The EPS Hannes Alfvén Prize 2019 for outstanding contributions to plasma physics is jointly awarded to Professor Victor Malka and Professor Toshiki Tajima.
It is a great pleasure to announce that the Winter 2018 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics goes to Dr. Chiara Mariotti from INFN, Italy, and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
The 2019 Prize for Research into the Science of Light is awarded to Professor Javier García de Abajo, ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain for “pioneering contributions to the understanding of the behaviour of light at the nanoscale, in particular in plasmons and in light interactions with free electrons“.
We ask the scientific community for suggestions of suitable candidates for the following two prizes, which are awarded by EPS every 2 years: the EPS Statistical & Nonlinear Physics Prize and the EPS-SNPD Early Career Prize.
The European Solar Physics Division call for nominations for the 2019 Prizes: the PhD Thesis Prize and the Early Career Researcher (Postdoc) Prize.
The Web@30 event is happening at CERN and you can join it from anywhere in the world.
In 1989, CERN was a hive of ideas and information stored on multiple incompatible computers. Tim Berners-Lee envisioned a unifying structure for linking information across different computers, and wrote a proposal in March 1989 called “Information Management: A Proposal”. By 1991, this vision of universal connectivity had become the World Wide Web!
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, celebrated each year on 11 February, was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly to promote full and equal access to science and participation in science for women and girls. This Day is a reminder that women and girls play a critical role in science and technology communities and that their participation should be strengthened.
The 18th EPS Young Minds Action Committee meeting took place in Trieste, northern Italy, on the 24th November 2018.
Physicists from Tomsk Polytechnic University developed an optimal method for environmental monitoring using neutron activation analysis of mosses. The new approach can be used for the assessment of air quality in the cities. A research article was published in the journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.
2019 is the 100th anniversary of the death of the great Hungarian physicist, Lorand Eötvös.
2018 saw the 20th anniversary of the founding of EPJ, the European Physical Journal. Launched in 1998, EPJ brought together the combined strengths of some long-established national European physics journals, starting with the initial merger of Journal de Physique, Il Nuovo Cimento and Zeitschrift für Physik, and continuing with the adoption and in- corporation of Acta Physica Hungarica, Anales de Fisica, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, Fizika A, and Portugaliae Physica. e EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee includes now members from 25 European learned societies.
The Biennial Meeting of the RSEF will take place from 15-19 July 2019 in Zaragoza, Spain. The organisers represent most of the departments and research centres from the University of Zaragoza and from CSIC that are active in the different branches of physics. The Biennial Meeting will present the best in research, technology transfer, dissemination [...]