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Watch our medal winner: Alan Guth lecture now online
Watch a new fascinating lecture on ‘Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?’ given by the 2009 winner of the IOP Isaac Newton medal, Professor Alan H Guth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Click here to view.
Round Table discussion at the IOP
Some of Britain’s leading physicists, including Professor Sir Peter Knight, Professor Brian Cox and Professor Athene Donald, met at the IOP yesterday for a round table discussion on the future of physics in the UK, funding issues and education policies.
Thales announces winners of Scottish innovative technology competition
Thales UK has announced the winners of the 2009 Thales Scottish Technology Prize for image and data processing technology and applications. The competition, now in its
second year, was launched in September and was open to all students and staffattending Scottish universities.
The competition has generated a number of extremely high quality and innovative proposals, underlining Scotland’s global [...]
A Christmas Cabinet of Curiosities Lecture: follow our live webcast
The IOP’s South East Branch will be broadcasting a live webcast of their lecture ‘A Christmas Cabinet of Curiosities’, taking place this Wednesday, 9 December.
The lecture, by Dr Ken Zetie, Head of Physics at St.Paul’s School in London, is aimed at young people and will explore some of the more curious and entertaining demonstrations in physics.
The lecture will [...]
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