VI EPS Forum Physics and Society
The VI EPS Forum Physics and Society will be held on 2-3 October 2014 in Belgrade, Serbia. The meeting, organised by the Forum on Physics and Society of the European Physical Society, will focus on the topic “Improving the Image of Physics”.
The meeting aims to share good practice and ideas that work in different countries to increase recruitment of physics students, to enhance the employability of physics students, to improve the image of physics amongst the public and…
Landau-Spitzer Award
The American Physical Society [APS] and the European Physical Society [EPS], through their respective Plasma Physics Divisions, are seeking nominations for the Landau Spitzer Award.
The Award is given to an individual or group of researchers, not exceeding three, who has/have made outstanding theoretical, experimental or technical contribution(s) in the area of fundamental plasma physics, fusion plasmas, astrophysical or space plasmas, low-temperature plasmas, or high energy density plasmas. The prize may be awarded to a team or collaboration of up to four persons if such a team consists of individuals from both Europe…
Gender Summit 4 – EU 2014
The Gender Summit 4 – EU 2014 [GS4-Europe] will take place from 30 June-1 July 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. This edition will focus the discussion on theme “From Ideas to Markets: Excellence in mainstreaming gender into research, innovation, and policy”.
The GS4 – Europe will, again, bring together experts from research, industry and policy to jointly establish practical and effective ways of improving quality and impact of research and innovation, and the gender issues relating to science knowledge making and application…
Positive conclusions for ERA
Since 2008, the European Research Area [ERA] has facilitated the circulation of researchers, scientific knowledge and technology in the European Union. In February 2014, the Council of the European Union [EU] reaffirmed its support to ERA as a key factor to create growth and jobs.
Over the years, ERA has been reinforced with focus on 5 priorities: more effective national research systems; optimal transnational co-operation and competition; an open labor market for researchers; gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research; and optimal circulation, access…
Featured in EPL
Most recent highlights from EPL:Propagating waves in bounded elastic media: Transition from standing waves to anguilliform kinematics
The quantum anomalous Hall effect in a topological insulator thin film — The role of magnetic disorder
Detangling flat bands into Fano lattices
Overarching framework for data-based modelling
Fusion yield rate recovery by escaping hot-spot fast ions in the neighboring fuel layer
Executive and Staff Activity for February 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Find below for the list of the activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for February 2014:
- 3 February: J. Dudley, EPS President, attended multi-society International Year of Light Planning Meeting during Photonics West in San Francisco, USA
- 6 February: EPN Editors Meeting (X. de Araujo, J. Ekon, A. Henri, J. Hermanns, B. Huchet, D. Lee, C. Sebenne, V. R. Velasco) in Paris, France…
EPS-SIF International School on Energy
The EPS together with the Italian Physical Society [SIF] will organise the 2nd Course of the Joint EPS-SIF International School on Energy in Varenna, Italy, on the Lake Como from 17-23 July 2014. The title of this Course is: “Energy: Basic concepts and forefront ideas”.
The primary goal of the School will be to present all physics fields with relevance for the technologies of energy production, conversion, transmission and savings. Their potential will be presented but also the need for more research and development to fully unfold it will be indicated. For this purpose, basic lectures and topical seminars will be…
CEWQO 2014
The 21st Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics [CEWQO 2014] will be held from 23-27 June 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.
The CEWQO 2014 is part of a series of workshops started in the 1990s to encourage collaboration with Central-European countries. It has become a central annual meeting for European researchers working in quantum optics, its applications to quantum information, and foundations of quantum mechanics.
Some student grants, mainly for students and postdocs from economically disfavoured regions…
SigmaPhi2014
The International conference on Statistical Physics [SigmaPhi2014] will be held from 7-11 July 2014 in Rhodes, Greece.
The conference will cover all the topics of statistical physics: foundations and theoretical aspects of classical, quantum and relativistic statistical physics and thermodynamics; applications to physical systems; applications to non-physical systems. The SigmaPhi2014 conference is organised in symposia dealing with general aspects and applications. Some workshops will cluster talks dedicated to special topics and poster sessions will be also part of the programme.
The Annual Meeting of the European Physical Society – Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division will be held…
EAS’s recommendations on Open Access
The European Astronomical Society [EAS] published a report entitled “Exploring the road to Open Access Publishing”. The report examines many aspects of open access with regard to publishing in the domain of astronomy, and provides 6 recommendations.
The EAS report explores the benefits and limitations of open access publication. The recurrent and main concern is the financial uncertainty arising from the transition from the traditional system and open access publication.
The conclusions of the report underline the importance of informing the members of the scientific community…
EPS-PED and GIREP to cooperate
The Physics Education Division of the European Physical Society [EPS-PED] and the International Research Group on Physics Teaching [GIREP] have signed a cooperation agreement. The letter includes in particular the exchange of information on activities and conferences.
The EPS-PED and GIREP have a long history of collaborating with one another. The EPS-PED and GIREP have common members on their respective boards. The European Physics Education Conference [EPEC] is often co-located with the GIREP. The EPS-EPEC brings together physicists working in physics educational research and…
Editorial — Bringing Nobel Prize physics to high schools
Today much of the ethical and political decision-making involves some understanding of the nature of science, its strengths and limits. There is perhaps no better or more recent example of this need, than the debate that arose around the discovery of the Higgs Boson and the operation of LHC at CERN, which has sparked the imagination of authors of works of fiction, occasionally causing concern among the general public. To understand the role of science in deliberations about the projected outcomes of the experiments taking place in the LHC, their safety and value – given the immense investment in human and other resources involved – all students, including future scientists need…
