EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities December 2017
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff last month:
A map of the invisible
Tuesday 16 January, 7.00pm – 8.30pm, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London (UK)
Entropy 2018: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry
The conference will take place from 14-16 May 2018 at the Faculty of Geology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
February 11th is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This day was established by the United Nations General Assembly to promote the full and equal participation of women and girls in education, training, employment and the decision-making processes in the sciences.
European Commission: towards a stronger cooperation on education
In a meeting in Gothenburg on 17 November, the European Commission set out its vision for how a European Education Area could be created by 2025.
How to trick light into flexing its muscles
Light consists of a flow of photons. If two waveguides – cables for light – lie side by side, they attract or repel each other. The interaction is due to the optical force, but the effect is usually extremely small. Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology and Free University of Brussels have now found a method to significantly enhance the optical force. The method opens new possibilities within sensor technology and nanoscience. The results were recently published in the prestigious scientific journal Physical Review Letters.
EPS Nuclear Physics Division: call for nominations for the 2018 PhD Prize
The board of the European Physical Society (EPS) Nuclear Physics Division calls for nominations for the 2015-2017 European Nuclear Physics Thesis Award.
2017 IBA-Europhysics Prize Winner
The European Physical Society, through its Nuclear Physics Division, has awarded the 2017 IBA-Europhysics Prize to Professor Habib Zaidi, Department of Medical Imaging and Information Sciences, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
Editorial: Physics for Development and talented Young Minds in the Mediterranean
When you think of your own future, you tend to focus on one word in particular: investment (I accept that you may have another word in mind, but for the sake of the story let’s stick with this one). For many scientific organizations and professional societies, such as the EPS, investment in people is clearly of paramount importance and investment in talented young people is a shared vision for many of its members and groups.
Magurele Physics Campus Honoured with EPS Historic Site Distinction
On 15th of November 2017 a plaque declaring the Magurele Physics Campus as an EPS historic site was unveiled by the EPS President, Rüdiger Voss. The EPS Secretary General, David Lee, participated in the ceremony, together with representatives of local authorities, the Romanian Ministry of Research, the Romanian Academy, and the Research Institutes from Magurele.
News from Switzerland
The SPS-Communications are published three times per year. We report in Nr. 53 of November 2017 about the SPS annual meeting in August 2017 in Geneva, a joint meeting with the Austrian Physical Society ÖPG.
