Executive and Staff Activity for March 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Find below for the list of the activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for March 2014:
- 3-5 March: B. Huchet, EPS Communication coordinator, attends the Inspiring Science Education Consortium meeting in Bayreuth, Germany- 4 March: J. Dudley, EPS President, meets with International Astronomical Union (IAU) to prepare common IYL2015 actions, Paris, France…
18th ISQE’2014
The 18th International School on Quantum Electronics “Laser Physics and Applications” [18th ISQE'2014] will be held from 29 September to 3 October 2014 in Sozopol, Bulgaria.
The 18th ISQE’2014 is a traditional event, organized biennially since 1980. The proceeding of previous issues are available on 18th ISQE’2014 website.
The topics cover investigations of the basic physical phenomena, processes of interaction of laser radiation with…
MSCMP 2014
The 7th International Conference on Materials Science and Condensed Matter Physics [MSCMP 2014] dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Applied Physics will be held from 16–19 September 2014, in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.
MSCMP 2014 is a biennial international conference, which brings together academics and research-oriented practitioners in the areas of physics and electrochemistry. It is an interdisciplinary conference, which aims at…
Superstripes 2014
The Superstripes 2014 conference will be held in Erice, Italy from 25 – 31 July 2014.
The conference is a course of the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture International School of Solid State Physics directed by Giorgio Benedek, also Editor in Chief of EPL.
The conference will cover many aspect of material sciences especially related to superconductivity: Fermi liquids, defects, ferroelectricity and multiferroics, 2D metals, electron-lattice intercations and polarons, structural and orbital…
SPIG 2014
The 27th Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases [SPIG 2014] will take place from 26-29 August 2014 in Beograd, Serbia.
SPIG 2014 is part of a series of events that began 50 years ago as an international conference in the fields of atomic collision processes, particle and laser beam interactions with solids, low temperature and general plasmas. It has become rare that such a wide range of topics is covered at a single conference. As these fields often overlap…
NIC-XII
The 13th International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos [NIC-XIII] will be held in Debrecen, Hungary from 7-11 July 2014.
NIC-XII is part of a series of biennal conferences addressed to nuclear physicists, astrophysicists, cosmochemists to survey the recent achievements in nuclear astrophysics.
The NIC-XIII program will cover in particular the following topics: cosmology and big bang nucleosynthesis…
An overview of Neutron Facilities in Asia and Oceania
Since the mid 1940’s, the research reactors had provided stable and reliable neutron sources for experimental research of neutron scattering. By recognizing unique features and powerful probe ability of neutrons, particularly for material and life science, Europe and North America accelerated building high-flux beam reactors dedicated to neutron scattering in 1960’s and 1970’s. A large number of neutron users in these regions resulted in the formation of the European Neutron Scattering Association [ENSA] and the Neutron Scattering Society of America [NSSA], respectively.
In the Asia-Oceania Region, on the other hand, India and Australia initiated neutron scattering…
Editorial — Improving the image of physics
Ask any child to draw a picture of a scientist and you will receive, from that proud, smiling child, a picture of an elderly male with mad hair and a white lab coat. You, too, will smile, as you will be mildly amused by how even the youngest child absorbs our society’s stereotypes so readily. You may then become slightly annoyed by the stereotypical image, but may reassure yourself that this young person will soon learn how much more diverse scientists are in the real world.
But how to excuse Google the same mistake? A search will provide a collection of images which are at least as…
2014 Awards of EPS Accelerator Group
The EPS-Accelerators Group prizes is pleased to announce the laureates of the Rolf Wideröe Prize, the Gersch Budker Prize and the Frank Sacherer Prize. These prizes are awarded every three years for exceptional work in the accelerator field.
The Rolf Wideröe Prize for “outstanding work in the accelerator field without age limit” will be awarded to Professor Mikael Eriksson, Machine Director of the Max-IV Laboratory, Lund, Sweden, for outstanding leadership in the design, construction and commissioning of the MAXlab Synchrotron Radiation Facilities. His intense activities in different worldwide machines and in education have had an extremely important impact on numerous existing synchrotron…
International Year of Light News
IYL2015 mobilisation begins worldwide
The start of the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies [IYL2015] may still be nine months away, but there has been tremendous enthusiasm from scientists and non-scientists alike, and planning meetings…
The International Year of Light has begun for St. Petersburg
Meetings are currently taking place all over the world in order to brainstorm ideas and plan the activities for the International Year of Light 2015, and St. Petersburg is no exception. It could hardly be otherwise: this is…
France supports the European XFEL
With a contribution of 36 million euro toward the facility’s construction, France has officially joined the European XFEL as a shareholder country. France joins the 12 countries that have signed the European XFEL convention.
The European XFEL, currently under construction in the Hamburg area, will be an international research facility of superlatives: 27.000 X-ray flashes per second and a brilliance that is a billion times higher than that of the best conventional X-ray sources will open up completely new opportunities for science. The facility starts user operation in 2017…
First proposal about WWW from 1989
Exactly 25 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal addressing the complex issue of information management at CERN. The project was based on linked information using hypertexts. Revolutionising the idea of archiving documents, it laid the foundation of the Internet.
In 1984, Tim Berners-Lee took up a fellowship at CERN, 8 years after his graduation from the Queen’s College at Oxford University, United Kingdom. His first job there was related with the distributed real-time systems for scientific data acquisition and system control. In this context T. Berners-Lee submitted the proposal that would provide…
