Issue 69 of the SPS Communications is now ready for download. It contains deep insights into last year's Nobel Prizes in Physics, introduced by a foreword by the EPS President Luc Bergé, and the famous Sakurai Prize 2023 for our Swiss colleague H. Leutwyler.  Then an exciting report on the highest energy phenomena in the universe and the latest research results from CERN on lepton universality. You may also be interested in articles on historical events and on the physics of music.

The link is https://www.sps.ch/en/articles/sps-communications.

Read the editorial by Herwig Schopper, former EPS president, a republication of his Viewpoint in the CERN Courier, discover the winner of the EPS Emmy Noether Distinction (Winter 2017) and the winner of the EPS PPD Innovation Prize 2018, and much more...

• Editorial: Shaping science in South East Europe
• EPS Emmy Noether Distinction Winter 2017 for Women in Physics
• An interview with Francis Netter: one of the first followers of EPS!
• Call for nominations for the Research in Laser Science and Applications Prize 2018
• The EPS PPD Innovation Prize 2018 has been awarded to Professor Arutiun Ehiasarian
• News from the EPS Division of Physics in Life Sciences
• Former and future activities of ECHOPHYSICS
• Quick Guide to Organise IDL 2018 Events
• General Meeting of the European Physical Society
• 2018 King Faisal International Prize for Science awarded to John Macleod Ball
• Survey on Open Science & Career Development for Researchers 2017-2018
• Reaching new heights in laser-accelerated ion energy
• EPL Highlights of 2017

Events and conferences

• EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities February 2018
• YAO 2018: Young Atom Optician conference
• 45th Conference on Plasma Physics
• Summer School of Science

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Read the editorial by Rüdiger Voss, EPS president-elect, news about the European Spallation Source, the European gravitational interferometer VIRGO and much more...

Discover the winners of the EPS Accelerator Group 2017 Prizes and the winners of the 2017 EPS Alfvén and Plasma Innovation Prizes.

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SCOAP³ held its third Forum, on December 1^st and 5^th, 2016. This year’s Forum focused on the review of the first 3 years of the initiative and an outlook on the next 3 years.

A recording of the webinar is now available at http://scoap3.org/scoap3-forum-2016.

The video and the accompanying slides provide information on

• the review of the first 3 years of the initiative (2014-2016),
• the outlook on SCOAP³ Phase 2 (covering the years 2017-2019),
• the impact of SCOAP³ in terms of article downloads.

In this issue of ALICE Matters, you can read following: 

Central shifts in the ALICE Run Control Centre
Crucial for the experiment, the Data Quality Monitoring (DQM) prevents us from recording bad or low-quality data by alarming the DQM shifter in the Control Centre of any potential problem with the raw data which may occur.