July 2019 | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS
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8th EPS Young Minds Leadership Meeting
On 24-25 May 2019, the 8th leadership meeting of the Young Minds Programme of the European Physical Society was held at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), in Erlangen, Germany.
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Call for nomination for the Lise Meitner Prize 2020
The board of the Nuclear Physics Division (NPD) of the European Physical Society calls for nominations for the 2020 edition of the Lise Meitner Prize.
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Call for nominations – EPS president-elect
A number of vacancies will arise on the European Physical Society (EPS) Executive Committee in 2020, including the position of President-elect. According to the EPS bylaws, a Selection Committee has been created to establish a list of candidates for the replacement of outgoing members, and for the President-elect.
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Towards an update of the European Particle Physics Strategy
The European Strategy for Particle Physics is the cornerstone of Europe’s decision-making process for the long-term future of the field.
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The Hotel Metropole in Brussels, declared EPS Historic Site in 2015
Discover a video of the Hotel Metropole, EPS Historic Site inaugurated in 2015.
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IoP report on LGBT+ physical scientists
IoP’s launched a ground-breaking research report, “Exploring the workplace for LGBT+ Physical Scientists”.
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Decoding Beethoven’s music style using data science
What makes Beethoven sound like Beethoven? EPFL researchers have completed a first analysis of Beethoven’s writing style, applying statistical techniques to unlock recurring patterns.
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DPG renews warning of serious consequences of man-made climate change
More than four decades ago, the German Physical Society warned of the dangers of man-made climate change.
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Dutch and US students win 2019 CERN Beamline for Schools competition
Two teams of high-school students, one from the Praedinius Gymnasium in Groningen, Netherlands, and one from the West High School in Salt Lake City, USA, have won the 2019 Beamline for Schools competition.
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Call for nominations for the IUPAP Physics for Development Medal 2020
The Commission on Physics for Development (C13) opens nominations for its IUPAP Physics for Development Medal 2020.
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NASA’s TESS Mission Finds Its Smallest Planet Yet
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the tiniest discovered by TESS to date.
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La Silla 50th anniversary culminates with total solar eclipse
On 2 July, the path of totality of a solar eclipse passed across ESO’s La Silla Observatory. This rare astronomical event falls in the fiftieth year of operation of ESO’s first observatory.
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EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities June 2019
The EPS works to support its members. Click here for the list of the activities of the EPS Executive Committee and the EPS Staff.
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LHC experiments present new results on rare Higgs phenomena at 2019 EPS-HEP conference
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