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…
Symposium in honour of Luciano Maiani
A symposium in honor of Luciano Maiani, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, is being held in the physics department of Sapienza – Università di Roma, Italy, on 21-22 September, 2011.
The event, in which a number of distinguished scientists will present their research, will celebrate Maiani’s contributions to the field of particle physics. The symposium is being sponsored by Alitalia and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.
For more information – and to view the event poster – please visit the symposium website.
Balkan Summer Institute 2011
The Balkan Summer Institute (BSI) 2011 will be held between 19 August and 1 September this year, in the Đerdap National Park, Serbia.
The institute will focus on high energy physics, with a special focus on dark matter – and related topics in astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics – and scientific outreach and education.
The two-week long event will include: the Cosmology and Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Models summer school…
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…
13th European Solar Physics Meeting
The 13th European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-13) will take place at Ixia, Rhodes between 12-16 September this year. The event, which is being held within the Rodos Palace Convention Resort, has been declared a Europhysics Conference by the European Physical Society.
ESPM-13 will play host to a discussion of the following topics: chromospheric and coronal heating; emergence and evolution of magnetic flux in the solar atmosphere; origin and properties of the solar wind; the science of…
Passion for Light
Passion for Light, an international workshop being jointly organised by the European and Italian Physical Societies, is to be held on 16 September 2011 at the Villa Monastero, in Varenna, Lake Como, Italy.
The workshop will provide a framework in which to announce a new initiative of the EPS Quantum Electronics and Optics Division – which aims for a declaration of an International Year of Light, to be held…
