IoP report on LGBT+ physical scientists
IoP’s launched a ground-breaking research report, “Exploring the workplace for LGBT+ Physical Scientists”, which has been produced in partnership between Institute of Physics, Royal Society of Chemistry and Royal Astronomical Society.
Report on EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference 2018
The 8th EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference was held in the city of Barcelona, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, from 2-7 September 2018.
This biennial conference, which is focused on photonics, has been held in different locations across Europe since its inaugural conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2004.
Report on the FCC Week 2017 in Berlin
The 3rd meeting of the worldwide Future Circular Collider (FCC week 2017) brought together more than 500 leading minds in engineering and science from 147 institutes to discuss the progress of the present study and lay the foundations for the FCC design report. The increasing numbers reflect the attractiveness of the project and the diversity of the scientific challenges offered by this large-scale research infrastructure.
Report on the EPS Council 2017
The EPS Council 2017 took place from 31st March to 1st April in Erlangen, Germany.
Hosted in the splendid building of the Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light [MPI], the meeting gathered together more than 60 members, representatives of the main European Physical Societies, as well as numerous Associate Members of the Society.
New insights in accelerator-driven systems
As part of EUCARD2 activities, and co-sponsored by EPS Technology and Innovation Group (TIG), a workshop on the status of new developments in Accelerator-Driven Systems or ADS was held at CERN on February 7-9.
European Research Area – Progress Report 2016
The European Research Area (ERA) Progress Report 2016 shows strong progress over the last years on all priorities.
Report on STATPHYS 26
STATPHYS 26 the largest international conference in statistical physics, covering all aspects of statistical physics, has been organized in Lyon (France) from 18-22 July 2016.
Report on the Future Circular Collider Week 2016
The Future Circular Collider [FCC] Week 2016 took place in Rome (Italy) from 11 to 15 April 2016 and drew more than 450 participants from science and industry. The study was kicked off in 2014 as a response to a request of the European Strategy for Particle Physics and today embraces 74 institutes from 26 countries.
Report on the EPS Council 2016
Over 80 participants attended the EPS Council meeting which was held on the campus of the Université de Hate Alsace, in Mulhouse (FR). EPS Council is the opportunity for the EPS Divisions and Groups, member Societies and Action Committees to meet, and share information on the development of the EPS.
Open access – Preaches and practices
“Publish or perish” is a well-known catch-phrase in academic circles. In accordance with the exponential information we live in (i.e. Big Data or Moore’s Law), scientific publication has undergone a drastic change in the last few decades. To be successful, researchers are forced to publish as many of their results in prestigious peer-reviewed journals as they can. Bibliometrics and scientometrics are being used to determine the value of scientific work.
ICMFS-2015 – international colloquium on magnetic films
The 22nd international colloquium on magnetic films [ICMFS-2015] and surfaces took place from 12-17 July 2015 in Kraków, Poland. ICMFS-2015 continues the tradition of previous colloquia started in 1964 in London and brings together scientists from all areas of magnetism in lower dimensions. The Colloquium aims at exchange of new results and ideas for advancing the field of magnetism at surfaces, interfaces, in micro- and nanostructures as well as of spin-dependent phenomena.
Additional Greenhouse effect is extremely likely to be happening
In 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] published the Synthesis of the 5th Assessment Report. The results of their investigations are stated very clearly. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal. The atmosphere and the ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow/ice have diminished, and the sea level has risen. In addition, the mean surface temperature in 2014, based on global
