Category: News

The new issue of jIAPS in over a year can be downloaded here (10MB).
With contributions from all over the world the issue includes
highlights from ICPS 09, an account of how to perform experiments in
low gravity from Joshua Fuchs (USA), the physics of the aurora from
Ania Sokulska (Poland) and the physics of paper planes from Ali
Farnudi (Iran) as well as musings from the editors on topics as diverse
as self heating chocolate and optical illusions. The (not so) new EC
introduce themselves, their hobbies and their favourite formulae. We
hope you enjoy this issue.

If you would like to see more jIAPS then we are always looking for
contributions, email to jiaps@iaps.info.

Once again, enjoy,

The jIAPS editors

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

Astroparticle physics: The section includes an introduction to general relativity, and then will move on to star models, gravitational waves and observations in cosmology.

Energetics: The section will revolve around answering the energy problems of the 21st century. The thematics will be fuels, plasma physics and fusion, and generation IV reactors.

Medical physics: This section will present applications of nuclear physics, in medical sciences. You will hear about PET, CT, MRI, irradiation linear accelerators, gamma knife, 3D nonlinear microscopy and more.

Self-organisation and networks: This section will introduce game theory, networks and graphs and their use in social and collective phenomena, and also the collective motion of self-propelled particles.

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

More information:

The school is located at Balatöngyörök, Hungary (at the shore of the picturesque Lake Balaton).
The date of the Summer School: July 11-18.
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, Badacsony, Kis-Balaton, and a castle and cave tour.).

Participation Fee: 100 Euros for IAPS members, 180 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/ .

Questions are welcomed at bss@mafihe.hu .

The purpose of ISWLA’10 is to extend the knowledge level of the attendees regarding the most recent results in laser physics, the new projects supported by EU, the development of pan- European ELI project – Extreme Light Infrastructure – delivering a pulse of 200 PW. The conference topic has a very large application spectrum: medical field, biology, material science, X-Ray Radiography, etc.
We invite undergraduate and graduate students, PhD students, young scientists up to 35 years old from different scientific areas, interested in lasers and applications to promote inter disciplinary – collaborations.

More details about the ISWLA10 Conference on:

http://iswla10.inflpr.ro

It is now possible to register for the International Conference of Physics Students 2010. This years event will be held in Graz, Austria.
Registration is done online via http://icps2010.tugraz.at/ .
Until now are approx. 200 participants registered.

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.