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City Hall Announces IOP-Led Gender Action Schools Award
30 October 2018
Funding from the Mayor of London was announced at City Hall yesterday for a roll-out of the Gender Action schools award.
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Magnetism 2019
Abstract submission now open.
Rugby meeting
Registration is now open for the 30th Annual Rugby meeting.
LSE Events Autumn 2018
Events for the coming autumn for the LSE branch.
London and South East Branch Summer Events
LSE events for summer 2018.
The Business Innovation Awards
A reception to celebrate the winners will be held at the Palace of Westminster on 16 October 2018.
Journeys in Intellectual Property: Perspectives from Physics and Technology
20 September 2018, Edinburgh
Health of Photonics Report
16 May 2018, De Vere West One, London, UK.
Anthony Waterhouse Fellowship
Next application deadline: Monday 15 April 2019
School Grants
Apply for a School Grant
Next application deadline: 1 November 2018
Nominate Members to your Regional and National Branch Committees
The Institute of Physics is looking for enthusiastic members to encourage grassroots physics in your local area. You have the opportunity to change the way people think about physics by nominating members to your regional and national branch committees.
5 November
- 1906 Birth of Fred Lawrence Whipple, the astronomer who came up with the “dirty snowball” explanation of comet composition
- 1948 Birth of William Daniel Phillips, joint winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for his work on laser cooling
Physics in Perspective
Watch talks from well-renowned physicists at 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!
Advanced Digital Imaging Laboratory Using MATLAB®
Listen to the IOP ebooksTM webinar with Professor Leonid Yaroslavsky.Six months in, and 80% of UK library services sign up to Access to Research
10 million academic articles, including content from IOP Publishing, now included in the initiative.
