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"International Launch Event of the World Year of Physics"
Contact: Johannes Orphal and Martial Ducloy
Event place: UNESCO, Paris, France,
Dates: January 13-15, 2005 (closed).
The Launch Conference of the World year of Physics 2005 was a great success!
We had over 1200 participants; over half of them were students. 25 percent of the students were young women.
There were also students on an individual basis, so the overall number of countries represented by STUDENTS was 70 (exactly).
A nice short report (BLOG) for each day of the conference is from APS journalist Ernie Tretkoff,
see: www.physics2005.org/wypblog/#010305#010305
Click here to see the launch event photo
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"Beyond Einstein - Physics for the 21st Century (EPS13)"
Contact person: Ophélia Fornari
Event place: Bern, Switzerland
Dates: 11 - 15 July 2005
Description: The 13th General Meeting of the European Physical Society will take place in Bern , and is expected to become a high point of the World Year of Physics , WYP2005, i.e., the centennial celebration of the annus mirabilis 1905 of Albert Einstein, which he spent working at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. Download The Final Call For Abstracts, the Conference Forms, EPS Forms
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"Physics as a Cultural Heritage":
Contacts persons: Sonja Draxler and Max E. Lippitsch
Event place: Various countries
Dates: Entire year
Description: The aim of this project is to establish, by international cooperation, a travelling exhibition that brings to life outstanding achievements of physics from three millennia. All persons and institutions involved in WYP2005 are cordially invited to participate in this endeavour by including suitable physics history projects in their national and local program for that year. The projects should demonstrate the relationship between the physics of a certain period or personality and the political, social and cultural conditions under which it was developed. After 2005, the large travelling exhibition should grow out of that numerous small local and national exhibitions prepared for 2005 in various countries by uniting them under a common scientific, didactic, and creative concept, covering history, science, and the arts. A concept for an overall design will be elaborated and the materials will be translated into the various national languages, in cooperation with the participants. The exhibition will be made available for display in museums and science centres over the following years.
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"Physics enlightens the world":
Contact persons: Max E. Lippitsch and Sonja Draxler
Event place: Various countries
Date: 18 April 2005
Description: In the evening of April 18, 2005 lights are switched off in Princeton, NJ, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Einstein’s death. A light emerges, forming the seed for a grand optical relay. The flash of darkness and light wanders across the country, transgresses boundaries, spans a continent, leaps across the seas, spreads over hemispheres and eventually embraces the whole globe, uniting all nations by the enlightening power of physics. Participation is possible for every individual or organization in any country of the world, an online form for registration is available on the website. Every kind of light source is possible (car headlights, torch light, bonfire, firework, laser…), as far as it is legal and conforms with the regulations to avoid light pollution published here in due course.
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"Physics Talent Search":
Contact: Beverly Hartline
Event place: Various countries
Dates: Entire year
Description: A Physics Talent Search is be organised within the framework of the World year of Physics. Its goal is to create enthusiasm, interest, and participation in physics among young people (and their families). Participating countries will identify physics-talented girls and boys who will be rewarded for the excellence in physics.
For full details, please print the .pdf version
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"Stories in Physics":
Contact: Fred Hartline
Event place: Various countries
Date: entire year
Description: Well told stories are a compelling way to reach students and adults, and stories about physics can do much to make physicists and their work better understood, and to convey the excitement of real scientific research. This project will challenge scientists and science educators world-wide to share their best stories with students and teachers of all cultures and nationalities.
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"Playing Physics":
Contacts: Masno Ginting and Max E. Lippitsch
Event place: in each country
Dates: to come...
Description: Children are curious by nature. And curiosity is the main root of the human interest in the sciences at large and in physics in particular. The best way for developing infant curiosity towards serious scientific activity is playing. Therefore all projects of the world year of physics will also deal with the question how to convert the specific of the project into toys and games, thus opening the fascination of physics to kids of all ages.
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"Einstein@home":
Contact: Vinaya Sathyasheelappa
Event Place: to come...
Dates: to come...
