The survey was addressed to physicists in Europe, asking as many as possible to express their views on 'Open Science and Career Development'. It was formulated by the European Physical Society (EPS) in collaboration with the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc). It was launched in December 2017 and ran essentially during the first quarter of 2018. Information of the survey went through the usual channels of EPS to its Divisions, Groups and Individual Members, hoping also for the support of its member national societies.

The purpose of this survey is to help define European policy on open science and to improve the career development of researchers. In particular it was to help EPS to provide specific advice and solutions related to needs and expectations of the European community of physicists.

Open science aims to make scientific data and research accessible to all levels of an inquiring society and includes practices such as:

• open data = open sharing of research data
• open source = open sharing of research software/code
• open notebook = open sharing of research notebooks
• open access = open publishing of research results in journals/textbooks and/or depositing them in repositories/archives
• open peer review = open sharing of research peer reviews
• open education = open sharing of education and resources
• citizen science = involving the general public in scientific research.

The expectation for a large number of respondents was unfortunately not reached. In total 329 persons responded to the survey. If this number is not really enough to achieve a statistical significance the results can nevertheless be used as a trend on the actual information level of the community of physicists.

Christophe Rossel
European Physical Society

More info

• Report on the EPS survey on Open Science
• Data of the EPS survey on Open Science

The Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS PPD) opens calls for its 2019 prizes.

• Call for nominations for the 2019 EPS Hannes Alfvén Prize.
  Deadline: November 2nd, 2018. More information here.

• Call for nomination for the 2019 EPS Plasma Physics Innovation Prize.
  Deadline: November 15th, 2018. More information here.
  
  
• Call for nomination for the 2019 EPS Plasma Physics Division PhD Research Award.
  Deadline: December 7th, 2018. More information here.

• Call for nominations for the 2019 Dendy Europe-Asia Pacific Award for Outstanding Research Collaboration in Plasma Physics.
  Deadline: January 18th, 2019. More information here.

For details about the prizes and the EPS PPD, please visit the division's website.

The international journal Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (PPCF), the European Physical Society (EPS) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics are proud to present the winners of the PPCF/EPS/IUPAP PhD Poster Prize. The winners were announced at the closing ceremony of the 45th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Prague, Czech Republic.

2018 winners

• Javier Rodrigo Pinzón Acosta, Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany and Physics-Department E28, TUM, Garching Germany . Experimental investigation of the mean turbulence structure tilt angle and its comparison with gyrokinetic simulationS

• Viktor Schneider, Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
  An optically trapped microparticle as plasma probe
  

• Meenakshee Sharma, Institute for Plasma Research, HBNI, Gandhinagar, India
  Study of propagation of ion acoustic soliton in multi-cusp plasma device
  

• Petr Valenta, ELI-Beamlines, Institute of Physics, 182 21 Prague, Czech Republic and Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
  On high-quality electron beam generated by breaking wake wave in near-critical density plasmas
  

Congratulations to all!

Previous winners

2017

• Aaron Alejo (Queen's University Belfast) for a poster entitled "'Stabilisation of radiation pressure driven ion acceleration from ultra-thin targets, studied by fast neutron spectroscopy".
• Giannandrea Inchingolo (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon) for a poster entitled "'Large Scale PIC simulations of high β magnetorotaional instability".
  
• Michael Griener (IPP Garching) for a poster entitled "'Implementation of fast line ratio spectroscopy on helium as plasma edge diagnostic at ASDEX upgrade".
• Axel Jardin (CEA Cadarache) for a poster entitled "'Investigation of impurity cooling factor robustness against transport and application to GEM detectors for W core density reconstruction on WEST"

2016

• Arkaprava Bokshi (York University) for a poster entitled "The self-consistent response of linear micro-instabilities to profile evolution".
• Mark Coughlan (QUB) for a poster entitled "Ultrafast dynamics of crystals irradiated by few-ps proton pulses".
• Cristian Sommariva (CEA/IRFM) for a poster entitled "Modeling runaway electron dynamics in realistic fields from 3D non-linear MHD disruption simulations".
• Hannah Willett (York University) for a poster entitled "The role of plasma instabilities in the onset of detachment in the York Linear Plasma Device".
  

2015

• M Bailly-Grandvaux (CELIA, France) for a poster entitled "External magnetic field pinching effect on a relativistic electron beam in dense matter".
• N Bakharev (IOFFE, Russia) for a poster entitled "Modeling of the fast ion behavior in the Globus-M spherical tokamak".
• S Esponisa (PSFC-MIT, USA) for a poster entitled "Theoretical explanation for strong poloidal impurity asymmetry in tokamak pedestals".
• L Horvath (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) for a poster entitled "Fast changes in the mode structure of chirping energetic particle driven modes".

2014

• Alexandra Vallet (CELIA, France) for a poster entitled "Semi-analytic modelling of shock ignition".
• Brendan Kettle (QUB, UK) for a poster entitled "XUV absorption of warm dense aluminium".
• Livia Casali (IPP Garching, Germany) for a poster entitled "Transport analysis of high radiation and high density plasmas at ASDEX Upgrade".
• Himank Anand (EPFL, Switzerland) for a poster entitled "First experimental results of plasma shape control using real time equilibrium reconstruction in TCV".

The call for nomination  for the Young Scientist Prize of the Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Division of the EPS is open.

Deadline for nominations is November, 15th 2018.

Details can be found in the pdf below.

Petra Rudolf is the next EPS President-elect. She will take up office as the President of EPS in April 2019, when the term of the current President, Rüdiger Voss, comes to an end.

Petra Rudolf was elected during the Council meeting of the EPS held on 6-7 April 2018 in Paris. The Council delegates listened to inspiring presentations from two candidates. The EPS would like to express its heartfelt thanks to Gloria Platero Coello (Institute of Material Sciences of the CSIC, Madrid) who also stood as candidate for President-elect. Her vision of EPS and projects were impressive as well.