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Tuesday 25 February 2025
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Author: Alessandra Fantoni
Dear EPS Member,
Nomination is open for 2 (two) new ordinary board members of the EPS Nuclear Physics Division (EPS-NPD).
The
members of the Board are expected to attend Board meetings, which take
place twice a year. Please note that the newly elected board members
will be invited at the board meeting planned on May 8th-9th at Catania
(details will be mailed in due course).
Some of the activities of the NPD are the following:
- Organisation of the European Nuclear Physics Conference series,
- Organisation of the Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics Conference series,
- Organizazion of the Applied Nuclear Physics Conference series,
- Awarding three prestigious prizes: Lise Meitner Prize, Applied Nuclear Physics Prize and PhD Thesis Prize.
The board produces
publications on various nuclear physics related topics, for example so
called EPS Position Papers and provides input to the EPS on issues
related to nuclear physics and relations to other European and
international bodies interested in nuclear physics and policy.
For more information, you may visit the NPD website.
http://www.eps.org/?page=npd
For a nomination to be valid:
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the nomination has to be supported by two other Individual Members.
They may either sign the nomination form or send a support letter
independently by email.
- it must be accompanied by a statement of consent from the nominee
- the elected candidate must be or become an EPS Individual Member (https://www.eps.org/general/register_member_type.asp? )
- the nominee must send a short CV in pdf or .doc format
- the nominee must send a half page candidate/campaign statement (length ½ page)
- it must be received at the EPS secretariat by 30th April 2025.
Please send it by e-mail to the two following addresses:
secretariat@eps.org and raquel.crespo@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
Alessandra Fantoni, chair of the EPS nuclear Physics Division
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Posted By Administration,
Monday 21 October 2024
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FLTR: Alberto Del Guerra, Alessandra Fantoni and Laura Harkness-Brennan - image credit: A. Fantoni
Author: Alessandra Fantoni
The 2024 EPS Nuclear Physics Division applied-nuclear-physics prize
was awarded at the recent EPS applied nuclear physics conference held in
Thessaloniki, Greece from 23rd-27th September 2024 https://hnps.eu/ANP2024/.
The prize was awarded jointly to:
Prof. Alberto Del Guerra from the Department of Physics University of Pisa and INFN Sezione di Pisa, Italy “in
recognition of his outstanding and seminal contribution to the
development of new radiation detectors and methods for clinical and
preclinical molecular imaging systems and applications”
and Prof. Laura Harkness-Brennan from the University of Liverpool, UK “in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the application of advanced
gamma-ray spectroscopy together with imaging technology and techniques
to the areas of nuclear medical imaging, homeland security, nuclear
decommissioning and environmental monitoring.”
At the prize ceremony, Prof. Del Guerra and Prof. Harkness-Brennan gave entertaining and thought-provoking talks entitled “A life for radiation medical physics” and “Next Generation Gamma-ray Imaging”,
respectively. Together the presentations gave an excellent perspective
on the applications of nuclear physics knowledge and techniques to
addressing real-world challenges.
The attached photos show
the prize recipients and them receiving their certificates from EPS
nuclear-physics-division-board chair Dr. Alessandra Fantoni.
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Posted By Administration,
Monday 14 June 2021
Updated: Monday 14 June 2021
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Author: Silvia Nicolai
The Nuclear Physics Board of the European Physical Society has awarded the 2020 IBA-Europhysics Prize to Professor Thomas Haberer, scientific and technical director of the Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center at the Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany.
The prize was motivated by Prof. Haberer’s “outstanding scientific discoveries and innovative technological breakthroughs in the use of high energy accelerators and heavy ion beams for the Heavy Ion Cancer therapy”.
Prof. Haberer has devoted his scientific career to the interdisciplinary field of ion-beam tumor therapy. In particular, he introduced a crucial innovation in particle therapy: the raster-scan technique. It consists of a method to deliver the dose that focuses the relativistic ion beams down to pencil size, and scans them over the volume of the tumor. This method allows the full clinical exploitation of the advantageous properties of ion beams, as the highly efficient stopping ions are guided into the target volume only, thus sparing healthy tissue and organs close to the tumor. In the initial phases of Prof. Haberer’s research, raster-scanned carbon beams were produced at the Germany's Heavy Ion Research Center, GSI, to treat, with excellent clinical outcomes, more than 400 patients predominantly suffering from tumors at the base of the skull. Afterwards, the first hospital-based ion-beam therapy center at the Heidelberg University Hospital (Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center, HIT) was established, following the specifications of Dr. Haberer and the principles of the raster-scan method. Since 2009, roughly 6000 patients have been treated at HIT’s fix beam lines, using its world-unique gantry with proton and carbon pencil beams. HIT’s research infrastructure allows for the constant development of the technology for ion-beam treatments. In particular, it recently saw the introduction of novel treatment protocols based on helium and oxygen beams. Today the beam scanning technology is widely adopted in the field of particle therapy.
