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IOP Innovation Awards 2014 now open for entries

Topic of the moment - cosmic inflation

Best Practice in Professional Development Awards 2014

IOP Teacher Training Scholarships 2014 now open

22 April 2014

The quantity and quality of scientific papers produced by UK physicists indicates that the UK remains in an elite band of knowledge-based economies

CAPS 2014 - Conference
Registration for the Conference for Astronomy and Physics Students (CAPS) is now OPEN for two weeks

Dielectrophoresis 2014
Abstract submission deadline: 30 April 2014

Collodial Quantum Dots and Nanocrystals
Abstract Submission deadline: 5 May 2014

Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin Films
Early registration deadline: 22 May 2014

3rd Superconductivity Summer School
Early registration deadline 26 June 2014

Photon14
Poster abstract submission deadline: 18 July 2014

Physics in Perspective: 2013 lectures
Video: Dr Andreas Freise talks about finding black holes with lasers

Communicating Physics Through The Arts
Communicating Physics Through The Arts
Friday 20 June 2014
Institute of Physics, London, UK

Energy and environment
IOP responds to nuclear power consultation

Physics in Perspective
Watch talks from well-renowned physicists at from our lecture series, you may even learn a thing or two
Schools 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.