Scientific animation: when science is pop
What happens when a group of young researchers decides to mix together passion for science and “pop culture”?
Science Institutions in Trieste and Friuli Venezia Giulia to Support Researchers Displaced by War
(Trieste, Italy) The leaders of 10 high-level science centres based in Trieste and Friuli Venezia Giulia in Italy have agreed to develop research and study opportunities for scientists forced to flee from war and conflict in their home countries. The agreement was signed at a ceremony on Monday 17 September 2018, at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.
Dr. Ursula Bassler elected as next President of the CERN Council
The CERN Council announced the election of Dr Ursula Bassler as its 23rd President, for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2019. She will take over from Professor Sijbrand de Jong, who concludes his three-year term at the end of December.
2018 Gentner-Kastler Prize awarded Luc Bergé
The Gentner-Kastler Prize is awarded by the German Physical Society (DPG) and the French Physical Society (SFP) to a physicist whose research has led to top level breakthroughs during his/her whole carrier carried out mainly in France or in Germany.
Editorial: The EPS revises and enlarges the recruitment of its Associate Members
The European Physical Society (EPS) is an umbrella organisation and learned society gathering 42 Member Societies representating 130,000 physicists. It involves more than 3500 individual members, 17 Divisions and Groups and more than 40 Associate Members. So far, the current Associate Members have mostly consisted of small-sized companies, universities or governmental organisations. In 2017, the EPS Executive Committee decided to revise the policy for recruiting its Associate Members and to broaden the scopes of its potential sponsors towards commerce and industry, in order to render the EPS more representative.
The EPS will award the Vladilen Letokhov Medal in 2019 for exceptional achievements in laser-matter interaction
The list of the most creative Russian physicists, active during the Russian empire, the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation, includes almost 100 famous names who deeply impacted and shaped all modern physics. Every physicist should know the tribute we owe to Lev Landau, Leonid Mandelstam, Nikolay Basov, Vitaly Ginzburg, Alexander Prokhorov and so many other Russian scientists.
Yes, we can
Imagine a group of PhD students and young PhD degree holders who have wanted to make something meaningful for young physicists in Ukraine together for years. Yes, that is us, and now we are called Kharkiv EPS Young Minds Section.
EPS/IUPAP/PPCF plasma poster prize winners announced!
The international journal Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (PPCF), the European Physical Society (EPS) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics are proud to present the winners of the PPCF/EPS/IUPAP PhD Poster Prize. The winners were announced at the closing ceremony of the 45th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Prague, Czech Republic.
Diversity Prize of the Dutch Physical Society
The Netherlands’ Physical Society (NNV) is searching for institutes or departments which are doing an excellent job of the promotion of diversity and gender equality within the organisation. To honour these institutes, the NNV has established the NNV Diversity Prize.
Special Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics goes to Jocelyn Bell Burnell for the discovery of pulsars
The Breakthrough Prize Recognises Bell Burnell’s 1967 Detection of Radio Signals from Rapidly Spinning, Super-Dense Neutron Stars and a Lifetime of Inspiring Scientific Leadership. 50 Years After Her Significant Role in the Discovery, Bell Burnell, of University of Oxford and University of Dundee, wins a $3 Million Physics Prize. Previous recipients of the special prize include Stephen Hawking, seven CERN scientists whose leadership led to the discovery of the Higgs Boson, and to the entire LIGO collaboration that detected gravitational waves.
SESAME hosts its first users
On 17 July 2018, the first users arrived at SESAME to perform experiments using the Centre’s XAFS/XRF (X-ray absorption fine structure/X-ray fluorescence) spectroscopy beamline, SESAME’s first beamline to come into operation.
Lasers provide first evidence that light can stop electrons
By hitting electrons with an ultra-intense laser, researchers have revealed dynamics that go beyond ‘classical’ physics and hint at quantum effects.
