Austrian Physical Society
The Austrian Physical Society ( ÖPG ) is the specialist society of Austrian physicists and is organized as a non-profit association based in Graz .
The association is intended to promote and disseminate physical science in research, development and teaching, bring Austrian physicists from all areas closer together and represent them as a whole to the outside world (3rd paragraph of the statute).
Emergence
The Austrian physicists were organized in the Gauverein Österreich of the German Physical Society until 1938 . In 1946 an Austrian physical journal was founded, Acta Physica Austriaca , which was first published in 1948 by Fritz Kohlrausch and Hans Thirring . At a physics conference in Graz on December 13, 1950, it was decided to found a company of its own, and Fritz Kohlrausch was elected chairman of the board at the first annual general meeting in 1951.
activity
Annual general meetings take place alternately at the Austrian university locations. Since 1953 joint annual meetings have also been held with the German Physical Society and the Swiss Physical Society .
For subject-specific sub-areas, there are technical committees that work with the relevant parts of foreign societies and organize specialist conferences.
There are
- eleven technical committees:
- Acoustics
- Medical physics , biophysics and environmental physics
- Atomic , Molecular and Plasma Physics
- Physics - Industry - Energy
- Solid state physics
- Physics of neutron and synchrotron radiation sources
- Nuclear and Particle Physics
- Polymer physics
- Teachers in secondary schools
- Quantum electronics , electrodynamics and optics
- Surfaces , interfaces and thin layers
- and two working groups:
- Women & Physics
- energy
The ÖPG publishes the quarterly bulletins that provide information on the latest in Austrian physics, such as job advertisements from universities or conference dates.
Prices
Every year the ÖPG awards the Physics Prize to young physicists , alternately as the Ludwig Boltzmann Prize in the field of theoretical and the Fritz Kohlrausch Prize in the field of experimental physics. The Roman Ulrich Sexl Prize is awarded to outstanding performance in teaching and teaching.
In addition, 8 theses in physics are awarded prizes each year . In addition, the following specialist committees of the ÖPG award research prizes and / or funding prizes for dissertations: the specialist committee for solid state physics , the specialist committee for nuclear and particle physics and the specialist committee for surfaces, interfaces, thin layers .