Singapore

For further information related to Singaporean events, contact the Coordinator:
Prof. Feng Yuan Ping
Secretary, IPS,
Department of Physics, National University of Singapore,
Science Drive 3
Lower Kent Ridge
Singapore 119260
tel: +65 6874 2960 • fax: +65 6777 6126
Email: phyfyp@nus.edu.sg

Useful links:
http://lckwek.myplace.nie.edu.sg/ips/WYP.html

Events:

Highlights of some events for WYP 2005: For more events please refer to
the webpage under useful links or contact: Prof. Feng YP

• International symposium:
  The IPS, the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang
  Technological University will be organizing a joint symposium on the
  theme "Looking to the next 100 years in Physics and its impact on
  Engineering, Life Sciences & Technology" .

• Physics Forum
  A physics forum jointly organized by IPS and the French embassy
  (Singapore). Two of the speakers for the forum will be Professor
  Martial Ducloy (Paris) and Alain Aspect (Orsay).

• Inter-School Competition: Is E=Mc2 from the satellite?
  An inter-school competition in which students will form letters
  or equations that are big enough to be captured through remote sensing
  via satellite.

• Public Lecture by Prof. Paul C. Chu, President, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Friday, 3 June, 2005, 6.00 pm, LT 31, NUS.
  Title: High Temperature Superconductivity: Past, Present and Future • from Mega to Nano.

• Public Lectures by Nobel Laureates in Physics, 6 July, 2005, 6.00 pm, LT 31, NUS
  Title of the Lecture by Nobel Laureate Steven Chu • Laser cooling of atoms with laser light and Einstein's legacy.
  Title of the lecture by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman • Bose-Einstein condensation of a gas.

• Singapore is organizing an international Symposium on "Looking to the
  next 100 years of Physics" from 10-12 August 2005. For more information,
  please consult: www.100yearsofphysics.org/index.html