We are pleased (and proud) to announce that the Second International Symposium on Electron Momentum Spectroscopy (ISEMS2) will be held in a prestigious location, namely at the Royal Academy of Belgium for
the Sciences and Arts, Brussels, on August 23 - 24, 2012.

Further details are available at the conference website: http://www.uhasselt.be/isems2 , and in attachment.

I have the pleasure of introducing e-EPS (http://www.epsnews.eu), the online facts and information newsletter of the European Physical Society. Within you will find timely announcements and information about the EPS and its members, physics, events, and issues relevant to the European physics community. It complements Europhysics News, the bi-monthly magazine of the EPS.

As an EPS Member Society, you are kindly invited to share this newsletter with your members or users. They can easily subscribe at http://www.epsnews.eu/subscribe/

You are also welcome to contribute to e-EPS and submit news and information for publication in e-EPS  such as: news about events, interesting research, policy issues or activities that you would like to distribute to the European physics community

Luisa Cifarelli, President European Physical Society

The Belgian National Committee for Physics has chosen Cosmology as the topic of its annual colloquium in 2011. It will be held on March 19th at the Paleis der Academiën - Palais des Académies in Brussels. The colloquium poster can be found at http://www.bncphys.be/textfiles/affiche2011.pdf .

The European Space Agency is organising the GeoFlow challenge, a competition open to PhD students or Postdocs interested in computational fluid dynamics and its comparison with experimental data. The challenge is meant to sponsor a two-year Postdoc position (in the form of an ESA external
 fellowship) at one of the institutions among those participating to the network supported by ESA: the 'Topical Team' on Geophysical flow simulations.


 The fellowship shall include a part time involvement in the
 GeoFlow II
 experiment and participation in the activities of the topical
 team.

For
 specific application conditions, please visit:


 www.esa.int/HSF_research

The deadline for application is 30 April 2011

The IAP-INANOMAT network funded by the Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO) and bringing together actors from several Belgian Universities, extends a cordial invitation to all researchers with an interest in advanced complex nanomaterials, to participate in the International Symposium on Advanced Complex Inorganic Nanomaterials (ACIN 2011) that will be held in Belgium from September 11 to 14, 2011.

The nuclear technological centre NuTec (at Xios college), organises a course in protection against radiation for medical and paramedical personnel.
More information and the detailed programme can be found at www.xios.be/iwt-bns-sb1 . Contact person is leen.hulshagen (at) xios.be.

As the conference season is beginning, many of you are finalizing manuscripts to submit to outstanding journals, such as the European Physical Journal, one of our main sponsors, http://www.epj.org/, also endorsed by the EPS.

For those of you who choose open-souce publishing and in particular the New Journal of Physics (impact factor 3.440, http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/), we have good news: as a member of the Belgian Physical Society you enjoy a rebate on the article charge: you pay 660 EUR in stead of the regular 715 EUR.

Physicists working at or for a hospital will be interested to know that there is a specific association addressing their needs, the BHPA. You can find more information on their webpage, http://www.bhpa2011.be .  On 4 and 5 February 2011 the BHPA holds a meeting in Charleroi, which we recommend for all physicists in this field.

 Congratulations to Koen Schouteden for winning the young speakers' contest at the BPS general meeting, with a talk on the "Electronic and magnetic properties of self-organised Co islands on a Au(111) surface"!