Author: Dimitris Gkavakos

There’ll be a Conference of Physics Students in Spain, the information we got from the organisation committee so far says that:

The conference will consist of a series of lectures given by distinguished physicists. In addition, the students participants will be able to expose their scientific works, developments of practices, reviews of scientific publications and more, in meetings of 15 minutes or in the form of a poster, under the teachers’ attentive supervision of the different departments of the Faculty of Physics. We will give public and scientific awards. One of the guest speakers of the conference will be Kip S. Thorne, current Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech and one of the world’s leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
Other guest speakers: Álvaro Giménez, director of Astrobiology Center and Science and Investigation Center of ESA. And Francisco Sánchez, director and foundator of Institute of Astrophysics in Canary Islands.

Homepage: http://www.coeffis.es/11.html
Start: March 19th 2010
End: March 20th 2010

Venue:
University of La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain
Register fee: 7€
Register deadline: 26 February

It is with great pleasure that Vilnius University Faculty of Physics Students’ Scientific Association (VUFPSSA) have the opportunity to invite you to participate in the 53rd annual scientific conference for Physics Students “Open Readings 2010”. It will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania and is taking place from Wednesday 24th to Saturday 27th March 2010.
The “Open Readings ’10″ scientific program consists of research project presentations given by participating students from all over Europe. All participants (students) are free to choose their research project topic (in fields of Physics) and present it in the conference “Open Readings’10″. Physicists from all over Europe will be giving guest lectures and the social program consists of excursions around Lithuania, especially Vilnius.

Moreover, participants are encouraged to take an interest in global challenges, such as sustainable development and climate change topics, because “Open Readings ’10″ will be implemented in parallel with another SSA project “Young Scientists Thinking Ecologically”.

The official language of the conference is English so all oral presentations and posters should be in English. Furthermore, there is no fee for participants and registration for the conference is open to all students from all over the world.
To register, please email your full name, university and tentative scientific project topic to the email address: openreadings2010@gmail.com. More detailed information is available from http://www.smd.ff.vu.lt/conference/

The current issue of Europhysics News features an article about the history of IAPS written by Jim Grozier.
It is based on the text than can be found in the history section of the webpage.

August 17, 2010 to August 23, 20010

The XXV ICPS will be hosted by NC Austria in Graz, Austria.  Online registration for this will be opened on February 1st, 2010.

For more information including conference details, a proposed timetable and to keep up-to-date, visit the website at: http://icps2010.tugraz.at/

The new EC was elected at IAPS 2009 AGM in Split, Croatia.  It is composed of students from 9 individual different countries. More details can be found on the executive committee page.

At the 2009 IAPS AGM, NC Hungary was voted as the host for the XXVI ICPS in 2011. The event will take place in Budapest, Hungary where it has already taken place twice before, in 1986 and 2002.

August 10, 2009 to August 18, 2009

The XXIV International Conference of Physics Students was held in the beautiful historical city of Split, Croatia based at the Faculty of Engineering, Electric Engineering and Naval Architecture (FESB), University of Split.  The conference involved about 450 participants from 30 countries around the world, 99 student lecture presentations, 55 poster presentations, 7 guest lectures including one from nobel-prize winner Klaus von Klitzing, 9 medical emergencies and 4 police interventations!

The social programme was very eventful and consisted of a welcome party, Croatian party, National party, costume party, surprise party with entertainment, two nights out, a city tour an excursion with 7 different places to choose from, a farewell party and much more.

The official website is http://icps2009.hfd.hr and contains more information on all of the above along with some videos, clips from the Croatian news and articles from the Croatian papers. The survival guide provided for the conference can be found here.

Many people from the conference have put up pictures and videos from the conference on facebook and two groups have been created for all past and present ICPS participants: “International Conference of Physics Students”  and “IAPS” .

GPhyS “Kick-Off ” Colloquium

Les Houches, 20-22 October, 2009

The Gravitation and Fundamental Physics in Space “Kick-Off” colloquium is the first of a series of annual meetings organised by the GPhyS, a federation of 12 laboratories focussing on theoretical and experimental gravitation and fundamental physics, with emphasis on space applications (see the GPhyS website for details). The GPhyS is coordinated and financed by the Paris Observatory for the period 2010-2013. Amongst other activities it will organise an annual colloquium, following those organised by the CNRS group GREX (Gravitation et Expérience) from 1995 to 2006.

More information on:http://gphys.obspm.fr/LesHouches2009/Home.html

Dear Students,

There’s only one week left from registration!!!

The Hungarian Association of Physics Students organises the International Balaton Summer School in Physics.The school aims to introduce the most recent results in five areas of physics:

Astrophysics: The section presents cosmology and extragalactical astrophysics. The topics will be about gravitational waves, super-massive black holes, astrophysical observations and inflation as well.

Biophysics: The section is grouped around biological motion: molecular motor proteins, cellular motion, organ and tissue development,biomechanics, population dynamics and collective motion.

Condensed matter physics: The section shows the diversity of the condensed materials in a wide range of their research and use.Lectures will be about interacting systems, carbon nanotubes, graphene, superconductors and dislocations.

Statistical quantum physics: The section presents the theoretical background of quantum optics, the quantum statistical description of fields, the quantum dynamics of open systems, the interaction of radiation with matter and the quantum statistics of matter fields. These include laser cooling and the Bose-Einstein condensate as well.

Particle physics: This section introduces the Standard Model of particle physics and the experimental instruments.The topics will be about experiments at the LHC, the results of heavy ion collisions up to now, and the physics beyond the Standard Model.

Registration and detailed program on http://bss.mafihe.hu.

More information:The school is located at Balatöngyörök, Hungary (at the shore of the beautiful Lake Balaton).

The date of the Summer School: July 5-12.There will be 5 days with lectures. The final lectures every afternoon will be common plenary lectures,where all of the sections will provide an overview of their most interesting results to everyone.There will be 1 free day, when we organise trips to the beautiful surroundings (Keszthely, Tapolca, Kis-Balaton, …).

Participation Fee: 180 Euros for IAPS members, 200 Euros for non IAPS members.The price contains the accommodation for 7 nights, breakfast, lunch and dinner for the whole week,the use of the sport facilities, the entrance fee to the beach and the price of one excursion.Here are some information how you can become an IAPS member https://www.iaps.info/how-to-join/ .

Registration deadline: 29 June

Questions are welcomed at bss@mafihe.hu .Best regards,The organisers