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News from the European Physical Journal (EPJ)

Joint meeting of the Scientific Advisory and Steering Committees of the European Physical Journal

Image credit: Maria Sutter

For two days in April, more than 40 representatives of national physical societies and of the EPJ publishers and many of the journals’ Chief Editors gathered at EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) near Zurich under the chairmanship of the Swiss Physical Society to discuss all aspects of modern scientific publishing - ranging from individual journal development to improving support for early career researchers and the implementation of DEI principles at all levels.

In particular, the EPS Young Minds’ invited talk provided some excellent insights into what the next generation of scientists feels in terms of constraints and opportunities in this context. 2023 marks the 25^th anniversary of the launch of the EPJ and, as part of this year’s special initiatives, EPJ expressly invites young career researchers organizing, specifically, meetings for their peers to apply for sponsorship.

EPJ Applied Physics – topical issue

EPJ AP is pleased to announce completion of the special issue on “Amorphous alloys and multiscale materials: Fundamental aspects and Energy applications” edited by Zhao Zhankui, Wang Hongli and Tai Cheuk-Wai. We hope you enjoy the articles which include “Micro- and nano-sized materials for solar evaporators: a review”.

EPJ Photovoltaics – Editorial Board

EPJ Photovoltaics is pleased to share its updated Editorial Board under Editors-in-Chief Prof. Pere Roca i Cabarrocas, Laboratoire de Physique des Interfaces et des Couches Minces, and Dr. Jean-Louis Lazzari, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille. Editors from Europe are joined by international colleagues from Qatar, Australia and Japan.

EPJ N Nuclear Sciences & Technologies – new ‘Key Summary’

“Optimising spent nuclear fuel storage in Europe” is the latest ‘Key Summary’ from EPJ N and looks at an extensive review in EPJ N by members of the EURAD consortium. The review explores the parameters involved in choosing safe long-term storage solutions for spent radioactive fuel and recommends best practice for the industry. The ‘Key Summary’ also hears from author Dimitri Alexandre Rochman.

Astronomy & Astrophysics and Subscribe to Open (S2O)

Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) recently announced that it will continue to publish its research in open access for the second consecutive year under Subscribe to Open (S2O). In contrast to other core astronomy journals that have transitioned or will transition to open access via the Gold (APC) route, A&A has chosen S2O to achieve immediate open access while minimizing any potential disruption to authors or subscribers. Find out more.

Société Française de Physique 150^th anniversary – Master classes itinérantes

The first in a series of five Masterclasses on “Science publishing and Open Science” recently took place in Nice. Next stop Lyon for which registration is still open!

German Physical Society Spring Meeting - Europhysics Letters

There were four winners of the “EPL best poster prizes” at the Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG) that took place from 26-31 March 2023 at the Technical University Dresden. Congratulations to Anna C. Jäkel, Aleksandr Kostarev, Nico Schramma and Laura Strampe.

Book news - The Basics of Electron Transport in Spintronics

‘The basics of electron transport in Spintronics – Textbook with lectures, exercises and solutions’ by Vincent Baltz, CNRS researcher and group leader at SPINTEC. Based on a series of lectures given to MSc and PhD students, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers, from students at the graduate level to researchers and engineers. It allows the reader to navigate easily between concepts and to gain a broad view of spin-dependent electron transport. Learning is supported by ten extended exercises with complete solutions. Order directly from the EDP Sciences Bookstore or via your favourite online book shop.

Don’t forget our SFP anniversary books discount code - PHYS234 - valid until the end of June 2024! We are delighted to offer a 5% discount on EDP Sciences books in the following series: Savoirs Actuels / Une introduction à / Sciences & History / Enseignement Sup Physique.

With our best wishes from ‘Paris in Spring’

EDP Sciences

The second edition of the Meeting « Physics, Enterprise, Research » will take place on 17 September 2021 at the Jussieu Campus of Sorbonne University in Paris.
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Author: French Physical Society

Emilie du Châtelet and  Jean Ricard SFP Prizes

The prestigious Emilie du Châtelet and Jean Ricard SFP Prizes have been awarded in 2020 to Paul Loubeyre (CEA) and to Luc Blanchet (CNRS), respectively. Paul Loubeyre works at the forefront in the field of high pressure science and made impressive breakthroughs to observe metallic hydrogen thanks to a new toroidal diamond-based cell and the infrared synchrotron source at Soleil. Luc Blanchet is a theoretician specialised in general relativity: his results regarding black holes properties were key to their observations by the LIGO-VIRGO observatories. More details on www.sfpnet.fr

SFP 2021 Grand Prizes

Nominations for the SFP 2021 Grand Prizes are open until 31 May 2021. Four of these prizes are bi-national, with the German, English, Italian and Swiss Physical Societies. Nomination is also open for the Paul Langevin prize, devoted to theoreticians. Although the nominee must have worked mainly in a French laboratory for the last decade, nominations are very welcome from abroad. All details on www.sfpnet.fr

"Night of Time" in 2021

Every two years, SFP organises, in collaboration with CNRS and CEA, a special large-scale event aimed at the general public and high school pupils, "The night of...". After the "Night of gravitational waves in 2017 and the "Night of Antimatter" in 2019, the "Night of Time" (https://www.sfpnet.fr/la-nuit-des-temps-2021) took place on 10 March 2021. Its format had unfortunately to be adapted to COVID times and was purely on-line. The programme consisted of a series of conferences, a round-table on time irreversibilty, short movies regarding the measurement of cosmic microwave background and the results of the various challenges proposed to high school pupils, and scored more than 15'000 connections. A face-to-face and joyful edition is scheduled on the same theme in 2022 with 26 participating sites.

Guy Wormser President of the French Physical Society

Guy Wormser has been elected new SFP president in February 2021 for a two-year mandate. He is a particle physicist working at IJCLab (University Paris-Saclay and CNRS).