First Iran Physics Tournament and International Year of Light 2015
The Ariaian Young Innovative Minds Institute [AYIMI] held the first Iran Physics Tournament in Iran with cooperation of Scientific- Student Society of Shahid Beheshti University in February 2015 and a selected team will participate in the International Physics Tournament 2015 in Poland.
Science @ HowTheLightGetsIn festival
Science takes centre stage at HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s largest philosophy and music festival, this May. Bringing together world-leading scientists, artists, philosophers and politicians including Roger Penrose, Laura Mersini-Houghton, Lawrence Krauss, John Ellis, Paul Krugman, Simon Baron-Cohen, George Ellis, John Searle, Tariq Ali and Lianne La Havas, for debates, talks and wild parties, this year’s programme examines the elements of reality that might soon turn out to be illusions.
International Year of Light news
Opening Ceremony in Morocco
On 26 February the Opening Ceremony of the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies [IYL 2015] in Morocco took place in Rabat, at the University of Sciences of Rabat. In addition to the participation of researchers, students, institutional partners and journalists, the main audience of this ceremony was children and teenagers, largely represented by student associations, astronomy clubs and UNESCO’s associated schools, amounting to a total of 300 attendees. – Read the full report on the IYL 2015 website.
LIGHT2015 Young Photonics Entrepreneur Award and Young Women in Photonics Award
The International Year of Light in Europe 2015 [LIGHT2015] is an outreach and education initiative – coordinated by the European Physical Society and funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme. It promotes the importance of photonics to young people, entrepreneurs, and the general public in Europe during the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies [IYL 2015]. Within this framework, the European Optical Society and the LIGHT2015 project are pleased to announce that nominations are open for 2 new prizes sponsored by the EOS …
Editorial – Hitting the nail on the head
The Opening Ceremony of the International year of Light took place in Paris on 19-20 January 2015. It was a wonderful event, full of exciting science, inspiring uses of technology for social progress, and beautiful artistic representations. Since then, I have been in a number of conversations where people have asked “what is the lasting impact”?
Actually, this question gets asked a lot in any context where the scientific community in general, and the European Physical Society [EPS] in particular becomes involved in outreach or policy initiatives. While it is a good question, and requires a reply, it can be misleading. When it gets asked, the questioner wants to know what this one event (this …
IYL 2015 – activities in the Netherlands
The International Year of Light 2015 officially kicked off in the Netherlands in a meeting that took place on took place on 19 January in Amsterdam. This is only the beginning, and there are many more events planned through the year. The events planned for February are presented.
Call for papers for the FIAT LUX conference
Within the framework of the UNESCO activities for 2015 – The International Year of Light, you are cordially invited to attend and submit memories to the international scientific and theological Conference FIAT LUX (Let there be light), Roma (Italy), from 3-5 June 2015.
Read about light!
A selection of publications on light by Physics World, EPL, Journal of Optics, the Amercian Physical Society, Springer and Elsevier.
Editorial – Light is Here!
From an idea hatched back in 2009, the International Year of Light 2015 has now arrived in full force! What an amazing two days it was in Paris at UNESCO HQ at the Opening Ceremony, where the international scientific community came together with diplomats and politicians, architects and designers, leading companies in light technologies, representatives from the European Commission, artists and performers, students, volunteers and many more.
LIGHT2015 – Photonics: Discover the Power of Light
The International Year of Light in Europe 2015 [LIGHT2015] – funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme – is a high impact EU-wide outreach and education initiative that aims to promote the importance of photonics to young people, entrepreneurs and the general public during the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies [IYL 2015]. The project, coordinated by the European Physical Society [EPS], will leverage the tremendous visibility of IYL 2015 to ensure that the public in all member states of the EU understands and appreciates the importance that photonics has for society.
International Year of Light news
The Opening Ceremony of the “Année Internationale de la Lumière 2015 en France” (International Year of Light in France 2015) took place in Paris on 8 January 2015 in the lecture hall of the University of Sorbonne under the patronage of France’s President François Hollande.
This prestigious place saw great names of the physics community such as Noble Prize winner Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and Serge Haroche, as well as Alain Aspect from the Académie des Sciences and Gérard Mourou from the Ecole Polytechnique, deliver brilliant presentations.
Editorial – Reflections on a fantastic year for EPS
Sometimes we are so busy working on tasks at hand that we forget to look backwards to see how much we have achieved. In a sense, this is exactly the way it should be, because looking forward keeps us focused on moving in new directions! But in this last editorial of 2014, it’s perhaps the right time to go through exactly what EPS has achieved concretely over the last 12 months.
Council in 2014 was held in April at the beautiful location of the ICTP in Trieste. Council saw the election of Christophe Rossel who will take over as EPS President from April 2015. Christophe has worked closely with David and I since …
