Open Access for UK and Horizon2020 publications
In June 2012 a UK working group of scientists, funding agencies and publishers made available a report on “Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications”.
This work, known as the Finch report after the chairwoman of the group, Janet Finch, made the recommendation for a larger implementation of open access models in the UK publishing scene. The Finch report has very rapidly triggered a decision of Research Councils UK (RCUK), the umbrella body for Britain’s seven research councils,…
Nominations: Board of the EPS Nuclear Physics Division
The EPS Nuclear Physics Division [NPD] is organising elections to replace 2 outgoing members. The NPD is active in the organisation of the European Nuclear Physics Conference series, the Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics Conference series, and the award of prestigious prizes. The board also provides input to the EPS on issues related to nuclear physics and relations to other European and international bodies interested in nuclear physics and policy. More information is available on the the NPD website…
Institute of Physics Awards Dinner
The Institute of Physics [IoP] Awards Dinner 2012, held in London on 3 October, attracted a record attendance of over 600 physicists.
The IoP President, Sir Peter Knight, a Fellow of the European Physical Society [EPS], highlighted in his address a new IoP report, which showed, yet again, the lamentable number of girls studying physics in the UK despite years of effort to improve matters…
Professor Zalewska elected President of CERN Council
The 20 September 2012, CERN Council elected Agnieszka Zalewska as its 21st President. She will follow Michel Spiro, whose 3-year term will end at the end of December.
“I feel particularly honoured to have presided over the CERN Council through a period that has seen the first major results from the Large hadron Collider,” said Michel Spiro. “I’d like to wish Professor Zalewska all the very best as the LHC adventure continues to unfold…”
Young Scientist Award in Statistical Physics
The Young Scientist Prize in Statistical Physics, established by the C3 Commission on Statistical Physics of the IUPAP, recognises outstanding achievements of scientists in the early stages of their career in the field of Statistical Physics.
Up to three awards will be presented at the Statphys25 conference, which will be held in Seoul, Korea, 22-26 July 2013. To be eligible for the Prize, nominees must have received their PhDs not more than eight years prior to July 1, 2013, and are expected to have displayed significant achievement…
FP7: 2013 Calls for proposals
The European Commission has published 4 new calls for proposals under the Framework Programme 7 [FP7].
• ICT – EU Japan Coordinated Call on topics Optical or wireless communications, cybersecurity, extending the cloud paradigm to the Internet of Things, the Federation of testbeds: Control, tools and experiments, as well as green and content centric networks. Deadline for submission: 29 November 2012.
• Coordination and Support Actions (supporting) : Researchers’ night. Deadline for submission: 8 January 2013…
2012 Nobel Prize in Physics
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Serge Haroche (College de France and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France) and David J. Wineland (National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] and University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) for the development of “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”.
The prize, given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, was announced on 9 October…
Featured in EPN
Recent highlights from EPN:
Magnetic Resonance Imaging: a success story for superconductivity
Merging incompatible materials
Neutrinos and the hunt for the last mixing angle
Featured in EPL
Recent highlights from EPL:
First-principles calculations of the magnetic anisotropic constants of Co–Pd multilayers: Effect of stacking faults
Mn local moments prevent superconductivity in iron pnictides Ba(Fe1−xMnx)2As2
Radiation-dominated era and the power of general relativity
Featured in EPL
Recently featured in EPL:
Demographic noise can lead to the spontaneous formation of species
by T. Rogers, A. J. McKane & A. G. Rossberg
“When a collection of phenotypically diverse organisms compete with each other for limited resources, the population can evolve into tightly localised clusters. Past studies have neglected the effects of demographic noise and studied the…
European Physical Society Physics Education Division
Since 2000, the European Physical Society’s Physics Education Division has been contributing to awareness of the relevance of physics in everyday culture, to interaction amongst schools and universities and to a better quality of physics teaching at all levels.
The Physics Education Division achieves this by addressing and promoting physics, the continued education of teachers, large scale educational changes – such as the Bologna process – and successful new teaching methods, taking into account differences and similarities in the European education systems…
100 years of superconductivity
In commemoration of 2011 – the 100 year anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes – the European Physical Society would like to highlight some fascinating websites which offer information on superconductors, one of the most exciting fields within condensed-matter physics.
All about superconductivity is a website by the Institut de Physique du CNRS, the Triangle de la Physique, and the Société Française de Physique, offering an interactive and exciting look into the world of superconductors…
