October 2018 | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS
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Editorial - Celebrating 50 years of EPS

As every reader of e-EPS knows, our society is celebrating this year its 50th anniversary – to be precise, on 26 September, the day in the year 1968 when the EPS was formally launched in the Aula Magna of the University of Geneva.

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 to Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland.

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2018 NPD prizes awarded at EuNPC

The Nuclear Physics Division of the European Physical Society awarded its 2018 prizes during the recent European Nuclear Physics Conference, which took place in Bologna (Italy), September 2-7 2018.

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Call for nominations for the 2019 Vladilen Letokhov Medal

The European Physical Society, The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division, The Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division and The Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences are happy to announce the 2019 Vladilen Letokhov Medal.

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Call for nominations for the EPS-PPD Prizes

The Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS PPD) opens calls for its 2019 prizes.

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The first telescope on a Cherenkov Telescope Array site makes its debut

La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain – On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, more than 200 guests from around the world gathered on the northern array site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to celebrate the inauguration of the first prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST).

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Cooperation Between AAPPS-DNP (ANPhA) and NuPECC: Efforts Toward Long-range Plans for Nuclear Physics

The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC) is an Expert Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF).

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Scientific animation: when science is pop

What happens when a group of young researchers decides to mix together passion for science and “pop culture”?

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HBSM-2018 Conference in Suzdal, Russia, and the activities of the Russian EPS Young Minds section

Suzdal, an ancient small city in Russia 260 km away from Moscow, hosted on August 6-11 the 13th International Conference on “Hole Burning, Single Molecules, and Related Spectroscopies: Science and Applications” (HBSM-2018), which was organised in Russia for the first time.

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Dr. Ursula Bassler elected as next President of the CERN Council

The CERN Council announced the election of Dr Ursula Bassler as its 23rd President, for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2019. She will take over from Professor Sijbrand de Jong, who concludes his three-year term at the end of December.

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Science Institutions in Trieste and Friuli Venezia Giulia to Support Researchers Displaced by War

(Trieste, Italy) The leaders of 10 high-level science centres based in Trieste and Friuli Venezia Giulia in Italy have agreed to develop research and study opportunities for scientists forced to flee from war and conflict in their home countries.

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2018 Gentner-Kastler Prize awarded Luc Bergé

The Gentner-Kastler Prize is awarded by the German Physical Society (DPG) and the French Physical Society (SFP) to a physicist whose research has led to top level breakthroughs during his/her whole carrier carried out mainly in France or in Germany.

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EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities September 2018

The EPS works to support its members. Click here for the list of the activities of the EPS Executive Committee and the EPS Staff.

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Featured in EPN

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Research into the Science of Light Prize 2019

The call for nominations is open. Deadline 22 November 2018.

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