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Imagine spending 3 weeks of your summer in beautiful countryside scenery working with other students from all over the world on an astronomical project of your choice. The International Astronomical Youth Camp (IAYC) is a three-week long summer camp aiming to promote knowledge on astronomy and related sciences in a unique international atmosphere. Each year it takes place in a different European location, this year near the small town of Klingenthal in the region of Vogtland, situated in the East of Germany.

The IAYC is different from most astronomical camps for two reasons: the international character and the fact that you carry out your own small research project. You will not just accept facts, but you will discover them yourself or working together with other people. The IAYC is therefore not like staying in a hotel and following a summer school or an astronomy course. We are proud that award winning projects were carried out during the camp and many of the IAYC alumni chose science as their profession and work in leading astronomical centers.

“Sarajevo School of High Energy Physics 2013” (SSHEP 2013) will be held at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo from May 21 to May 25, 2013. The School aims at the graduate students who are interested in topics pertaining to High Energy Physics (HEP).

The application process for participation at SSHEP 2013 was opened on January 1st, 2013. Application closing date is March 24th, 2013. To apply, it is sufficient to send a short Curriculum Vitae and a Letter of Motivation to any of e-mail addresses listed on the SSHEP 2013 web site. All students who would require support for travel and lodging during the School are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

The web site of the School is

http://www.pmf.unsa.ba/fizika/SCHOOL/HOME.html

There one can also find preliminary version of the program. We plan to accommodate registered participants at the student hostel at our expense. (Information on the hostel is also accessible at the web site of the School.) We also plan to provide support for student travel for eligible participants. We will notify all applicants with regard to their application status shortly after March 24th deadline.

The Young German Physical Society (jDPG) organizes a poster session on internships and studies in foreign countries at the Spring Meeting of the DPG in Dresden (from 4 to 8 March 2013). You’re warmly invited to present your home university, possible exchange programs, research areas and projects for foreign students. The Spring Meeting in Dresden has a focus on Hadronic, Nuclear and Particle Physics, but there are also many interdisciplinary events.

More information on the poster session, registration, the conference and travel grants:
http://international.jdpg.de/index-en.html
http://dresden13.dpg-tagungen.de/index.html?lang=en&

The registration deadline is 10 January 2013.

The Society of Physics Students “Migacz” and the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wroclaw are pleased to announce the Winter Kindergarten of Theoretical Physics 2013 in Ladek Zdroj, Poland held from Sunday 10th to Saturday 16th February, 2013.  It will be organized in cooperation with the well known Winter School of Theoretical Physics.

The Kindergarten is a week-long conference designed for undergraduate and master students (PhD students are encouraged to take part in the 49^th School of Theoretical Physics).  

Don’t forget to check the 43rd and for the 15th time international Rudolf Ortvay International Problem-solving Competition in Physics! (http://ortvay.elte.hu)
Date: 26^th October – 5^th November, 2012

Competition problems are available on http://ortvay.elte.hu/2012/E12.pdf and rules are on http://ortvay.elte.hu/2012/E12szab.pdf

The competition is electronic, so you are welcome to join from any country in the world as long as you are a university or PhD student in any field.

At the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of IAPS, held on 05th August 2012 at the University of Utrecht a new Executive Committee of IAPS was elected for 2012/13:

President – Bence Ferdinandy
Vice-president – Norbert Bonnici
Secretary – Matthias Zimmermann
Treasurer – Dóra Lakatos
General Members – Andre Dalcher, Ross Donaldson, Anton Dudko, Dražan Jaros and Anatolii Koval

The new EC will be in office starting from September 1st, 2012.

The Annual General Meeting decided on where the International Conference of Physics Students 2014 will take place. The bid of NC Germany, the Young German Physical Society (jDPG), was successful! So they will be organizing the conference in two year’s time.

The next ICPS will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland from 15th August to 22th August 2013.

The International Summer School on Crystal Growth and Photovoltaic Materials will be held August 27th – September 01st at “Transilvania” University of Brasov in Romania. The deadline for submitting applications is 24th June 2012. Travel grants for students can be provided upon request.

Important dates:
24 June 2012 Deadline for submitting applications to the Summer School
1 July 2012 Deadline for submitting applications for International Travel Grants
9 July 2012 Notification of acceptance
16 July 2012 Deadline for early Registration Fee

Three University Student Fellowships – of 2,000 euros each – are available from the European Physical Society [EPS] in 2012. The EPS fellowships are given to promising young physics students in recognition of academic excellence. Applicants should be enrolled, at a European institution, in a physics – or related – degree course at the Masters level (second cycle: post-Bachelor, pre-PhD), or equivalent. Third cycle students and previous EPS fellowship recipients are not eligible. Successful applicants will spend a period of at least three months at a university of their choice, in a different European country to where they are enrolled.

The deadline for applications is 15 May 2012.

For more information on the fellowships, and how to apply, please visit the European Physical Society website.

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