How will the latest European Elections affect European R&D?
Once the ballots of the European election 2019 were counted, the scientific community had mixed feelings about the outcome. It is generally concerned about the impact on research and development budgets after the established parties, EPP and S&D, faced the biggest losses, while science sceptical populist parties, green and liberal factions gained the most seats [...]
EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities May 2019
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff in summer:
First DPG Fall Meeting addresses Quantum Science
The German Physical Society (DPG) is launching a new meeting dedicated to a research theme identified by its three sections: Condensed Matter / Atomic, Molecular, Plasma Physics and Quantum Optics / Matter and Cosmos. The Fall Meeting complements the well-known DPG Spring Conferences.
7th Portuguese Meeting of Physics and Chemistry Teachers
The 7th Portuguese Meeting of Physics and Chemistry Teachers will take place from 5-6 September 2019 in Évora, Portugal. In this two-day meeting, the challenges faced by physics and chemistry teachers, as well as modern teaching methodologies will be discussed by experienced teachers, who have a vision on these important subjects. The new reforms of [...]
Call for nominations for the EPS Emmy Noether Distinction
In 2013, the European Physical Society launched the Emmy Noether Distinction to recognise noteworthy women physicists.
EPS Historic Site, Leuven, Belgium : Georges Lemaître, founder of the Big Bang theory
On 23 May 2019, the Belgian Physical Society, the European Physical Society, and the sister-universities UCLouvain and KU Leuven will celebrate the person and the work of Monsignor Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), who was a professor at the yet undivided University of Louvain, and the original founder of the theory of the Big Bang.
The OSA Foundation Names First Recipient of the Milton and Rosalind Chang Pivoting Fellowship
Araceli Venegas-Gomez will use her stipend to become a ‘global ambassador’ for quantum technologies
Interview with Andrea Blanco-Redondo: Do what you love and never give up
Andrea Blanco-Redondo is a young researcher, an expert in integrated nonlinear and topological photonics in silicon-based materials. She just took a position with Nokia Bell Labs, Holmdel, USA.
A fully coherent soft X-ray free-electron laser
An international team of researchers implements a new method for generating intense and nearly fully coherent soft-X-ray pulses at a free-electron laser with high potential for use in novel spectroscopic techniques. An international research group led by the FERMI free-electron laser (FEL) physics team from the Elettra laboratory in Trieste demonstrated the first lasing of [...]
Neutrino hunt in the Mediterranean: the sea’s all eyes
Deep in the sea, far away from the surface, hundreds of “eyes” are scrutinising the deep sky. The light detectors of ANTARES (Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss Environmental Research) are hunting for high-energy neutrinos to unveil the mysteries of the Universe.
42nd “School of Young Physicists” in Skopje and “The Light Fantastic show” in Ohrid
The Society of Physicists of Macedonia, together with its Skopje Young Minds section, has organised two major outreach events in this 2018/2019 academic year. One was the 42nd “School of Young Physicists” in Skopje with more than 500 registered participants, and the other “The Light Fantastic show” in Ohrid, which completely filled a 600-seat theater, one of the largest events in the Society’s long history.
