August 2016 | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS
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In this summer issue, you will find some republications of articles on the theme "Physics for Development".
Editorial – Pulling together after Brexit
Like many physicists in the UK, I spent the final Friday of June in shock. Voters in Britain had just opted by a margin of 52% to 48% to leave the European Union (EU) – and suddenly nothing in the world seemed to make sense any more. I’d never really thought a majority would want a British exit (Brexit) from the EU. As with the referendum over Scottish independence from the UK in 2014, I’d assumed voters would come to their senses at the last minute.
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Portrait of Barbara Capone: when dreams come true
Barbara Capone is at present an APART (Austrian Programme for Advanced Research and Technology) Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, at the Physics Department of the Vienna University. She is a young theoretical soft matter physicist, working on developing coarse graining models for soft matter systems to allow the design and simulation of novel materials in the nanoscale.
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What’s new for 2016 from the EPS Conference Department?
The European Physical Society has established 3 different formulas of conference managing for its Divisions and Groups, as follow:
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Solar Power to the People
The Council of the European Physical Society, held in Mulhouse on 1-2 April 2016, welcomed a round-table on the theme “Physics for Development”. Several associations and organisations were invited to present their ...
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OpenLab: a specific action targeting developing countries
The OpenLab was initiated by the International Union of Crystallography and UNESCO...
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3D Printing for development an initiative of the EPS Physics for Development Group
The latest initiative of the Physics for Development group was to launch a program on 3D printing for science with the ...
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NANOMETA 2017 – the abstract submission is now open
NANOMETA 2017, 6th International Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, will take place from 4-7 January 2017 in Seefeld (Tirol), Austria.
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SESAME: Pre-announcement of call for proposals
SESAME expects to put out a call for proposals to carry out experiments at the first two SESAME beamlines (X-ray Absorption Fine Structure/X-ray Fluorescence and Infra-Red Spectro-microscopy) in the coming month.
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Nominations for Editor-in-Chief of EPL are open
Nominations are now open for the Editor-in-Chief of EPL, a leading global letters journal owned and published by a consortium of 17 national physical societies in Europe.
