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Space expo comes to Dublin
Large Hadron Collider Roadshow - Belfast May 2013
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News from IOP in Ireland
UCC take the top place in quiz
29 April 2013
Buswell’s Hotel was the venue for the recent IOP Ireland annual intervarsity physics quiz
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Petition for Dublin's new bridge to be named after Ireland's only Nobel Prize in Physics winner
Update: the name ETS Walton is on the shortlist!
Physics at Work
Colin Murray will give an overview of the type of rescue work undertaken by
25 volunteers based at Howth and how they collaborate with the Rescue
Service Helicopter
UCC take the top place in quiz
UCC win annual physics intervarsity quiz.
Irish Quantum Field Theory Meeting 2013
This forthcoming event takes place on 3 and 4 May in Kildare
Irish Quantum Foundations: Four Generations of the Higgs Boson
A public talk is organised as part of the outreach programme of the Irish Quantum Foundations 2013 conference
Irish Science Teachers Association Conference 2013
IOP in Ireland will be at this year's ISTA conference
Graduate Workshops on Data Imaging and Analysis
UCD-TCD Graduate Imaging Workshops in Dublin in the week beginning 29 April
Annual reports
IOP in Ireland 2013 Annual Report published
Virtual Physics Laboratory Workshops
The events take place in February and March
Policy submissions
IOP response to CCEA consultation on GCSE and GCE qualifications in Northern Ireland
May 18
1850 Birth of Oliver Heaviside, the physicist and engineer who introduced complex numbers into the study of electrical circuits
- 1910 Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet
- 1958 A world airspeed record of 1404 miles per hour is set by an F104 Starfighter jet
- 1969 Apollo 10 is launched as part of the programme aimed at sending humans to the moon
- 1974 India conducts a successful nuclear weapon test, making it the world's sixth known nuclear power
- 2005 Images from the Hubble Space Telescope show that Pluto has two more moons, Nix and Hydra, in addition to its largest satellite Charon
- Institute of Physics Blog
The IOP blog highlights daily global physics news and features a closer look at some of the IOP's activities from outreach programmes and national and regional involvement to our international partnerships and interesting research developments.
- Teaching Advanced Physics
The Teaching Advanced Physics (TAP) website contains detailed ideas and resources for teaching physics to students aged 16-19.
- Winners of the Journal of Physics A Best Paper Prize announced
Congratulations to the winners of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical's Best Paper Prize 2012. - Impact Factor success
The 2011 Impact Factors published by Thomson Reuters, once again show significant growth for many of the journals published by IOP Publishing.
