EPL publishes its first paper from the LHC

EPL has published its first article from the Large Hadron Collider, in the august issue this year. The paper, submitted by the TOTEM experiment, was entitled: ‘Proton-proton elastic scattering at the LHC energy of √s = 7 TeV’.

EPL looks forward to publishing other such results from the experiments at CERN in the future. The abstract from the paper follows…

International Year of Light Prospectus

In view of the 27th IUPAP General Assembly which will be held in London, on 31 October – 4 November this year, an EPS prospectus for thedeclaration of an International Year of Light (IYOL) is being prepared. The preliminary version can be downloaded from the EPS web page.

The prospectus describes the project, which will request the proclamation of the IYOL by the United Nations General Assembly and provides background information to be considered by the International Union of Pure and Applied…

FP7 publishes monitoring report for 2007-2010

The European Commission has published the fourth FP7 Monitoring Report, which covers the implementation of the Framework Programme during 2007-2010. It provides, among other items, a detailed analysis of participation patterns; implementation management and quality issues; and the current situation with regard to the simplification process.

The report has a number of features of interest to EPS members, including lists of top university participants and research organizations. The report calls attention to the magnitude of the FP7, with 245 calls, more than 77,000…

Metamaterials 2011

Metamaterials 2011: The Fifth International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on 10-15 October this year.

The congress – which is being hosted by the Centre CIMITEC of the Escola d’Enginyeria at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona – will address topics in the research into in artificial electromagnetic materials and their applications.

The metamaterials series was initiated by the European Network of Excellence Metamorphose, and is being organised…

Zenonas Rudzikas

The European Physical Society would like to pay tribute to Zenonas Rokus Rudzikas, whose passing away in June this year, at the age of 71, was sudden and unexpected.

Rudzikas was a well-respected and much liked member of the European research community. He was a member of the EPS Executive Committee, a past President of the Lithuanian Physical Society and was an active member of the European Economic and Social Council…

Editorial

Dear Readers,

Within this, the 5th issue of e-EPS, you will find news about our on-going activities, in our now customary format. We have added a new section dealing with obituaries which are also – alas – to be announced.

The renewal of the EPS website is in progress. e-EPS will, of course, be embedded into this new website, which will include – in addition to the present information – other facilities and services for EPS members, and other visitors…

2011 International Particle Accelerator Conference

The second International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2011) will take place in the Kursaal Congress Centre in San Sebastian, Spain, between the 4-9 September this year. The programme will consist of a variety of oral presentations, poster sessions and plenary sessions.

This will be the first in the IPAC series of conferences – which had their origins in the regional conferences APAC, EPAC and PAC – to be held in Europe…

Workshop on Biomolecules and Nanostructure

The ‘Workshop on Biomolecules and Nanostructure – Bedlewo 3’ is being organised by the EPS Division of Physics in Life Sciences (DPL), in Bedlewo, Poland, on 4-8 September this year.

The conference is also being organised by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences – with support from the National Multidisciplinary Laboratory of Functional Nanomaterials – NanoFun…