EPS CMD Europhysics Prize honors oxide interfaces research
The Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society is proud to announce the award of the 2014 European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize to Harold Y. Hwang, Jochen Mannhart and Jean-Marc Triscone “for the discovery and investigation of electron liquids at oxide interfaces”.
An outstanding challenge in condensed matter science has been to develop alternatives to conventional semiconductors for the future generations of electronic devices. Of particular interest for such devices are interfaces of…
Executive and Staff Activity for May 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Find below for the list of the activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for May 2014:
- 5-6 May: B. Huchet, EPS Communication Coordinator, attended the HOPE WG1 meeting in Naples, Italy
- 7 May: D. Lee, EPS Secretary General and J. Ongena, Chairman EPS Energy Group attended a planning meetig of the 4th European Energy Conference, in Karlsruhe, Germany…
EPS Council 2014
The Council of the European Physical Society met at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy on 4-5 April 2014. Over the two day meeting, Council delegates listened to presentations summarising the activity of the EPS in 2013, as well as programmed activities in 2014 and beyond.
The highlights of EPS activity for 2013 are available in the Annual Report, which is available on the EPS website.
In particular, EPS Council elected the incoming members of the Executive Committee. The EPS would like to…
Executive and Staff Activity for April 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Find below for the list of the activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for April 2014:
- 1 April: EPS Secretary, M. Knoop participated in Fysica in Leiden, the Netherlands, in order to give the Emmy-Noether prize to Nynke Dekker
- 3 April: EPS Executive Committee met at Trieste, Italy…
Editorial – The road to Brussels
Being elected in a new position is always a nice and enjoyable recognition, also for a scientist. Once the stress and uncertainty of the election are over, the candidate can concentrate on his new duty and prepare to face the coming challenges. The difference here with politicians is that he doesn’t need to manoeuvre during his term to please his electors or own party with empty promises motivated by his wish for re-election.This being said, I feel really honoured and happy to serve the cause of the EPS in the coming years, first as President-elect and later as President. I would like to take this opportunity to thank…
Executive and Staff Activity for March 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Find below for the list of the activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for March 2014:
- 3-5 March: B. Huchet, EPS Communication coordinator, attends the Inspiring Science Education Consortium meeting in Bayreuth, Germany- 4 March: J. Dudley, EPS President, meets with International Astronomical Union (IAU) to prepare common IYL2015 actions, Paris, France…
2014 Awards of EPS Accelerator Group
The EPS-Accelerators Group prizes is pleased to announce the laureates of the Rolf Wideröe Prize, the Gersch Budker Prize and the Frank Sacherer Prize. These prizes are awarded every three years for exceptional work in the accelerator field.
The Rolf Wideröe Prize for “outstanding work in the accelerator field without age limit” will be awarded to Professor Mikael Eriksson, Machine Director of the Max-IV Laboratory, Lund, Sweden, for outstanding leadership in the design, construction and commissioning of the MAXlab Synchrotron Radiation Facilities. His intense activities in different worldwide machines and in education have had an extremely important impact on numerous existing synchrotron…
Executive and Staff Activity for February 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Find below for the list of the activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for February 2014:
- 3 February: J. Dudley, EPS President, attended multi-society International Year of Light Planning Meeting during Photonics West in San Francisco, USA
- 6 February: EPN Editors Meeting (X. de Araujo, J. Ekon, A. Henri, J. Hermanns, B. Huchet, D. Lee, C. Sebenne, V. R. Velasco) in Paris, France…
EPS-PED and GIREP to cooperate
The Physics Education Division of the European Physical Society [EPS-PED] and the International Research Group on Physics Teaching [GIREP] have signed a cooperation agreement. The letter includes in particular the exchange of information on activities and conferences.
The EPS-PED and GIREP have a long history of collaborating with one another. The EPS-PED and GIREP have common members on their respective boards. The European Physics Education Conference [EPEC] is often co-located with the GIREP. The EPS-EPEC brings together physicists working in physics educational research and…
Jean-Michel Raimond wins EPS Edison-Volta Prize 2014
The European Physical Society [EPS] has the pleasure to announce that the 2014 EPS Edison-Volta Prize is awarded to Jean-Michel Raimond for “seminal contribution to physics (that) have paved the way for novel explorations of quantum mechanics and have opened new routes in quantum information processing”.
J.-M. Raimond’s PhD thesis was supervised by Serge Haroche at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, in the early 1980′s, and together S. Haroche, M. Brune and J.-M. Raimond have built an extremely successful research group since then. J.-M. Raimond has made seminal contributions to the development of cavity QED experiments, in particular…
Executive Committee Meeting Summary
For its January meeting, the EPS Executive Committee met at The Institute of Physics [IOP] premises, Portland Place, London, on the same day as the IOP council. During a joint lunch, the EPS president gave a short overview of EPS’s activities to the Council and there were fruitful discussions between IOP Council and EPS Executive Committee members.
Traditionally, a large fraction of discussions in January is turned towards the preparation of agenda items for the EPS Council meeting in spring. The preliminary accounts 2013 are part of this, as well as on-going activities such as…
Executive and Staff Activity for January 2014
- 13 January: J. Dudley, EPS President visited ICFO in Barcelona, Spain, to present physics careers with students and early-career researchers, and to discuss IYL 2015
- 20 January: J. Dudley, EPS President represented the EPS at opening ceremony of IYCr 2014 in Paris, France
- 29 January: J. Dudley, EPS President participated in Town Hall Meeting in London, United Kingdom on IYL 2015
- 30 January: The Executive Committee met in London, United Kingdom, and J. Dudley, EPS President held a presentation to IOP…
