Bike route and EPS Historic Site Award honour Georges Lemaître, father of the Big Bang theory
On Thursday 23 May 2019, a new bike route dedicated to the Big Bang theory was festively opened. Furthermore, the Heilige-Geestcollege in Leuven, where Georges Lemaître lived and worked when he developed the Big Bang theory, will receive the prestigious Historic Site Award from the European Physical Society (EPS) and the Belgian Physical Society.
2019 EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prizes
All winners of the EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prizes have been announced.
Two Prestigious Prizes in Quantum Electronics and Optics announced by the European Physical Society
The European Physical Society is delighted to announce the 2019 winners of its two most prestigious prizes in Quantum Electronics and Optics.
Interview with Ágnes Kóspál: There are many rewarding moments in my work
Ágnes Kóspál is an astrophysicist who worked as a postdoc in the Netherlands at Leiden University and at the European Space Agency after obtaining her MSc in physics and astronomy, and her PhD from Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.
Philip Haslinger, TU Wien, wins the Young Scientist Prize 2019 of the AMOPD-EPS
The Young Scientist Prize 2019 of the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division (AMOPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) was awarded to Philipp Haslinger (TU Wien) for his pioneering contributions to the application of precision atom interferometry. His achievements include the ultrasensitive probe of candidates of dark matter by atom inerferometry thereby excluding so [...]
“The Four(er) Vectors” won the international physics competition PLANCKS
The winners of the German physics competition DOPPLERS also won the international competition PLANCKS in Odense, Denmark. Sven Jandura from the LMU Munich, Eugen Dizer from the University of Heidelberg and Friedrich Hübner and Kilian Bönisch, both from the University of Bonn, clearly set themselves apart from the other teams with 84 out of 100 [...]
Commission appoints Mauro Ferrari as next President of the European Research Council
The European Commission has appointed Professor Mauro Ferrari as the next President of the European Research Council (ERC), responsible for funding investigator-driven frontier scientific research in Europe.
Professor Toshiki Tajima Receives the 2018 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics
The Division of Plasma Physics annually selects an outstanding plasma physicist for the S. Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics.
Power to the constants!
On World Metrology Day, May 20, 2019, what defines a kilogram, an ampere and all the other units will change fundamentally.
The waltz of the LHC magnets has begun
Major endeavours have got underway in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) over the past few weeks, with the extraction of magnets from the accelerator tunnel. The LHC has a total of 1232 dipoles, magnets which bend the particles’ trajectories, and 474 quadrupoles, which squeeze the bunches. All these magnets are superconducting, i.e. they operate at a temperature of -271°C, are 15 metres long and weigh up to 28 tonnes. So moving them around is no trivial matter.
Dedicated to EPS Individual Members
Yes, EPS Individual Members can access for free, from the EPS web page, the current latest issues of two appealing journals. The first is European Journal of Physics [EJP], dedicated to maintaining and improving the standard of taught physics in universities and other higher education institutes. The second is Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics [EPJ [...]
The Charpak-Ritz Prize 2019 is awarded to Benoît Deveaud
This year Professor Benoît Deveaud, best known to Switzerland from his former activities at EPFL and since 2017 acting as Vice Provost for Research at École Polytechnique (France), is honoured for his “pioneering optical spectroscopy studies dedicated to the ultrafast and quantum optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures.”
