Save the date: SCNAT Annual Congress 2013

SCNAT AnnualCongress2013Annual Congress 2013 of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), November 21-22, 2013 | Winterthur

«The Quantum Atom at 100 – Niels Bohr’s Legacy»

 

The congress will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Niels Bohr’s publication «On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules» and offer an overview on subsequent developments, leading to the modern version of quantum mechanics and its implications and to the current understanding of the constitution of matter.

The Zurich University of Applied Science in Winterthur will host this year’s congress.

More information:
http://congress13.scnat.ch/e/jahreskongress/

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David Spichiger, SCS
11.07.2013

Call for nominations for the SGMS award

The SGMS award is awarded to a promising scientist working in Switzerland or a promising Swiss scientist working abroad, for outstanding independent research in the field of mass spectrometry.
 
At the time of the award nomination deadline the candidate should be younger than 40. The nomination should be done by a senior colleague, but self-nominations are also welcome. Up to two letters of support can be submitted, together with a CV and a publication list of the nominee.

The prize is awarded after evaluation by an international panel (Prof G Allmaier, Prof C Costello, Prof G Cooks, Prof Y Tsybin, Dr M Suter, Dr B Gerrits). The award ceremony takes place at the annual SGMS meeting and includes a plenary presentation given by the awardee.
 
Submit nominations to  until November 30, 2013 at latest.
 

David Spichiger, SCS
11.07.2013

Save the date: The Reaxys Inspiring Chemistry Conference

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The first annual Reaxys Inspiring Chemistry conference celebrates inspirational chemistry from some of the today’s finest chemists and some of the rising stars and future leaders in the discipline.

Themes of the conference:

Date: September 22-24, 2013
Location: Sunstar Hotel Grindelwald****


More information:
http://inspiringchemistry.reaxys.com/conference

David Spichiger, SCS
02.07.2013

 

Prof. Copéret elected as board member of scienceINDUSTRIES

Logo scienceindustriesThe general assembly of scienceINDUSTRIES (SI) at EMPA in Dübendorf confirmed the nomination of Prof. Christophe Copéret, ETHZ, as representative of the SCS in the board of SI and elected him unanimously.

Christophe Copéret succeeds Jay Siegel in this function and will ensure the good relations between SI and SCS. We congratulate Christophe to this election.

More information: www.scienceindustries.ch

 

David Spichiger, SCS
28.06.2013

Nano Argovia: Call for Proposals 2013

 

Applied Projects in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

The Swiss Nanoscience Institute Basel (SNI) offers funding for projects in applied Nanoscience and Nanotechnology within the programme "Nano-Argovia". 

We invite potential researchers to submit project proposals. For detailed information regarding eligibility, rules and procedure we refer to the document Proposal_Rules.pdf that you may download from the current webpage. Note, that the proposal rules have not changed since June 2010.

The deadline for applications is the 30th September 2013. 

More details on: http://argovia.nanoscience.ch

 

David Spichiger, SCS
24.06.2013

 

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