ESF Junior Summit: “Water: Unite and Divide…”
The “Water: Unite and Divide. Interdisciplinary approaches for a sustainable future” junior summit is being held by the European Science Foundation [ESF] in Stresa, Italy, on 27-30 August this year.
The event, aimed at early career researchers the humanities; life, earth and environmental sciences; physical and engineering sciences; and social sciences will focus on the challenges and opportunities posed by interdisciplinary research…
Forum Physics and Society
The fifth EPS Forum Physics and Society – looking at Physicists in the marketplace – will be held at CERN, in Switzerland, between 28-29 March next year. The meeting will focus on the challenges experienced by physicists who pursue alternative careers in the marketplace, outside of teaching and university based research.
The first part of the meeting will revolve around the invited keynote contributions, defining the issues concerning physicists who enter the global marketplace. The forum will then split into groups to discuss the different aspects and to draft reports…
2012 EPS Council meeting
The next EPS Council meeting will be held at CERN, on 30-31 March 2012. The event will be a return of sorts for the EPS – coming back to where the society was founded, 44 years earlier, by its first president, Gilberto Bernardini, the then Research Director of CERN.
The venue for the meeting will be the CERN Council Chamber, where the EPS Constitution was first signed, on the 26 September 1968, by eminent representatives from 20 different national societies, academies and groups; along with the initial sixty-two individual members…
