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EPS PUBLICATIONS The following are the subscription rates or prices for publications of the Society in 1987. Europhysics News 10 issues Sw.Fr. 90. (free to lOMs and members of subscribing societies) Europhysics Letters 24 issues (vols. Ill &IV) Sw.Fr. 595.lOMs Sw.Fr.60.plus mailing contribution Sw.Fr. 10.- Europhysics Conference Abstracts Series 11 (8-10titles) Previous subscribers European Journal of Physics Fig. 6 —The Gekko-12beam glass laser at the Institute forLaser Engineering, Osaka Univer sity. radiation at high temperatures, to per form experiments inthe field of radiation hydrodynamics in the laboratory and to generate in a controlled manner very high pressures by exposing a specimen to the very uniform and intense radiation in a cavity. «Astrophysics in the labora tory» is a good characterization of the direction of this new field. The most ambitious technical applica tion is the production of electric power by inertial confinement fusion. The prin ciple is to implode and ignite a fusion capsule by exposing it to the intense ra diation in a cavity. A large laser built for fusion research at Osaka University 4) is shown in Fig. 6. However, even if ignition could be demonstrated in the next decade, the need to construct power sources with adequate efficiency would probably postpone economic power production into the next century. Unfor tunately the research programmes in several countries are secret being prima rily directed towards more immediate potential military applications. Inertial confinement fusion is thus another example of how the results of modern science can serve or harm mankind. EPS Divisions, Sections and Group Astronomy and Astrophysics Division Solar Physics Section Atomic and Molecular Physics Division Atomic Spectroscopy Section Chemical Physics Electronic and Atomic Collisions Molecular Physics Computational Physics Group Condensed Matter Division Liquids Section LowTemperature Physics Section Macromolecular Physics Magnetism Metal Physics Semiconductors and Insulators Surfaces and Interfaces High Energy &Particle Physics Division Interdiv. Group on Exptl. Phys. Control Systems Interdiv. Group on Physics for Development Nuclear Physics Division Optics Division Plasma Physics Division Quantum Electronics Division 120 This work was supported in part by the Commission of the European Com munities in the framework of the Asso ciation Euratom/JPP. REFERENCES 1. Zel'dovich Ya.B. and Raizer Yu.P., Physics of Shock Waves and High-temperature Hy drodynamic Phenomena (Academic Press, NewYork) 1966. 2. Pakula R. and Sigel R., Z. Naturforsch. 41a (1986) 463 and Phys. Fluids 28 (1985) 232 (see also ibid. 29 (1986) 1340). 3. Laser Program Annual Report 84, Law rence Livermore National Laboratory, Report UCRL-50021-84 (June 1985), available fromNTIS. 4. Yamanaka C. et al, inPlasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research 1984, Vol. 3, Nuclear Fusion Supplement 1985, p. 3; Okada K. et al., J. Appt. Phys. 59 (1986) 2332. 5. Tsakiris G.D. et al., Europhys. Lett. 2 (1986) 213. Herrmann P. et al., Z. Natur forsch. 41a(1985) 767; Földes I.B. et al., Europhys Lett. 2 (1986) 221. Eidmann K. et al., Laser and Particle Beams 4 (1986) 521. 6. To be presented at the 11th International Conference on Plasma Physics and Control led Nuclear Fusion Research, Kyoto, Japan, 13-20 Nov. 1986. Europhysics News is the official journal of the European Physical Society which comprises 29 National Socie ties, Academies and Group, about 4000 Individual Members and 70 Associate Members. Governing bo dies of EPS are the General Meeting, Council and an elected Executive Committee responsible for detailed policy. EPS promotes the collaboration of physicists throughout Europe, organising and harmonising confe rences and publications, improving physics education, encouraging physics applications, awarding scholar ships to sponsored schools in Erice. EPS publishes in addition to Europhys. News, Europhysics Letters (in partnership with national societies), European Journal of Physics (in partnership with The UK Inst, of Phys.), Europhys. Conf. Abs., Europhys. Ed. News. Individual Members receive Europhys. News free of charge (price to insts.: Sw.Fr. 90.-/a), Europhys. Lett, at Sw.Fr. 55.-/a (insts. 550.-), rebates on many other publications and on conference fees. 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