The state of physics in the United Kingdom
The Institute of Physics [IOP] in the United Kingdom [UK] has just released a report detailing a wealth of statistical data about staffing levels in UK physics departments between 2003-2004 and 2011-2012. Higher education in the UK has expanded enormously in the last 20 years or so and this data captures some of that expansion in the growth of staff numbers. The headline figures show that staffing levels in higher education have increased by 21% since 2003-2004 with physics staff increasing by 20%. This is quite impressive given that a lot of expansion has occurred in the newer universities that do not teach physics and at the same time a number of physics departments have closed…
Download the EPS calendar
The European Physical Society [EPS] has produced a nice do-it-yourself calendar in 3D. The EPS 2014 calendar is a polyhedron with 20 faces including triangles and (almost) squares.
To the best results, print the file using A3 paper (297 × 420 mm or 11.7 x 8.3 inches).
Download the net of the EPS Calendar 2014…
Executive and Staff Activity for December 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.
- 1-2 December: The EPS Executive Committee officers, M. Knoop, C. Latimer and J. Lister met with D. Lee and F. Burr at the EPS Secretariat to discuss staffing and budget issues
- 2 December: EPS president, J. Dudley visits the French CEA to present the International Year of Light 2015…
ICHEP 2014
The 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics [ICHEP 2014] will be held in Valencia, Spain, from the 2-9 July 2014.
ICHEP 2014 is part of a series of international conferences organized by the C11 commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics [IUPAP]. It has been held every even year for more than 50 years and is one of the reference conferences of particle physics where most relevant results are presented…
Featured in EPL
Most recent highlights from EPL:- Deconfined quantum criticality and conformal phase transition in two-dimensional antiferromagnets- A family of low-energy low-density silicon allotropes built from the diamond structure- Low-temperature dipolar echoes in amorphous dielectrics…- Oriented gap opening in the magnetically ordered state of iron pnictides…- Multifractal analysis of dynamic infrared imaging of breast cancer…
ICPS 2014
The International Conference of Physics Students [ICPS] is a conference organised by physics students for physics students. This annual conference, started in 1986, is the main event of the International Association of Physics Students [IAPS].
ICPS brings together around 450 young researchers from all over the world for a week of learning and exchange. They discuss scientific topics and share information on studying and living in different countries. For many participants it is the first opportunity to present their research to an international audience. As a conference mainly intended…
EGAS 46
The 46th Conference of the European Group of Atomic Systems [EGAS 46] will take place on 1-4 July 2014 in Lille, France.
The main goal of the EGAS conferences is to maintain contact between groups and individuals from different countries working on atomic systems and related fields. The conference series is organised by EGAS, a section of the European Physical Society’s Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division…
EPS Council 2014
The Executive Committee will present modifications to the Constitution to make it easier to read and updated taking into account communications methods and revised structure. A list of all the modifications can be found on the EPS website.
Changes in Membership Fees for Individual Members only will also be presented to Council, modifying section 6 of Annexe 1 to the Constitution and By-laws…
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…
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…
GIREP-MPTL 2014
The GIREP-MPTL International conference on Teaching/Learning Physics: Integrating Research into Practice [GIREP-MPTL 2014] will be held from 7 to 12 July 2014 at University of Palermo, Italy.
The purpose of the GIREP-MPTL 2014 is to bring together people working in physics education research and in physics education at schools from all over the world to allow them to share research results and exchange their experience.
The conference organisers are the Groupe International de Recherche sur l’Enseignement de la Physique [GIREP]…
GRAPHENE 2014
The 4th edition of the Graphene conference series [GRAPHENE 2014] will be held from 6-9 May 2014 in Toulouse, France.
The conference GRAPHENE 2014 comprises plenary sessions, workshops and poster sessions in addition to an industrial exhibition. The following topics will be covered: growth, synthesis techniques and integration methods; spectroscopies and microscopies; chemistry of graphene; quantum transport; magnetism and spintronics; nanoelectromechanical…
