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Council member vacancies 2015: call for nominations

IOP Innovation Awards 2015 open for entries

3 March 2015

Researchers have, for the first time, mapped the rapid urban expansion that has occurred across the whole of East-Southeast Asia in the last decade

42nd IOP Plasma Physics Conference
Registration deadline: 13 March 2015

The physics of Microorganisms
Registration deadline: 17 March 2015

Magnetism 2015
Registration deadline: 23 March 2015

Electrostatics 2015
Registration deadline: 1 April 2015

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

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!

1904 Nikola Tesla describes in Electrical World and Engineer how ball lightning forms
1979 Two Soviet space probes and an American satellite are hit by gamma-ray bursts, leading to the discovery of “soft gamma repeaters” – objects that emit large, irregular bursts of gamma and x-rays
1979 The Voyager 1 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Jupiter

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