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News from IOP in Ireland
19 February 2020
The 2020 conference 8 February and opened with keynote speaker Professor Aidan Moran (UCD) with his plenary lecture ‘Staying Sharp: Practical Tips on Improving Your Memory and concentration'
9 December 2019
Dr Yvonne Kavanagh, Chair of the Institute of Physics Ireland, presented Silver Medals to the top Leaving Certificate physics students and the Earnshaw Award for the best physics final year undergraduate project in Ireland.
Committee recommends Ireland join CERN
13 November 2019
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Cancelled - IOP Ireland Spring meeting 2020
With regret, we have decided to postpone the 2020 IOP Ireland Spring Meeting event due to take place on Saturday 28 March in University College Cork. We believe it is best to take this precautionary measure to ensure the health and well-being of our staff, members and the wider public. We will refund any registration fees paid direct to the delegate upon proof of purchase. Please contact the IOP conferences team by emailing conferences@iop.org. If you have any queries, please email Ireland@iop.org.
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
11 July
- 1735 Pluto moves inside the orbit of Neptune, according to orbital calculations
- 1962 Communications satellites are used to broadcast a television transmission across the Atlantic for the first time
- 1979 The first US space station, Skylab, re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere due to greater drag than predicted, and burns up over the Indian Ocean
Physics in Perspective
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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.
