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IOP launches new five-year strategy
26 February 2015
The IOP has published a document setting out the direction it will take over the next five years
Edinburgh hosts launch of International Year of Light in Scotland
27 February 2015
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Manchester lecture: The physics of agent-based modelling
25 February, 6.30-7.30pm. Room G.33, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, All Saints Campus, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6HB
Interdisciplinary Surface Science Conference (ISSC-20)
Early registration deadline: 21 February 2015
Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials (MSM-XIX)
Early registration deadline: 25 February 2015
Electrostatics 2015
Early registration deadline 28 February 2015
42nd IOP Plasma Physics Conference
Early registration deadline: 2 March 2015
Magnetism 2015
Early registration deadline: 2 March 2015
The physics of Microorganisms
Registration deadline: 17 March 2015
Young Persons Physics Lecture and Poster Competition
The deadline for the IOP Manchester Branch Young Persons Physics Lecture and Poster Competition is approaching fast. Don't miss your chance to win £250!
Polarized Light in the Natural World
The Mystery of the reflection and detection of polarized light by living organisms. 20 Feb, University of East Anglia.
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- 1928 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman discovers the inelastic scattering of photons, which would become known as the Raman Effect
- 1997 A flash of gamma rays strikes the Earth for 80 seconds and was followed by an afterglow in a galaxy 8.1bn lightyears away, providing the first evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur far outside our own galaxy
- 2007 The New Horizons space probe flies past Jupiter on its way to Pluto
- 1930 Birth of Leon Neil Cooper, who developed a theory explaining superconductivity along with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, for which the trio were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1972
- 1939 Birth of Daniel C Tsui, the solid-state physicist awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for discoveries relating to the quantum Hall effect
- 1948 Birth of Steven Chu, the 12th US Secretary of Energy and winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for cooling and trapping atoms with laser light
Physics in Perspective
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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.
