Open nominations for the EPS-Quantum Electronics and Optics Division 2019 prizes
The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division (QEOD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) is soliciting nominations for the biennial Quantum Electronics and Optics Prizes, Fresnel Prizes and Thesis Prizes
NNV Diversity Prize 2018 awarded to Groningen
The first edition of the NNV-Diversity Prize was won by the faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Groningen (RUG). The NNV (Netherlands Physical Society) has created the prize for the physics institution that is most successful in putting an open diversity policy into practice. The prize is a tribute and an inspiring example for other institutes and/or departments.
IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 2019
Nominations are sought for the Young Scientist Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical (AMO) Physics, which will be awarded in 2019 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics through Commission C15 (AMO Physics).
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.
The 2018 APS/EPS Landau-Spitzer Award
For the development of a new and highly efficient scenario for heating of fusion plasmas using Ion Cyclotron Resonant Heating (ICRH), the joint team consisting of Yevgen Kazakov and Jef Ongena, from the Laboratory for Plasma Physics of the Royal Military Academy (Brussels, Belgium) and John Wright and Steven Wuktich from the Plasma Science and Fusion Centre at MIT (Boston, USA) was awarded last July the prestigious Landau-Spitzer Award.
On Zientzia contest will award the best science videos
The 9th edition of the On Zientzia video contest has just started. It is organised by Donostia International Physics Center and Elhuyar.
2019 APS Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics to Helge Kragh
The 2019 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics was awarded to Helge Kragh, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, “For influential contributions to the history of physics, especially analyses of cosmological theories and debates, the history of the quantum physics of elementary particles and the solid state, and biographical studies of Paul Dirac and Niels Bohr, and his early quantum atom.” Helge Kragh was awarded the first EPS Echophysics PhysicsEstoire Prize in 2016.
2018 NPD prizes awarded at EuNPC
The Nuclear Physics Division of the European Physical Society awarded its 2018 prizes during the recent European Nuclear Physics Conference, which took place in Bologna (Italy), September 2-7 2018.
