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IOP members receive Queen’s birthday honours
14 June 2019
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Government invests £153 million in UK’s quantum technologies
14 June 2019
Government has today announced it will invest £153 million into the National Quantum Technologies Programme.
IOP at Science and the Assembly 2019
7 June 2019
This week’s Science and the Assembly event in Cardiff (4 June 2019) once again brought together scientists, politicians and science educators from schools colleges and HEIs, to share experiences, good practice and recommendations for teaching and curriculum development. Read more on out beta site.
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NuFor: Nuclear Forensics
10-11 July 2019, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Abstract submission: 24 May 2019
Current Research in Magnetism
CRIM 2019: Recent Advances in Antiferromagnetism.
Abstract submission deadline 12 July 2019.
Physics Meets Biology Conference
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LSE Events Autumn 2018
Events for the coming autumn for the LSE branch.
17 June
1969 The Soviet probe Venera 6 descends into the atmosphere of Venus and sends back what data it can before being crushed by pressure
- 1983 The US Department of Energy releases documents describing the world’s largest mercury-pollution event at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, home to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the successor to the institution that hosted the Manhattan Project during the second world war
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.
