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Posted By Administation,
Thursday 14 September 2023
Updated: Thursday 14 September 2023
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The European Physical Society (EPS) is happy to announce that the second edition of the EPS Forum will take place in the Henry Ford Building of the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Germany, from 25th-27th March 2024.
The EPS Forum builds on the success of the first edition held in Paris
in 2022. The EPS joined forces with its 42 National Physical Societies,
18 Divisions and Groups and 40 Associate Members (https://epsforum.org/v1).
After more than a year of preparation by 75 representatives of EPS
members all over Europe and the EPS staff, the first EPS Forum welcomed
487 participants including 184 students from 30 different countries.
The
second edition is expected to gather about 500 participants with a
majority of PhD students, Postdocs and early-career researchers. It will
include presentations and round-table discussions on the following
topics:
· Atomic, molecular and optical physics for quantum technologies
· Applications of nuclear and particle physics to society
· Condensed matter and its applications to industry
· Physical models for energy management, pollution and climate; neuromorphic computing
· Photonics.
The
EPS Forum represents a unique opportunity to interact with both
upcoming physicists and outstanding established researchers including
Nobel Prize and Wolf Prize winners. It will offer a series of scientific
talks bringing together researchers from all over Europe, CEOs and
managers from academic institutions, large research infrastructures,
multi-national companies, SMEs and start-ups involved in the above
fields of research.
The first day, called “Physics meets industry”,
will bring doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows closer to
physics-based companies. It will promote research and technological
developments carried out in the industrial sector and favour direct
exchanges between attendees.
The second day will host a general conference on physics in
the same fields, addressed from a more fundamental perspective and
featuring high-profile scientists from Europe and beyond. Round-table
discussions will also be dedicated to societal issues.
The third day will be devoted to the EPS Council, the Society's annual meeting.
Save the dates! The EPS Form will take place on 25th-26th March 2024 in BERLIN.
Students
The
EPS will once again support the attendance of students by offering a
reduced registration fee and support the travel and lodging expenses of
100 students.
A poster session will be organised to give young physicists the opportunity to present their scientific results.
Organisations and exhibitors
The EPS is convinced that the objectives of the Forum (details at https://epsforum.org),
match a number of organisations' and exhibitors' priorities. To promote
physics-based companies or institutions at the EPS Forum and to
increase their visibility, the EPS offers the following options:
‐ Attend the Forum as an exhibitor on 25th March and/or on 26th March 2024.
‐ Advertise an organisation by choosing a promotional package.
Sponsors
The
EPS offers sponsorship opportunities to support the attendance and
activities of early career researchers at the EPS Forum and to support
the attendance of scientists from Ukraine. These can be tailored to each
sponsor. Contact us for more details at secretariat@eps.org.
The EPS is actively preparing the second EPS Forum and looks forward to welcoming you in Berlin in 2024!
Download the poster of the EPS Forum 2024
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Posted By Administration,
Tuesday 10 August 2021
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Author: Kees van der Beek
On the 17th of July 2021, Claudine Hermann passed away at the age of 75 in Villejuif (France).
Best-known
for her tireless action in favour of gender equality in science,
Claudine Hermann was an exceptional person by her wit and wisdom, her
keen analysis of both scientific and societal problems, her dedication
and commitment to helping others and the community, and her immense
energy and work force. Claudine was a physicist of the highest level,
and a wonderful colleague respected by all.
After her graduation
from Ecole normale supérieure de jeunes filles in Paris in 1965,
Claudine obtained her physics degree in 1969. She defended her thesis in
condensed matter physics, and more specifically, on the measurements of
the Landé factor of the conduction electrons in GaSb, in 1976. This,
and later research would prompt Claudine to formulate a highly cited
critique of the manner in which k•p type band structure calculations
were hitherto performed, and to propose significant improvements.
Claudine occupied an assistant position at the Ecole Normale Supérieure
in Paris. She was later became lecturer, and then the first woman
professor at the Ecole polytechnique in Palaiseau (France), where she
was also the vice-president of the physics department from 1985 to 1992.
Author of a monograph on statistical physics, Claudine’s lectures were
highly praised by all and loved by students, and her contributions to
all aspects of training, education, and physics research at Ecole
polytechnique were numerous. We particularly cite her work on
magneto-optics of metallic multilayers, on photoemission in activated
semiconductors, and on optically detected magnetic resonance.
