Conference on Science and Technology for FAIR 2014
The International Conference on Science and Technology for FAIR in Europe 2014 will be held in Worms, Germany, from 13-17 October 2014.
FAIR is an international accelerator facility for the research with antiprotons and ions. It is ready to be built within the coming years near Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Further information is available on the FAIR website.
The scientific landscape has evolved in all fields of FAIR physics and it is high time…
New DPG President Edward G. Krubasik
Prof. Edward G. Krubasik took over the role of President of the German Physical Society [DPG] in April 2014. He succeeds to Prof. Johanna Stachel.
E.G. Krubasik received his PhD in nuclear physics from the Karlruhe Institute of Technology and has worked in industry notably for McKinsey & Company, Inc. and Siemens AG . He is also distinguished by his long-standing work in associations and committees, for example, as president of the ZVEI or as chairman of the Growth and Innovation…
CLEO®/Europe – EQEC 2015
The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics [CLEO®/Europe] and the European Quantum Electronics Conference [EQEC] 2015 will be held at the International Congress Centre in Munich, Germany, from 21-25 June 2015.
The CLEO®/Europe-EQEC conference series has a long tradition as a gathering of optics and photonics researchers and engineers in Europe. Held every two years, CLEO®/Europe-EQEC conference has become the benchmark …
41st EPS conference on Plasma Physics
The 41st EPS conference on Plasma Physics will be held from 23-27 June 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
This conference continues the series of plasma physics conferences organized by the European Physical Society covering the wide field from nuclear fusion research to the low temperature plasmas, as well as space and astrophysical plasmas.
A number of scientists accepted to prepare plenary talks of general interest for the participants. Invited talks will be given for the four topics separately, namely on Magnetic Confinement Fusion, on Beam Plasmas and Inertial Fusion…
Featured in EPN
Most recent highlights from EPN:An eye-witness report on how the CD came about by Jacques HeemskerkPhysics funding at the German Research Foundation by Karin ZachThe scientific consensus on climate change – Combating a two-decade campaign attacking by John CookHow does light move? – Determining the flow of light without destroying interference by M.D. Davidović and A.S. Sanz
Knowledge through high-precision measurements: the PTB
On 8 October 2013, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt [PTB] in Germany was honoured as an EPS Historic Site. The ceremonial event took place at PTB’s Berlin Institute, where the precursor of PTB, the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt [PTR], was founded in 1887. The PTR was the first large national non-university research facility in Germany and the first metrology institute in the world.Big names in physics and important scientific results characterised the first decades of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt at the end of the 19th and at the start of the 20th centuries. The then Imperial Institute…
Johanna Stachel new DPG president
Johanna Stachel took office as president of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft [DPG] on 16 March this year. Stachel, a professor of experimental physics at the University of Heidelberg, is the first female physicist to head the DPG since its founding in 1845.
Stachel presented her presidential agenda during her inaugural speech, which took place in the Magnus-Haus Berlin. Besides the promotion of fundamental research, the main concerns of the new president are education…
Cryocourse 2012
Cryocourse 2012 will be held between 9-20 September this year in Heidelberg, Germany, split between the locations of the Schöntal Monastery, for initial theoretic lectures, and the Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, for the following practical sessions. The course – given in English – will cover the main topics of cryogenics, from the fundamental concepts to industrial applications.
The Cryocourse series are European-based intensive courses in advanced cryophysics and cryogenics…
Core of fusion experiment completed
The last major part of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion experiment was installed on 21 December last year. The addition of the 14 tonne final part of the device – the lid of the thermally insulating outer shell – sees the completion of the ring-like base machine, at the Greifswald branch of the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, which will begin operation in 2014.
Fusion research aims to draw energy from the fusion of atomic nuclei – the same power source which drives the sun. To achieve this, hydrogen plasma must be superheated to temperatures above 100 million degrees, within the confines of…
Schultheiß awarded Jürgen Geiger Foundation Prize
The Professor Dr. Jürgen Geiger Foundation has awarded its 17th annual Dissertation Prize to Helmut Schultheiß, for his work entitled “Coherence and damping behavior of spin waves in magnetic microstructures”. The award, prize money to the sum of 1,000 Euros, was presented to Schultheiß during a ceremony at the Stadtsparkasse Kaiserslautern at the end of October this year.
Schultheiß, who undertook his dissertation at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, under the supervision of Burkard Hillebrands, is currently employed at the Argonne National Laboratory, in the United States…
Physikzentrum Bad Honnef being refurbished by DPG
The Physikzentrum Bad Honnef is the conference centre of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG), the German physical society. This meeting place, for scientists from all over the world, is currently being extensively renovated and modernised. The construction, which began in the summer of 2010, will be mostly finished within the coming weeks.
The DPG, with a history extending back to 1845, is the oldest physical society in the world – as well as being the largest, with more than 60,000 members. The Physikzentrum Bad Honnef was founded as a conference centre…
Call for submissions for Paul Drude Medal in ellipsometry
A prize for up-and-coming young scientists, the Paul Drude Medal, will be awarded by the German Association on Ellipsometry at the next Workshop Ellipsometry, which will be held at the University of Leipzig, on 5-7 March next year. The medal will be given for an exceptional contribution to the field of ellipsometric metrology or spectroscopy.
The prize winner will be selected at the workshop by the members of the international advisory board and the program committee. Young scientists are encouraged to apply for this award before the workshop by sending an abstract…