Description: Einstein@Home is a project developed to search data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) for signals coming from rapidly rotating neutron stars, known as pulsars. Scientists believe that some pulsars may not be perfectly spherical, and if so, they should emit characteristic gravitational waves, which LIGO will begin to detect in coming months. Einstein@Home is one, small part of the LIGO scientific program. It is being set up as a distributed computing project, which means that it relies on computer time donated by private computer users like you to search for pulsars
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"International Poster Contest":
Contact: Caitlin Watson
Event Place: Launch of the poster competition at ASE, U.K.
Dates: The launch in January 2005
Description: It is a proposal for physics poster competition.
The Deadline for posters May 2005
- Long listing of enties, June/July 2005
- Final judging and announcement October 2005
See one where children draw a poster
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"Hands on Particle Physics Masterclasses":
Contact: Michael Kobel
Event place: 18 countries across Europe
Dates: 7 - 18 March 2005
Description: In March 2005 about 2500 high school students in 18 countries all over Europe will try to unravel the mysteries of particle physics. Coming to one of about 60 nearby universities or research centres for one day, they learn about particle physics in lectures from active scientists, and perform measurements on real data from particle physics experiments themselves. Einsteins equivalence of mass and energy, which is at the heart of particle physics, becomes transparent in the practical exercises. At the end of each day, like in an international collaboration, the participants join in a video conference for discussion and combination of the results.
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International Conference of Physics Students (ICPS):
Contact person: Ms Maria Joao Benquerenca
Event place: Coimbra, Portugal
Dates: 11 - 18 August 2005
Description: see http://physis.fis.uc.pt/icps2005
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"Physics in School Architecture":
Contact person: Mirjana Bozic
Event place: in School buildings
Dates: to come...
Description: During recent years the consensus has been reached about the necessity to improve the physics curriculum as well as the method of teaching physics, in order to make physics more appealing to young people and students. In order to reach this goal it is also necessary to make the corresponding changes and improvements in the surrounding where education is being realized. The school buildings are the nearest surroundings.
www.designshare.com/awards/
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School "Relativistic Coordinates: Reference and Positioning Systems"
Contact person: Prof. Albert Tarantola
Event place: University of Salamanca
Dates: 21 - 25 January 2005
Description: School open to researchers already initiated in Relativity. The goal is to inform and raise awareness on the problems posed by the physical realization of coordinate systems that are adapted to experimentation with the new generation of atomic and optic clocks: the lack of understanding, concepts and protocols of relativistic positioning render urgent to diffuse and develop the topic. Among interested participants, a research program could be organized.
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"Pirelli Relativity Challenge 2005"- A special award to mark the centenary of the publication of the Special Relativity Theory
Contact person: Mr Massimo Armeni
Event place: Pirelli & C.Spa, Roma, Italy
Dates: to come...
Description: Following the UN's invitation to celebrate the World Year of Physics in 2005, the Pirelli Group has launched-besides the traditional Pirelli Awards - a special prize called " Pirelli relativity Challenge", meant above all for teachers, researchers and academics. The challenge is to explain Einstein's special relativity theory by means of a 5minutes multimedia presentation. Pirelli will award 25,000 Euros (about US $ 30,000) for the best submission. All details and rules are on the site: www.pirelliaward.com/einstein.html
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"Quantum Diaries"
Contact person: Mrs Bellevin Katherine
Event place: to come...
Dates: to come...
Description: Quantum Diaries is a collaborative blogging project where 32 particle physicists from around the world are blogging their professional and personal lives as part of the World Year of Physics. Involved in this effort are CERN, SLAC, Fermilab, KEK, NIKEF, JINR, and many other physics labs around the world. All details are on the site: www.quantumdiaries.org
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"World conference on Physics and sustainable Development"
Contact person: Edmund Zingu, President, South African Institute of Physics (SAIP)
Event place: Durban, South-Africa
Dates: 31 October-2 November 2005
Themes: Physics and Economic Development, Physics and Health, Energy and the Environment, Physics Education.
Organisers: UNESCO, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), and the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP)
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"Celebrating Physics 2005, a Synchrotron Style"
Contact persons: Grace Lin, Diana Lin
Event place: National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC), Taiwan
Date: 19 April, 2005, 7pm
Description: National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) will be using its powerful synchrotron light source to generate millions of electrons circulating within its storage ring at a speed close to that of light and will be releasing a very bright light on April 19, 2005 (Asian time zone) to highlight the celebration, synchrotron style.
