The European Physical Society is pleased to announce the first edition of The EPS Forum

Planned to be annual, this new initiative will provide a showcase for the EPS and its activities, as well as for the activities of its Member Societies, Divisions and Groups, and Action Committees. The Forum will attract new members. It will involve the EPS Associate Members through a « Physics meets Industry » event and will also offer reviews of the latest developments in selected fields of physics research.

The EPS Forum will bring together representatives of the 42 National Member Societies, 18 Divisions and Groups and 40 Associate Members. It will be held from Thursday 2 June to Saturday 4 June 2022 at the International Conference Centre of Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

This three-day meeting should gather 500 participants including a majority of PhD students, Post-Docs and early-career researchers who will be introduced to exciting research opportunities in large companies and start-ups. The scientific topics addressed during the 2022 EPS Forum will be condensed matter physics, energy and sustainability, transportation and technology, accelerators, high-energy particle physics, nuclear physics, quantum technologies and photonics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, biophysics, sequencing of proteins, pandemics and cancer treatments.

The first day will be dedicated to the employment of young physicists and favour direct exchanges with major physics-based industrial companies. The second day will host a scientific colloquium. Recent achievements in physics will be highlighted by the most outstanding physicists in Europe and beyond, while round tables will discuss societal issues and best practices between the EPS Member Societies. The third day will be the regular business meeting of the EPS Council.

Already 30 large industrial groups, medium and small-sized companies and leading start-ups have responded positively to our invitation, including Thales Alenia Space, Airbus-France, Euclid Consortium, ELI Beamlines, CERN, GSI-Darmstadt, IBA, AGS Superconductor, COSYLAB, TRUMPF, IBM, Zeiss and Quandela.

Professors Barry Barish (Caltech, USA), Serge Haroche (Collège de France, Paris) and John M. Kosterlitz (Brown University, USA), laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physics, have also agreed to participate in this event. Ms. Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth as well as Prof. Maria Leptin, the new president of the European Research Council (ERC), have been invited and they have tentatively agreed to deliver presentations during our event.

The EPS Forum will bring new impetus to the EPS and its activities, and will enhance our visibility and impact. More information is detailed on the website: https://www.epsforum.org. The Forum meets a number of priorities for all EPS Members. So, rendez-vous in Paris between 2 and 4 June 2022!