Rosse Medal
The award for graduate research
Rosse medal
Postgraduate students are invited to submit posters communicating any research area in physics to be considered for inclusion at the 2010 Spring Weekend 26-28 March 'the definite particle'. The posters should be prepared for presentation and communication to a general physics audience.
All students presenting a poster must be registered at an institution based in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland. The Rosse medal will be awarded to the presenting author of the best poster as determined by the judging panel. The presentation of the medal will be at the conference dinner on Saturday evening.
The Institute of Physics in Ireland will be awarding a number of bursaries to students who are members of the Institute of Physics and who are from participating institutions that have at least two students presenting posters. Further details are available from the IOP representative at each institution. See contact us.
Students will qualify for the bursary, provided:
1) The poster abstract is received by 26 February 2010. Online abstract submission details here. Maximum poster board size/shape A0 portrait.
2) The student registers as a delegate for the meeting by 7 March 2010.
Online Registration
3) The student attends and displays the poster in advance of judging, which starts at 18.00 on Friday 26 March.
The Institute of Physics in Ireland awards the Rosse medal each year to the winner of the postgraduate student poster competition. The medal commemorates the 3rd Earl of Rosse (Sir William Parsons KP, FRS) and his contributions to science.
Background to the Rosse Medal
During the 1840's and starting from virtually first principles, the third Earl of Rosse, Sir William Parsons, designed and implemented the building of the mirrors, tube and mountings for a 72 inch reflecting telescope which was the largest in the world at that time and remained so for three quarters of a century. With this instrument, situated near the middle of Ireland, Lord Rosse was able to study and record details of immensely distant stellar objects and to provide evidence that many of these mysterious nebulae were actually galaxies located far outside our own.
This award was formerly known as the Postgraduate Poster award. Only postgraduates registered at institutions based in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland are eligible for this Award.
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