As a strong supporter of research and progress in physics, NSRRC Taiwan is taking part in the worldwide celebration marking 2005 as “The World Year of Physics”. The theme of NSRRC's celebration is 'Physics Enlightens the World' and is aimed at promoting this worldwide event in Taiwan and supporting local physics departments and associations. Details are on the site: http://web11.nsrrc.org.tw/news/wcpsd/eng/
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"World View on Physics Education in 2005: Focusing on Change"
Contact: Pratibha Jolly (pjolly@vsnl.com)
Event place: New Delhi, India
Dates: 21 to 26 August 2005
Description: Sponsored by the International Commission on Physics Education (ICPE), Commission 14 of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the conference will bring together physicists, physics teachers and physics education researchers from across the world. The deliberations will focus on changes in the ways of teaching-learning of physics; changes in the understanding of the teaching-learning process; changes in the content of physics as a discipline; and changes in the context of physics teaching. For details, see: www.icpe2005.net
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"LHC@Home"
Contact: francois.grey@cern.ch
Event Place: http://athome.web.cern.ch/athome/
Dates: From 1 March 2005
Description: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will be the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. To better understand the properties of this new machine, simulations of particle trajectories are very useful.
"LHC@Home" consists of a downloadable screen saver, which uses the idle time on private PCs in order to run a simulation of particles travelling through the LHC Apart from pretty pictures on the screen, the results of the simulation are sent back to CERN and will help to speed up commissioning in 2007.
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"Carry out the Eratosthenes Experiment. Measure The Size of The Earth! "
Contact: Karl Torstein Hetland
Event place: Various countries
Date: To come...
Description: The Norwegian World Year of Physics committee together with the GLOBE Program (www.globe.gov) and GLOBE Europe (www.globe-europe.org) wants to highlight The World Year of Physics by conducting the Eratosthenes experiment. This means that we will repeat a 2200 year old experiment and measure the size of the Earth by using shadows. This experiment was chosen by physicists to be the seventh most beautiful experiment in the history.
We invite schools all over the world to participate in this event.
You will find detailed information about the experiment and a registration form on http://www.naturfagsenteret.no/fysikk/eratosthenes/index.html
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"Informal Learning and Public Understanding of Physics"
Contact: Gorazd Planinsic
Event place: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Date: 5-9 September 2005
Description: The Seminar aims to bring together those who are involved in building bridges between physics and public. It will focus on identifying synergies between informal and formal forms of physics education. The Seminar hopes to bring together teachers, researchers in physics education, program and exhibits developers from science centres and scientists from universities in common aim to present innovative ideas and search for new ways of how to increase public appreciation and understanding of physics and how to improve the scientific culture of citizens.
You will find detailed information on: www.girep2005.fmf.uni-lj.si
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"Third Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (APFB05)"
Contact: yupeng@ccs.sut.ac.th
Event place: Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
Date: 26-30 July 2005.
Description: The Third Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in
Physics (APFB05) will be held from July 26 to 30 of 2005 in Nakhon
Ratchasima, Thailand, succeeding the first APFB meeting in Tokyo in 1999
and the second in Shanghai in 2002. The conference is to provide world
leaders, experts and new comers in the various areas of Few-Body System in
Physics an opportunity to present their work and to enhance contacts among
the Asia-Pacific few-body-physics community and colleagues in other
continents. We hope the conference will also serve to boost physics
research and education in Thailand and countries in the region and to
introduce the culture and beauty of the country to our fellow scientists
worldwide.
You will find detailed information on: http://physics3.sut.ac.th
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"Beyond Einstein - World Wide Webcast from the Globe – a final event of the WYP2005", Thursday 1st December 2005, CERN, Switzerland.
Starting from CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, this unprecedented live event on the net will connect viewers with physics laboratories and science museums in all time zones on the planet during 12 hours, from midday to midnight.
Please see http://beyond-einstein.web.cern.ch/beyond-einstein
Over 100 countries were watching the Live webcast around the globe and 13.000 people were connected. A great success....
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"Simpósio de Encerramento do Ano Mundial da Física"
Contact: osé R. Rios Leite (rios@df.ufpe.br)
Event place: Récife
Dates: 19 to 21 December 2005
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