Posts Tagged ‘Ireland’
12.5% increase in Ireland’s science and technology budget
The Institute of Physics in Ireland welcomed the recent announcement from the Irish Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation of a 12.5% increase in its science and technology budget compared with 2010. This news, coming at a time of severe cutbacks across many areas, sends a strong signal of the government’s recognition of the critical [...]
Girls come first in physics
Aislinn Hayes from Castletroy College, Limerick and Eimear Keane from School Loreto High School, Rathfarnham were awarded IOP medals this week for coming joint first place in the Physics Leaving Certificate Examination 2010. Aislinn now studies biomedical engineering at Imperial College London while Eimear is doing a degree in medicine at Trinity College Dublin.
Transport yourself with physics – new brain teasers on Irish public transport
While sitting on the bus or train on your morning commute you would hardly expect to have your sense of scale or time questioned, but this is exactly what users of public transport across Ireland can expect from 8 November. The Institute of Physics in Ireland (IOP Ireland) is launching a poster campaign that sees [...]
LHC’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ to speak at Athlone physics conference
Irish physicist Professor Steve Myers, also dubbed ‘Lord of The Rings’ in reference to his role as Head of Accelerators at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will speak at the Institute of Physics in Ireland’s (IOP) annual conference in Athlone this Saturday, 27 March 2010. Having just set a new word record in particle acceleration [...]
