August 2011 | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS
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Editorial

Dear Readers,

Within this issue of e-EPS you will learn that the EPS, having recently responded to the EC consultation ‘From Challenges to Opportunities: Towards a Common Strategic Framework for EU Research and Innovation funding’, is now coordinating replies to two ongoing consultations...

Light for Development

A central goal of the EPS International Year of Light project will be to promote optical technologies and optics education to improve the quality of life in the developing world – under the theme of ‘Light for Development’.

Light plays a central role in human activities in science, technology and culture. On a fundamental scientific level...

HEPD elects new chair and secretary

The EPS High Energy Physics Division [HEPD] Board has elected Paris Sphicas, of the University of Athens, Greece, as the board’s next chair...

Physics World: reporting from the frontiers of science

e-EPS spoke with Matin Durrani, the editor of Physics World, the membership magazine of the UK Institute of Physics...

100 Years of Cosmic Particles

An international conference, with the theme of ‘100 Years of Cosmic Particles’, will be held during 1-5 May 2012, between the two locations of Innsbruck University, in Tyrol, and ECHOPHYSICS, in Poellau...

2011 International Particle Accelerator Conference

The second International Particle Accelerator Conference will take place in the Kursaal Congress Centre in San Sebastian, Spain, between the 4-9 September this year...

European Commission Prize for Women Innovators

A Prize for Women Innovators has been launched by the European Commission at the end of last month. The competition is hoped will raise public awareness of the need for more innovation, and for more female entrepreneurs...

EC announces 7 billion Euro boost for 2012 R&D

A 7 billion Euro boost for research and innovation for 2012 has been announced by the European Commission (EC) last month. The funding package – which will be the ECs largest yet – is anticipated to promote both growth and new jobs...

Report from EPS HEP 2011

Impressive results, so early on, and so much more yet to come! This was the prevalent feeling among the 800+ attendees of the EPS-HEP bi-annual meeting, held at the end of July, in Grenoble...

Scientific information in the digital age consultation

The European Commission is planning to adopt a communication and recommendation, on the access to, and preservation of, digital scientific information...

European Strategy in Particle Physics

Since 2007, the High Energy Particle Physics Board of the European Physics Society and the European Committee for Future Accelerators have been organising jointly a half-day plenary session during the biannual EPS conference on High Energy Physics...

NMP publishes final 2012 work programme

The 7th Framework Programme for EU Research’s Industrial Technologies programme – commonly referred to as NMP – have published their final work programme for the 2012 call for proposals...

Horizon 2020 research programme to start 2014

“Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation” will come into force on 1 January 2014, the European Commission has announced. Horizon 2020 – the name of which was selected by a vote in June this year...

EPS to decide on society’s next president-elect

The next president-elect of the EPS will be voted in during the 2012 EPS Council meeting, on 30-31 March next year. The Executive Committee has appointed a search committee, which will be chaired by the current EPS vice-president, Maciej Kolwas...

2012 EPS Council meeting

The next EPS Council meeting will be held at CERN, on 30-31 March 2012. The event will be a return of sorts for the EPS – coming back to where the society was founded, 44 years earlier...

Featured in EPN

Featuring in the upcoming issue of EPN:

ECHOPHYSICS: The first European center for the history of physics in Poellau (Austria)

By H. Kahlert, H. Krenn, & L. Wilmes...

EPS General Meeting

The 15th general meeting of the European Physical Society will be held in Wroclaw, Poland, on 27 October 2011. The meeting, which will begin at 17.30, will take place in the Regional Centre for Business Tourism...

First European Gender Summit

The first European Gender Summit is being held in the SQUARE – Brussels Meeting Centre on 8-9 November 2011...

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