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Friday 7 October 2016
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University of Bristol (UK) and University of Kent (UK)
Deadlines: 19 October 2016 and 16 October 2016
Two post-doctoral research associate (PDRA) positions are available at the Universities of Kent and Bristol in partnership with the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. We are looking for enthusiastic candidates to pursue work in condensed matter theory. You will carry out research on broken time-reversal symmetry and topological order in superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling, competing orders, multi-band pairing and/or lack of inversion symmetry.
Both posts are available as part of the collaboration “Unconventional Superconductors: New Paradigms for New Materials”. The team have recently been awarded an £844,000 (FEC) grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
The Kent PDRA will carry out group-theoretical analyses of experimental data and develop novel theories of unconventional electron pairing, analytically and numerically. The Bristol PDRA will carry out Density Functional Theory calculations of the band structures of materials exhibiting novel forms of superconductivity. Both PDRA's will then work together to combine this information to create detailed models of specific materials. They will then use these models to predict the results of experiments.
For the advertisements of each of the two positions and application forms go to
Candidates whose background could be suitable for either post are encouraged to apply to both Kent and Bristol.
The universities of Kent and Bristol are equal-opportunities employers. Women, members of ethnic minorities, and members of other under-represented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Monday 26 September 2016
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· The EPS will be presenting an award to DIPC on the closing day of Passion for Knowledge 2016 in recognition of its scientific contribution and outreach activities.
· The EPS will be holding its Executive Committee meeting at the headquarters of the DIPC on the occasion of the festival Passion for Knowledge 2016.
The European Physical Society (EPS) will be presenting the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) with an award recognising both its scientific excellence and its outreach activities. The EPS will be granting this award to the San Sebastian-based research centre for its outstanding contributions in the field of condensed matter physics and materials science, as well as for its numerous, successful activities in the outreach and communication of science.
Donostia /San Sebastian. 21 September 2016
The European Physical Society (EPS) will be presenting an award to the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) for its outstanding contribution in the field of condensed matter physics and materials science, as well as for its numerous, successful activities in the outreach and communication of science. Set up in the year 2000, DIPC is a research centre devoted to high-level research in materials physics, that in only a few years has become a reference of Basque science. It is a unique centre in its institutional structure and operation, which in addition to excellence in research, plays an important role in conveying scientific knowledge to society. Indeed, it will be during the closing ceremony of the third edition of Passion for Knowledge, a large outreach festival organised by DIPC, that the President of the EPS Christophe Rossel will be presenting DIPC with an official plaque to mark the recognition.
Created in 1968, the EPS is one of Europe’s most important scientific associations. Its members include 42 National Physical Societies in Europe, individuals from all fields of physics, and European research institutions, thus bringing together more than 130,000 people. As a learned society, the EPS promotes the advancement of physics, defends the interests of the European physics community and fosters international co-operation. It acts as an advocate to policy-makers and citizens, promoting the contributions of physics research to the economic, technological, social and cultural advancement in Europe.
As Pedro Miguel Echenique, President of DIPC, stated, “This recognition from such a prestigious institution like the EPS is a real honour for us, and it encourages us to keep on doing to become a worldwide reference in research and science communication.” He explained that not only the award itself is important, but also the fact that on the occasion of Passion for Knowledge 2016, the EPS had chosen the headquarters of DIPC in San Sebastian to hold its annual Executive Committee meeting on 30 September and 1 October. The President of the EPS was keen to emphasise that “we fully share the aim of the festival, which is to promote science as a key cultural activity that also contributes to social and economic progress.” To achieve that aim, from September 27 onwards, Passion for Knowledge 2016 presents an extensive programme of activities addressed to all citizens. The full programme can be seen on the festival’s website: p4k.dipc.org
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Tuesday 13 September 2016
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The Final Report of the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 (IYL 2015) will be delivered to UNESCO leadership at a special half-day event to be held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, on Monday 3 October 2016.
The IYL 2015 has been a tremendously successful global initiative with thousands of events reaching millions of people worldwide. United by the interdisciplinary theme of light, IYL 2015 has brought together a diverse range of participants along with UNESCO, all committed to raising awareness of how light science and technology provide solutions to the many challenges facing the world today.
The event will consist of an overview summarizing key facts and figures of the International Year, followed by a series of short speeches from a selection of IYL 2015 partners. Finally, the IYL 2015 Final Report will be officially delivered to the UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences Flavia Schlegel. For more information, see the programme below.
Participation at the event is free but invitations are limited and therefore registration is mandatory. If you wish to attend the event, please contact jorge.rivero@eps.org as soon as possible to provide further details on the registration process.
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Tuesday 30 August 2016
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The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division (QEOD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) is soliciting nominations for the biennial prize
Research into the Science of Light
to be presented at the Nanometa Conference organised in Seefeld, Austria, between the 4th and 7th of January, 2017.
Nominations will be received online until October 1st, 2016 at the latest.
