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Editorial <http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/editorial-10-2011/>
*Dear Readers,*
There has been plenty of breaking news in physics this month; from the Nobel
Prize awarded to our American colleagues, Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt
and Adam G. Riess, for their discovery of the accelerating expansion of the
Universe; to the intriguing results, obtained in Europe, on the velocity of
muon-neutrinos.
The neutrino velocity has been measured with unprecedented precision in the
OPERA experiment, at the Gran Sasso Laboratory of the INFN in Italy, using
the CNGS neutrino beam produced at CERN, in Geneva. The measurements
indicate that these high-energy neutrinos, passing through 730 km of the
Earth’s crust, are travelling faster than light. This amazing result – if
confirmed – will have extreme consequences for physics...
<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/2011-enrico-fermi-prize/>
The SIF awards 2011 Enrico Fermi
prize<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/2011-enrico-fermi-prize/>
The 2011 Enrico Fermi prize of the Italian Physical Society (Società
Italiana di Fisica, SIF) has been awarded, for work in the field of
experimental particle physics, to Dieter Haidt of the DESY Laboratory at
Hamburg and to Antonino Pullia of the University of Milano Bicocca and
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, "for their fundamental contribution
to the discovery of weak neutral currents with the Gargamelle bubble chamber
at CERN".
The prize is awarded yearly to members of the society who especially honour
physics by their discoveries. The prize was first awarded in 2001, to
commemorate the centenary of the great scientist’s birth...
<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/israel-associate-member-cern/>
Israel a CERN Associate Member
State<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/israel-associate-member-cern/>
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...
<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/100-years-of-superconductivity/>
100 years of
superconductivity<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/100-years-of-superconductivity/>
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...
<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/passion-for-light-workshop/>
Passion for Light
workshop<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/passion-for-light-workshop/>
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...
2011 Nobel Prize in
Physics<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/2011-physics-nobel-prize/>
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...
Physicists encouraged to consider carbon
footprint<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/physicists-carbon-footprint/>
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...
Gautam Desiraju elected president of the
IUCr<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/gautam-desiraju-iuc-president/>
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...
Consultation on the future of European Union
Research<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/eu-research-consultation/>
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...
EC publishes consultation on the ERA
Framework<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/ec-consultation-era-framework/>
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...
Nominations open for Plasma Physics Innovation
Prize<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/call-2012-plasma-physics-innovation-prize/>
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...
Call for nominations for EPS CMD Europhysics
Prize<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/call-eps-cmd-europhysics-prize/>
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...
Call for Innovation Award Laser
Technology<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/call-innovation-award-laser-technology/>
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...
EPS’s Caterina Biscari interviewed in El
País<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/caterina-biscari-interview/>
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...
Forum Physics and
Society<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/2012-forum-physics-and-society/>
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...
IoP publishes new booklet on ‘The age of the
qubit’<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/age-of-the-qubit/>
‘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...
EU Whoiswho Directory <http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/whoiswho/>
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...
Rudolf Mößbauer <http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/rudolf-mosbauer/>
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...
Featured in EPN<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/featured-in-epn-10-2011/>
*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 world**by J. Douglas
MacGregor*
*Jan Czochralski, the pioneer of crystal research*
*by A. Gadomski*
‘The Antikythera Mechanism’ at ECHO
PHYSICS<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/antikythera-mechanism/>
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...
2011 Dark Workshop at
GGI<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/2011-dark-workshop/>
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...
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Symposium<http://www.epsnews.eu/2011/10/marie-curie-symposium/>
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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