EPS and APS: An ongoing tradition of partnership
The American Physical Society (APS) and European Physical Society (APS) have enjoyed a long partnership. While APS has established Reciprocal Agreements with many of the national physics societies in European countries, an APS-EPS Reciprocal Agreement was established through an exchange of letters in the 1984, allowing the individual members of both APS and EPS to register and present papers at each other’s meetings at member rates.
Physicists propose to carry out neutron activation analysis of mosses for environmental monitoring
Physicists from Tomsk Polytechnic University developed an optimal method for environmental monitoring using neutron activation analysis of mosses. The new approach can be used for the assessment of air quality in the cities. A research article was published in the journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin, from Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, USA, “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”. The other half goes jointly to Gérard Mourou, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France) and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA)and to Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo (Canada) “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”.
49th International Physics Olympiad, IPhO2018
The 49th edition of the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO2018) took place in Lisbon, from 21 to 29 July. The IPhO is an annual competition in physics for secondary school students, aiming at promoting physics and the development of international contacts in physics education, involving individual theoretical and experimental exams. The IPhO began in Warsaw, Poland, in 1967, with 5 participating countries. Since then, IPhO has grown to worldwide coverage and this year 396 competitors from 86 countries attended the competition in Lisbon, organised by the Portuguese Physical Society on behalf of the Portuguese Ministry of Education.
Physics in YOUR life: celebrate physics with the EPS!
In 2018 the European Physical Society is celebrating its 50th anniversary. To mark the event, the EPS created a series of twelve banners covering several topics of physic
Signing for gender equality in physics research
To advance recruitment and career progression of female physicists and engineers, the directors of the four NWO physics research institutes the Netherlands, AMOLF, ARCNL, DIFFER and Nikhef, have signed Gender Equality Plans. The official ceremony took place on January 22nd, 2018 at the start of the large Physics@Veldhoven conference in front of the physics community in the Netherlands. It kicked off a systematic approach to accelerate improving the gender balance in the national physics research institutes, leading to structural changes. By publicly signing the plans, the four institute directors emphasised their commitment to and the legitimacy of the agreed actions and measures for gender equality.
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
February 11th is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This day was established by the United Nations General Assembly to promote the full and equal participation of women and girls in education, training, employment and the decision-making processes in the sciences.
European Commission: towards a stronger cooperation on education
In a meeting in Gothenburg on 17 November, the European Commission set out its vision for how a European Education Area could be created by 2025.
HOPDSS 2018
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of the European Physical Society (EPS). In this context, and following the success of two previous meetings in Cambridge (United Kingdom) and Pöllau (Austria), the organisers are happy to announce the Third International Conference on the History of Physics, under the auspices of the EPS, which will take place in Donostia/San Sebastian (Spain) in October 17-21, 2018.
The Optical Society and DPG name Gerd Leuchs winner of the 2018 Herbert Walther Award
The Optical Society (OSA) and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) today announce that the 2018 Herbert Walther Award will be presented to Gerd Leuchs, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen and University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
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)
Editorial: EPS a utopia?
EDP Sciences has finished digitizing all of back issues of Europhysics News (EPN). Now all EPN issues are in digital format and with a very good quality.