The award ceremony of the 2020 IBA prize is planned to take place during the Applied Nuclear Physics Conference (Prague, September 12-17, 2021).
Thomas Haberer in-front of an ion source at HIT - Image: T. Haberer
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Posted By Administration,
Friday 18 December 2020
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Author: Silvia Nicolai
The Nuclear Physics Division board of the European Physical Society
(EPS) calls for nominations for the 2018-2020 European Nuclear Physics
Thesis Award. This prize recognises the excellence of a recent PhD in
Nuclear Physics. Nominations are open to those having obtained a PhD
degree in experimental, theoretical or applied nuclear physics, in a
member country of the EPS. The PhD must have been defended within the
three-year period between January 1st 2018 and December 31st 2020.
Nominations should include, in one PDF file:
- the CV of the candidate
- a copy of the PhD diploma indicating the date it was obtained
- a
short summary (4 pages) of the Thesis written in English, also
providing an accessible link to an electronic copy of the full Thesis,
as well as links to any publication directly related to the candidate’s
PhD studies
- a letter of support (1 page) from the candidate’s PhD advisor
- two additional letters of support (1 page each) from scientists who are familiar with the candidate and the research topic.
More detailed information about the call of the prize can be found on the website of the EPS Nuclear Physics Division.
Nominations should be submitted by February 28th 2021 via the online nomination form.
Contact Dr. Rene Reifarth, Chair of the NPD board: reifarth@physik.uni-frankfurt.de
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Thursday 8 October 2020
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The Nuclear Physics Board of the European Physical Society has awarded the 2020 Lise Meitner Prize to
- Klaus Blaum (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany),
- Björn Jonson (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden) and
- Piet Van Duppen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
"for their development and application of on-line instrumentation and techniques, for their precise and systematic investigation of properties of nuclei far from stability, and for shaping the scientific program at the online isotope separator facility ISOLDE, CERN."
The Lise Meitner Prize 2020 for Björn Jonson, Piet Van Duppen and Klaus Blaum honours three scientists representing different experimental techniques and three generations of researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear physics, both scientifically, techno-logically and in terms of science administration. Björn Jonson's name stands for the study of the lightest exotic nuclei, namely halo nuclei, whose surprisingly large matter radius he was the first (together with the late Gregers Hansen) to explain. Piet Van Duppen pushed the production and investigation of post-accelerated radioactive beams with REX-ISOLDE, for which he laid the foundation with his early work in Louvain-la-Neuve. Finally, the scientific work of Klaus Blaum is focused on the high-precision determination of nuclear ground state properties with laser and mass spectroscopic methods and the development of new techniques in this field.
Klaus Blaum, Björn Jonson and Piet Van Duppen have played a decisive role in turning a small-scale nuclear-physics experiment at the European Nuclear Research Centre CERN, which focuses mainly on high-energy experiments, into a facility that enjoys high recognition and respect in the CERN environment and has been the undisputed world leader in ISOL facilities for nuclear structure investigations for 50 years. All three have contributed to this outstanding success at CERN in a variety of ways and functions: as ISOLDE Physics Group Leader, chairman of the ISOLDE Collaboration Committee, member or chairman of the CERN scientific advisory committees, of the CERN Research Board and the Scientific Policy Committee, and as organizers of international conferences and schools in the field of nuclei far from stability.
The award ceremony of the Lise Meitner Prize 2020 will take place during the ISOLDE workshop on Nov-26 2020 as an online event.
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Posted By admin,
Tuesday 17 May 2016
Updated: Tuesday 17 May 2016
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The Lise Meitner Prize is awarded biennially by the European Physical Society for outstanding work in the fields of experimental, theoretical or applied nuclear science.
The 2016 Prize Laureate is:
- Prof. Ulf-G. Meißner, Universität Bonn and Forschungszentrum in Jülich, Germany
"for his developments and applications of effective field theories in hadron and nuclear physics, that allowed for systematic and precise investigations of the structure and dynamics of nucleons and nuclei based on Quantum Chromodynamics."
The prize consists of a Medal, a Diploma with the above citation, in addition to a cash award.
The Lise Meitner Prize is sponsored by:
- The Karin and Carlo Giersch Foundation
- The KVI Centre for Advanced Radiation Technology, Groningen
- The Nuclear Physics Institute Research Centre, Jülich
- The Institute of Nuclear Physics, Orsay
- The GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
- The 3rd European Nuclear Physics Conference, Groningen, 2015.
The prize medal and the diploma will be presented to Prof. Meißner at a scientific meeting on Advances in Effective Field Theories to be held in Jülich later in the year.
More information about the Lise Meitner Prize and the EPS Nuclear Physics Division can be found on the division's website.
