Editorial: Celebrate Astronomy in 2019 Under One Sky
Astronomy is a science that fascinates humankind. On the one hand astronomy touches on the largest philosophical questions facing us: Where do we come from? Where will we end? How did life arise? On the other hand, the beauty of the night sky is breathtaking, making astronomy quite attractive to the general public.
Lutz Schröter becomes President of the German Physical Society from 2020 to 2022
In its most recent meeting, the DPG Council elected Lutz Schröter, Industry Manager, as the future President of the world’s largest physical society with over 60,000 members. In April 2020, he will take over from Dieter Meschede, who will then take up his duties as Vice President.
Launch of the European Open Science Cloud
The official launch of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was organized in Vienna on 23 November 2018 under the auspices of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It took place at the Vienna University library with about 250 participants.
EU Particle Physics & Astronomy commit to the Research Data Revolution making the EOSC a reality
First quarter 2019 sees the exciting launch of one out of the five successfully retained INFRA-EOSC-04-2018 Cluster projects, which the European Commission supports with €16 million to boost the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
EPS Survey on Open Science & Career Development for Researchers 2018
A survey was addressed to physicists in Europe, asking as many as possible to express their views on ‘Open Science and Career Development’.
Call for EPS Fellows
EPS Members are invited to nominate EPS Individual Members as EPS Fellows.
Editorial – Celebrating 50 years of EPS
As every reader of e-EPS knows, our society is celebrating this year its 50th anniversary – to be precise, on 26 September, the day in the year 1968 when the EPS was formally launched in the Aula Magna of the University of Geneva.
2018 NPD prizes awarded at EuNPC
The Nuclear Physics Division of the European Physical Society awarded its 2018 prizes during the recent European Nuclear Physics Conference, which took place in Bologna (Italy), September 2-7 2018.
Call for nominations for the 2019 Vladilen Letokhov Medal
The European Physical Society, The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division, The Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division and The Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences are happy to announce the 2019 Vladilen Letokhov Medal.
Call for nominations for the EPS-PPD Prizes
The Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS PPD) opens calls for its 2019 prizes.
The first telescope on a Cherenkov Telescope Array site makes its debut
La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain – On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, more than 200 guests from around the world gathered on the northern array site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to celebrate the inauguration of the first prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST).
Cooperation Between AAPPS-DNP (ANPhA) and NuPECC: Efforts Toward Long-range Plans for Nuclear Physics
This article is part of a series of contributions from the AAPPS.
