Executive and Staff Activity for October 2013
If you want to see how EPS works to support its members in different ways, here is a selection of the activities of EPS Executive Committee members and staff for the last month. Click here for the list.
- 8 October 2013: Meeting of the EPS President-Elect Search Committee, chaired by EPS Vice President L. Cifarelli, in Bristol, United-Kingdom.
- 11 October 2013: Former EPS President Maciej Kolwas inaugurates an EPS historic site in Kamień Pomorski, Poland…
ESPM-14
The 14th European Solar Physics Meeting [ESPM-14] will take place from 8 to 12 September 2014 at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
The ESPM-14 is organised by the European Solar Physics Division [ESPD], a joint Division of the European Physical Society [EPS] and the European Astronomical Society [EAS].
The conference aims to highlight all aspects of modern solar physics, including observation and theory, providing a…
DIS 2014
The 12th International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects [DIS 2014] will be held from 28 April to 2 May 2014 in Warsaw, Poland.
The workshop includes a unique mix of communities and covers a large spectrum of topics in high energy physics. The principal aim of the workshop is to review the progress in the field of Deep-Inelastic scattering and Quantum Chromodynamics [QCD]. DIS 2014 will also serve as a forum to discuss the most recent and exciting results from large…
6th EUROPHOTON
The 6th EUROPHOTON conference “Solid State, Fibre, and Waveguide Coherent Light Sources” will take place at Neuchatel, Switzerland from 24 to 29 August 2014.
The biannual conference from the European Physical Society’s Quantum Electronics and Optics Division [EPS-QEOD] is aimed to bring together world-renowned researchers to discuss the latest advances in the field of solid-state lasers and fibre and waveguide devices…
SPPT 14
The 26th Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology [SPPT 14] will take place from 16 to 19 June 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic.
This conference, with its first edition dating back to 1967, serves as a meeting point for researchers to present and discuss the latest advances in Plasma Physics as well as the state-of-the-art technology developed for this field.
SPPT 14 covers broad range of Plasma Physics topics, namely: Tokamaks and other magnetic confinement devices…
Editorial – Forward Physics!
I had the tremendous pleasure of watching the Nobel Prize announcement on October 8 during the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft’s Live from Stockholm event held at the Magnus-Haus in Berlin. The assembly of high-level scientists and journalists made for a stimulating mix, and the delay prior to the announcement provided much opportunity for speculation and animated discussion!Of course, when it eventually was made, the announcement of the award to François Englert and Peter Higgs was met with tremendous pleasure. More details and background to this years’s Nobel Prize is given in another entry of this edition of e-EPS…
Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 to François Englert and Peter Higgs
On 8 October 2013, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 jointly to François Englert (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium) and Peter W. Higgs (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s…
Knowledge through high-precision measurements: the PTB
On 8 October 2013, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt [PTB] in Germany was honoured as an EPS Historic Site. The ceremonial event took place at PTB’s Berlin Institute, where the precursor of PTB, the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt [PTR], was founded in 1887. The PTR was the first large national non-university research facility in Germany and the first metrology institute in the world.Big names in physics and important scientific results characterised the first decades of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt at the end of the 19th and at the start of the 20th centuries. The then Imperial Institute…
Open access opportunities @ EPL
The European Physical Society [EPS], together with the Institute of Physics [IOP], Société
Française de Physique [SFP] and Società Italiana di Fisica [SIF], is one of the founding societies of the well known Europhysics Letters journal, now rebranded as EPL. EPL has celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011 and has now acquired a maturity to allow for new publication policies. In order to keep abreast with the rapidly changing landscape of copyright and licencing regulations EPL has made amendments to…
New milestone for ELI Beamlines facility
On 16 September 2013, the Extreme Light Infrastructure [ELI] Beamlines facility awarded a contract worth approximately €34.5m to the Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC [LLNS] to develop and deliver a state-of-the-art laser system that will be at the heart of the ELI Beamlines user facility.
Located in the village of Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic, the ELI Beamlines facility aims to pioneer work in a number of research fields using ultra-high intensity lasers. The facility will host a cutting-edge research laser, around 100 times…
CERN welcomes Ukraine as an Associate Member
Since the 3 October 2013, Ukraine is an Associate Member of CERN. It represents the first step for Ukraine to become a full member of CERN and a concrete step towards the integration of Ukraine into Europe.
CERN Director General Rolf Heuer and the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Kostyantyn Ivanovych Gryschenko signed the document in Geneva. The signature fulfils a long collaboration between Ukraine and CERN, beginning with a Co-operation Agreement in 1993. The relation was further strengthened in 2011 through a join Declaration…
EPS Edison Volta Prize 2014: Deadline Extended
Nominations are now open for the Edison Volta Prize of the European Physical Society [EPS]. The award – intended to promote excellence in research – will be given in recognition of outstanding research and achievements in physics.
The EPS Edison Volta Prize is given biennially to individuals or groups of up to three people. The award consists of a diploma, a medal, and €10 000 in prize money.
The Prize was established in 2011 by the Centro di Cultura Scientifica “Alessandro Volta”, EDISON S.p.A. and the EPS…
