EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities June 2019
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff in summer:
Bike route and EPS Historic Site Award honour Georges Lemaître, father of the Big Bang theory
On Thursday 23 May 2019, a new bike route dedicated to the Big Bang theory was festively opened. Furthermore, the Heilige-Geestcollege in Leuven, where Georges Lemaître lived and worked when he developed the Big Bang theory, will receive the prestigious Historic Site Award from the European Physical Society (EPS) and the Belgian Physical Society.
2019 EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prizes
All winners of the EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prizes have been announced.
Two Prestigious Prizes in Quantum Electronics and Optics announced by the European Physical Society
The European Physical Society is delighted to announce the 2019 winners of its two most prestigious prizes in Quantum Electronics and Optics.
Interview with Ágnes Kóspál: There are many rewarding moments in my work
Ágnes Kóspál is an astrophysicist who worked as a postdoc in the Netherlands at Leiden University and at the European Space Agency after obtaining her MSc in physics and astronomy, and her PhD from Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.
Commission appoints Mauro Ferrari as next President of the European Research Council
The European Commission has appointed Professor Mauro Ferrari as the next President of the European Research Council (ERC), responsible for funding investigator-driven frontier scientific research in Europe.
Professor Toshiki Tajima Receives the 2018 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics
The Division of Plasma Physics annually selects an outstanding plasma physicist for the S. Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics.
Power to the constants!
On World Metrology Day, May 20, 2019, what defines a kilogram, an ampere and all the other units will change fundamentally.
The waltz of the LHC magnets has begun
Major endeavours have got underway in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) over the past few weeks, with the extraction of magnets from the accelerator tunnel. The LHC has a total of 1232 dipoles, magnets which bend the particles’ trajectories, and 474 quadrupoles, which squeeze the bunches. All these magnets are superconducting, i.e. they operate at a temperature of -271°C, are 15 metres long and weigh up to 28 tonnes. So moving them around is no trivial matter.
