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Trashed Earth Day 2014
Biophotonics and Imaging Summer School
The Visual Time Traveller, Alison Hackett, lecture and exhibition RDS, 2 April - 16 May
Unknown Shores, Exhibition, Méadhbh O'Connor 10th-28th April, UCD
News from IOP in Ireland
IOP Ireland exhibited at the recent Irish Science Teacher Association annual conference.
14 April 2014
IOP Ireland exhibited at the recent Irish Science Teacher Association annual conference.
Physics in Action at NISP
7 April 2014
Women in physics at QUB
21 March 2014
Noticeboard
Open meeting
Open meeting re membership of European Southern Observatory, 16th April, RIA
Physicists and Mathematicians of Belfast, event 25th June 2014, QUB
Physicists and Mathematicians of Belfast, event 25th June 2014, QUB
Fusion - powering our Future, talk 10th April
Where will we get our energy in the future? The presentation discusses the prospects for nuclear fusion, a hugely promising technology that is the subject of intensive research around the world.
The Ireland for CERN campaign, survey of secondary school students now open.
The Ireland for CERN campaign, survey of secondary school students now open at
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
April 15
- 1707 Birth of Leonard Euler, known for his many contributions to maths, including application of mathematical tools to problems in physics
- 1874 Birth of Johannes Stark, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize for his discoveries of the Doppler Effect in beams of positive ions and of the splitting of spectral lines in an electric field - the latter is now known as the Stark effect.
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.
