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IOP CEO Paul Hardaker speaks out on gender inequality in science

Credit: Greater London Authority

30 October 2018

Funding from the Mayor of London was announced at City Hall yesterday for a roll-out of the Gender Action schools award.

Festival of Physics
at University of Exeter

Business Innovation and Growth Conference
26 February 2019, Institute of Physics, London, UK Registration now available.

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Anthony Waterhouse Fellowship
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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.

The Business Innovation Awards
A reception to celebrate the winners will be held at the Palace of Westminster on 16 October 2018.

1965 Venera 3 is launched, and will later become the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet

Physics in Perspective
Watch talks from well-renowned physicists at our lecture series; you may even learn a thing or two
Schools 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 ebooks^TM 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.