The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin, from Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, USA, “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”. The other half goes jointly to Gérard Mourou, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France) and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA)and to Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo (Canada) “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”.
EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities September 2018
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff in summer:
Report on EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference 2018
The 8th EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference was held in the city of Barcelona, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, from 2-7 September 2018.
This biennial conference, which is focused on photonics, has been held in different locations across Europe since its inaugural conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2004.
NANOMETA 2019
The European Physical Society will organise the 7th International Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials (NANOMETA 2019) which will be held in Seefeld ski resort, Tirol, Austria during 3 – 6 January 2019. This will be the sixth conference in the NANOMETA series following a meeting in January 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 attended by many leading authorities in the field.
Statistical Physics of Complex Systems (SPCS2019)
The conference will be held in Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden from 7-11 May 2019. This will be the 2nd conference of the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division, connected with the award of the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize. The previous conference, where the prize was awarded for the first time, was in Krakow in 2017.
First EPS Conference on Gravitation
The first EPS (European Physical Society) Conference on Gravitation will be held at the Sapienza University (Rome, Italy) from 19-21 February 2019.
The aim of the conference is to discuss about several aspects of Gravitation, such as measurements of the G constant, Quantum Gravity, Geodesy, General Relativity tests, and obviously Gravitational Waves (from the experimental, theoretical and data analysis point of views).
HOPDSS 2018
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of the European Physical Society (EPS). In this context, and following the success of two previous meetings in Cambridge (United Kingdom) and Pöllau (Austria), the organisers are happy to announce the Third International Conference on the History of Physics, under the auspices of the EPS, which will take place in Donostia/San Sebastian (Spain) in October 17-21, 2018.
