Open Calls for Papers
EPJ B Topical Issue: High Field Superconducting Magnets: Materials, Technology and Applications
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- Published on 19 December 2024
Guest Editors: Jinxing Zheng, Yoshikazu Mizuguchi, Jianhua Liu, Ivan Shorubalko
Submissions are invited for a Topical Issue of EPJ B on High Field Superconducting Magnets: Materials, Technology and Applications.
With the continuous development of superconducting materials and superconducting magnet technology, it has played an increasingly important role in power systems, medical equipment, fusion devices and other fields. The superconducting power transmission can save a lot of energy loss. Superconducting medical devices (such as MRI, proton therapy devices and so on) offer a powerful path to better disease diagnosis and improved treatment outcomes. The construction of magnetic confinement fusion devices is also based on high-field superconducting magnets. The core issue of the superconducting technology is to maintain superconducting state under different operation conditions. To address this issue, many superconducting physics problems are analyzed and studied from a systematic perspective, such as superconducting materials, critical performance, AC loss calculation, stability margin, quench propagation etc. The critical performance will affect the AC loss and stability evaluation. None of these challenges can be addressed in isolation. The research of superconducting technology is a complex system engineering.
EPJ B Topical Issue : CompLex: Complexity Science for Legal Applications
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- Published on 14 November 2024
Guest Editors: Pierpaolo Vivo, Daniel Martin Katz, J.B. Ruhl, Philipp Hövel
Submissions are invited for a Topical Issue of EPJ B on CompLex: Complexity Science for Legal Applications.
In recent years, the intersection of law, governance, and complexity science has emerged as a fascinating and important area of study (See CompLex: legal systems through the lens of complexity science for a recent review). Modern societies are regulated by intricate legal and governance systems that share many characteristics with complex adaptive systems traditionally studied in physics and mathematics. These include nonlinear effects, feedback loops, and emergent behaviors. As our world becomes increasingly interconnected and complex, there is a growing need to apply rigorous quantitative methods to analyze and improve our legal and governance frameworks. The study of social institutions and governance has historically been confined to philosophy and social sciences. However, interdisciplinary applications of physics and other hard sciences have had a profound impact on our understanding of complex systems in biology, economics, and other fields. It is now time to extend this approach to law and governance. For over a decade, complexity scientists have been turning their attention to societal issues, but it is only recently that important legal and political questions have been formulated in a language that science can comprehend and meaningfully address. While some barriers still exist, the time is ripe for a full-fledged cross-fertilization between law/governance, physics, and computer science.
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Open calls for papers
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EPJ AM Call for papers: Themed Issue on Global Advances in Electromagnetic Metasurfaces for Space
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Call for papers : Special Issue on Imaging, Diffraction, and Spectroscopy on the micro/nanoscale
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EPJ C Topical Collection on String theory predictions for astroparticle and collider physics, and beyond
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