EPS QEOD Prizes awarded to F.Capasso and M.Lewenstein
The European Physical Society [EPS] and the EPS Quantum Electronics and Optics Division [EPS QEOD], are delighted to announce the 2013 winners of its two most prestigious prizes in Quantum Electronics and Optics. Since 1996, these prizes are awarded every two years, and recognize the very highest level of achievements in applied and fundamental research in optical physics.
The 2013 Prize for Applied Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics is awarded to Federico Capasso, professor…
The EPS Edison Volta Prize: double celebration
At EPS Council in Strasbourg, on 5 April 2013, the award ceremony of the EPS Edison Volta Prize 2012 took place in the presence of two of the three winners: Rolf Dieter Heuer and Stephen Myers.
The European Physical Society, the Centro di Cultura Scientifica “Alessandro Volta”, Como, Italy (birth town of A. Volta) and EDISON, Milan, Italy (Europe’s oldest energy company, founded in 1884) established the EPS Edison Volta Prize to promote excellent research and achievement in physics…
Silver medal for the EPS President-elect
President-elect John Dudley has been awarded the French National Centre for Scientific Research [CNRS] silver medal 2013 for his scientific achievements in the fields of nonlinear optics, ultrafast photonics, optical techniques and supercontinuum generation. John’s research activities focus equally on experimental and theoretical studies in nonlinear optics, with particular emphasis on optical fibre propagation, ultrafast metrology, noise and instabilities, and nonlinear dynamics in general. Rogue waves and the analogy of optics and hydrodynamics approaches are among his actual research interests. John is a co-laureate of an ERC Advanced Grant to study the mathematics and physics…
2013 King Faisal Prize awarded to P.B. Corkum and F. Krausz
The King Faisal Foundation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, announced that physicists Paul B. Corkum and Ferenc Krausz have jointly been awarded the 2013 King Faisal International Prize for Science. They are recognized for their independent pioneering work, which has made it possible to capture the incredibly fast motion of electrons in atoms and molecules with a time resolution down to attoseconds. The winners will receive their awards at a ceremony in Riyadh under the auspices of the King of Saudi Arabia.The science subcategories cover a broad scope: physics; mathematics; chemistry; and biology…
A new EPS Historic Site to celebrate Bruno Pontecorvo’s centenary
The EPS Historic Sites programme of the European Physical Society [EPS] commemorates significant places in Europe for the progress and the history of physics, as a further demonstration of the EPS determination – since its birth in 1968 – to strengthen the cultural and scientific unity of Europe: east-west, north-south.
p>On 22 February 2013 a new EPS Historic Site was established in Dubna, Russia, at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research [JINR], on the occasion of the centennial of the eminent, world famous physicicst Bruno Pontecorvo…
EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics
It is a great pleasure to announce that the winter 2013 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics goes to Dr. Alessandra Gatti, Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies [IFN-CNR], Como, Italy.
The distinction was awarded to Alessandra Gatti for her contributions to physics – the introduction of concepts of quantum images, spatial entanglement, and quantum entangled images in the beginning of the nineties. “These concepts contributed in a substantial way to the birth of a new field – quantum imaging” reads…
“Hoza 69″ in Warsaw designated EPS Historic Site
The EPS Historic Sites programme of the European Physical Society [EPS] commemorates places in Europe important for the development and the history of physics. Laboratories, buildings, institutions, universities, towns, etc. associated with an event, discovery, research or body of work, by one or more individuals, that made considerable contributions to physics at the national or European/international level, can be considered for the Historic Site distinction from the EPS.
The “Hoza 69″ building in Warsaw, Poland, was the first EPS Historic Site declared by the EPS Selection Committee…
Honours abound for physicists in 2013
In the New Year’s Honours List of the United Kingdom, Professor Peter Higgs, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour, and two Fellows of the Institute of Physics were made Knights Bachelor – Professor Keith Burnett, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield, and Professor David Payne, Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton. Professor Burnett has carried out many pioneering studies in quantum optics and has been recognised for his services to science and higher education. Professor Payne was recognized for his services…
The EPS PED Secondary School Teaching Award
Nominations are open for the 2012 EPS-PED Secondary School Teaching Award for contributions by a secondary school teacher to physics education. The award consists of a diploma and Euro 1000 cash prize.
The award is made to an individual secondary school teacher for work that directly affects students in physics in one or more European secondary schools. The award should recognize a specific contribution to teaching, particularly one that might be taken up in a range of countries…
IBA Europhysics Prize nominations open
The board of the EPS Nuclear Physics Division has announced calls for nominations are now open for the 2013 IBA-Europhysics prize, sponsored by IBA Group. The award will be made to one or several individuals for outstanding contributions to Applied Nuclear Science and Nuclear Methods and Nuclear Researches in Medicine.
The IBA prize was first awarded in 2004. Last year, Elisabetta Boaretto received the prize in recognition of her significant contribution to the development of precise quality controlled radiocarbon dating…
EPS Edison Volta Prize 2012 awards CERN LHC
The European Physical Society [EPS], the Centro di Cultura Scientifica “Alessandro Volta” and Edison S.p.A. are proud to announce the award of the 2012 EPS Edison Volta Prize for outstanding contributions to physics to:
- Rolf Dieter Heuer, CERN Director General,
- Sergio Bertolucci, CERN Director for Research and Computing,
- Stephen Myers, CERN Director for Accelerators and Technology…
Nominations open for the QEOD prizes
The Quantum Electronics and Optics division [QEOD] of the European Physical Society [EPS] is presently soliciting nominations for their biennial prizes to be presented at the CLEO/Europe-IQEC meeting, which will be held in Munich, Germany, from 12-16 May 2013.
These prizes are now well-established as leading European awards in both fundamental and applied quantum electronics and optics.Nominations for the following prizes are to be received online by 4 March 2013 at the latest…
