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

Dear Readers,

Welcome to the second issue of e-EPS, the online facts and information newsletter of the European Physical Society.

EPS members, committees, divisions and groups are encouraged to submit their news and information for publication in future issues. e-EPS is the place for announcing events, interesting research, obituaries, policy issues and other news for distribution to the European physics community

Please do enjoy reading,

Luisa Cifarelli

President, European Physical Society

EPS responds to consultation on European research funding

The European Physical Society has submitted a response to the European Commission’s consultation on the Green Paper entitled ‘Towards a Common Strategic Framework for EU research and innovation funding’.

The Green Paper proposes major changes to EU research and innovation funding in order to make participation easier, to increase the scientific and economic impact and provide better value for money...

Passion for Light

Passion for Light, an international workshop being jointly organised by the European and Italian Physical Societies, is to be held on 16 September 2011 at the Villa Monastero, in Varenna, Lake Como, Italy...

Asia Europe Physics Summit

The Asia-Europe Physics Summit (ASEPS) will be held on 26-29 October 2011 in Wroclaw, Poland. ASEPS is a platform for the forging of Asia-Europe physics programme strategies...

EPL celebrates 25th anniversary

The 25th anniversary of EPL was celebrated at the symposium ‘Exploring the Frontiers of Physics’, which was held between 3-4 May at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in Munich...

1st EPS Young Minds Leadership Meeting

The 1st EPS Young Minds Leadership Meeting took place at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland on 29-30 April. The Young Minds Project was launched by the European Physical Society early in 2010, to promote the next generation of physicists in Europe by creating an environment where young physicists can assume an active role...

Executive Committee Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria

The EPS Executive Committee travelled to Sofia over 20-21 May, to meet with representatives from the Balkan Physical Union and the Union of Bulgarian Physicists...

Winners of EPS High Energy Physics Division prizes

The winners of the EPS High Energy Physics Division prizes have been announced. The awards will be presented at the 2011 Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics, which is being held between 21-27 July in Grenoble, France...

Winner of the 2011 IBA Prize announced

The winner of the 2011 IBA-Europhysics Prize has been announced by the EPS Nuclear Physics Division. The awards will be presented at the first International Conference on Advances in Radioactive Isotope Science, which is taking place between 29 May and 3 June in Leuven, Belgium...

EPS AG Accelerator Prizes announced

The EPS Accelerator Group (EPS AG) is pleased to announce the recipients of the EPS AG Accelerator prizes of 2011. The awards will be presented at the International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’11) in San Sebastian, Spain on the 4-9 September this year...

EPS makes conference proceedings available online

The proceedings of all EPS division and group conferences are to be made available to EPS members online. It is hoped that this will help intensify the links between different divisions and groups, while creating a permanent registry of EPS proceedings independent of any individual, or divisional, web server...

Grid computing to help investigate climate change

The ‘Conference on the role of e-Infrastructures for Climate Change Research’ was held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, in Trieste, on 16-20 May this year. The event brought together scientists and policy makers from across the world, in order to address climate change from economic, political and scientific perspectives...

Johanna Stachel to be first female president of the DPG

Johanna Stachel has been elected as the next president of the Deutsche Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG). Stachel, a professor of experimental physics at the University of Heidelberg, will be the first female physicist to head up the DPG...

CERN celebrates 75th birthday of former Director General

The 75th birthday of Robert Aymar – a former Director General (DG) of CERN – was celebrated at CERN last month with a commemorative colloquium...

Highlights from EPN

Featuring in the upcoming issue of EPN:

3D-integrated all-solid-state batteries
by P.H.L. Notten

‘Electrification of our increasingly sophisticated society will proliferate rapidly during this century. A key element...

First Bern Cyclotron Symposium

The first Bern Cyclotron Symposium took place on 6-7 June this year in Bern, Switzerland. The event featured review talks from international experts on research with medical accelerators, with an emphasis on activities at the new Bern Cyclotron Laboratory...

Week of Innovative Regions in Europe

The Week of Innovative Regions in Europe 2011 (WIRE2011) conference is being held between 7-9 June 2011 in Debrecen, Hungary...

EPS-HEP Conference

The High Energy and Particle Physics (HEPP) division of the European Physical Society has recently called for nominations for the 2011 EPS HEPP Prizes, which will be presented at the International Europhysics Conference EPS-HEP 2011, to be held in Grenoble on 21-27 July 2011...

GIREP-EPEC 2011 Conference

The GIREP-EPEC 2011 Conference will be held on the 1-5 August this year in the Agora Building of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland...

13th European Solar Physics Meeting

The 13th European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-13) will take place at Ixia, Rhodes between 12-16 September this year...

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