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Robert Boyle Summer School addresses attacks on science, fake news and alternative facts
22 June 2017
Robert Boyle Summer School addresses attacks on science, fake news and alternative facts
Family fun and physics in Omagh
18 May 2017
Physics and life
24 March 2017
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Dublin Maker
Show off your stuff at Dublin Maker, 22 July, Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Physics busking at Bloom 2017
Catch the physics buskers in action at Bloom in the Phoenix Park 3-4 June 2017.
Irish Quantum Foundations 2017 Conference. 25-26 May, UCD
Also includes public lecture on the ESA mission LISA.
Eamon's Get Together
Family fun and physics as Scientific Sue brings her bubble show to Omagh, 13th May.
Annual report 2017
Institute of Physics in Ireland's Annual Reports 2017
IOP Ireland exhibiting
at Irish Science Teachers Association conference 7-9 April Maynooth
Novel photonic mechanisms
for optical manipulation, switching, and light-harvesting in nanostructured molecular systems. Prof David Andrews University of East Anglia.
DCU, TCD 30-31st March.
Gravitional wave astronomy talks
with Prof Shiho Kobayashi, Liverpool John Moore's University - UCC, UCD, QUB, 27-29 March
22 June
- 1633 Galileo Galilei is forced to recant his heliocentric model of the solar system
- 1934 Birth of James Bjorken, whose work led to the recognition of quarks as real elementary particles rather than theoretical constructs and to the development of the theory of quantum chromodynamics
- 1612 Birth of André Tacquet, the mathematician whose work was built on by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz in the development of calculus
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.
