The OSA Foundation Names First Recipient of the Milton and Rosalind Chang Pivoting Fellowship

Araceli Venegas-Gomez will use her stipend to become a ‘global ambassador’ for quantum technologies

News from the EPS Young Minds Section in Catania

The main goal of the EPS-YM Catania Section is to create a network of young passionate physicists. In recent years, our section seriously suffered from a lack of student involvement. Hence, one of our missions is to build a virtuous connection between students and researchers, to fuel the curiosity for future studies, and to be aware of the chances offered by the territory.

The Optical Society and DPG name Gerd Leuchs winner of the 2018 Herbert Walther Award

The Optical Society (OSA) and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) today announce that the 2018 Herbert Walther Award will be presented to Gerd Leuchs, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen and University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

LHC stops … to regenerate more powerful!

2012 was quite a year for the CERN Large Hadron Collider [LHC]! A year of fundamental achievements both in physics and technology, successfully marking the end of the first 3 years period of data taking of LHC. A two years technical stop is now foreseen to allow improvements that will not only permit the machine to reach its full design energy (7 TeV per beam) and increased luminosity, but also allow the experiments to reach their utmost performance.

So far the LHC has been making continuous progress, exceeding the more optimistic luminosity goals and beam…