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AAAS launches ‘Science & Diplomacy’ online quarterly

By Ian Randall. Published on 19 April 2012 in:
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A new online quarterly, Science & Diplomacy, has been launched by the Center for Science Diplomacy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS]. The publication, which contains articles, editorials, letters and perspectives, is hoped will strengthen ties between international relations and science by providing a forum for discussion, and a resource, for stakeholders in the two disciplines. In addition, contributions – in the form of submissions or letters – are being encouraged…

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2012 EPS Forum Physics and Society

By Martial Ducloy. Published on 19 April 2012 in:
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The 5th meeting of the European Physical Society’s Forum Physics and Society [FPS] was held at CERN, Geneva, on 28-29 March this year. The event, which focussed on the topic of “physicists in the market place”, was held prior to the 2012 European Physical Society [EPS] Council.

The purpose of the meeting was to explore the challenges experienced by physicists, leaving their usual fields of study, who pursue alternative careers outside of teaching and university-based research…

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LHC delivers collisions at record energy

By Gianluigi Arduini. Published on 19 April 2012 in:
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After a three-month winter maintenance stop, the Large Hadron Collider [LHC] at CERN has resumed operation, with beams, on 14 March. Two days later, low intensity beams were accelerated to 4 TeV for the first time, achieving a new world record.

During the preceding month, all machine components – including almost 2,000 superconducting magnet circuits – were tested for operation at currents which allow these accelerating beams of up to 4 TeV…

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Heavy Ion Collisions in the LHC Era

By Ian Randall. Published on 19 April 2012 in:
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The Heavy Ion Collisions in the LHC Era international conference will be held in Quy Nhon, central Vietnam, from 15-20 July this year. The event, which will focus on the proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at LHC and RHIC energies, will include an optional half-day excursion and the possibility for a post-conference tour in northern Vietnam.

Topics being covered at the conference include: collective dynamics; jet quenching; heavy flavour and quarkonia production; electroweak probes; QCD at high temperature and density & phase diagram…

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Russian Academy elects Ducloy Foreign Member

By Ian Randall. Published on 19 April 2012 in:
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Martial Ducloy has been elected Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in recognition of both his contributions to the field of coherent optics, laser physics and laser spectroscopy, and his long-lasting scientific collaboration with Russian institutes in the fields of Laser Metrology, and Nonlinear and Quantum Optics.

Ducloy – the current chair of the European Physical Society [EPS] Forum Physics and Society – will join such prestigious company as Claude Cohen-Tannoudji; Murray Gell-Mann; Jules Hoffman, the recent recipient of a Nobel Prize…

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Featured in EPN

By e-EPS. Published on 19 April 2012 in:
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Featuring in the latest issue of EPN:

A brief history of the Coriolis force
The Quark-Gluon Plasma, a nearly perfect fluid
Wind energy research: development of advanced design tools

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Second European Energy Conference

By Ian Randall. Published on 16 March 2012 in:
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The Second European Energy Conference [E2C] is being held at the Maastricht Exhibition & Congress Centre, in the Netherlands, on 17-20 April this year. The event, part of a bi-annual series, will act as a forum for the discussion and definition of the role of energy science and research in the future European energy system.

The conference programme will consist of morning plenary lectures, covering overarching subjects of energy and associated climate research, with afternoon symposiums focusing on the essential key fields in the development…

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Show Physics 2012

By Ian Randall. Published on 16 March 2012 in:
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The ShowPhysics 2012 conference is being held in Bergen, Norway on 16-21 April this year. The event, being organised by EuroPhysicsFun, will include both lectures and workshops, and aims to bring together parties interested in, or presently performing, physics shows.

Invited speakers include French television personality, Michel Chevalet, who will be discussing the relationship between physics shows and scientific journalists; Jérome Damet, of the Radiophysics Institute in Lausanne, who will talk on…

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Public Communication of Science and Technology

By Ian Randall. Published on 16 March 2012 in:
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The 12th International Public Communication of Science and Technology [PCST] conference will be held in Florence, Italy, on 18-20 April this year. The conference, a forum for the discussion of scientific communication, will focus this year on the topics of “quality, honesty and beauty in science communication”.

The conference is being organised by the PCST International Network, and is being hosted by Observa Science in Society, Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, the Galileo Museum Florence and the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica…

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