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PolarQuest: Mission accomplished! Expedition achievements and highlights

By PolarQuest. Published on 24 September 2018 in:
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Polarquest 2018’s sailboat Nanuq has successfully completed the circumnavigation of the Svalbard archipelago closing the loop in Isfjord, just outside Longyearbyen, where the Svalbard leg of the expedition started on August 4, logging 1500 nautical miles and reaching the outer boundary of the ice shelf at 82°07 N at 16h50 UTC on August 13. The sailing conditions were “exceptionally favorable, with absolutely no ice until very high latitude and only one gale with gusts up to 50 knots” – said Captain Peter Gallinelli, upon arrival. “More than weather and ice, the real challenge was a few very poorly or completely uncharted areas, especially on the East coast of the Nordaustlandet island, where we were often surprised by unmarked shoals and sailed inside completely uncharted fjords”.

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Science by Women

By Silvia Carrasco. Published on 24 September 2018 in:
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The Women in Africa foundation, true to its mission of contributing to the development of Africa through its women, is launching the fourth edition of the SCIENCE BY WOMEN programme with the aim to promote African women’s leadership in scientific research and technology transfer and to foster the capacity of the research centres in their home countries. The main goal is to enable African women researchers and scientists to tackle the great challenges faced by Africa through research in health, agriculture and food security, water, energy and climate change, which can be transferred into products and technologies with an impact on people´s lives. 

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Playing a true Parrondo’s game with a three-state coin on a quantum walk

By e-EPS. Published on 24 September 2018 in:
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This article was written by Jishnu Rajendran and Colin Benjamin and published in EPL on 28 June 2018 (Volume 122, Number 4, Copyright © EPLA, 2018).

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Visualising ultra-fast phenomena

By Carsten Welsch. Published on 24 September 2018 in:
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Professor Carsten P. Welsch, EuPRAXIA’s Director of Communication, Group Leader at The Cockcroft Institute and Head of Physics at Liverpool University, explains how the EuPRAXIA network is collaborating to design the world’s first plasma-based accelerator with industrial beam quality.

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EPS AMOPD: call for nominations for the Young Scientist Prize

By Joachim Burgdörfer. Published on 24 September 2018 in:
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The call for nomination  for the Young Scientist Prize of the Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Division of the EPS is open.

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Petition for an increased EU Budget for Research and Innovation

By EuroScience. Published on 24 September 2018 in:
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The European Commission, under the leadership of Commissioner Carlos Moedas, has recently published its proposal for Horizon Europe, the upcoming European Research and Innovation Programme for the period from 2021 to 2027.

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Report on the 15th Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference

By Irene Sendiña-Nadal. Published on 24 September 2018 in:
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Following a longstanding tradition, the conference was devoted to cover new advances in applications and experiments in all areas related to nonlinear dynamical systems and complexity with specialists in fluids and lasers, neuronal dynamics, cardiac dynamics, systems biology, geophysics, epidemiology, granular systems, “science of cities” and human mobility and data analysis.

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EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities summer 2018

By e-EPS. Published on 24 September 2018 in:
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The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff in summer:

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