Nominate a deserving (woman) physicist
This year, the European Physical Society [EPS] launched the Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics to recognize noteworthy women physicists.
Emmy Noether was a mathematician whose work has had an enormous impact in physics, and a role model for future generations of scientists. The laureates of the Emmy Noether Distinction are chosen for their capacity to inspire the next generation of scientists, and especially encourage women to handle careers in physics…
New President of the Netherlands Physical Society
The Nederlandse Natuurkundige Vereniging – The Netherlands Physical Society [NNV] organised its first on-line presidential elections in March 2013. All NNV members were invited to vote for the candidates. In total 360 members did so – about 10% of all members. Professor Jan van Ruitenbeek received 54% of the total votes cast and was elected as the new NNV president. He took up office during FYSICA 2013, the yearly symposium of the Netherlands Physical Society.Jan van Ruitenbeek, former NNV treasurer, is a professor in Experimental Physics at Leiden University…
New funding for SESAME
Representatives of the members of SESAME met at the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] in Vienna on 28-29 May 2013 for the 22nd meeting of the Council. This was the first Council meeting in which China participated as an Observer.
The Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East [SESAME] is a “third-generation” synchrotron light source under construction in Allan, Jordan, and…
Hetland to receive EPS-PED Award for Secondary School Teaching
The Physics Education Division selected Karl Thorstein Hetland, West Telemark Secondary School, Norway, as this year’s recipient of its Secondary School Teaching Award. K.T. Hetland developed the Energy Network, which aims to make students energy conscious and focus on renewable energy.
The Energy Network, created in 2005, consists of 15 local networks, each involving an upper secondary school and several lower secondary schools, 55 schools in all. Upper secondary school pupils serve as teachers in…
10 Years of the SEENET-MTP
Under the the aegis and with the suppport of the European Physical Society [EPS], the Kick-off Meeting of the EPS Committee of European Integration [EPS-CEI] and the Balkan Workshop BW2013 – Beyond Standard Models in Cosmology and Particle Physics, the central meeting of the Southeastern European Network in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics [SEENET-MTP] in 2013, were held in Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia, from 25-29 April 2013. In total 78 participants from 25 countries came for the events. Around 30 invited scientific talks, 15 panel presentations and several posters were…
EPS ExCom: statements, publications and action committees
The first meeting of the EPS Executive Committee under the presidency of John Dudley was held at EPS premises in Mulhouse, France, on 8 June 2013.
During this meeting, a longer discussion was devoted to the drafts of various EPS statements. As a federation and a learned society, EPS issues statements on actual topics of science policy. The mechanism to achieve consensus requires coordination and compromise. A statement on Open Access, prepared with other European Learned Societies as…
Energetically join the 3rd European Energy Conference
The 3rd European Energy Conference will be held from 27-30 October 2013 in Budapest, Hungary. This conference is one of the key contributions to EPS initiatives in energy. The third edition is jointly organised with the European Materials Research Society [E-MRS], and the European Association of Chemical and Molecular Sciences [EuCheMS].
An exciting plenary programme has been put together by the chairmen, L. Sarkadi, President of the Hungarian Chemical Society, and N. Kroó, President of the Hungarian Physical Society. Speakers include: Pál Kovacs…
A “wireless” historic site
On 26 May 2013, a new EPS Historic Site was inaugurated in Pontecchio di Sasso Marconi (Bologna), Italy, the 6th since the beginning of this EPS initiative.
The site is “Villa Griffone”, located on the hills nearby Bologna, a beautiful residence, which belonged to the Marconi family. The inauguration of this historic site is meant to pay a tribute to the very early experimental physics work of Guglielmo Marconi. Aged only 21, in 1895 he succeeded to establish the first long range electromagnetic wave…
New Chair for Quantum Electronics and Optics Division
Luc Bergé, Director of Research and laboratory head at the French Atomic Energy Commission [CEA] has been elected the new chair of the European Physical Society’s Quantum Electronics and Optics Division [QEOD], succeeding Professor Markus Pollnau from the University of Twente who has successfully overseen the division’s activities for the last two years.
Dr. Bergé is a theoretical physicist with particular expertise in numerical studies of intense light propagation such…
Editorial – Conference Commitment
One of the central activities of any scientific society is to organise conferences and meetings for its members. The European Physical Society [EPS] has just hosted one of its most successful conferences ever in Munich where the European Conference on Lasers and Electro optics and the International Quantum Electronics Conference [CLEO Europe-IQEC] were held over 12-16 May, and attracted a record number of more than 1600 registered attendees. CLEO Europe-IQEC conference is currently co-organised with partners OSA and the IEEE Photonics Society, but has been running in its core technical format for over 25 years. This record number of participants even…
1st ESTORM
The first edition of the International Freiberg Conference on Electrochemical Storage Materials [ESTORM] will be held in Freiberg, Germany, the 3 and 4 June 2013.
The talks will cover a range of topics from economic aspects to materials science and production technologies of batteries and their components.
The speakers include Christophe Pillot (Avicenne Energy, France), Prof. Deyang Qu…
ICOAM 2013
The Second International Conference on Optical Angular Momentum [ICOAM 2013] will be held from 3-5 June 2013 in Glasgow, Scotland (UK).
This international conference provides a forum for scientists working on the orbital angular momentum of light, aiming to identify new developments and directions in the field. The list of invited speakers is already available online.
The ICOAM 2013 is organised by the Institute of Physics [IoP] and co-sponsored by the European Physical Society…
