Philippe Grangier receives Charles H. Townes award

Philippe Grangier has been awarded the Charles H. Townes award of the Optical Society of America, in recognition of his research in fundamental quantum optics.

Grangier, a research director at CNRS and a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, leads the Quantum Optics group at the Laboratory Charles Fabry and the Institut d’Optique Graduate School. His research focuses on studies of the non-classical properties of light, with regards to the application of quantum information…

Weak Protein-Ligand Interactions

The “Weak Protein-Ligand Interactions: New Horizons in Biophysics and Cell Biology” thematic meeting of the Biophysical Society will be held in Beijing, China, on 14-18 October this year.

Topics under discussion at the event will include: atomic force microscopy; chemical crosslinking; co-immunoprecipitation and pull-down; computational docking; in vivo fluorescence resonance energy transfer; isothermal calorimetry titration; magnetic tweezers; mass spectroscopy NMR spectroscopy; single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy…

Asian experiments unlock neutrino oscillation mystery

Two reactor experiments, China’s Daya Bay and Korea’s RENO, have made the best measurement of the neutrino mixing angle, θ₁₃, an essential property for neutrino research. The discovery of a non-zero θ₁₃ at approximately 9˚ – which was published in March and Apri this year – completes our picture of neutrino mixing. This quite large value for the mixing angle will make it easier to conduct future long baseline neutrino experiments. This, in turn, may lead to a better understanding of the matter-antimatter asymmetry seen in the Universe…

CHEP 2012

The 2012 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics [CHEP 2012] conference is being held at New York University’s Skirball and Kimmel Centers, in Greenwich Village, on 21-25 May next year.

The conference, which is being organised by Brookhaven National Laboratory and New York University, is also being sponsored by ACEOLE, Data Direct Networks, DELL and NEXSAN.

Advanced registration for CHEP 2012 is mandatory. Early registration closes on 31 January 2012. The is a discounted fee for students…

100 Years of Cosmic Particles

An international conference, with the theme of ‘100 Years of Cosmic Particles’, will be held during 1-5 May 2012, split between the two locations of Innsbruck University, in Tyrol, and ECHOPHYSICS, in Poellau, Styria.

The event, which is being jointly organized by Innsbruck University, ECHOPHYSICS and the Poellau Victor. F. Hess Society will form part of the worldwide celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Victor Francis Hess’ discovery of cosmic radiation.

The first part of the event, held in Innsbruck on 1-2 May, will focus on the knowledge gained, and advances made, in the 100…