ALMA, an international partnership to discover space
After 10 years of construction the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array [ALMA] based in Chile was inaugurated on 13 March 2013. The ceremony marks the completion of all the major systems of the giant telescope and the formal transition from a construction project to a fully-fledged observatory.ALMA is funded by an international partnership comprised of the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere [ESO], by the U.S. National Science Foundation [NSF] and by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences [NINS] of Japan…
Festival of Science 2012 at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
The Festival of Science is the day when the Bauman Moscow State Technical University [BMSTU] opens it doors to numerous curious visitors and welcomes school children, high school graduates, and first-year university students.
BMSTU organised its second Festival of Science at the end of 2012. Every department of the university displayed information describing the research and education in science. Participants could also attend a variety of master classes, lectures, seminars and reports on different scientific topics, presented by senior students, postgraduates and…
EPS QEOD Prizes awarded to F.Capasso and M.Lewenstein
The European Physical Society [EPS] and the EPS Quantum Electronics and Optics Division [EPS QEOD], are delighted to announce the 2013 winners of its two most prestigious prizes in Quantum Electronics and Optics. Since 1996, these prizes are awarded every two years, and recognize the very highest level of achievements in applied and fundamental research in optical physics.
The 2013 Prize for Applied Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics is awarded to Federico Capasso, professor…
Open Access: a challenge on the boil for scientists and publishers
A Round Table session on Open Access, introduced and moderated by Professor Sir John Enderby, President of the Institute of Physics [IoP] from 2004 to 2006, was hosted during the 2013 EPS Council meeting. Participants with various interests and backgrounds confronted their views on the evolving landscape of scientific publications. Professor Enderby opened the discussions by a presentation of the different, counteracting interests in scientific publications of researchers, funders, librarians and information managers, publishers, small and medium enterprises, and the general public. The recent statements by governments on the implementation of open access [OA]…
Cyprus Physicists Society to join the European Physical Society
The Cyprus Physicists Society [CPS] was presented at EPS Council 2013 as a possible new – the 42nd – Member Society of the EPS.
The CPS president, Dr. Manolis Lioudadkis illustrated the history, membership and activities of this small society. With around 300 members, mostly pre-university teachers, the CPS is engaged in many education and outreach programmes, such as F1 for schools and the International Physics Olympiads…
The EPS Edison Volta Prize: double celebration
At EPS Council in Strasbourg, on 5 April 2013, the award ceremony of the EPS Edison Volta Prize 2012 took place in the presence of two of the three winners: Rolf Dieter Heuer and Stephen Myers.
The European Physical Society, the Centro di Cultura Scientifica “Alessandro Volta”, Como, Italy (birth town of A. Volta) and EDISON, Milan, Italy (Europe’s oldest energy company, founded in 1884) established the EPS Edison Volta Prize to promote excellent research and achievement in physics…
Council 2013: Results and new horizons
The annual meeting of the EPS Council was hosted by the University of Strasbourg in the premises of the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, attended by around 80 participants: the members of the EPS Executive Committee, the representatives of EPS Individual Members, Member Societies and Associate Institutions, and the chairs of EPS Divisions and Groups.
One of the main items was the official launch of the EPS study on “The importance of physics to the economies…
EPS and EuCheMS are joining forces
On the occasion of the EPS Council 2013 in Strasbourg, a memorandum of understanding [MoU] was signed between the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Societies [EuCheMS] and the European Physical Society [EPS] by presidents Ulrich Schubert and Luisa Cifarelli.
EuCheMS and EPS share many objectives, such as community building, scientific excellence, communication and representation of their respective members to European policy makers. The two Societies recognise that issues in…
16th EPS General Meeting
The 16th EPS General Meeting will be held on 28 October 2013 in Budapest, Hungary at the Danubius Hotel Flamenco 1113 Budapest, Tas vezér tér 3-7. The meeting begins at 14:00.
The meeting is open to all EPS Members: Member Societies, Individual Members and Associate Members. Participants to the General Meeting can register through the 3rd European Energy Conference website.
The agenda for the meeting is: President’s Report; Honorary Secretary’s Report; Honorary Treasurer’s Report…
Editorial – Challenging physics
It is a very exciting time for European and international physics, and I am honoured and delighted to serve as the EPS president for the coming two years. I am also extremely lucky to be assuming this role when EPS in such a wonderful position, with so many new initiatives put in place during the last two years. For this, I would like to take this opportunity to express sincere thanks on behalf of all EPS members for the dedication and hard work of our outgoing president Luisa Cifarelli.Physics in the coming years and decades faces some pressing challenges. As physicists, we need no convincing…
ICNFP 2013
The 2nd International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics [ICNFP] will be held in Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, from 28 August to 5 September 2013.
The conference aims to promote scientific exchange and the development of novel ideas in science, with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinarity. It will mainly cover the following topics: High Energy Particle Physics; Heavy Ion Physics; Superconductivity, Critical Phenomena; Quantum Physics, Quantum Entanglement; Quantum Field Theory…
A scientific council to advise the European Commission President
The “Science and Technology Advisory Council” will advise European Commission President J.M. Barroso directly on “how to create the proper environment for innovation by shaping a European society that embraces science, technology and engineering.” It “differs from other advisory bodies in the Commission in that it does not have a specific subject remit, but tackles issues that are of cross-cutting nature, with a clear societal dimension.”
The members of the Science and Technology Advisory Council were chosen by JM Barroso, in consultation with…