The EPS Prize for Research into the Science of Light is a major prize awarded in recognition of a recent work by one or more (up to three) individuals for scientific excellence in the area of electromagnetic science in its broadest sense, across the entire spectrum of electromagnetic waves.
The work for which the individual(s) is/are nominated must be such that a significant component of it was performed during the 5 years prior to the award. In addition, the award recognises research for which a significant portion of the work was carried out in Europe or in cooperation with European researchers. It may be given for either pure or applied research.
The award will be accompanied by an engraved glass medal, a certificate, and a monetary sum of 2000 euros.
Nominations must include:
- A cover letter provided by the nominator with proposed citation.
- A two-page summary of the significance of the work being the subject of the nomination. For a nominated team of more than one person, the summary should clearly specify the individual contribution of each nominee, and when and where the work has been performed.
- Nominee CV(s).
- A list of publications covering the last five years (a few earlier articles particularly relevant for the nomination can also be included). Five articles of most significance should be highlighted.
- Up to three letters of endorsement of the nomination.
Online Submission Details
All material must be prepared in English and combined into either a single consolidated PDF file or a ZIP archive. Please click the link below to access the submission site: http://qeod.epsdivisions.org/SLP/
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Thursday 18 August 2016
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NANOMETA 2017, 6th International Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, will take place from 4-7 January 2017 in Seefeld (Tirol), Austria.
 The on-line submission is now open. SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT NOW! Submission Deadline: 10 October 2016
NANOMETA 2017 aims to bring together the international Nanotechnology, Photonics and Materials research communities where most recent and challenging results and plans are discussed in the informal setting on a glorious mountaineering resort.
The technical programme will include invited and selected contributed papers in the areas of:
- Plasmonics, Metamaterials & Metadevices
- Quantum and Topological Nanophotonics
- New Materials for Nanophotonics
- Optical Super-resolution
NANOMETA 2017 will present 4 Plenary Speakers:
- Manfred Bayer, University of Dortmund, Germany - "Giant Interaction Effects of Rydberg Excitons in Cuprous Oxide"
- Federico Capasso, Harvard University, USA - "High Performance Metasurface Planar Optics at Visible Wavelengths"
- Atac Imamoglu, ETH Zürich, Switzerland - "Polaritons in Atomically Thin Semiconductors"
- Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom - "The Orbital Angular Momentum of Light: 25 Years on"
The conference will be organised in two oral parallel sessions (Nanophotonics and Metamaterials) and will feature plenary, breakthrough, invited and contributed oral sessions together with poster sessions.
The committee is now accepting submissions and reminds that the on line submission system will remain open until Monday 10 October 2016.
In order to submit your paper, please follow instructions here.
More details to be found on the conference website: http://www.nanometa.org
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Monday 27 June 2016
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The French National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics – IN2P3 – of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA) invites applications for Director of the Heavy Ions Accelerator National Laboratory (Grand accélérateur national d'ions lourds – Ganil) in Caen.
Founded in 1975, Ganil is a joint CNRS and CEA laboratory. It operates several facilities, including Spiral to produce and study exotic nuclei. A growing part of Ganil activities involves interdisciplinary research on material science and radiobiology.
This year a new facility, Spiral2, will start operation and enlarge the scientific reach of Ganil, with the irradiation and neutron beam-line NFS and the S3 spectrometer in a near future. For the coming period of 5 years, starting in January 2017, the director is proposed by CNRS and CEA will propose a deputy director. The director and the deputy director will then be jointly appointed by the two organizations during a Ganil governing board meeting.
The future director of Ganil should have an outstanding scientific profile, experience in leadership positions in the domain of nuclear physics or related fields of research and a strong ambition for the laboratory. Applications for the position should be sent to Reynald Pain, IN2P3 director (reynald.pain@in2p3.fr) and Ursula Bassler, IN2P3 deputy director (ursula.bassler@in2p3.fr), before July 31 2016. The applicant should join a curriculum vitae and a letter of motivation in which he or she is invited to express his or her vision of the laboratory in 10 years from now, and lay out a plan of actions for the next five years. An appreciation of the place and role of the laboratory in the international landscape is expected.
It is further expected that the candidate will present his or her vision of:
- The internal organization and management of the laboratory (management team, research activities, construction and operation of the accelerators, hosting of experiments, experimental support, data management, nuclear safety …)
- The administration of the laboratory, its human and financial resources, the relation to the funding organizations as well as the committees and councils of the laboratory
- The interface and the collaboration with the neighboring laboratories and the regional scientific cluster
- The relation and the interactions with IN2P3 laboratories and CNRS and with the related services and institutes of CEA
- The collaboration with foreign laboratories and their possible implication in the development of Ganil
- La collaboration avec les laboratoires étrangers et leur possible implication dans le développement du Ganil
- More generally, the candidate should identify projects and activities, which should be primarily supported and developed in order to reinforce the position of Ganil as a world-class laboratory
The applicants will be preselected in view of an interview with the management of IN2P3 and of CEA, based on a short presentation (15’) followed by a discussion on the points mentioned above.
