 Israel is being made a CERN Associate Member State, following the signing of an admission document by the Director General of CERN, Rolf Heuer, and the Israeli Ambassador to Geneva, Aharon Leshno-Yaar, on 16 September... |
|  In commemoration of 2011 – the 100 year anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes – the European Physical Society would like to highlight some fascinating websites which offer information on superconductors, one of the most exciting fields within condensed-matter physics... |
|  The Passion for Light workshop was held on the 16 September in the Villa Monastero, in Varenna, Italy. The event saw the official launch of an initiative by the EPS Quantum Electronics and Optics Division to declare 2015 the International Year of Light, under the auspices of the United Nations... |
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The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt for their discovery, in 1998, of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae. The prize, given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, was presented on 4 October this year...
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Physicists are being encouraged to take a look at the size of their carbon footprint. In the October issue of Physics World, University of Oxford astrophysicist Phil Marshall calls on his colleagues worldwide to to individually address environmental sustainability...
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Gautam Desiraju has been elected president of the International Union of Crystallography [IUCr] during the IUCr General Assembly, in Madrid, on the 27 August this year. Desiraju, whose term will last three years, hails from the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit...
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The outcome of the consultation on European Union research and innovation funding was discussed, at a major conference in Brussels, on 10 June this year. The consultation – which the EPS contributed to – was based on a European Commission Green Paper...
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The European Commission has published its ‘Consultation on the ERA Framework: Areas of untapped potential for the development of the European Research Area (ERA)’; the EPS is preparing a response...
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Nominations are now open for the 2012 EPS Plasma Physics Innovation Prize. Supported by the EPS Plasma Physics Division, the prize exists to promote and recognise innovation stemming from this field. A broad spectrum of nominations is encouraged...
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Nominations for the 2012 EPS CMD Europhysics Prize are now open. The prize – one Europe’s most prestigious awards in the field of condensed matter physics – is awarded every two years, in recognition of excellent work in the field, by one or more individuals...
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Nominations are now open for the Innovation Award Laser Technology. Candidates may be either individuals or project groups. The 10,000 euro prize, which is awarded every two years in recognition of outstanding European innovations in laser technology, is being sponsored by Arbeitskreis Lasertechnik e.V. and the European Laser Institute...
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The EPS’s Caterina Biscari has been featured in the Spanish daily newspaper El País. Biscari, a member of the EPS Executive Committee, was interviewed at the 2011 International Particle Accelerator Conference as part of the paper’s “Breakfast with…” column – where she discussed the role of women in science...
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The fifth EPS Forum Physics and Society – looking at physicists in the marketplace – will be held at CERN, in Switzerland, between 28-29 March next year. The meeting will focus on the challenges experienced by physicists who pursue alternative careers in the marketplace...
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‘The age of the qubit – A new era of quantum information in science and technology’ is a new booklet published by the UK’s Institute of Physics, which examines the innovative research being undertaken in the field of quantum information processing...
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The European Union publishes an online directory, Whoiswho, which gives contact information for individuals working at the various European institutions. The directory can be searched in three ways: by individual, by hierarchy and by organizational entity...
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The European Physical Society would like to pay tribute to one of its former members, Rudolf L. Mößbauer, who passed away, at the age of 82, on 14 September this year. Mößbauer, who was born in Munich in 1929, worked with the Technical University of Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, the California Institute of Technology and the Institut Laue–Langevin during his career...
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Featuring in the upcoming issue of EPN:
Einstein’s witches’ sabbath: the first Solvay council on physics
by F. Berends & Franklin Lambert Ernest Rutherford: his genius shaped our modern worldby J. Douglas MacGregor Jan Czochralski, the pioneer of crystal research
by A. Gadomski
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The ‘The Antikythera mechanism – an astronomical and calendrical computer’ exhibition will be showing for two months this year at the European Centre for History of Physics (ECHO PHYSICS), Poellau Castle, Austria...
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The 2011 Dark Workshop will be held at the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI), in Arcetri, Florence, between the 25-27 October this year...
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The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Symposium on the Foundations of Physical Chemistry will be held on 18-19 November at the Copernicus Science Center, in Warsaw...
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