The French Nobel Laureate Serge Haroche will give a lecture at the Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse (France) on June 10th as the final event of the European project LIGHT2015 coordinated by the European Physical Society.

Serge Haroche was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. Wineland for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems", a study of the particle of light, the photon. Since 2001, Haroche is a Professor at the Collège de France and holds the Chair of Quantum Physics.

S. Haroche’s talk will discuss how quantum physics was born from fundamental questions about light and will serve to close the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 (IYL 2015) activities in Mulhouse, France.

The lecture will be the final event of the LIGHT2015 project, which is funded by the European Commission H2020 programme, and that have organized around 120 activities in 30 European countries during IYL 2015 to promote the importance of photonics to young people, entrepreneurs and the general public in Europe during the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015.

The event will be organized on Friday 10 June 2016 at 5:00 p.m.

Amphitheatre WEISS
Université de Haute-Alsace,
6 rue des Frères Lumière - 68200 Mulhouse, France

Free admission

About LIGHT2015

LIGHT2015 is a European project funded through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme of the European Commission. It aims to promote the importance of photonics to young people, entrepreneurs and the general public in all Member States of the EU during the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 (IYL 2015).

LIGHT2015 Partners include the European Physical Society (EPS), the European Optical Society (EU), the Institute of Photonics Sciences (ICFO), Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) the National University of Ireland Galway (NUI), Universiteit Leiden and EYESTvzw.

• Website: www.europe.light2015.org
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About European Physical Society
The European Physical Society (EPS) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote physics and physicists in Europe through methods such as physics outreach. Formally established in 1968, its membership includes the national physical societies of 42 countries, and some 3200 individual members. The EPS Secretariat is based at Mulhouse, France.

Contacts

Jorge Rivero González
LIGHT2015 Project Manager
jorge.rivero@eps.org 

David Lee
European Physical Society Secretary General
d.lee@eps.org

The HEPP Board of the European Physical Society is soliciting Expressions of Interest (EoI) from potential hosts of the EPS-HEP conference in 2017. These EoIs should contain some preliminary information on the Local Organizing Committee, the Universities and/or Laboratories involved, the location of the conference, the foreseen costs, the expected financial contributions from sources other than conference fees.

The EoIs should be sent to the Chair of the EPS-HEPP Board (lohse [at] physik.hu-berlin.de), by 30 June 2014. The EPS-HEPP Board will form a short list consisting of two or three candidate sites and will invite their representatives to present their formal bids at an EPS-HEPP Board Meeting, which will be held at CERN in October 2014. The selection of the site for 2017 will most likely be decided at the same meeting.

More info
EPS HEP website