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Where next for physics in Northern Ireland?
Physics Courses in Ireland 2017
News from IOP in Ireland
9 September 2016
Recently, Trinity Walton Club was delighted to welcome 7 teachers of Trinity Walton Club students to Trinity College Dublin for a day long workshop. Trinity Walton Club is a STEM (physics, technology, engineering and maths) club, for second level students to connect with likeminded students and mentors, and further enhance their STEM knowledge and skills
Continuing drop in N. Ireland physics numbers at A-Level
22 August 2016
Welcome rise in Leaving Certificate Physics
22 August 2016
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Catch the physics buskers
at the National Ploughing Championships on 20-22 September, and at Féilte, RDS on 1 October 2016
Brexit - where next for physics in Northern Ireland?
Meeting on 22 September, Europa Hotel, Belfast, 10am-2pm
Peter Zoller talks
A Quantum Leap in Quantum Information, Prof Peter Zoller, University of Innstruck.
Academic talks in UCC, Maynooth and QUB 19-21 September
Check out physics courses and careers at Higher Options
RDS, 14-16 September,
Options West, Galway 25 October,
and Monaghan 24 November
Leaving Certificate Physics Marking Schemes 2016
Teachers meeting. Blackrock Education Centre. 14 September, 7.30pm
Consultation response
IOPI responds to Dept of Education consultation on Statement of Strategy 2016-2018
IOP Ireland response
Consultation on the Northern Ireland draft programme for government framework 2016-21
Basic research funding proposal
IOPI submission re funding of basic research
100 years of Einstein’s gravity - but where are the waves?
Prof Mike Cruise, Dublin, 25 November, 7.30pm
Annual reports
IOP Ireland Annual Report April 2016
24 September
- 1945 Death of Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter (b. 1882)
- 1960 USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched
- 1979 Compu-Serve launches the first commercial online service and public email system
- 2014 The Mars Orbiter Mission, a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation, successfully inserted into orbit of Mars
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.
