaborating to design the world’s first plasma-based accelerator with industrial beam quality.
EPS AMOPD: call for nominations for the Young Scientist Prize
The call for nomination for the Young Scientist Prize of the Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Division of the EPS is open.
Petition for an increased EU Budget for Research and Innovation
The European Commission, under the leadership of Commissioner Carlos Moedas, has recently published its proposal for Horizon Europe, the upcoming European Research and Innovation Programme for the period from 2021 to 2027.
Report on the 15th Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference
Following a longstanding tradition, the conference was devoted to cover new advances in applications and experiments in all areas related to nonlinear dynamical systems and complexity with specialists in fluids and lasers, neuronal dynamics, cardiac dynamics, systems biology, geophysics, epidemiology, granular systems, “science of cities” and human mobility and data analysis.
EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities summer 2018
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff in summer:
2018 Lise Meitner Prize for Nuclear Science
The 2018 Lise Meitner Prize has been jointly awarded to Peter Ring (Technische Universität München) and Peter Schuck (Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay and Laboratoire de Physique et de Modélisation des Milieux Condensés Grenoble) for “Their enormous impact on both theoretical and experimental many-body nuclear physics. In particular P.Ring developed new investigations in high-spin phenomena, collective vibrations and relativistic nuclear energy density functionals while P.Schuck introduced new approaches for nuclear matter in connection with nuclear superfluidity and alpha-particle condensation”.
The International Day of Light and the 2018 EPS-Edison-Volta prize
The International Day of Light, chosen by UNESCO to celebrate the light, all over the world, on May 16 of each year, had its first edition in Italy in the beautiful setting of the Teatro Sociale in Como. The ceremony took place in a gala evening where the scientific event was accompanied by music, readings and illusionism performance having light as an inspiring theme.
EPS Historic Sites—Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISAN), which is located in science city Troitsk, Moscow, was inaugurated as an Historic Site of the European Physical Society (EPS). The EPS President, Rüdiger Voss and the EPS Secretary General, David Lee attended the ceremony, which was held on June 20, 2018, at the 50th jubilee of the ISAN.
Call for bids to host the Applied Nuclear Physics Conference in 2020
The board of the Nuclear Physics Division (NPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) is seeking candidates to host a new EPS-NPD divisional conference in 2020. The conference will have a particular emphasis on Applied Nuclear Physics (ANP), with sections specifically devoted to themes such as energy, health, space, security, environment, material science, preservation and study of cultural heritage.
