May 2013 | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS
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Editorial – National Strengths

The European Physical Society [EPS] has a unique character amongst international learned societies. It fulfills a central federative role supporting its national member societies and it also carries out many highly successful specific European-scale actions...

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Twenty years of free, open web

On 30 April 1993, CERN made the technology behind the World Wide Web available for everyone to use. From that day on, the web has changed all aspects of society, a revolution that can be compared to the invention of the printing-press...

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Fostering APS-EPS collaboration through CISA meetings

The spring meeting of the Committee for International Scientific Affairs [CISA] of the American Physical Society...

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ATLAS and CMS awarded for the Higgs boson discovery

In July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations announced the discovery of a new heavy particle at a mass around 125 GeV. Its properties were strikingly similar to...

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A historic view from Galilei’s window in Arcetri

On 17 May 2013, a new EPS Historic Site was inaugurated in Florence, Italy.

The site is the “Hill of Arcetri”, rich in buildings of considerable historical and scientific interest: the former Institute...

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Giorgio Benedek appointed as new Editor-in-Chief of EPL

Professor Giorgio Benedek has been appointed as new Editor-in-Chief of EPL, a journal publishing original, high-quality...

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Open Access: a general concern

As reported in our previous e-EPS issue, the European Physical Society [EPS] has started a discussion and survey among the European scientific learned societies concerning Open Access...

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Odysseus contest reveals the next generation of scientists

Students from all over Europe demonstrated their interest in science during the Odysseus contest. The contestants...

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New Associate Members enter the EPS

Many of Europe’s leading research centres and corporations are Associate Members of the European Physical Society [EPS]. Contributions from Associate Members are used to...

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2012 UMD Student Poster Competition in Optics and Photonics

The 2012 University of Maryland Student Poster Competition in Optics and Photonics was a resounding success...

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Science on Stage 2013: sharing best-practice teaching ideas

From 25-28 April 2013, about 350 science teachers met in Slubice, Poland, during the Science on Stage festival. The main focus of the event is to offer science...

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The 2nd EU Women Innovators Prize has been launched

After a successful first edition in 2011, the European Commission has launched the second edition of the EU Women Innovators Prize to reward 3 women who have achieved outstanding innovations and brought them to market.
The first 2011 laureate is Dr. Gitte Neubauer, CELLZOME...

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Physics league… for kick-ass students

The International Association of Physics Students [IAPS], the Dutch umbrella organization for physics study associations [SPIN] and the physics students association in Utrecht [A–Eskwadraat] have launched a new contest challenging physics (under)graduate students. The first edition of the Physics League Across Numerous Countries for Kick-ass Students [PLANCKS]...

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Featured in EPL

Most recent highlights from EPL:
Bound states in the continuum driven by AC fields
by C.González-Santander, P.A.Orellana and F.Domínguez-Adame
Interaction of a point charge with the surface of a uniaxial dielectric
by Primož Rebernik Ribič and Rudolf Podgornik
Node-weighted interacting network measures improve the representation of real-world complex systems
by M.Wiedermann, J.F.Donges, J.Heitzig and J.Kurths

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