EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities January 2019
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff in summer:
Award of EPS Alfven Prize 2019 to Victor Malka and Toshiki Tajima
The EPS Hannes Alfvén Prize 2019 for outstanding contributions to plasma physics is jointly awarded to Professor Victor Malka and Professor Toshiki Tajima.
The winter 2018 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction goes to Chiara Mariotti
It is a great pleasure to announce that the Winter 2018 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics goes to Dr. Chiara Mariotti from INFN, Italy, and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
2019 EPS-QEOD Prize for Research into the Science of Light
The 2019 Prize for Research into the Science of Light is awarded to Professor Javier García de Abajo, ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain for “pioneering contributions to the understanding of the behaviour of light at the nanoscale, in particular in plasmons and in light interactions with free electrons“.
EPS SNPD prizes 2019: Call for nominations
We ask the scientific community for suggestions of suitable candidates for the following two prizes, which are awarded by EPS every 2 years: the EPS Statistical & Nonlinear Physics Prize and the EPS-SNPD Early Career Prize.
ESPD Prizes 2019: Call for nominations
The European Solar Physics Division call for nominations for the 2019 Prizes: the PhD Thesis Prize and the Early Career Researcher (Postdoc) Prize.
Save the date to celebrate the Web@30 on 12 March 2019
The Web@30 event is happening at CERN and you can join it from anywhere in the world.
In 1989, CERN was a hive of ideas and information stored on multiple incompatible computers. Tim Berners-Lee envisioned a unifying structure for linking information across different computers, and wrote a proposal in March 1989 called “Information Management: A Proposal”. By 1991, this vision of universal connectivity had become the World Wide Web!
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, celebrated each year on 11 February, was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly to promote full and equal access to science and participation in science for women and girls. This Day is a reminder that women and girls play a critical role in science and technology communities and that their participation should be strengthened.
18th EPS Young Minds Action Committee Meeting
The 18th EPS Young Minds Action Committee meeting took place in Trieste, northern Italy, on the 24th November 2018.
Physicists propose to carry out neutron activation analysis of mosses for environmental monitoring
Physicists from Tomsk Polytechnic University developed an optimal method for environmental monitoring using neutron activation analysis of mosses. The new approach can be used for the assessment of air quality in the cities. A research article was published in the journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.
Year 2019 is Eötvös year for physicists in Hungary
2019 is the 100th anniversary of the death of the great Hungarian physicist, Lorand Eötvös.
IceCube Neutrino Telescope Points to Sources of High-energy Cosmic Rays
Groups in the Asia-Pacific are celebrating the latest breakthrough from the IceCube neutrino telescope which recently presented the first evidence for high-energy neutrinos from an astrophysical source.
