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Editorial – Community celebration of physics Like all areas of modern science, physics today is more and more specialized. Workers in different subfields interact with each other rarely, and it is easy to forget that we form part of a community of scientists studying the one fundamental subject concerned with the nature of matter on... [read more]	Physics: transforming lives The Institute of Physics [IoP], in partnership with the UK Engineering and Physical Research Council and the Science and Technology Facilities Council, have published a booklet containing a selection of case studies demonstrating the economic value of research in physics and how it leads to... [read more]
New milestone reached for the European XFEL construction On June 2013 an important milestone was reached for the European X-ray free-electron laser [XFEL] with the completion of its underground portion. Located in the Hamburg area (Germany), the European XFEL is one of the largest and most... [read more]	ASEPS3: a successful international meeting of physics experts and laboratory leaders The 3rd Asia-Europe Physics Summit [ASEPS 3] took place in Chiba, Japan, from 16 to 19 July... [read more]	€70 billion for Horizon 2020 After long negotiation between European Union leaders agreeing on the next seven year budget for the Union, the final figure of €70.2 billion has been agreed upon for the research programme Horizon 2020. Although this total is 23% more than allocated for the current framework programme FP7, the first instalment planned… [read more]
POPA-CSIS Workshop exploring Nuclear Reductions after New START available In February 2013, the Panel on Public Affairs of the American Physical Society [POPA] and the Center for Strategic & International Studies [CSIS]... [read more]	Nigel Lockyer to lead the Fermilab Nigel Lockyer, director of Canada’s TRIUMF laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia, has been selected to become the next director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory [Fermilab]... [read more]	The American Physical Society comes to Europe The American Physical Society [APS] held its Executive Board Retreat at Chicheley Hall (Buckinghamshire, UK), home of the Kavli Royal Society International Centre. This is the first time in history that APS has held its Executive Board Retreat in Europe. On Monday 17 June, a special international... [read more]
CERN Council hosts EPS presentation on the impact of physics to the economies of Europe On 21 June 2013, at the open session of the CERN Council, EPS Vice president L. Cifarelli was invited by CERN... [read more]	New Chair for EPS AMOP Division Dominique Vernhet, Director of Research at CNRS, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France, has been elected the new Chair of the European Physical Society’s Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division [AMOPD], succeeding Professor Friedrich Aumayr from the Vienna University of Technology in Vienna, Austria... [read more]	Graphene Flagship encourages collaborations Industries, academic research centres, and funding agencies will come together to launch the Graphene Flagship project. It intends to encourage the research in the field of 2-dimension crystals, especially graphene, for industrial use. Since the research of... [read more]
First of ESA’s new generation of astronauts arrived at ISS On 29 May 2013, Luca Parmitano, an Italian astronaut from the European Space Agency [ESA], arrived on the International Space Station... [read more]	Train teachers in the scope of the Galileo Programme The Galileo teacher-training programme invites the scientific and education communities to join their efforts and run workshops addressed to... [read more]	EPS Executive and Staff Activity for June 2013 If you want to see how EPS works to support its members in different ways, here is a selection of the activities of EPS Executive Committee members and staff for the last month. Click here for the list... [read more]
Featured in EPL Most recent highlights from EPL: Symmetry detection of auxetic behaviour in 2D frameworks by H. Mitschke, G. E. Schröder-Turk, K. Mecke, P. W. Fowler and S. D. Guest Electron pockets and pseudogap asymmetry observed in the thermopower of underdoped cuprates by J. G. Storey, J. L. Tallon and G. V. M. Williams Dynamic jamming fronts by S. R. Waitukaitis, L. K. Roth, V. Vitelli and H. M. Jaeger [read more]
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Editorial – Community celebration of physics

Like all areas of modern science, physics today is more and more specialized. Workers in different subfields interact with each other rarely, and it is easy to forget that we form part of a community of scientists studying the one fundamental subject concerned with the nature of matter on...