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Sea-level rise threatens UNESCO World Heritage sites
5 March 2014
Some of the world’s most recognisable and important landmarks could be lost to rising sea-levels if current global warming trends are maintained over the next two millennia.
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3 March 2014
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PETER 2014 - Pressure, Energy, Temperature and Extreme Rates
Early registration deadline: 10 March 2014
The Physics of Soft and Biological Matters
The scientific programme for this meeting is available on the web site
Early registration deadline: 10 March 2014
IOP Nuclear Physics Group Conference 2014
The scientific programme for this meeting is available on the web site.
Early registration deadline: 11 March 2014
41st IOP Plasmas Physics Conference
Early registration deadline: 14 March 2014
Photon14
Abstract submission deadline extended: 21 March 2014
Magnetism 2014
Early registration deadline: 28 March 2014
Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin Films
Abstract submission deadline: 21 April 2014
Applied Physics Seminar Series (APSS) Mobile Healthcare: Opportunities, challenges and prospects.
APSS - Mobile Healthcare Prof Chris Lowe opened the series with a very intersting and thought provoking talk
March 9
- 1997 A solar eclipse allows the comet Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day from China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia
- 1923 Birth of Walter Kohn, who was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998 along with John Pople for contributions to the understanding of the electronic properties of materials
- 1928 Birth of Gerald Bull, the engineer who developed long-range artillery and who wished to use artillery to launch a satellite into space; he was killed by an anonymous assassin in 1990
- 1934 Birth of Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space
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.