It
is in the early 1990’s that Claudine started her action for the
promotion of women in science. She joins the Demain la parité (“Equality
tomorrow”) group in 1994, and co-authors several reports on young
women’s enrolment and position in engineering curricula and in
university. With Noria Boukhobzan, Huguette Delavault, and Corinne
Konrad, she published Les Enseignantes-Chercheuses à l’université:
demain la parité (“Lecturers at university: gender equality tomorrow?”,
Harmattan, 2002). In 2000, Claudine co-authored the Science policies in
the European Union: Promoting Excellence through Mainstreaming Gender
Equality of the European Technology Evaluation Network (ETAN,
Directorate General for Research of the European Commission). From 1999
to 2006, she would be an eminent member of the ETAN “Women and Science”
group. Claudine would go on to author more than forty articles, books,
and other authorative works, and has delivered countless lectures and
addresses on the topic across the world.
Claudine Hermann was the
co-founder and first president of the French association “Femmes et
Sciences” (“Women and Science”), president of the European Platform of
Woman Scientists, and a very active member, till the last, of the
“Femmes et Physique” (“Women and Physics”) Commission of the French
Physical Society SFP. As such, Claudine also very actively participated
in EPS activities. Notably, Claudine regularly published in e-EPS,
authored various editorials and columns, and was key in bringing about
the EPS “Inspiring Physicists” calendar.
With the passing of
Claudine, our community loses one of its most exceptional members. Her
efforts to the advancement of the cause of women in science are no less
than remarkable, and the example she sets unparalleled. Citing Claudine
as she expressed herself in 2013: “Many young women ask me whether I am a
feminist. If being a feminist means working for women to participate
fairly and equally in society, then, ‘yes’, a resounding ‘yes’!”
Claudine Hermann - Image credit: Morinsan via Wikimedia
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Posted By Administration,
Thursday 18 June 2020
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The European Physical Society [EPS], the Fondazione Alessandro Volta, and Edison S.p.A. are delighted to announce the award of the 2020 EPS Edison Volta Prize to
- Dieter Weiss
- Jurgen Smet
- Klaus Ensslin
"for their seminal contributions to condensed matter nano-science."
Dieter Weiss is recognized for discovering a most spectacular new quantum phenomenon, the “Weiss Oscillations”. Originally, he used standing light waves to generate a sub micrometer periodic electron density modulation in a 2-dimensional electron gas, which leads to new quantum oscillations if the circular motion of electrons in a magnetic field is commensurate with this modulation. Today modern electron beam lithography is able to bring these dimensions down to 10 nanometers, which allowed the realization of artificial crystals and new quantum devices. Dieter Weiss later extended the concept of “Weiss Oscillation” successfully to topological insulators and to 2-dimensional electron systems with magnetic modulation. His expertise in the realization of micro magnets opened the field of controlled spin injection in high mobility 2-dimensional systems so that his group belongs to the top teams in the field of semiconductor spintronics.
Jurgen Smet is recognized for the demonstration – in cooperation with Dieter Weiss - of the so.called Hofstadter butterfly and the correctness of the Composite Fermion concept, a new quasiparticle consisting of a combination of an electron and two flux quanta, as well as for the exploration of the special properties of composite fermions. Jurgen Smet is honoured especially for devising new tools based an ingenious combination of mK temperatures, microwaves, surface acoustic waves, optical excitations, and quantized magnetic fields, which allowed for his ground-breaking investigations on electron spin - nuclear spin interactions and correlations among electron charge and spin degrees of freedom, when these electrons are confined in two dimensions, in semiconductors or in graphene.
Whereas most of the research of Weiss and Smet focuses on 2-dimensional systems, Klaus Ensslin is specialized in the field of quantum dots. Klaus Ensslin receives the prize for his discoveries connected with nonequilibrium phenomena in quantum dots including the emission of microwave radiation from double quantum dots and the time resolved tunnelling dynamics in the occupation of biased quantum dots. The demonstration of strong coupling between a single spin or a single electron with a single photon in a resonator - the building block for long-distant correlation of semiconductor quantum bits and a crucial step towards quantum information processing - was a ground-breaking contribution of Ensslin’s group. Starting originally with quantum dots in GaAs, Ensslin is now a world-leading figure in the realization of single and double quantum dots in single and bilayer graphene.
