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18 October 2018
Employment Minister Alok Sharma MP spoke at the presentation of our Business Awards to 12 innovative companies at a reception in parliament on 16 October, mentioning his high regard for the IOP and urging physicists to be much more vocal about the difference they are making to society
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Low Temperature Techniques Course
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46th IOP Plasma Physics Conference
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Magnetism 2019
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Rugby meeting
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Towards Gender Equality in Physics - what is Medical Physics getting right?
Registration deadline: 25 October 2018.
IOP 2019 Topical Research Meeting on Time
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Physics in Food Manufacturing Conference 2019
Provisional Programme now available.
BRSG Christmas Meeting 2018
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Physics of Lubricant Additives
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LSE Events Autumn 2018
Events for the coming autumn for the LSE branch.
22 October
- 1770 Birth of Thomas Johann Seebeck, discoverer of the thermoelectric effect
- 1881 Birth of Clinton Davisson, joint winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize along with George Paget Thomson for their independent discoveries of electron diffraction
- 1881 Birth of Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, the geophysicist who first developed equations that describe how seismic waves behave when travelling between different layers of Earth and are useful in locating underground reservoirs
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.
