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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.
March 1
- 1893 Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio
- 1896 Radioactivity is discovered by Henri Becquerel
- 1966 The Soviet Union’s Venera 3 space probe become the first to land on another planet when it crashes on Venus
- 1943 Birth of Richard H Price, the general-relativist known for his eponymous theorem that any inhomogeneities in the geometry of the spacetime around a black hole will be radiated away
- 1943 Birth of Rashid Sunyaev, known for his predictions of inverse Compton scattering in the cosmic microwave background radiation, along with Yakov Zel’dovich
Physics in Perspective
Watch talks from well-renowned physicists at from 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.
