Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS | May 2011


Editorial

Dear Readers,

I have the pleasure of introducing e-EPS, the online facts and information newsletter of the European Physical Society. Within you will find timely announcements and information about the EPS and its members, physics, events, and issues relevant to the European physics community. It complements Europhysics News, the bi-monthly magazine of the EPS…


Earthquake in Japan

The European Physical Society has sent letters of support to the physical societies in Japan, as well as the Japanese Embassy in Poland following the earthquake and tsunami.

The European Physical Society (EPS) would like to express its profound sympathy to the Japanese people following the twin catastrophes of the earthquake and the tsunami of 11 March 2011…

EU consultation on Research and Innovation Funding

The European Commission has launched a consultation on major improvements to EU research and innovation funding, to make participation easier; increase scientific and economic impact; and improve value for money…

Proposed Benefits for EPS Members

The European Physical Society is developing a series of activities designed to increase its visibility, and to attract new Individual Members. The EPS is envisaging different levels of benefits – with some reserved for Individual Members, and others available to the whole community: in particular, members of Member Societies…

EAS-EPS: collaboration in the sky

We could debate endlessly as to whether astronomy is physics applied to the cosmos, and the objects found therein, or whether physics is a special branch of astrophysics, one that deals with the phenomena accessible to the laboratory…

EPS-HEP Conference

The 2011 EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prizes will be presented at the International Europhysics Conference EPS-HEP 2011, to be held in Grenoble on 21-27 July 2011…

Alfvèn and Plasma Physics Innovation Prizes

The winners of the 2011 EPS Alfvèn Prize and the EPS Plasma Physics Innovation Prize have been announced by the. EPS Plasma Physics Division. The awards are to be formally…

African Astronomical Society launched

The European Physical Society welcomes the creation of the African Astronomical Society (AfAS) and was represented by Prof. J. Bell Burnell at the offical launch in April 2011…

New Grant Schemes

The EPS grant schemes for 2011 have been approved by the EPS Executive Committee. The schemes are designed to increase EPS visibility; promote international cooperation and scientific excellence; and support EPS conferences…

EPS Who’s Who

EPS Who’s Who is a concept for a new directory resource, put forward by M. Schlenker, the Individual Members’ delegate to Council.

While Individual Members are already listed in the online EPS directory – with basic contact details – it will soon…

EPS Awards, Fellows & Honorary Members

The EPS is pleased to announce the award of the Gero Thomas Memorial Medal to Claude Sébenne, for his significant and long-term contributions to the EPS as editor of Europhysics News.

Executive Committee News 27-28 January

The EPS Executive Committee met in Mulhouse on 27-28 January 2011.

A summary of the deliberations is available to EPS Individual Members. Members should login…

“What’s new in EU higher education initiatives?”

The Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) is pleased to announce the publication of the 7th edition of the Erasmus/Jean Monnet InfoKit, entitled “What’s new in EU higher education initiatives?”…

News from the European Research Council

The European Research Council (ERC) has recently appointed seven new members of the Scientific Council; as well as having published the results for the advanced grants…

ERC Proof of Concept funding

The European Research Council (ERC) has launched a new funding initiative – the Proof of Concept Grant – which is designed to stimulate innovation.

Funding of up to 150,000 Euros…

Intra-European Fellowship calls for proposals

The European Commission has announced new calls for proposals for Intra-European Fellowships for the career development of researchers.

The call identifier is…

ESF Conference Grants Announced

The European Science Foundation has announced that it will fund up to five conferences on physics, biophysics or environmental sciences in 2013.

The deadline for funding…

Third Knowledge and Innovation Community

The third, and final, Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) has been created, reports Nature News.

The article explains the relevance…

EPS Council Meeting 2011

The 2011 EPS Council Meeting took place on 1-2 April at the EPS Secretariat in Mulhouse. During the meeting Associate Members, Divisions, Groups…

EPL 25th Anniversary

EPL is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year – with an international symposium to be held from 2-4 May at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich…

European Quantum Electronics Conference

The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference will be held on the 22-26 May this year…

38th Plasma Physics Conference

The 38th Plasma Physics Conference of the European Physical Society is being held between the 27 June and 1 July this year, in the Strasbourg Conference Centre, Strasbourg, France…

GIREP-EPEC 2011 Conference

The GIREP-EPEC 2011 Conference will be held on the 1-5 August this year in the Agora Building of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland…

Passion for Light

Passion for Light, an international workshop being jointly organised by the European and Italian Physical Societies, is to be held on 16 September 2011 at the Villa Monastero, in Varenna, Lake Como, Italy…

Asia Europe Physics Summit

The Asia-Europe Physics Summit (ASEPS) will be held on 26-29 October 2011 in Wroclaw, Poland…

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