November 2017 | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS
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Editorial: EPS a utopia?
EDP Sciences has finished digitizing all of back issues of Europhysics News (EPN). Now all EPN issues are in digital format and with a very good quality.
The first EPN issue was devoted to the foundation of EPS and can serve as a testimony of the first ever EPS General Meeting.
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Natasha Jeffrey: looking at the beautiful Sun and (much) more
Natasha Jeffrey is an early career researcher in solar physics at the University of Glasgow, UK, a world-leading solar group. She is interested in solar flare plasma physics and studies the largest explosions in the solar system, solar flares, a key component of space weather.
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2018 Lise Meitner Prize for Nuclear Science: call for nominations
The board of the Nuclear Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) calls for nominations for the 2018 “Lise Meitner Prize”. The award will be given to one or several individuals for outstanding work in the fields of experimental, theoretical or applied nuclear science.
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Call for EPS Fellows
EPS Members are invited to nominate EPS Individual Members as EPS Fellows. Individuals whose achievements in physics, whether in research, industry or education and/or through commitment to the SOCIETY warrant specific recognition are eligible to become EPS Fellows.
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UNESCO proclaims May 16th as the International Day of Light
PARIS, 14 November 2017: The 39th Session of the UNESCO General Conference has today proclaimed the date of May 16th as the International Day of Light.
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QUIZ Física
The activity entitled “Physics Quiz” took place in the afternoon of the 4th of October at the physics department of the University of Aveiro (PT). This was integrated into the official Physics Day.
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AIP Women in Physics Lecture Tour: call for nominations 2018
The Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) Women in Physics Lecture Tour (WIP) celebrates the contribution of women to advances in physics.
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EPS president-elect: call for nominations
A number of vacancies will arise on the European Physical Society [EPS] Executive Committee in 2018, including the position of President-elect.
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The KM3NeT/ORCA neutrino detector is coming online
On 22 September 2017, after a two-day long sea operation, the first detection unit of the ORCA neutrino telescope came online. This marks an important milestone of the scientific and technological endeavour of the international KM3NeT Collaboration.
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The IPPOG Particles4U Competition
Particles4U is a competition for young students and teachers, sponsored by the European Physical Society (EPS), and organised by the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG). We at IPPOG are scientists, communicators, and educators engaged in particle physics outreach around the world.
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Mini-workshop at the IFIN-HH and ELI-NP in Bucharest-Magurele
The 74th board meeting of the Nuclear Physics Division (NPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) was held on 23-24 October 2017 at the Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN–HH) and Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) in Bucharest- Magurele.
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New Data on Gender Inequality in Sciences Salaries
There is a difference between male and female physics faculty salaries and the culture of physics is partly to blame, according to an article that is available for free this month from Physics Today, the world’s most influential and closely followed magazine devoted to physics and the physical sciences community.
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The Australian SKA Pathfinder: A ‘next generation’ Radio Telescope
The Australian SKA Pathfinder is a new 36-element radio interferometer designed to be a fast survey telescope. Its key technology, phased-array receivers designed by CSIRO, has shown proven advantages in bandwidth, field of view and adaptability.
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Play it again, PiA! Physics experiments every year at Christmas time
With the motto “24 experiments until Christmas”, the University of Göttingen and the German Physical Society (DPG) offer physics experiments such as an Advent calendar. It is science, fun and you can win lots of prizes.
