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Magnetic Resonance Imaging: a success story for superconductivity
Merging incompatible materials
Neutrinos and the hunt for the last mixing angle
Second European Gender Summit
The Second European Gender Summit is being held at the European Parliament, in Brussels on 29-30 November this year. The summit – which will bring together around 400 participants and 30 top-level international speakers – will provide an arena for the discussion of how gender is viewed in the culture of research and innovation, what potential changes could be made in this field and to begin consultation for the creation of a Joint Gender Quality Standard…
Science education training receives funds from EC
Science View is organising three training courses for science teachers in 2013, funded by European Commission Comenius Grundtvig Grants. The training courses are as follows:
“Teacher’s new role in the Classroom of the future (e-design, e-tutoring, e-Assessment)”
11-16 March 2013 in Thessaloniki, Greece; 18 23 March 2013 in Athens, Greece.
Reference No.: GR-2013-209-002…
Physics for Development Conference
The first Physics for Development Conference is being held at the Palais des Académies, in Brussels, on 11-12 October this year. The meeting – which will look at research and teaching in those countries with a low overall standard of physics funding – aims to create innovative approaches in this area to benefit the global physics community.
The event – which is being organised by the Physics for Development group of the European Physical Society – is sponsored by the CEA and Horiba Jobin Yvon…
World’s largest Cherenkov telescope begins operation
The High Energy Stereoscopic System [HESS] II began operation on 26 July this year. The Namibia-based Cherenkov telescope will, in conjunction with the four smaller telescopes which make up the HESS observatory, study high-energy gamma ray sources such as pulsars, supermassive black holes and supernovae.
Weighing in at around 600 tons, with its 28 meter mirror – the size of two adjacent tennis courts – HESS II is now the world’s largest Cherenkov telescope…
EPS-SIF School on Energy – Course 1
The first course of the Joint EPS-SIF International School on Energy – entitled “New strategies for energy generation, conversion and storage” – will be held at the Villa Monastero, in Varenna, between 30 July and 4 August this year.
The school aims to present all the fields of physics which are relevant to technologies for energy production, conversion, transmission and efficiency. Topics which will be covered during the course include: biomass; climate issues; energy saving technology; fission; fossil fuels; fusion; hydro; solar, photovoltaic and photothermal sources; and wind…
Quantum Fluids and Solids 2012
The 2012 International Conference on Quantum Fluids and Solids [QFS2012] will be held on 15-21 August this year, at Lancaster University, in the United Kingdom.
Topics being covered at the conference include: quantum fluids, quantum gasses and quantum solids; and related topics in cosmology, high energy physics, hydrodynamics, low dimensional systems, magnetism, strongly correlated systems and superconductivity…
Quark Matter 2012
The 23rd International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions [Quark Matter 2012] is being held at the Washington Omni Shoreham Hotel, in Washington DC, on 13-18 August this year.
Topics under discussion will include: electromagnetic probes; future experimental facilities, upgrades, and instrumentation; global and collective dynamics; hadron thermodynamics; heavy flavour and quarkonia; jet correlations and fluctuations; new theoretical developments; pre-equilibrium and initial state physics…
ESF Junior Summit: “Water: Unite and Divide…”
The “Water: Unite and Divide. Interdisciplinary approaches for a sustainable future” junior summit is being held by the European Science Foundation [ESF] in Stresa, Italy, on 27-30 August this year.
The event, aimed at early career researchers the humanities; life, earth and environmental sciences; physical and engineering sciences; and social sciences will focus on the challenges and opportunities posed by interdisciplinary research…
Modern Practice in Stress and Vibration Analysis
‘Modern Practice in Stress and Vibration Analysis’ [MPSVA 2012] is the title of a conference being organised by the Applied Mechanics Group of the Institute of Physics, to be held in the Boyd Orr lecture theatre and Wolfson Medical School, Glasgow, on 29-31 August 2012.
The conference will act as a showcase for international research in the fields of stress and vibration analysis, and the technical areas where such intersects…
2012 EUROPHOTON Conference
“Solid State, Fibre, and Waveguide Coherent Light Sources” is the title of the 5th EUROPHOTON Conference of the European Physical Society’s Quantum Electronics and Optics Division, which is being held in at the AlbaNova University Centre, Stockholm, Sweden, on 26-31 August 2012.
The conference will provide a forum for the discussion of the latest breakthroughs in the fields of fibre, solid-state, and wave-guided light sources. In addition, the event will play host to vendor displays, informal breakout sessions, summer school sessions for PhD and postdoctoral students and half-day special symposium…
