EPS Executive & Staff activity for February 2016
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EPS Executive & Staff activity for January 2016
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EPS Executive & Staff activity for December 2015
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff for December 2015:
EPS Executive & Staff activity for November 2015
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff for November 2015:
2 November 2015: John Dudley, EPS vice-president, represented EPS at an IYL 2015 event at the Louvre (France) on Augustin Fresnel and the boundary between art and science seen through his works.
Meeting of Member Society Presidents
On 2 October 2015, Christophe Rossel welcomed Presidents and representatives from 23 EPS Member societies to discuss and elaborate EPS actions on a European level in the coming years. In order to provide background and context, three introductory talks were provided.T. Karapiperis, Head of Unit, EPRS | European Parliamentary Research Service, Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA), European Parliament presented Technology Assessment and Scientific Foresight in the European Parliament: STOA’s mission, structure and activities. The talk focused on the role of the STOA (Science and Technology Options Assessment), which is an interface between science and policy making. The STOA is an official body of the EU Parliament launched in 1987. It studies the medium to long term impact of science and technology on society. It is in the agenda setting phase of the science policy cycle.
EPS Executive & Staff activity for October 2015
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2 October 2015: Lucia Di Ciaccio, honorary secretary of the EPS Executive Committee, presented on behalf of the EPS President the Emmy Noether certificate to Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne [EPFL] in Lausanne (CH).
2 October 2015: Christophe Rossel, EPS president, chaired the meeting of the representatives of the EPS Member Societies [MS] at the EPS office in Belgium (rue du Trône 62, Brussels) focusing on the relations between EPS and its MS and on the way to interact with the EU institutions (Commission, Government, ERC, etc.) David Lee, EPS Secretary General, and Ophélia Fornari, EPS conference assistant, attended the meeting.
EPS Executive & Staff activity for September 2015
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1-4 September: Christophe Rossel, EPS president, attended the joint annual Meeting of the Austrian and Swiss Physical Societies at TU Wien, Vienna, delivering one opening address and chairing two sessions (one plenary and one on Condensed Matter Physics)
EPS Executive and Staff activity for August 2015
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10 August: John Dudley, EPS vice-president, represented EPS at an international summer school in Tampere, Finland, presenting progress on IYL2015.
