Renewable Energy and the Environment Congress
The Renewable Energy and the Environment Congress will be held on 11-15 November 2012 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The congress consists of 4 collocated meetings, which cover optics and photonics in energy generation and conservation.
The event is being organised under the auspices of the Optical Society of America (OSA).
The 4 meetings of the congress will be: Optical Instrumentation for Energy & Environmental Applications (E2); Optical Nanostructures and Advanced Materials for Photovoltaics (V); Optics for Solar Energy (SOLAR); …
SpacePart12
The 4th International Conference on Particle and Fundamental Physics in Space [SpacePart12] will be held on 5-7 November 2012 at CERN. The event, part of a series, which has been held since 2002, brings together space scientists and space policy makers from around the world to exchange views on the developments of space related science and technology programs.
Scientific topics of SpacePart12 will be: the 100th anniversary of Cosmic Ray discovery; status and open issues linking particle physics and the observation of the universe; the multi-messenger universe; the dark universe; …
International Conference on Plasma Physics 2012
The 33rd International Conference on Plasma Physics [ICPP 2012] will be held on 14-16 November 2012 in Venice, Italy.
ICPP 2012 has teamed up with the International Journal of Engineering and Physical Sciences for publishing a Special Journal Issue on Advances in Plasma Physics. All submitted papers will have opportunities for consideration for this Special Journal Issue…
FP7: 2013 Calls for proposals
The European Commission has published 4 new calls for proposals under the Framework Programme 7 [FP7].
• ICT – EU Japan Coordinated Call on topics Optical or wireless communications, cybersecurity, extending the cloud paradigm to the Internet of Things, the Federation of testbeds: Control, tools and experiments, as well as green and content centric networks. Deadline for submission: 29 November 2012.
• Coordination and Support Actions (supporting) : Researchers’ night. Deadline for submission: 8 January 2013…
2012 Nobel Prize in Physics
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Serge Haroche (College de France and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France) and David J. Wineland (National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] and University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) for the development of “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”.
The prize, given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, was announced on 9 October…
Editorial – Joining forces for science and scientists in Europe
What a nice initiative from the EuCheMS president Ulrich Schubert to invite me to participate in the General Assembly of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences. This took place on 11-12 October 2012 in Dublin, in the beautiful library of the Irish Royal Academy.
Two round table dicussions were organized, on the following items:
- What are the European needs for Member Societies
- Combining forces for Horizon 2020…
The Dark Energy Camera opens eyes and data
The Dark Energy Camera in Chile took its first picture in September 2012. After a series of tests, the 570-megapixels camera is expected to be operational in December 2012.
The Dark Energy Camera is the most powerful survey instrument of its kind, able to see light from over 100 000 galaxies up to 8 billion light years away in each snapshot. This camera is particularly sensitive to red and infrared light through 62 charged-coupled devices…
Cold and Ultra Cold Molecules conference
The “Cold and Ultra Cold Molecules” research conference is being held in Obergurgl, Austria, on 18-23 November this year. The conference will cover topics within this emerging field, such as the production of cold and ultracold molecules; applications for precision spectroscopy; few-body and many-body quantum physics; chemical physics; and quantum chemistry.
The event is being organised by the European Science Foundation and the University of Innsbruck…
Second European Gender Summit
The Second European Gender Summit is being held at the European Parliament, in Brussels on 29-30 November this year. The summit – which will bring together around 400 participants and 30 top-level international speakers – will provide an arena for the discussion of how gender is viewed in the culture of research and innovation, what potential changes could be made in this field and to begin consultation for the creation of a Joint Gender Quality Standard…
Lipid-Protein Interactions in Membranes
The “Lipid-Protein Interactions in Membranes: Implications for Health and Disease” thematic meeting of the Biophysical Society will be held at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India, on 1-5 November this year.
The meeting – which will take place against the backdrop of recent advances in membrane protein crystallography – aims to bring together leading experts in membrane research in order to develop new models for the function of membrane proteins and design better therapeutic strategies to combat diseases which relate to the malfunctioning…
