EPS and APS: An ongoing tradition of partnership
The American Physical Society (APS) and European Physical Society (APS) have enjoyed a long partnership. While APS has established Reciprocal Agreements with many of the national physics societies in European countries, an APS-EPS Reciprocal Agreement was established through an exchange of letters in the 1984, allowing the individual members of both APS and EPS to register and present papers at each other’s meetings at member rates.
Announcing the African Physics Newsletter
The American Physical Society (APS) is pleased to announce the African Physics Newsletter, a new quarterly, electronic publication launching in early 2019, produced by and for African physicists, with editorial board members representing North, South, East, and West Africa.
The 2018 APS/EPS Landau-Spitzer Award
For the development of a new and highly efficient scenario for heating of fusion plasmas using Ion Cyclotron Resonant Heating (ICRH), the joint team consisting of Yevgen Kazakov and Jef Ongena, from the Laboratory for Plasma Physics of the Royal Military Academy (Brussels, Belgium) and John Wright and Steven Wuktich from the Plasma Science and Fusion Centre at MIT (Boston, USA) was awarded last July the prestigious Landau-Spitzer Award.
2019 APS Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics to Helge Kragh
The 2019 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics was awarded to Helge Kragh, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, “For influential contributions to the history of physics, especially analyses of cosmological theories and debates, the history of the quantum physics of elementary particles and the solid state, and biographical studies of Paul Dirac and Niels Bohr, and his early quantum atom.” Helge Kragh was awarded the first EPS Echophysics PhysicsEstoire Prize in 2016.
CERN and the American Physical Society sign an open access agreement for SCOAP3
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the American Physical Society (APS) signed an agreement today for SCOAP3 – the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. Under this agreement, high-energy physics articles published in three leading journals of the APS will be open access as from January 2018.
Joint EPS-APS Historic Site – The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, NJ-USA is one of the world’s foremost centers for curiosity-driven basic research. On 9 November 2016, the European Physical Society (EPS) and the American Physical Society (APS) were pleased to offically recognise the IAS as their first Joint Historic Physics Site in the United States. The text of the citation reads: “Honoring the pivotal contributions of the Institute for Advanced Study to the development of theoretical physics, including the work of Albert Einstein and many others.”
2016 APS-EPS Landau-Spitzer award: call for nominations
The Landau-Spitzer Award on the Physics of Plasmas for “Outstanding contributions to plasma physics” is jointly sponsored by the Plasma Physics Divisions of the American Physical Society and the European Physical Society.
The first joint EPS-APS Historic Site: the Einstein House in Bern
Walking through the historic centre of Bern, the curious traveller comes across a sign at Kramgasse 49 indicating the “Einsteinhaus”. Walking up the steep, narrow staircase, it is possible to visit the apartment where Albert Einstein lived from 1903 to 1905.
During his time in Bern, A. Einstein lived with his wife and baby while working a 48 hour week as a clerk in the Patent Office. Despite a busy family and professional life, A. Einstein also published the 4 papers that revolutionised physics at the beginning of the 20th century.
