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Sea-level rise threatens UNESCO World Heritage sites
5 March 2014
Some of the world’s most recognisable and important landmarks could be lost to rising sea-levels if current global warming trends are maintained over the next two millennia.
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PETER 2014 - Pressure, Energy, Temperature and Extreme Rates
Early registration deadline: 10 March 2014
The Physics of Soft and Biological Matters
The scientific programme for this meeting is available on the web site
Early registration deadline: 10 March 2014
IOP Nuclear Physics Group Conference 2014
The scientific programme for this meeting is available on the web site.
Early registration deadline: 11 March 2014
41st IOP Plasmas Physics Conference
Early registration deadline: 14 March 2014
Photon14
Abstract submission deadline extended: 21 March 2014
Magnetism 2014
Early registration deadline: 28 March 2014
Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin Films
Abstract submission deadline: 21 April 2014
Applied Physics Seminar Series (APSS) Mobile Healthcare: Opportunities, challenges and prospects.
APSS - Mobile Healthcare Prof Chris Lowe opened the series with a very intersting and thought provoking talk
March 10
- 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!
Impact Factor success
The 2012 Impact Factors once again show significant growth for many of the journals published by IOP Publishing.New physicsworld.com service helps to connect research with industry
Physics Connect, an online innovation service that aims to bridge the gap between academia and industry, has been launched on physicsworld.com.
