Science: it’s a girl thing
On 21 June 2012, the European Commission launched its brand new EU–wide campaign “Women in Research and Innovation”. Under the slogan “Science: it’s a girl thing”, the first phase of the campaign aims at encouraging girls aged 13-18 to embrace a scientific school curriculum.
Women are still under-represented in research at a time when Europe needs more researchers to foster innovation and bolster its economy. The goal of the campaign “Science it’s a Girl Thing” is to attract young…
ACAT 2013
The 15h International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research [ACAT 2013] will be held in Beijing, China, on 16-21 May 2013. The Institute of High Energy Physics [IHEP] will host the workshop.
This workshop is the latest of a series created in 1990. Its main purpose is to bring together researchers working in the field of computing. It has established bridges between physics and computer science research, facilitating the advances in the understanding of the Universe at its smallest and largest scales…
EPS conference in Munich attracts record submissions
The European Physical Society [EPS] through its Quantum Electronics and Optics Division [QEOD] organizes one of the world’s largest conferences in pure and applied optical physics, which has been held every 2 years in Munich, Germany, since 2001.
The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference [CLEO Europe-EQEC] is one of EPS’s flagship congress events, attracting the world’s pre-eminent scientists in optics and photonics…
ITER gets off the ground
The 20,500-square-metre ITER Headquarters building was inaugurated on 17 January 2013. The ITER site is located in Cadarache, France, that already hosts France’s nuclear research centre [CEA].
Guenther H. Oettinger, EU Commissioner for Energy, and Geneviève Fioraso, French Minister of Higher Education and Research, together with ITER Director-General Osamu Motojima unveiled the commemorative plaque at the entrance of the building. They also visited the ITER construction site where the Tokamak Complex construction will begin…
ICSSUR 2013
The 13th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations [ICSSUR 2013] will take place from 24 to 28 June 2013 in Nuremberg, Germany.
The conference will be the 13th in a series that has been organized nearly every two years since 1991 and the first one organized in Germany. ICSSUR covers a range of topics from quantum optics to quantum atom optics and quantum information. The Nobel laureates Roy J. Glauber and David J. Wineland will give plenary talks as well as…
Featured in EPN
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Heavy ice, by L.J.F.(Jo) HermansWater is a vital substance for life on planet Earth. This is obvious for liquid water with its crucial role for any species living on the globe. But also solid water plays a more important role than one might expect.
Surprises in cycling aerodynamics, by Bert Blocken, Thijs Defraeye, Erwin Koninckx, Jan Carmeliet and Peter Hespel…
Updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics
On 21-26 January 2013 the European Strategy Group met in Erice, Italy to draft an update of the medium and long-term European Strategy for Particle Physics to be submitted shortly for approval by the CERN Council. The Erice “retreat” followed the Open Symposium of Krakow, Poland, in September 2012.
This timely strategy document comes soon after the discovery of the long awaited Higgs-like boson at the LHC and coincides with the LHC shutdown until the end of 2014…
XXXIII Dynamics Days Europe
The 33rd edition of Dynamics Days Europe will be hosted in Madrid, Spain, from 3 to 7 June 2013.
Since 1980, the yearly conference provides a European forum for developments in the applications of and theory for dynamics. It brings together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds including physics, biology, engineering and mathematics for interdisciplinary research in nonlinear science.
This year the conference will focus on the following topics…
ECAMP11
The 11th European Conference on Atoms, Molecules, and Photons [ECAMP11] will be held in the University of Aarhus, Denmark, from 24-28 June 2013.
The triennial ECAMP conference series, launched in 1981, is the major conference of the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division [AMOPD] of the European Physical Society [EPS]. This series of conferences seeks to promote the dissemination and exchange of scientific knowledge in the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics…
Vienna Conference on Instrumentation
The Vienna Conference on Instrumentation [VCI] will take place n 11-15 February 2013 and will present the newest developments of detectors for particle, astro-particle and nuclear physics and their applications in biology, medicine, neutron scattering and synchrotron radiation.
The Conference will have plenary sessions with invited talks giving en overview of new detector development. The Conference Organizers particularly encourage contributions relating to associated detector electronics…
Submissions for the Spanish Royal Society Meeting
From 15-19 July 2013, most of the Spanish community of physicists will gather in Valencia, Spain, to attend the 34th Biannual Meeting of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics and the 23rd Iberian Meeting on Physics Education.
In addition to mini-symposia, plenary sessions and round tables will address some of the hottest issues in physics and technology, including the elusive Higgs boson, quantum computing, or the state of the art in renewable energies.
The abstract submission deadline is 4 February 2013…
Pushing the boundaries of cold atoms
A 4-week programme “Pushing the boundaries of cold atoms” will held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 21 January 2013 to 15 February 2013. It aims to bring together researchers and students working in this field, both theoreticians as well as experimentalists.
The programme focuses on new directions within the field of ultracold atomic gases. Interesting topics include for example: Synthetic gauge fields for cold atoms, Multi-component atoms, spinor condensates…
