EPS Executive and Staff activity for November 2014
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff for November 2014:
- 3-4 November: the EPS ExCom meeting took place at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- 7 November: John Dudley, EPS president, hosted an IYL 2015 meeting with David Lee, EPS secretary general, Jorge Rivero, EPS IYL 2015 outreach officer, and UNESCO staff in Besançon, France.
- 10 November: John Dudley represented EPS at the launch of the World Library of Science at UNESCO HQ in Paris, France.
- 13-14 November: Christophe Rossel, EPS president-elect, participated in the meeting of the EPS Energy Group at the Instituto Superior Técnico [IST] in Lisbon, Portugal. The EPS EG Position Paper on Energy was discussed.
- 17 November: Christophe Rossel participated in the preparation meeting with Giorgio Benedeck, EPL editor-in-chief, David Lee and Frédéric Burr, EPL staff editor, on the new EPL Editorial Decision tree at the EPS secretariat in Mulhouse.
- 18 November: John Dudley met with various UK IYL Partners in London, United Kingdom. Christophe Rossel participated in the EPS staff meeting at the EPS secretariat in Mulhouse.
- 20-21 November: Christophe Rossel chaired the EPLA BOD meeting, which took place at CFEL/DESY in Hamburg, Germany, followed by a visit to PETRA III and FLASH. Giorgio Benedek, David Lee and Frédéric Burr attended this meeting.
- 23- 25 November: Christophe Rossel and David Lee participated in the CEI-SEENET-MTP-EPS Workshop “Promotion of physics in the CEI countries and Integrating Access to Research Infrastructures in Europe” in Sofia, Bulgaria. He chaired the round-table discussion on “The role of a learned society in the modern era of shared research infrastructures”.
- 26 November: John Dudley met with Flavia Schlegel, Assistant Director General for Natural Sciences of UNESO in Paris, to provide a personal briefing on plans for the International Year of Light 2015 (UK). Marian Reiffers participated in a meeting of the Slovak Physical Society.
