The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin, from Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, USA, “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”. The other half goes jointly to Gérard Mourou, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France) and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA)and to Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo (Canada) “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”.
Editorial: My experience as EPS Young Minds in the CMD27- EPS-DPG spring meeting
The 2018 joint meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG) and the European Physical Society (EPS) Condensed Matter Divisions took place in Berlin from 11th to 16th of March 2018.
EPS Edison Volta Prize 2018
The European Physical Society (EPS), the Fondazione Alessandro Volta and Edison S.p.A. have awarded the 2018 EPS Edison Volta Prize for outstanding contributions to physics to Alain Brillet, Karsten Danzmann, Adalberto Giazotto (†) and Jim Hough.
The European Physical Society 2018 EPS Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize
The 2018 EPS Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize is awarded to Lucio Braicovich and Giacomo Ghiringhelli for the development and scientific exploration of high-resolution Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS). The Prize will be presented on Tuesday March 13th, 2018, at the Awards Session of the 27th General Conference of the EPS Condensed Matter Division, to be held in Berlin from 11th to 16th March 2018 together with the Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Division of the German Physical Society, DPG.
Physics Students Worldwide volunteer for International Day of Light
The International Association of Physics Students (IAPS) is going to contribute to the UNESCO International Day of Light, organising new activities and participating with a delegation of volunteers in the IDL Flagship event at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France on 16 May 2018. Twenty-five physics students will meet in the French capital and it will be a truly international delegation, gathering students from seventeen different countries following the UNESCO and IAPS shared goals of integration and cooperation.
IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 2018: call for nominations
Nominations are sought for the Young Scientist Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical (AMO) Physics, which will be awarded in 2018 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics through Commission C15 (AMO Physics). The prize will be awarded during the 26th International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP) to be held from 22-27 July 2018 in Barcelona, Spain. The Prize includes a certificate, a medal, a EURO 1,000 award and an invited presentation at ICAP.
Professor Tony Bell is awarded the Hannes Alfvén Prize 2018
The European Physical Society, through its Plasma Physics Division, is pleased to announce the Hannes Alfvén Prize 2018 is awarded to Professor Tony Bell FRS of Oxford University
A map of the invisible
Tuesday 16 January, 7.00pm – 8.30pm, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London (UK)
Entropy 2018: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry
The conference will take place from 14-16 May 2018 at the Faculty of Geology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
