Papercore: Scholar Database based on the wiki Principle
The Papercore project is an open and free database for all scientists. Based on the wiki principle, Papercore allows scientists to write, store and edit summaries of scientific articles. Through this collective community process should make it possible to summarize large areas of knowledge efficiently.
Papercore was created by the research group “Computational Theoretical Physics” in collaboration with the Institute for Science Networking, both located at the University of Oldenburg, Germany…
New portal for EPJ
In November, the European Physical Journal [EPJ] opened its new online portal that allows to easily access to the articles published in EPJ journals and to archives of predecessor publications.
With more than one century of physics-related publications, the EPJ series is comprised of 13 peer-reviewed journals covering a wide spectrum of physics. The EPJ portal has enhanced search facilities to find articles by journal or among the global EPJ database, including archives. The total of articles available on the EJP portal…
Italy revises its SuperB Project
The results of an international commission appointed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research [MIUR] for the costing review of the Italian “flagship project” SuperB in the Frascati area were made public at the end of November 2012. SuperB is included in the future European scenario for particle physics. The project involves the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics [INFN] and the newborn Cabibbo-Lab.
Neither the relevance nor the quality of the SuperB program were brought into question by the MIUR review…
The perfect Christmas tree
Nicole Wrightham and Alex Craig, students in mathematics at the University of Sheffield, have created a formula to calculate the number of balls to hang on a Christmas tree. The formula also determines the height of the angel, and the length of the garlands and even the number of lights.
Whether you decide to trust to your intuition, or let yourselves be guided by the formula, the EPS would like to wish all of its members, and all of the readers of e-EPS a wonderful holiday season.
Clinical trials using carbon ions begin at CNAO
On November 13th, for the first time at the Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica [CNAO], a hadrontherapy centre in Italy, a beam of carbon ions was used to treat a cancer patient. The patient, affected by a salivary gland carcinoma, successfully completed the therapy last week, and three new patients are now enrolled in the framework of clinical trials approved by the Italian Health Ministry.
The CNAO is a clinical facility created and financed by the Italian Ministry of Health and conceived to supply…
Editorial: The responsibility of scientists in the economic crisis
Science is extremely rewarding for its players. We undertake our careers pushed by curiosity and the need for understanding, and we have the possibility of being at the forefront of human knowledge in a specific area. We are revealing pieces of the unknown, we see our achievements become useful technology, our ideas made reality, that save lives, bridge the world. This year we have seen the first evidence of a particle that has never been measured before, thanks to the huge amount of data collected by LHC experiments, and this event has resonated around the world as an accomplishment for all humankind. And we have seen the first treatment of a cancer patient with carbon ions…
The Finch Report: impact on researchers
Steven Hall, Managing Director of IOP Publishing has recently published an article entitled “What does Finch mean for researchers, librarians and publishers?”.
June 2012 saw publication of the Finch report into expanding access to published research findings, the UK Government’s response to the report and the issuing of a revised policy on open access publication of research papers by the UK Research Councils. All appear to be driving the UK towards the world’s most rigorous adoption…
Vienna Conference on Instrumentation
The Vienna Conference on Instrumentation [VCI] will take place n 11-15 February 2013 and will present the newest developments of detectors for particle, astro-particle and nuclear physics and their applications in biology, medicine, neutron scattering and synchrotron radiation.
The Conference will have plenary sessions with invited talks giving en overview of new detector development. The Conference Organizers particularly encourage contributions relating to associated detector electronics…