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Friday 24 June 2016
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Mulhouse, 24 June 2016 - The European Physical Society (EPS) regrets the outcome of the vote by the British people and their decision to leave the European Union. In spite of all possible consequences that might arise from this choice, the popular decision must be respected like in all democratic processes. The result of the UK's referendum will certainly bring the leaders to start a wider discussion on the future of the union. Even if Europe might loose a strong and respected research partner, the scientific community must remain united and aim in fostering further the international collaboration, especially when urgent solutions to global challenges are required. Indeed, one of the strengths of scientific research is its international nature and the free exchange of people and ideas across borders, a policy and philosophy strongly supported by EPS. At a time when the EU Commission wants to develop and implement open science policy to improve the quality and impact of European science, in particular by better interconnecting research infrastructures, it would be unfortunate to see such efforts refrained by political decisions.
The withdrawal of the UK from the EU will indeed have negative consequences for its universities and researchers. Like Switzerland is experiencing it with its status of partial associated country in Horizon 2020 and all the required negotiations to reach bilateral agreements, access to EU funding will become more difficult for UK scientists. In spite of yesterday's vote, EPS will further develop and strengthen its excellent relationship with the Institute of Physics (IOP), and this with the help of all its other national member societies. It is the mission of EPS to advocate for physics research and its contribution to the economic, technological, social and cultural advancement in Europe. Its role is also to represent the European physics community in providing independent input into science policy issues. In this function EPS calls on the UK Government and the EU governing bodies to act with all respectful means to ensure a smooth transition and maintain the good integration of the UK scientists within the European landscape.
Christophe Rossel
EPS President
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Wednesday 22 June 2016
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Overview
The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division (QEOD) of the European Physical Society is presently soliciting nominations for their biennial prize Research into the Science of Light. Details of the required material to provide are given below.
Nominations are to be received online by October 1st, 2016 at the latest.
The European Physical Society (EPS) Prize for Research into the Science of Light is a major prize awarded on behalf of the EPS through its Quantum Electronics & Optics Division (QEOD). The prize is awarded every 2 years in recognition of recent work by one or more individuals (no more than three) for scientific excellence in the area of electromagnetic science in its broadest sense, across the entire spectrum of electromagnetic waves.
The work for which the individual(s) is/are nominated must be such that a significant component of it was performed during the period 5 years prior to the award. In addition, the award will recognize research for which a significant portion of the work was carried out in Europe or in cooperation with European researchers, and may be given for either pure or applied research.
The award will be accompanied by an engraved glass medal, certificate, and a monetary sum of 2000 euros.
The Prize Ceremony and Lecture will be highlights of the EPS Nanometa Conference organized in Seefeld, Austria, from the 4th to 7th of January, 2017.
Nominations must include:
- A cover letter provided by the nominator with proposed citation
- A two-page summary of the significance of the work which is the subject of the nomination. For a nominated team of more than one person, the summary should clearly specify the individual contribution of each nominee, and when and where the work has been performed.
- Nominee CV(s)
- A list of publications covering the last five years (a few earlier articles particularly relevant for the nomination can also be included). Five articles of most significance should be highlighted.
- Up to three letters of endorsement of the nomination.
Online Submission Details
All material must be prepared in English and combined into either a single consolidated PDF file or a ZIP archive. Please click the link below to access the submission site: http://qeod.epsdivisions.org/SLP/
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Tuesday 21 June 2016
Updated: Tuesday 21 June 2016
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The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division (QEOD) board is delighted to announce that
- Prof. Reinhard Kienberger
has been elected the winner of the 2016 prize for ‘Research in Laser Science and Applications’ for his seminal contributions to establishing the basic techniques for attosecond science with laser-based as well as accelerator-based sources.
The prize will be awarded at the forthcoming Europhoton conference on Solid-State, Fibre and Waveguide Coherent Light Source to be held in Vienna, Austria from 21-26 August, 2016.
Reinhard Kienberger obtained his Ph.D. in quantum optics at the Vienna University of Technology (Austria) in 2002 on sub-femtosecond pulse generation and measurement in the XUV regime. He spent a year at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA, USA, to develop a measurement system for sub-picosecond pulses in the hard x-ray regime bringing together know-how in ultrashort pulse generation and measurement spanning the whole high photon energy range. From 2007, he was leader of an independent Junior Research Group at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching/Munich, Germany. Kienberger was awarded the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for top science in Germany in 2006 and a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2008. In the same year, he was appointed professor for experimental physics at the Technical University of Munich, where he became full professor and head of the Chair for Laser and X-ray Science in 2013. In 2015 he received an ERC Consolidator Grant. He was also awarded the ICO Prize of the International Commission for Optics, the Ernst Abbe Medal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation and he is Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Kienberger has made seminal contributions to the development of attosecond pulse generation and of methods for their characterization. He has been investigating ultrafast electron dynamics in atoms molecules and solids with attosecond techniques.
Further details on the Research in Laser Science and Applications prize and other QEOD prizes, including former prize winners can be found on the QEOD website at qeod.epsdivisions.org
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Monday 6 June 2016
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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.
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
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