EPS Edison-Volta Prize
The EPS Edison Volta Prize promotes excellence in research and is given in recognition of outstanding research and achievements in physics. The EPS Edison Volta Prize is given biennially to individuals or groups of up to three people. The laureates receive a medal, which is a faithful reproduction of the “Medaglia Premio dell’ Associazione per l’Incremento del Commercio in Como": a portrait of Alessandro Volta together with the saying: Alexandro Voltae Novocomensi, i.e. (dedicated) to Alessandro Volta from Novum Comum, which was the old name given to the city of Como by Julius Caesar.
The Prize was established in 2011 and was awarded for the first time in 2012 to R. D. Heuer, S. Bertolucci and S. Myers from CERN, Geneva. Other laureates of the prize include and in 2014 to J.-M. Raimond (2014) N. Mandolesi, J.-L. Puget, and J. Tauber (2015), M. J. Orrit (2016), and A. Brillet, K. Danzmann, A. Giazotto, J. Hough (2018)
Background Information
The European Physical Society provides an international forum for physicists and acts as a federation of 42 national physical societies. Founded in 1968, the EPS now has around 4000 individual members, and its Members Societies represent together over 130,000 physicists. More info: https://www.eps.org
The other partners and sponsors of the Prize are Edison S.p.A. (www.edison.it) and the Fondazione Alessandro Volta (http://fondazionealessandrovolta.it/).
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Posted By Administration,
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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Posted By admin,
Thursday 26 May 2016
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The 26th Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the EPS will take place in Groningen, the Netherlands, from 4 to 9 September 2016.
Please take note of the following important dates:
- Notification of acceptance of abstracts: June 17th, 2016
- Early registration deadline: June 20th, 2016
- Author payment deadline: July 11th, 2016
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Posted By Administration,
Tuesday 17 May 2016
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Dear Colleague,
In 2017, the Liquids Section of the EPS Condensed Matter Division will award the European Physical Society’s Liquid Matter Prize. The prize will be awarded to a single person who has made outstanding contributions to the science of liquid matter in the experimental or theoretical area and who is still active in research. The award may be given for pure or applied research.
The prize will be awarded during the 10th Liquid Matter Conference to be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 17–21 July 2017. We would appreciate receiving your suggestions for deserving candidates. The nomination must include a short citation and a brief description of the main achievements of the candidate.
Nominations should be sent by email to the Chair of the Prize Jury, Professor Igor Musevic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, igor.musevic@ijs.si no later than 1 June 2016.
With best regards,
Igor Musevic
Chair of the Prize Jury and LMC 2017 conference
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Posted By Administration,
Wednesday 27 January 2016
Updated: Thursday 28 January 2016
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Dear EPS members,
Dear EPS friends,
The EPS Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Condensed Matter Physics has been presented annually since 1975 by the European Physical Society, and has become one of the most prestigious awards for condensed matter physics in Europe.
The selection committee is pleased to request nominations for the 2016 EPS Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize. The prize laureates will receive a cash award, as well as an invitation to attend and present their work at the 26th Condensed Matter General Conference (CMD 26) that will take place in Groningen, the Netherlands, from September 5th through September 9th, 2016.
The EPS Europhysics Prize is awarded in recognition of recent work by one or more individuals in the area of condensed matter physics, and, more specifically, work leading to advances in the fields of electronic, electrical, and materials engineering that, in the opinion of the Society's selection committee, is of particular scientific excellence and merit. Recent work is defined as work that has been completed within the 5 years prior to the award. The prize may be awarded for either pure or applied research, at the discretion of the Society.
Only complete nominations will be considered. For a nomination to be complete, it must include:
- a complete CV
- a publication list (5 pages maximum)
- an indication of the three most relevant papers to the nomination
- a description of the work justifying the nomination (2 pages maximum)
- a suggested short citation
Nomination may be made online by using the nomination form that can be found here.
The deadline for the receipt of nominations is January 31st, 2016.
