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Women in Physics Day, QUB 19 March 2014
Physics courses in Ireland 2014
International Particle Physics Masterclasses, 21 March, UCD
How to build a theme park and not kill everyone, talk: QUB 19 March 18.30
News from IOP in Ireland
11 March 2014
35 members of Trinity College Dublin's physics society recently landed in the Netherlands to visit the European Space Agency’s (ESA) largest branch - the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC).
CERN Director Enthuses Local Schools
11 February 2014
Noticeboard
Back to the Big Bang: The ATLAS Experiment at CERN
Public talk, Dr Kate Shaw, TCD, 10 March 7.30pm
Annual reports
IOP in Ireland 2014 Annual Report published
IOPI open meeting on CERN membership
7 March, 2pm, Royal Irish Academy
All Party Science Group Discussion on the Chief Scientific Adviser for NI
Stormont, 25 Feb, 6pm - open to public
Apples and Atoms
Sculpture celebrating ETS Walton unveiled in TCD
Launch of UCD Science Expression 2013: Science + Film festival
UCD Science Expression Film Festival 31st Oct - 3rd Nov
Welcome rise in Leaving Certificate physics but it’s not enough
A turn around for physics numbers but still a significant gender imbalance and almost a quarter of schools are still not offering physics at Leaving Cert level.
UCC take the top place in quiz
UCC win annual physics intervarsity quiz.
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!
Rosse Medal postgrad competition
Deadline for submission of abstracts extended to 19th February
March 12
- 1824 Birth of Gustav Kirchoff, who coined the term “blackbody radiation” and who worked on spectroscopy and electrical circuits
- 1881 Birth of Gunnar Nordström, the first physicist to introduce an extra dimension to a theory of gravity to couple it with electromagnetism
- 1907 Birth of Dorrit Hoffleit, author of the Bright Star Catalogue, containing information on more than 9000 of the brightest stars in the sky
- 1925 Birth of Leo Esaki, who was awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize along with Ivar Giaever and Brain Josephson for the discovery of quantum tunneling of electrons. He also invented the Esaki diode, which takes advantage of electron tunneling
Physics in Perspective
Watch talks from well-renowned physicists at from 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!
Impact Factor success
The 2012 Impact Factors once again show significant growth for many of the journals published by IOP Publishing.New physicsworld.com service helps to connect research with industry
Physics Connect, an online innovation service that aims to bridge the gap between academia and industry, has been launched on physicsworld.com.
