February 2013 | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS
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Editorial – Horizon 2020, opportunities for research and commitment to society

In a not so remote past, scientists were a close-knit society, spending much of their time in isolated laboratories or academic institutions, sometimes referred to as ivory towers. Now however...

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A new EPS Historic Site to celebrate Bruno Pontecorvo’s centenary

The EPS Historic Sites programme of the European Physical Society [EPS] commemorates significant places in Europe for the progress and the history of physics, as a further demonstration of the EPS determination – since its birth in 1968 – to strengthen the cultural and scientific unity of Europe...

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The EPS Executive Committee Meeting, February 2013

The European Physical Society’s Executive Committee [EPS ExCom] met on 1-2 February 2013 in the beautiful venue of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts...

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Updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics

On 21-26 January 2013 the European Strategy Group met in Erice, Italy to draft an update of the medium and long-term European Strategy for Particle Physics to be submitted shortly for approval by the CERN Council...

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ITER gets off the ground

The 20,500-square-metre ITER Headquarters building was inaugurated on 17 January 2013. The ITER site is located in Cadarache, France, that already hosts France’s nuclear research centre [CEA].
Guenther H. Oettinger, EU Commissioner for Energy, and Geneviève Fioraso, French Minister of Higher Education...

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EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics

It is a great pleasure to announce that the winter 2013 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics goes to Dr. Alessandra Gatti...

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Science: it’s a girl thing

On 21 June 2012, the European Commission launched its brand new EU–wide campaign “Women in Research and Innovation”. Under the slogan “Science: it’s a girl thing”, the first phase of the campaign aims at encouraging girls...

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The number of EPS Individual Members has surpassed 3500

Since 2011, the European Physical Society [EPS] has been examining and testing various methods of increasing the number of individual members...

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Italian Young Minds Sections meet Accastampato Journal

The interaction between the journal Accastampato and European Physical Society Young Minds [EPS YM] is an example of how networking activities promoted...

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40 years of research in IHEP

The Institute of High Energy Physics [IHEP] under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, celebrated its 40th birthday on 1 February 2013. More than 700 people including IHEP staff, representatives from the funding agencies and the fellow research institutions around China attended...

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EPS conference in Munich attracts record submissions

The European Physical Society [EPS] through its Quantum Electronics and Optics Division [QEOD] organizes one of the world’s largest conferences in pure and applied optical physics, which has been held every 2 years in Munich, Germany...

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INFN establishes a new centre in Trento

On 15 January 2013 the University of Trento opened the Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Application [TIFPA]. The TIFPA was created through the collaboration of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, the University of Trento...

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25th Anniversary Conference of the Academia Europaea

The Academia Europaea will celebrate its 25th anniversary during a conference to be held in Wroclaw on 17-19 September 2013.
The Academia Europaea is...

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Physikzentrum Bad Honnef renovated

The Physikzentrum Bad Honnef [PBH] is internationally known as a conference venue and meeting place for physicists. The historical building with modern conference facilities hosts nearly hundred events every year: lectures, seminars...

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Featured in EPN

Most recent highlights from EPS:
- Heavy ice, by L.J.F. Hermans.
- Surprises in cycling aerodynamics, by Bert Blocken, Thijs Defraeye, Erwin Koninckx, Jan Carmeliet and Peter Hespel.
- Earth gravity from space or how attractive is our planet?, by Reiner Rummel.

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