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IOP highlights risks of ‘no-deal Brexit’ for UK science and innovation
16 January 2019
A ‘no deal’ exit from the European Union would be damaging for UK science and innovation, and would risk the UK being left behind in the science, technology and engineering revolution on which our future prosperity and relevance depends. Read more on our beta site.
IOP Chief Executive Paul Hardaker responds to death of Michael Atiyah
14 January 2019
Sir Michael is considered to be one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century. Read more on our beta site.
IOP hosts Campaign for Science and Engineering Annual Lecture
6 December 2018
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London and South East branch events spring 2019
Event listings for the coming spring.
Anthony Waterhouse Fellowship
Next application deadline: Monday 15 April 2019
Business Innovation and Growth Conference
26 February 2019, Institute of Physics, London, UK. Registration now available.
Apply for teacher training scholarships
£28K physics teacher training scholarships.
Inspire the next generation. Apply now.
Festival of Physics
A day of talks and workshops at the University of Exeter on 8 December 2018.
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Latest Particle Accelerators and Beams Group newsletter now available
School Grants
Apply for a School Grant
Next application deadline: 1 February 2019
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.
20 January
- 1836 Birth of André-Marie Ampère, one of the discoverers of electromagnetism, after whom the unit for electric current is named
- 1885 The rollercoaster is patented
- 1931 Birth of David Lee, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize along with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas Osheroff "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3"
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.
