It’s looking beautifully autumnal in and around our HQ in Les Ulis, south-west of Paris… and 2022 is passing quickly! Here are our autumn highlights…

Félicitations to Alain Aspect, Université Paris-Saclay, Nobel Prize in Physics 2022

Congratulations to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their award of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022. Alain Aspect is a longstanding colleague and has published extensively with EDP Sciences.

For many years, Professor Aspect was Editor-in-Chief of the Annales de Physique which forms an important part of our physics archives collection together with the prestigious Journal de Physique. He joins fellow laureates and Journal de Physique authors ranging from Marie Curie to Giorgio Parisi.

Find out more about our long association with Alain Aspect including free access articles here. You may enjoy “Magnetically assisted Sisyphus effect” which he co-authored with a group of colleagues including the renowned French physicist and fellow Nobel Prize laureate, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.

EPJ Applied Physics – Special issue on ‘EELS - Review over the last 50 years by Christian Colliex’

Earlier this year, EPJ AP was honoured to publish “From early to present and future achievements of EELS in the TEM” by its former co-Editor-in-Chief, Christian Colliex. The long-form article represents a major, new review of electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) over the last 50 years and the current Editors-in-Chief feel it “will undoubtably become a major reference for researchers in the electron microscopy and materials science community.”

“…EELS fifty years after its first recognition as a useful actor in the development and promotion of the analytical microscopy, has nowadays become an essential tool for the acquisition of many physical parameters with ultimate resolution, thus opening new routes in nanophysics to be explored.”

The European Physical Journal (EPJ) series of peer-reviewed journals

As co-publishers of the EPJ journals, we are pleased to share a round-up of interesting items, starting with perfect Nobel Prize timing from EPJ D…

EPJ D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics, is currently publishing “Quantum Optics of Light and Matter Honouring Alain Aspect”, a special issue in celebration of Professor Aspect.

EPJ B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, has completed publication of a special issue on “Evolutionary Game Theory” with several open access papers.

Open calls for papers include EPJ ST Special Issue: “Molecular and Cellular Mechanics” and EPJ E Topical Issue: “Novel Molecular Materials and Devices from Functional Soft Matter”. Calls for papers are available on the EPJ portal as are three videos: ‘About EPJ’, ‘Why publish in EPJ?’ and ‘How EPJ disseminates your work’.

All these journals are “EPS Recognised journals”: “EPS Recognised Journals meet the established quality criteria that guarantee unbiased peer review based on scientific merit.”

For bibliophiles and book worms – books news

“Collection IOGS - Institut d'Optique Graduate School”

This new collection, produced in partnership with the Institut d'Optique Graduate School (Université Paris-Saclay), is intended for engineering students and researchers in the field of optics. The first book in the series, ‘Optical models for material appearance’ by Mathieu Hébert, is now available in print or as an eBook.

“The objective of this book is precisely to introduce the fundamental notions of optics allowing the readers to understand the radiometric quantities measured with common devices, to learn how to analyze them, and to review some classical optics-based predictive models for various types of materials and structures.

“Einstein aujourd’hui” by Alain Aspect et al.

“Einstein aujourd’hui” considers how Einstein continues to inspire science in the 21st century. It was co-authored by Alain Aspect with a group of notable colleagues which, again, included Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.

We are always pleased when we are kindly invited to share our news and updates with readers of e-EPS. We hope you enjoy reading our news as much as we enjoy writing it!

Best wishes

EDP Sciences