FISICA 2014 – Biennial meeting of the Portuguese Physical Society
The 19th National Conference on Physics and 24th Iberian Meeting for Teaching Physics – jointly named “FISICA 2014” – was held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 2-4 September 2014. This biennial meeting is organized by the Portuguese Physical Society [SPF] and attracts physicists, teachers and students from all over the country and from neighbouring Spain. The total number of participants was 250.
This year’s event was hosted and co-sponsored by the Instituto Superior Técnico, the science and engineering faculty of the University of Lisbon. The local organizing committee enlisted the assistance of a team of twenty physics…
CERN – Colloquium in Honour of Herwig Schopper
This year CERN celebrated its 60 years anniversary under the slogan “science for peace”. Among the many events organized by a number of CERN Member States, there were scientific colloquia also at CERN organized throughout the year. One colloquium, covering the history of the LEP era and held during the September meeting of the CERN Scientific Policy Committee was dedicated to Herwig Schopper, who celebrated his 90th birthday this year.
Herwig Schopper, former President of the EPS (1994 to 1996) and Director General of CERN from 1981 to 1988, had indeed helped to open up CERN during LEP times for a growing scientific community from all over the world…
2014 EPS Early Career Prizes
The European Physical Society is proud to announce the award of the 2014 Early Career Prizes to Ian Chapman and Román Orús
The EPS Early Career Prizes is new Prize from the European Physical Society [EPS] created to recognise contributions from young physicists to European research. The first laureates of this prize are Ian Chapman from the Culham Science Centre, United Kingdom, and Romàn Orùs from the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany…
Prize calls & announcements
Nominate a deserving (woman) physicist
In 2013, the European Physical Society [EPS] launched the Emmy Noether Distinction to recognize noteworthy women physicists…
EPS Edison Volta Prize announced for the Year of Light 2015
To commemorate the United Nations proclamation of the International Year of Light 2015, the Centro di Cultura…
Ultra-high Power Lasers & Strong Field Science Research in Asia
Strong field science has become one of the most active areas of research with the development of ultra-high power lasers. Ever since the introduction of the chirped pulse amplification technique in 1985, available laser power has increased dramatically. The coupling of the CPA technique with picosecond and femtosecond laser technology has made compact ultrashort high-power lasers readily accessible, boosting their usage in almost all areas of science, medicine and engineering. Fascinatingly ultra-high power lasers with power exceeding 100 TW or even 1 PW are now available or being prepared in a number of institutes around the world. Starting from the development of the 0.85-PW laser…
E2C – EST
The 4th European Energy Conference [E2C] will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany, from 20-22 May 2015. It will be held under the auspices of the ENERGY, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY – International Conference and Exhibition, EST 2015, in the “Kongresszentrum” Karlsruhe.
The three central topics will be renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy systems and grids. EST 2015 will be an opportunity for researchers and engineers from all over the world to…
Topical Research Meeting on Hybrid Quantum Systems
The IOP run a Topical Research Meeting once a year and the 2014 event will be held in Nottingham, UK, from 16 to 18 December.
This meeting will cover all aspects of hybrid quantum systems involving atoms, light and matter. It will link theory to experiment, ranging from fundamental physics to the development of new quantum device concepts and technologies. The invited speakers are leading researchers in hybrid quantum systems.
NPA VII
The Nuclear Physics in Astronomy VII conference [NPA VII] will be held in York, United-Kingdom, from 18-22 May 2015.
NPA VII is the 7th edition of a series of conferences held every 2 years, organised by the EPS Nuclear Physics Division. The 2015 conference will bring together experts from different backgrounds: nuclear physicists, astronomers, cosmo-chemists, etc. They will discuss all topics related to astrophysics including the Big Bang, the latest observation and …
NANOMETA 2015
The 5th International Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials [NANOMETA 2015] will take place from 5-8 January 2015 in Seefeld, Austria. It will be included as an activity in the International Year of Light endorsed by the United Nations. NANOMETA 2015 continues the series of meetings that began in 2007.
During the plenary and parallel sessions, attendees will be able to discuss the most recent results in the fields of metamaterials, nanophotonics, plasmonics, hybrid and quantum materials as well as localisation of light and…
CLEO®/Europe – EQEC 2015
The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics [CLEO®/Europe] and the European Quantum Electronics Conference [EQEC] 2015 will be held at the International Congress Centre in Munich, Germany, from 21-25 June 2015.
The CLEO®/Europe-EQEC conference series has a long tradition as a gathering of optics and photonics researchers and engineers in Europe. Held every two years, CLEO®/Europe-EQEC conference has become the benchmark …
