PLANCKS: an international Physics competition
PLANCKS (Physics League Across Numerous Countries for Kick-ass Students) is an annual international physics contest for bachelor and master students.
The three-day event consists of a symposium, the contest itself, an excursion, an informal get-together (with drinks and a party) and the awards ceremony. During the contest, around 150 physics students will try to answer challenging physics exercises.
In 2015 PLANCKS will be held in Leiden, The Netherlands, from the 22 to 24 May. The symposium will be held in a …
Touchdown! Rosetta’s Philae probe lands on comet
Rosetta is a space probe of the European Space Agency [ESA] to study the comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It is a joint mission with contributions from its Member States and NASA. Rosetta’s Philae lander was built by a consortium led by the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), the Max Planck Society (MPG), the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI). It is the first mission in history to rendezvous with a comet. It is escorting the comet as they orbit the Sun together, and has deployed a lander to its surface. Comets are time capsules containing primitive material left over from the time when the Sun and its planets formed. By studying the …
Light Prize announced – QEOD & IUPAP prizes open
EPS QEOD prize for Research into the Science of Light
The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society is delighted to announce the 2015 winner of the Prize for Research into the Science of Light. This Prize is awarded every two years and recognises recent work by one or more individuals for scientific excellence in the area of electromagnetic science in its broadest sense, across the entire spectrum of electromagnetic waves. The award is accompanied by an engraved glass medal, a certificate, and a monetary sum of 2000 euros…
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EPS Executive and Staff activity for October 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Click here for the list of the activities of EPS Executive Committee and staff for the last month.
2 – 3 October: Christophe Rossel, EPS President elect, committee member of the EPS Forum Physics and Society (FPS), took part in the FPS meeting on ‘Improving the Image of Physics’ in Belgrade, Serbia. He delivered a keynote speech on the IYL2015 and chaired one of the workshops on the theme ’Improving the image with the public- engaging non-specialists’. David Lee, Patricia Helfenstein and Ophélia Fornari, from the EPS secretariat, attended the VI EPS …
Magnetic Resonance and Muons – A Complementary View of Materials
The meeting “Magnetic Resonance and Muons – A Complementary View of Materials” will take place on 15 December 2014 at the Institute of Physics [IOP], 28 Portland Place, London, UK….
Fast Track to Innovation Pilot (2015-2016)
A Free Interactive Information Event – 9 January 2015, Brussels
This is your chance to discover a new exciting opportunity for industry-driven innovation under Horizon 2020. Participants at this event will acquire insight into the objectives of this new scheme, become familiar with the modalities of the Fast Track to Innovation call, get practical tips and tricks on how to apply and how to maximise chances for success when applying…
International Workshop EPS-CEI-UNESCO
On behalf of the organizing committee of the International Workshop “Promotion of physics in the CEI countries and Integrating Access to Research Infrastructures in Europe” the organisers ares delighted to invite you to the event to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, November 23-25, 2014.
The workshop is the second one in the framework of the project “Towards the integration of the physics community in CEI countries into the ERA“. The project is co-financed by: Central European Initiative (CEI), European Physical Society (EPS), ICTP Trieste (Italy), Southeastern European Network…
