Editorial – Insignificant details, pleasure and discovery
Marcel Proust, the great French writer, is best known for his book À la recherche du temps perdu. Memories take the central role in the novel, where apparently insignificant details prove to be the most important. A well-known scene is when a madeleine cake allows the narrator to experience the past completely, as a whole, in resonance with his present existence. Marcel Proust showed, though his wonderful writing, that recognising the importance of apparently insignificant details is a source of pleasure and happiness.
Superstripes 2014
The Superstripes 2014 conference will be held in Erice, Italy from 25 – 31 July 2014.
The conference is a course of the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture International School of Solid State Physics directed by Giorgio Benedek, also Editor in Chief of EPL.
The conference will cover many aspect of material sciences especially related to superconductivity: Fermi liquids, defects, ferroelectricity and multiferroics, 2D metals, electron-lattice intercations and polarons, structural and orbital…
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“New trends in Superconductive Quantum Detectors” School
The school on “New trends in Superconductive Quantum Detectors” was held in Genoa, Italy from 9-13 September 2013. It was organised by the European Society for Applied Superconductivity [ESAS].
Roberta Caruso – member of the Naples Section of the EPS Young Minds Project – reported that “It was such an incredible opportunity for me, because I had the chance to attend lectures from some of the most outstanding scientists in the field of superconductors and, of no less importance, I had the chance to meet a lot of…
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ESAS Summer School
The European Society for Applied Superconductivity [ESAS] Summer School on “New Trends with Superconducting Detectors” will be held in Genoa, Italy, from 9-13 September 2013. The school is organised in co-operation with the Italian National Council of Research [CNR], the University of Genoa and the University of Naples.
The school aims to provide an up to date scientific and technological review of superconductivity applied to the wide fields of the electronics, devices and detectors. The basic knowledge of the superconducting phenomenology that…
ICNFP 2013
The 2nd International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics [ICNFP] will be held in Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, from 28 August to 5 September 2013.
The conference aims to promote scientific exchange and the development of novel ideas in science, with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinarity. It will mainly cover the following topics: High Energy Particle Physics; Heavy Ion Physics; Superconductivity, Critical Phenomena; Quantum Physics, Quantum Entanglement; Quantum Field Theory…
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