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5. June 2008

Europe gets together to harness quantum physics

The long cherished goal of applying the strange properties of quantum mechanics to the macroscopic world we inhabit has been brought closer by a series of recent developments. The exciting progress was made in the important field of quantum optics and discussed recently at a high level conference...
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3. June 2008

Finding out what the big bang and ink jets have in common

ESF workshop tackles the mathematics of singularities
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23. May 2008

Search in the “quantum haystack” rewarded

Innsbruck Physicists of the EUROCORES Programme EuroQUAM achieve breakthrough with fermionic quantum gasses
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23. May 2008

Europeans unite to tap early universe for secrets of fundamental physics

Aim to produce new generation of astronomer that understands theory and observation
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30. April 2008

EUROCORES conference gives cold quantum matter a European twist

  ESF’s EuroQUAM Programme holds Inauguration Conference
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24. April 2008

European light research opens door for optical storage and computing

The goal of replacing electronics with optics for processing data in computers is coming closer through cutting edge European research into the mysterious properties of “fast and slow” light. The long term aim is to boost processing speeds and data storage densities by several orders of magnitude...
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10. April 2008

Computation and experiment combine to unravel how genes are regulated and shed light on how cells become different

A closer alliance between computational and experimental researchers is needed to make progress towards one of biology’s most challenging goals, understanding how epigenetic marks contribute to regulation of gene expression. This emerged from a recent workshop organised by the European Science...
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11. March 2008

Europe to build state of the art laboratory to study how stars evolve and elements are formed in cosmos

One of the great ongoing challenges of astrophysics, to find out how stars evolve and die, is to be tackled in an ambitious European research programme. This will involve studying in the laboratory over 25 critical nuclear reactions using low-energy stable beams of ions, in order to understand...
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18. February 2008

Novel organic metal hybrids revolutionise materials science and chemical engineering

A novel class of hybrid materials made from metals and organic compounds is changing the face of solid state chemistry and materials science just 10 years after its discovery, with applications already in safe storage of highly inflammable gases such as hydrogen and methane.  Europe is aiming...
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4. December 2007

The Million Euro Nanoreactor

Jeroen Cornelissen of the Institute for Molecules and Materials at the Radboud University in the Netherlands has received €1million from EURYI (European Young Investigator Awards). The award will allow Cornelissen (35), an assistant professor at Radboud and a member of the scientific board of a...
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EUROCORES Brochure

Smart Structural Systems Technologies (S3T)
An ESF EUROCORES Programme

EUROCORES Brochure

Cold Quantum Matter (EuroQUAM)
An ESF EUROCORES Programme

ESF joins forces with the European Commission in launching a European Research Infrastructures portal

For more information, click here.

PESC News No. 9

Highlight Event

US-Europe Workshop on BioSensing and BioActuation:
Interface of Living and Engineered Systems

15-17 June 2008

 

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