EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities November 2017
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff last month:
CMD27
CMD27, The 27th Edition of the EPS Condensed Matter Division Conference will be held at the Technical University in Berlin from March 11th through March 16th, 2018
UP 2018: International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena
The 21st Ultrafast Phenomena Conference will take place from 15 to 20 July 2018 at the Grand Elysée Hotel, Hamburg, Germany.
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. Under this scheme, a woman who has made a significant contribution in a field of physics will be selected to present lectures in venues arranged by each participating branch of the AIP. Nominations are currently sought for the AIP WIP Lecturer for 2018. We are seeking a woman working overseas who:
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)
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.
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. She uses both observational tools and modelling to understand how flares accelerate and transport high energy particles efficiently, a vital topic in all high-energy astrophysics. In 2016, she received the EPS Plasma Physics Thesis Prize and in 2017, the European Solar Physics Division Early Career Researcher Award. In 2018, she will receive the European Geosciences Union ST Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award.
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. The proclamation of this annual International Day will enable global appreciation of the central role that light and light-based technologies play in the lives of the citizens of the world in areas of science, technology, culture, education, and sustainable development.
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. ASKAP is located at a superbly ‘radio quiet’ site in Western Australia, one of the sites that will house the international Square Kilometre Array.
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.