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Posted By Administration,
Tuesday 17 November 2015
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The conference on “Electromagnetic Interactions with Nucleons and Nuclei (EINN)” has been organized on Santorini and Milos Islands in Greece every other year since 1995. In 2011 its location was successfully moved to Paphos, Cyprus. The conference series covers experimental and theoretical topics in the areas of nuclear and hadronic physics. It also serves as a forum for contacts and discussions of current and future developments in the field. The conference has unofficially been a counterpart of the US Gordon conference on photonuclear physics and held in alternate years with traditionally a strong US participation. No proceedings are produced, in the tradition of Gordon and Euroconferences, in order to encourage the frank exchange of even tentative information.
The 11th EINN conference took place in Paphos, Cyprus 1-‐7 Nov. 2015 and attracted about 100 participants from 19 countries in Europe, North America and Asia. This year marked 20 years of successful organization of the conference series and a celebration took place organized by the first chair Dr. K. de Jager.
Since 2011, the conference program has dedicated sessions for postdoctoral fellows and advanced graduate students, who receive financial support. In 2013, an extra day was added before the conference with pedagogical lectures to facilitate the understanding by younger physicists of the more technical talks during the conference. This year the conference added a two day pre-‐conference event on Frontiers and Careers in Photonuclear Physics – skill development and talks for students, which was very-‐well received by the students. As customary, two topical parallel workshops were organized, one on Spectroscopy and one on the Spin structure of nucleons and nuclei, which this year included selected talks from the abstracts submitted as well as invited talks. More than 40 students and postdoctoral fellows participated in the conference by receiving partial support. A highlight of the conference was the evening plenary poster session, which drew a large attendance with lively discussions. The authors of the three best posters were selected by secret vote of all attendees. The winners, who are young researchers from the Cyprus Institute, MIT and Mainz University, were awarded the Feynman Lecture Series and commemoratory gifts, and presented a talk on the subject of their posters at the plenary section of the conference.
The conference covered a wide range of theoretical and experimental developments in hadron physics including, dipole moments of neutral and charged particles, the proton radius puzzle, new experimental facilities, dark matter searches, nuclear astrophysics, lattice QCD, spectroscopy, spin structure of nucleons, precision electroweak physics and new physics searches. With the study of QCD being a major focus of present activities and future plans in physics research worldwide, the EINN conference will continue to provide an important international forum, particularly for young physicists, for the foreseeable future.
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Posted By Administration,
Monday 2 November 2015
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The call for nominations for the 2016 Lise Meitner Prize is now open.
See this web page for further information: http://www.eps.org/members/group_content_view.asp?group=85199&id=542190
Deadline for submission of nominations: 31st January 2016.
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Posted By Administration,
Thursday 20 November 2014
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The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) is soliciting nominations for the biennial Quantum Electronics and Optics Prizes, Fresnel Prizes and Thesis Prizes, which will be presented at the 2015 Edition of the CLEO/Europe-EQEC Conference in Munich, Germany, between 21st and 25th June 2015. Nominations are to be received online by 20 March 2015 at the latest. Complete information about the EPS QEOD Prizes 2015 can be found on the division's website.
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Posted By Administration,
Sunday 16 November 2014
Updated: Tuesday 18 November 2014
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The board of the European Physical Society (EPS) Nuclear Physics Division calls for nominations for the 2015 IBA-Europhysics Prize, sponsored by IBA Group, Belgium. The award will be made to one or several individuals for outstanding contributions to Applied Nuclear Science and Nuclear Methods and Nuclear Researches in Medicine.
The board welcomes proposals which represent the breadth and strength of Applied Nuclear Science and Nuclear Methods in Medicine in Europe.
Nominations forms should be accompanied by a brief CV of the nominee(s) and a list of relevant publications. Up to two letters of support from authorities in the field, outlining the importance of the work would also be helpful. Nominations will be treated in confidence and, although they will be acknowledged, there will be no further communication. Nominations should be submitted by e-mail to Douglas MacGregor, Chair IBA Prize Committee: douglas.macgregor@glasgow.ac.uk
The deadline for submission of nominations is 16 January 2015. Nomination forms can be downloaded FROM HERE. This call can be downloaded as a PDF file FROM HERE.
Prize rules: - The Prize shall be awarded every two years.
- The Prize shall consist of a Diploma of the EPS and a total prize money of EUR 5000 (to be shared if more than one laureate).
- The money for the prize is provided by IBA Group, Belgium.
- The Prize shall be awarded to one or more researchers.
- The Prize shall be awarded without restrictions of nationality, sex, race or religion.
- Only work that has been published in refereed journals can be considered in the proposals for candidates to the prize.
- The board of the EPS Nuclear Physics Division shall request nominations to the Prize from experts in Nuclear Science and related fields who are not members of the Board.
- Self-nominations for the award shall not be accepted.
- Nominations shall be reviewed by a Prize Committee appointed by the board. The Committee shall consider each eligible nomination and make recommendations to the board, taking into account reports of referees who are not members of the board.
- The final recommendation of the board and a report shall be submitted for ratification to the Executive Committee of the EPS.
Douglas MacGregor
Chair EPS Nuclear Physics Division
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