EPS Edison Volta Prize 2012 awards CERN LHC
The European Physical Society [EPS], the Centro di Cultura Scientifica “Alessandro Volta” and Edison S.p.A. are proud to announce the award of the 2012 EPS Edison Volta Prize for outstanding contributions to physics to:
- Rolf Dieter Heuer, CERN Director General,
- Sergio Bertolucci, CERN Director for Research and Computing,
- Stephen Myers, CERN Director for Accelerators and Technology…
Submissions for the Spanish Royal Society Meeting
From 15-19 July 2013, most of the Spanish community of physicists will gather in Valencia, Spain, to attend the 34th Biannual Meeting of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics and the 23rd Iberian Meeting on Physics Education.
In addition to mini-symposia, plenary sessions and round tables will address some of the hottest issues in physics and technology, including the elusive Higgs boson, quantum computing, or the state of the art in renewable energies.
The abstract submission deadline is 4 February 2013…
Nominations open for the QEOD prizes
The Quantum Electronics and Optics division [QEOD] of the European Physical Society [EPS] is presently soliciting nominations for their biennial prizes to be presented at the CLEO/Europe-IQEC meeting, which will be held in Munich, Germany, from 12-16 May 2013.
These prizes are now well-established as leading European awards in both fundamental and applied quantum electronics and optics.Nominations for the following prizes are to be received online by 4 March 2013 at the latest…
Interview with Graeme Watt, Executive Editor of EPL
EPL is a publication of the EPS for more than 25 years. e-EPS spoke with Graeme Watt, executive editor of EPL since 2006.
What are the duties of an executive editor?
My role is to represent the journal to the scientific community and increase visibility by attending conferences, interacting with participants, developing a strategy for growth and development, devising promotion activities…
IPAC’13
The 4th International Particle Accelerator Conference [IPAC’13] will take place in Shanghai, China, from 12 to 17 May 2013. The conference will bring together accelerator scientists and engineers from all over the world to discuss the latest developments in a field that underpins many areas of research, from high energy physics to structural biology. The three previous IPAC conferences have each attracted over 1000 participants. As a truly international conference series, the venue moves between Asia, Europe and North America on a three-year cycle. IPAC’12 was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA in May 2012; in 2014 the conference will return to Europe, when IPAC’14…
Pushing the boundaries of cold atoms
A 4-week programme “Pushing the boundaries of cold atoms” will held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 21 January 2013 to 15 February 2013. It aims to bring together researchers and students working in this field, both theoreticians as well as experimentalists.
The programme focuses on new directions within the field of ultracold atomic gases. Interesting topics include for example: Synthetic gauge fields for cold atoms, Multi-component atoms, spinor condensates…
Featured in EPL
Most recent highlights from EPL:
First-principles calculations of the magnetic anisotropic constants of Co–Pd multilayers
Covariant form of the ideal magnetohydrodynamic “connection theorem” in a relativistic plasma
Superluminal tachyon-like excitations of Dirac fermions in a topological insulator junction
Measurement with a rotating magnetic field of the surface viscosity of a nematic liquid crystal
Summary of EPS ExCom Meeting, October 2012
At the end of October 2012, the European Physical Society’s Executive Committee met at the Ettore Majorana Scientific Centre in Erice, Italy, in parallel with the kick-off under the chairmanship of H. Wenninger. The common location allowed the ExCom to learn about ongoing work and future evolution of the TIG.
The very recent endorsement of the International Year of Light 2015 by UNESCO was, of course, one of the highlights of the agenda of the ExCom meeting…
Problems of nuclear waste disposal
To broaden the interdisciplinary perspective of the physics students in Mainz, the Young Minds group cooperates with the JungChemikerForum, the organization for students of the German Chemistry Society (Gesellschaft deutscher Chemiker).
Their first joined seminar, held on 24 April 2012, that they organized in light of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe and the following change in German nuclear policy leading to one question which becomes more and more important…
NANOMETA 2013
The 4th International Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials [NANOMETA 2013] will be held at the Seefeld ski resort in Tirol, Austria, on 3-6 January. The event aims to bring together the materials, nanotechnology and photonics research communities to discuss recent developments and results within their fields.
The meeting will be organised into two parallel oral sessions – concerning nanophotonics and metamaterials – with mid-day breaks to allow participants to socialise and participate in recreational activities…
