EPS Council 2014
The Council of the European Physical Society met at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy on 4-5 April 2014. Over the two day meeting, Council delegates listened to presentations summarising the activity of the EPS in 2013, as well as programmed activities in 2014 and beyond.
The highlights of EPS activity for 2013 are available in the Annual Report, which is available on the EPS website.
In particular, EPS Council elected the incoming members of the Executive Committee. The EPS would like to…
Shaping science policy in Europe
The Lisbon Strategy was adopted by the Heads of State and Government of the European Union [EU] in 2000. By moving science into a central position for the development of a European knowledge-based economy and society, its adoption at political level seems to have been a powerful catalyst for the increased involvement of scientists in science policy in the EU.
Recognising the need for scientists to act collectively in order to contribute to shape the future of science policy in…
EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics – Spring 2014
It is a great pleasure to announce that the spring 2014 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics goes to Dr. Rumiana Dimova from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany.
The distinction was awarded to Rumiana Dimova for her distinguished contributions to membrane biophysics, in particular for the important breakthroughs she has made in recent years in two major fields, namely electric field effects on membranes and aqueous microcompartments within vesicles, pioneering the use of new experimental…
How physics impacts Italian economy
In 2013 the Italian Physical Society [SIF], in collaboration with some of the major Italian research institutions, Centro Fermi, CNR, INAF, INFN and INRIM, commissioned an independent and quantitative analysis concerning the impact of all the industry, commerce and business sectors based on physics and physics-derived technology on the Italian economy. The study, conducted by the Deloitte, a firm specialised in business and statistical analysis, covers a 4-year period, from 2008 to 2011.The study takes into account all sectors of the economy where the use of physics…
One conference to bring them all
The community of experts in the fields of accelerator and large experimental physics control systems has grown effectively from the early 1930′s. Since 1989, the ICALEPCS biennial conference series highly contributes to support the community.
Since the first accelerators were built in the 1930′s, new discoveries and observations have been made in many fields of physics. These led to new questions and bigger and more efficient apparatus were needed. Since then…
Exhibition on Radu Balescu’s life
An exhibition on Radu Balescu’s life (1932-2006) was held from 6-20 May 2014 at the Library of Human Sciences of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Radu Balescu was the first laureate of the EPS Hannés Alfven Prize for his outstanding scientific work in the field of statistical physics of charged particles and of controlled fusion. This exhibition was first shown at the Library of the Academy of Sciences of Romania in September 2012.
Radu Balescu was born in 1932 in Bucharest, Romania, of a Belgian mother, and acquired Belgian nationality…
Good results for ISE and the best is yet to come
The partners of the Inspiring Science Education [ISE] project have begun to see the result of their work during the first year of the project.
Science education is an investment for both society as a whole and the next generation of scientists. Bringing scientific culture into primary and secondary schools will inspire children to embrace scientific careers as well as enhance scientific awareness of future generations of policy makers, teachers, lawyers, etc…
Featured in EPL
Most recent highlights from EPL:
Information content: Assessing meso-scale structures in complex networks by M. Zanin et al.
Intense infrared scintillation of liquid Ar-Xe mixtures by A. Neumeier et al.
Strange eigenmodes and chaotic advection in open fluid flows by Alessandro P. S. de Moura.
A paradox in community detection by Filippo Radicchi.
Continuum dynamics of elastocapillary coalescence and arrest by Z. Wei and L. Mahadevan.
Executive and Staff Activity for April 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Find below for the list of the activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for April 2014:
- 1 April: EPS Secretary, M. Knoop participated in Fysica in Leiden, the Netherlands, in order to give the Emmy-Noether prize to Nynke Dekker
- 3 April: EPS Executive Committee met at Trieste, Italy…
NANOMETA 2015
The 5th International Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials [NANOMETA 2015] will take place from 5-8 January 2015 in Seefeld, Austria, as a part of the International Year of Light endorsed by the United Nations.
NANOMETA 2015 is 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…
ECRYS-2014
The International School and Workshop on Electronic Crystals [ECRYS-2014] will be held in Cargèse, France, from 11-23 August 2014.
ECRYS-2014 will continue the series of triennial conferences on electronic crystals, which have been organized since 1993 in France. As the cross-community research school, ECRYS 2014 aims to bring together young researchers as well as PhD students to exchange information regarding the inter-disciplinary field of electronic crystals…
PM’14
The European Conference Physics of Magnetism [PM'14] will be held from 23-27 June 2014 in Poznań, Poland. The event is the 14th in the series of conferences, which started in 1975.
The Conference is meant as an international forum for the presentation and discussion of novel scientific ideas, in a field of broadly understood magnetic phenomena (including new materials) with special emphasis on the following subjects: strongly correlated electrons and high temperature superconductivity; quantum and classical spin…
