March 2024 | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS
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Physics for Society in the Horizon 2050
The biggest challenges in physics and how this might affect society in the coming decades are captured in a new open access ebook from the European Physical Society.
Happy Hundredth Herwig!
Herwig Schopper, EPS President from 1995 to 1997, celebrated his 100th birthday on 28th February.
Anton Zeillinger is an EPS Honorary Member
Anton Zeillinger, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2023, is now an EPS Honorary Member.
Anne Pawsey in Physics World
Read the interview of the EPS Secretary General Anne Pawsey in Physics World.
The Impact of PHYSICS MATTERS
Facilitating Global Scientific Exchange: The Impact of PHYSICS MATTERS
Physics matters! it is a fact, but it is also a monthly series of open LIVE colloquia, prepared by the Forum on International Physics (FIP) of the American Physical Society (APS).
PYPT 2024
The 17th Persian Young Physicists’ Tournament, PYPT, was held in Feb. 2024 by Ariaian Young Innovative Minds Institute, AYIMI, and ADIB Cultural and Artistic Institute.
Team members from different schools competed with each other online over two days and six teams attended the final face to face and received gold medals.
ICO Prize 2024
The International Commission for Optics established the ICO Prize in 1982, to be given each year to an individual who has made a noteworthy contribution to optics, submitted for publication before the age of 40.
The deadline for nominations is 15th June 2024.
News from the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
Nuclear fusion: European joint experiment achieves energy record.
The Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik is an EPS Associate Member.
The quest for the limit of the periodic table
Greetings from the island of enhanced stability.
This review in Nature Review Physics discusses major challenges in the field of superheavy elements and their nuclei and provides an outlook on future developments.
Groundbreaking survey reveals secrets of planet birth around dozens of stars
In a series of studies, a team of astronomers has shed new light on the fascinating and complex process of planet formation. The stunning images, captured using the ESO’s VLT in Chile, represent one of the largest ever surveys of planet-forming discs.
Deadline extended for prizes of the EPS Nuclear Physics Division
The call for nominations for both the NPD prize for PhD and the NPD Applied Nuclear Physics has been extended to 30th April 2024.
Events and dates
CCP2024
The IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics 2024, will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 7th-12th July 2024.
1st Symposium on the Connection between Physics and Metabolism in Brain Function
The conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain on 5th July 2024.
Course on “Operational Space Weather Fundamentals”
The course will be held from 13th-17th May 2024 in L'Aquila, Italy.
EPS Activities in 2024
Click here for the list of the activities of the EPS Executive Committee and the EPS Staff.
