Author: José María De Teresa

1. Standalone workshops organised by IOP and EPS CMD

IOP and CMD have joined forces to organise standalone online workshops in 2021 and Q1 in 2022. These online workshops stem from some of the mini-colloquia proposed for the face-to-face CMD29 conference. The list of workshops as well as their dates of celebration and deadlines for abstract submission and registration can be consulted here and will be frequently updated: http://cmd29.iopconfs.org/onlineseries

Currently, the list of all confirmed online events in this series is:

• Bound states in hybrid superconductor nanostructures, 28-29 June 2021

• Recent advances in quantum thermodynamics with a focus on many-body interactions, 6 July 2021
• Quantum matter at ultra-low temperatures, 20-21 July 2021
• Recent developments in Gas Phase Synthesis of Nanoparticles, 15 September 2021
• Large scale spectral simulations of Topological Matter and Disordered Materials, 4-5 October 2021
• Spin control in twisted van der Waals heterostructures, 18-19 October 2021
• LCM2021 (Localization in Condensed Matter), 17-18 November 2021
• Advances in the Casimir force and heat transfer phenomena, 15 March 2022

2. Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the EPS CMD and EMA (European Magnetism Association)

The most important points of the MoU between EPS CMD and EMA, approved in December 2020, are:

• While remaining legally separate one from another, it is understood that EMA will fulfill the duties of a Magnetism section of EPS CMD, and that EPS CMD will not organise events or other initiatives in the field of Magnetism without the concurrence of EMA.
• EMA delegates a member of its General Council, usually, its president, to the board of EPS CMD. Conversely, the EPS CMD board will be informed of the meetings of the general council of EMA, and be invited to send a delegate, usually, its chairperson, if relevant for the matters discussed.
• Both EPS CMD and EMA have strong programs of technical meetings, and each can benefit from cooperative activities.

3. Two new EPS Fellows from the Condensed Matter Division

Prof. Lucía Sorba and Prof. Angel Rubio have been elected EPS Fellows in the last EPS Council, held on 8th and 9th April 2021.

Prof. Lucía Sorba has made important contributions to the conception and engineering of the reliable semiconductor nanostructures, permitting the observation and control of novel hybrid excitations in condensed matter and the conception of novel semiconductor-based radiation detectors. Besides, she has served for many years to the EPS as Chair of the Semiconductor and Insulator section of the Condensed Matter Division.

Prof. Angel Rubio has made pioneering contributions to computational solid-state physics, in particular the development of widely-used frameworks for the description of the structure and dynamics of correlated electronic systems as well as his predictions of materials properties at the nanometer scale and in low dimensions.