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News from IOP in Ireland
Physicists meet in Athlone to discuss the climate of change
12 April 2019
Almost seventy people attended IOP Ireland’s annual spring meeting in Athlone on 30 March 2019, themed 'climate of change'.
BT Young Scientist Exhibition
15 January 2019
Dr Mindflip - physics outreach with a difference
11 December 2018
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School Student Physics Award roll of honour 2019
Congratulations to Eimear Mary Curran from Loreto Grammar School, Omagh on being awarded the School Student Physics Award!
IOP Ireland School Award winners announced
Congratulations to the most recent winners of the School Student Physics Award Alan Philips and Ruth Heavey from Castletroy College, Eoin Disney and Peter McHale from Patrician Secondary School and George Roberts and Conor Corcoran from St Mary's Knockbeg College.
School Student Physics Award roll of honour 2018
We have new recipients of this award: congratulations Amy English and Sarah O'Callaghan for Thornberry College, Derry.
Dublin teacher recognised by Institute of Physics
David Hobson will be given the 2018 IOP Ireland award for outstanding contributions to the teaching of physics.
Tyndall Lectures 2018
Physics of the circus, James Soper. Tyndall Schools Lecture tour Jan-Feb 2018
17 September
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- 1857 Birth of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the pioneering rocket scientist
Physics in Perspective
Watch talks from well-renowned physicists at our lecture series; you may even learn a thing or twoSchools lecture series
The schools lectures feature topics from the Olympics to rock music. Plenty of physics to learn too!
Advanced Digital Imaging Laboratory Using MATLAB®
Listen to the IOP ebooksTM webinar with Professor Leonid Yaroslavsky.Six months in, and 80% of UK library services sign up to Access to Research
10 million academic articles, including content from IOP Publishing, now included in the initiative.