Nominations may also be made by email by sending all materials in a .zip file to d.lee@eps.org or by regular mail to the address below:
Europhysics Prize 2016
EPS
6, rue des Frères Lumière
68200 Mulhouse, France
Please keep your nomination confidential. Proposals will be acknowledged but not followed by any further correspondence.
On behalf of the selection committee and its chairman, I thank you in advance for helping us.
Yours sincerely,
David Lee
Secretary General
European Physical Society
More information
EPS CMD website
EPS CMD Prizes
EPS CMD Europhysics Prize charter
List of previous prize recipients
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Posted By Administration,
Friday 13 June 2014
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The Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society is proud to announce the award of the 2014 European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize to: Harold Y. Hwang, Jochen Mannhart and Jean-Marc Triscone
Citations and full biographies of the laureates can be found on the CMD website.
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Posted By Administration,
Monday 14 April 2014
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Dear colleagues, With the mark of 400 contributions from all over Europe, in all of the 38 topical sessions, passed, Condensed Matter in Paris CMD 25 – JMC 14 is picking up momentum fast. Your peers have already registered, but you too can still be part of this large condensed matter physics meeting, that unites CMD 25, the Condensed Matter confe- rence of the European Physical Society EPS, and JMC 14, the 14th “Journées de la Matière Condensée” of the French Physical Society SFP. From August 24th to 29th, Condensed Matter in Paris CMD 25 – JMC 14 is expecting to host more than 1000 European Condensed Matter physicists in sunny Paris, and is therefore the place to be. Submission of abstracts to Condensed Matter in Paris is possible until April 15th, 2014. The program of Condensed Matter in Paris will comprise 6 plenary and 15 semi-plenary invited Talks, round table discussions on physics start-ups, the future of physics publishing, and women in physics, and, of course, the 38 Mini-colloquia (Topical Sessions). You may submit your most recent work to the Mini-colloquium of choice on the conference website, http://cmd25jmc14.sciencesconf.org/ Registration rates have been kept very modest so that all who wish to attend can do so. Moreover, extremely advantageous rates are available for (graduate) students and young researchers. Please circulate this information On behalf of the Program Committee and the Local Organizing Committee, the SFP and the EPS, I am looking forward to welcoming you in Paris this summer Yours sincerely, Kees van der Beek Chair, Condensed Matter in Paris CMD25 – JMC14 The official language of Condensed Matter in Paris CMD25 – JMC14 will be English.
Files to download
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Posted By Administration,
Monday 31 March 2014
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Dear colleagues, There is still time to submit your scientific contribution to Condensed Matter in Paris CMD 25 – JMC 14. Uniting CMD 25, the condensed matter conference of the European Physical Society EPS, and JMC14, the 14th “Journées de la Matière Condensée” of the French Physical Society SFP, Condensed Matter in Paris will, from August 24th to 29th, host between 1000 and 1200 physicists, and is poised to be one of the major events of European condensed matter physics in 2014. Submission of abstracts to Condensed Matter in Paris is possible until April 15th, 2014. The program of Condensed Matter in Paris will comprise 6 plenary invited lectures and 15 semi- plenary invited lectures. The largest and most important part of the program consists of the Mini- colloquia (Symposia or Topical Sessions), which gather specific condensed matter communities. The mini-colloquia at Condensed Matter in Paris will comprise one or more 3 ½ hour time slots, each slot hosting 30’ overview talks and 15’ contributed talks. You are kindly invited to submit your most recent work to the Mini-colloquium of choice. Contributions may be submitted online on the conference website, http://cmd25jmc14.sciencesconf.org/ Registration rates have been kept modest so that all who wish to attend can do so. Moreover, extremely advantageous rates are available for (graduate) students and young researchers. On behalf of the Program Committee and the Local Organizing Committee, the French Physical Society SFP and the European Physical Society EPS, I am looking forward to welcoming you in Paris this summer Yours sincerely, Kees van der Beek Chair Condensed Matter in Paris CMD25 – JMC14 The official language of Condensed Matter in Paris CMD25 – JMC14 will be English. Please bring the conference to the attention of your colleagues and co-workers
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Kent post (deadline 16 October):
https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/fe/tpl_kent01.asp?s=4A515F4E5A565B1A&jobid=40366,5602894798&key=48658814&c=877835255699&pagestamp=seynjntwhjwrjoexcr
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