The Charpak-Ritz Prize 2019 is awarded to Benoît Deveaud
This year Professor Benoît Deveaud, best known to Switzerland from his former activities at EPFL and since 2017 acting as Vice Provost for Research at École Polytechnique (France), is honoured for his “pioneering optical spectroscopy studies dedicated to the ultrafast and quantum optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures.”
News from Switzerland
The new issue Nr. 54 of the SPS Communications of the Swiss Physical Society can now be downloaded http://www.sps.ch/en/articles/communications/
News from Switzerland
The SPS-Communications are published three times per year. We report in Nr. 53 of November 2017 about the SPS annual meeting in August 2017 in Geneva, a joint meeting with the Austrian Physical Society ÖPG.
Joint SPS-ÖPG Annual Meeting in Geneva, 21-25 August 2017
The next annual meeting, hosted by CERN, will take place from 21 – 25 August 2017 in Geneva (CH) at two different locations. Starting at CERN on the 21st with internal meetings of some of the participating societies, the 22nd will be dedicated to plenary and invited talks and more. The meeting will continue in the Centre International de Conférences de Genève (CICG) from 23 – 25 August where further plenary talks and all topical sessions will take place.
Joint Annual Meeting of ÖPG, SPG, ÖGAA and SGAA
The Joint Annual Meeting of the Austrian Physical Society and the Swiss Physical Society is organised together with Swiss and Austrian scientists from the Austrian Physical society [ÖPG], the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy [SSAA] and the Austrian Society for Astronomy and Astrophysics [ÖGAA].
IYL2015 Activities in Switzerland
At present, most activities International Year of Light 2015 [IYL 2015] have focussed principally on science and technology of light, and less on cultural aspects of light (though some scientific research institutes however, do foresee talks on light and arts or theology). A laudable exception was the spring concert of the choir of the Bernese Gymnasium Neufeld at end of March 2015, which was dedicated to the IYL 2015. This exceptional concert presented an interesting selection of classical music on the theme ‘Light’. Examples were the composition ’Let there be light’ for choir, brass instruments and organ by Charles E. Ives, and ‘Uncertain Light’ for double choir a capella by Robert Schumann.
