April 2013 | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS
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Editorial – Challenging physics

It is a very exciting time for European and international physics, and I am honoured and delighted to serve as the EPS president for the coming two years. I am also extremely lucky to be assuming this role when EPS...

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Council 2013: Results and new horizons

The annual meeting of the EPS Council was hosted by the University of Strasbourg in the premises of the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, attended by around 80 participants: the members of the EPS Executive Committee, the representatives...

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EPS and EuCheMS are joining forces

On the occasion of the EPS Council 2013 in Strasbourg, a memorandum of understanding [MoU] was signed between the European Association for Chemical and Molecular...

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The EPS Edison Volta Prize: double celebration

At EPS Council in Strasbourg, on 5 April 2013, the award ceremony of the EPS Edison Volta Prize 2012 took place in...

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16th EPS General Meeting

The 16th EPS General Meeting will be held on 28 October 2013 in Budapest, Hungary at the Danubius Hotel Flamenco 1113 Budapest, Tas vezér tér 3-7. The meeting begins at 14:00.
The meeting is open to all...

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Open Access: a challenge on the boil for scientists and publishers

A Round Table session on Open Access, introduced and moderated by Professor Sir John Enderby, President of the Institute of Physics [IoP] from...

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Cyprus Physicists Society to join the European Physical Society

The Cyprus Physicists Society [CPS] was presented at EPS Council 2013 as a possible new – the 42nd – Member Society of the EPS...

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EPS QEOD Prizes awarded to F.Capasso and M.Lewenstein

The European Physical Society [EPS] and the EPS Quantum Electronics and Optics Division [EPS QEOD], are delighted to announce the 2013 winners...

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ALMA, an international partnership to discover space

After 10 years of construction the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array [ALMA] based in Chile was inaugurated on 13 March 2013. The ceremony marks the completion of all the major systems of the giant telescope...

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ATRAP measures most accurate antiproton magnetic moment ever

The ATRAP experiment at CERN’s Antiproton Decelerator [AD] has measured the magnetic moment of the antiproton with highest accuracy to date. ATRAP’s new result...

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Festival of Science 2012 at Bauman Moscow State Technical University

The Festival of Science is the day when the Bauman Moscow State Technical University [BMSTU] opens it doors to numerous curious visitors and welcomes school children...

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International Master classes in Particle Physics

Master classes are a unique opportunity for high-school students, where they can hunt particles at the Large Hadron Collider [LHC] and analyse...

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Good news on membership

2012 saw three improvements on Individual Membership. The total number of new directly registered Individual Members increased by well over 500 in 2012, showing an upward trend since a dip in 2010...

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Planck results: Universe older, slower and still challenging

On 21 March 2013, ESA’s Planck satellite revealed the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave...

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