IAPSAugust 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