October 2017 | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS
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Editorial: 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics to Gravitational Waves
On Tuesday the 3th of October, at least the several hundreds members of LIGO & VIRGO collaboration where anxiously waiting for the start of the streaming from the Swedish Academy of Science, around 11:30 CET, to follow the attribution of the Nobel Prize for Physics. “We got it!” that was the reaction at the announcement, expressing the collective joy to hear the names of Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish.
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EPS Edison Volta Prize 2018: call for nominations
Nominations are now open for the Edison Volta Prize of the European Physical Society [EPS]. The award – intended to promote excellence in research – will be given in recognition of outstanding research and achievements in physics.
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Call for nominations for the EPS Emmy Noether Distinction
In 2013, the European Physical Society [EPS] launched the Emmy Noether Distinction to recognise especially noteworthy women physicists. Emmy Noether, with her fundamental and revolutionary work in the areas of abstract algebra and theoretical physics, is a role model for future generations of physicists.
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IBM’s Zurich Lab Honored with EPS Historic Site Distinction
“Teamwork, not only within the borders of a country, but also among countries, has become an imperative necessity of our jet-age era. Advances in the fields of human endeavours are due to a large extent to the cooperation of the best brains and talent available everywhere.”
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EPS announces the winners of the EPS Early Career Prize
The European Physical Society is pleased to announce that the 2017 EPS Early Career Prizes have been awarded to Joseph A. M. Paddison and to Samuel D. Stranks.
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EPS 50th anniversary: photo contest
The European Physical Society will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2018. As part of the celebrations, the EPS would like to collect photos that graphically represent the life and work of contemporary researchers. The photo competition “EPS – 50 years and counting” is now open for your submissions.
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60th International Conference for Students of Physics and Natural Sciences “Open Readings”
This year’s “Open Readings” gathered over 350 participants from more than 20 different countries and 9 invited speakers from among the world’s top scientists.
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How to design smart materials for a sustainable future
Functional food, smarter solar cells and eco-friendly fabrication processes for textiles and paper. The new soft matter electron microscopes at Chalmers can contribute to smarter materials in many ways. By using the world-unique instruments it’s now possible to examine and improve soft matter on an atomic level.
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EPS president-elect: call for nominations
A number of vacancies will arise on the European Physical Society [EPS] Executive Committee in 2018, including the position of President-elect. According to the EPS bylaws, a Selection Committee has been created to establish a list of candidates for the replacement of outgoing members, and for the President-elect.
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“EPS Plasma Physics Innovation Prize 2018″: call for nominations
The prize was established in 2008 by the EPS Plasma Physics Division to acknowledge and promote the many benefits to society that derive from plasma physics research, such as applications in medicine, waste ...
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EPS Plasma Physics Division “PhD Research Award”: call for nominations
The Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) grants up to four prizes annually to young scientists from the 38 European countries associated with the EPS in recognition of truly outstanding...
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 awarded to LIGO collaboration
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 with one half to Rainer Weiss, LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration and the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish, LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration & Kip S. Thorne ...
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2016 Kavli Laureates for Nanoscience Honored at Symposium
30 years and 9,000 citations later, the inventors of the atomic force microscope (AFM) were recognised last year with the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience “for the invention and realisation of atomic force...
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Antikythera's shipwreck reveals new treasures
September 2017 - the island of Antikythera is under the spotlights again. Revealed to the world at the beginning of the 20th century, the area saw a Greek ship sink more than 2,000 years ago. Among the luxury goods conveyed was an unusual object ...
