Discover the EPL Highlights of 2017 on the EPL website. Most of the articles featured in the collection are free to read until 31 December 2018. Perspectives and open access articles are free forever.
The European Physical Society, through its Nuclear Physics Division, has awarded the 2017 IBA-Europhysics Prize to Professor Habib Zaidi, Department of Medical Imaging and Information Sciences, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff last month:
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff last month:
This year’s “Open Readings” gathered over 350 participants from more than 20 different countries and 9 invited speakers from among the world’s top scientists:
Close to a thousand physicists from all over the world gathered in July 2017 at the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP) in Venice, Italy. The HEPP division of the EPS played the role of the International Organising Committee and the conference was organised by Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padova.
It is a great pleasure to announce that the Spring-Summer 2017 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics goes to Dr. Catalina Curceanu from the Frascati National Laboratory of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Research (LNF-INFN).
The year 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of the Polish statistical physicist Marian Smoluchowski, and on this occasion the Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division of EPS organised an anniversary conference in Krakow 3-8 September 2017. Almost 200 statistical physicists from all over the world attended.
In a consultation process kicked off in 2015, the ESPD / EPS decided in 2016 to implement three Division Prizes, foreseen by its statutes and bylaws since its establishment in 2008: a Senior Prize, presented to a distinguished senior solar scientist for a life-long prolific career or scholarship, an Early Career Prize, presented to a solar scientist with an outstanding research track record up to four years after the completion of his / her PhD Thesis and a PhD Thesis Prize, presented to a young researcher who achieved significant doctoral work and a successful PhD Thesis completion over the previous calendar year. The PhD Thesis and Early Career Prizes are awarded annually, while the Senior Prize is triennial.