The conference will be held in Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden from 7-11 May 2019. This will be the 2nd conference of the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division, connected with the award of the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize. The previous conference, where the prize was awarded for the first time, was in Krakow in 2017.
The first EPS (European Physical Society) Conference on Gravitation will be held at the Sapienza University (Rome, Italy) from 19-21 February 2019.
The aim of the conference is to discuss about several aspects of Gravitation, such as measurements of the G constant, Quantum Gravity, Geodesy, General Relativity tests, and obviously Gravitational Waves (from the experimental, theoretical and data analysis point of views).
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.
Petra Rudolf is the next EPS President-elect. She will take up office as the President of EPS in April 2019, when the term of the current President, Rüdiger Voss, comes to an end.