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EPS Executive and Staff activity for May 2015

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The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff for May 2015:

  • 4 May: L. Di Ciaccio, EPS Executive Committee Honorary Secretary, presented the Emmy Noether award to prof. A. L’Huillier in Freiburg im Breisgau, DE.
  • 5 May: D. Lee, EPS Secretary General and J. Rivero attended the CSA-PPP Meeting in Brussels (BE).
  • 6 May: Christophe Rossel, EPS president, represented EPS at the EPS Historic Site ceremony for the celebrated Physics Department (Fakultät für Physik) at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität München (LMU) Munich, (DE).
  • 7 May Christophe Rossel participated in the General Assembly of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) in Basel (CH) of which he is a new individual member since Jan. 2015.
  • 11-12 May: John Dudley, EPS past-president, represented EPS at a Board meeting of International Basic Sciences Programme of UNESCO, Paris, FR.
  • 13 May: Christophe Rossel represented EPS at the EPS Historic Site ceremony of the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid (SP).
  • 13 May: Marian Reiffers, EPS Executive Committee member, attended the meeting of the Slovak Physical Society.
  • 18-22 May: Zsolt Fülöp, EPS Executive Committee member, attended the 28th EPS Nuclear Physics Division conference in York, UK.
  • 19 May: James Hough, member of the EPS Executive Committee, attended the Dedication of the Advanced LIGO Observatories by the Director of the National Science Foundation. This was held at Hanford, Washington State, USA.
  • 19-20 May: Christophe Rossel chaired the EPS Executive Committee meeting at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe, DE.
  • 19-22 May: Elisabeth Rachlew, EPS Executive Committee member, attended the conference EST in Karlsruhe, DE.
  • 20-22 May: C. Rossel and D. Lee attended the EST Conference on Energy Science & Technology, Karlsruhe, DE, and participated in the EPS Energy Group meeting as well as in the Advisory meeting on the future of E2C conferences.
  • 26-27 May: Christophe Rossel attended the 26th meeting of the Council of SESAME at the UNESCO headquarter in Paris, FR.
  • 28-29 May: John Dudley represented EPS and LIGHT2015 project at Photonics 21 Annual Meeting, Brussels, BE.
  • 29-30 May: Christophe Rossel, David Lee, Ophélia Fornari, from the EPS conference department and Zsolt Fülöp, EPS Executive Committee member, attended the 4th EPS Young Minds Leadership Meeting the Institute of Photonic Sciences ICFO, in El Castelldefels near Barcelona, ES. The EPS president delivered a plenary talk on Physics and Society.



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