April 2024 | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS
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Mairi Sakellariadou is the President of the European Physical Society
Mairi Sakellariadou is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the King's College of London. She shares her thoughts about the role of EPS in Europe and her commitment during her two years in office. Read her editorial in the Society's magazine EPN.
Peter Higgs and the European Physical Society
Peter Higgs passed away aged 94 on 8th of April 2024. Thomas Lohse describes the intereactions between Prof. Higgs and the European Physical Society.
EPS Prizes and Awards 2024
The European Physical Society attributed several awards at council 2024:
- EPS Achievement Award to Richard Zeltner
- EPS Early Career Prize to Ruggero Caravita
- EPS Fellow to Ricardo Ibarra
- EPS Honorary Member to Anton Zeilinger
EPS Forum 2024 in Berlin
The EPS Forum and Council meeting were held at the Freie Universität Berlin 25th to 27th of March. This lively event brought together 400 physicists from 35 separate countries and involved over 200 students in a series of conference sessions, round tables and formal and informal networking.
EPS AMOPD Young Scientist Prize 2025
Nominations are being sought for the Young Scientist Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics which will be awarded by the AMOPD Division of the EPS for the fourth time in 2025.
The award ceremony will take place during the fifteenth European Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics (ECAMP XV) to be held in Innsbruck, Austria, June 29 – July 4, 2025.
International Day of Light: 16 May 2024
The International Day of Light will be held on May 16th every year, the anniversary of the first successful operation of the laser in 1960 by physicist and engineer, Theodore Maiman.
It is still time to organise an activity/event!
You can register your event in the IDL calendar and visit the website if the IDL for more info.
Fifth Physics Beyond Colliders Annual Workshop
The Physics Beyond Colliders (PBC) Study was launched in 2016 to explore the opportunities offered by CERN’s unique accelerator and experimental area complex and expertise to address some of the outstanding questions in particle physics through experiments complementary to the high-energy frontier.
Dark energy may be weakening, major astrophysics study finds
A generation of physicists has referred to the dark energy that permeates the universe as “the cosmological constant.” Now the largest map of the cosmos to date hints that this mysterious energy has been changing over billions of years.
Read the full article in Quanat Magazine.
ProtoDUNE’s argon filling underway
This will be a significant step towards testing ProtoDUNE for the next era of neutrino research.
CERN’s Neutrino Platform houses a prototype of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) known as ProtoDUNE, which is designed to test and validate the technologies that will be applied to the construction of the DUNE experiment in the United States.
EUROfusion: Joint European Torus sets fusion energy record
Read the latest news from our Associate Members.
In a major scientific achievement, European researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility have set a new world energy record of 69 megajoules released in a sustained and controlled fusion power pulse.
Richard Blythe is the new Editor In Chief of EPL
EPS and the Europhysics Letters Association are delighted to welcome the new EPL Editor in Chief Richard Blythe who takes over from Alessandra Lanotte on the 1st of May.
Events and dates
Ultrafast Phenomena 2024
The conference will take place in Barcelona from 14th to 19th July.
Europhoton 2024
The conference will take place in Vinius from 25th to 28th August.
EPS Activities in 2024
Click here for the list of the activities of the EPS Executive Committee and the EPS Staff.
