The EPS Emmy Noether Distinction Summer 2019 goes to Sarah Köster
The summer 2019 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction is awarded to Sarah Köster from the Institute for X-Ray Physics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany.
The Atominstitut in Vienna was designated an EPS Historic Site
The ATOMINSTITUT (Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics of TU Wien, Vienna, Austria) was designated an EPS Historic Site in 2019 honoring the achievement of Helmut Rauch.
Call for nominations – EPS president-elect
A number of vacancies will arise on the European Physical Society (EPS) Executive Committee in 2020, including the position of President-elect. According to the EPS bylaws, a Selection Committee has been created to establish a list of candidates for the replacement of outgoing members, and for the President-elect.
Call for nominations for the IBA Prize 2020
The board of the Nuclear Physics Division (NPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) calls for nominations for the 2020 edition of the IBA prize for Applied Nuclear Science and Nuclear Methods and Nuclear Researches in Medicine. Every two-three years the NPD board awards the IBA prize, which is sponsored by the IBA company (https://iba-worldwide.com/), to one or more individuals who provided outstanding contributions to applied nuclear physics and/or nuclear medicine.
Career Event: Options After Your PhD!
Figuring out a career path after your PhD (or any other point during your studies) is the hardest task every student has to face, especially approaching the end of their studies. And the unescapable question is always: “So, what should I do next?”
IOP website for teachers launched
The Institute of Physics has launched a new education website for teachers – IOPSpark.
News from the EPS Condensed Matter Division
The Liquid Physics Section of EPS-CMD sollicits nominations for the 2020 EPS Liquid Matter Prize. The prize will be awarded to a single person who has made outstanding contributions to the science of liquid matter in the experimental or theoretical area, and who is still active in research. The award may be given for pure [...]
Featured in EPN
Europhysics News Vol. 50-3 can be downloaded at the magazine’s website. View it also as a flipbook. Flipbook of EPN – issue 50/3 Interview with Mike Kosterlitz p. 12 Patrícia F.N. Faísca and Rui D.M. TravassoDOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/201931PDF (155.1 KB) The Stern-Gerlach experiment re-examined by an experimenter p. 15 Horst Schmidt-BöckingDOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2019302PDF (342.8 KB) EPL in an eventful environment p. [...]
EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities July and August 2019
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff in summer:
30th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics
Texas 2019 will take place from 15-20 December 2019 in Portsmouth, UK. Registration and call for abstracts are now open. Abstract submission deadline is 27 September. Early-bird registration fee payment deadline is 25 October. Registration closes 22 November. See the web site http://texas2019.org/ for more details. The Texas meetings have covered topics such as black holes, gravitational [...]
Symposium “125th Anniversary of Georges Lemaître”
On the occasion of his 125th anniversary in 2019, the Swiss Physical Society and the Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT with its platform MAP organize a symposium on Georges E. Lemaître, the Belgian physicist, astronomer, and Roman Catholic priest, who is known as the father of the Big-Bang model of the Universe. The symposium will [...]
ESIPAP Detector School
Interested by European School of Instrumentation in Particle and Astroparticle Physics ? Online application is now available to attend the 2020 ESIPAP School in Archamps! A great opportunity for Masters, PhD students and professionals to follow two intensive 4-week courses! More information: http://www.esi-archamps.eu/Thematic-Schools/Discover-ESIPAP
