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.

The text above was originally published on e-EPS. For more informations and facts from EPS, please visit e-EPS website.

The dates of the event are Sunday 10^th to Wednesday 13^th June 2012.

Registration deadline: 5th of May 2012.

Payment deadline: 9th of May 2012.

More information can be found here.
The registration form is available from here.

The International Association of Physics Students (IAPS) invites you to select an academically gifted and deserving student, currently undertaking studies in physics or related disciplines at your faculty and submit an application for the ICPS Worldwide Grant. The student can be given the chance to attend the International Conference of Physics Students (ICPS) held every year in August.

This is a conference that has been held in a different city or country annually since 1986 with over 400 participants attending each year. The participation is a great chance to learn about physics in an international context and to establish connections to fellow students from around the world. ICPS consists as every scientific conference of guest lectures of renowned physicists, student lectures by the participants and a poster session. Besides the academic programme, ICPS puts great effort into intercultural dialogue and community, thus having various social events, including the so-called National Party, where the participants are expected to show the cuisine of their home. It is also the host of the General Meeting of IAPS and one or more workshops centred around subjects that interest the physics student community.

With the grant we are willing to support the student with the conference fee and 80% of the travel costs up to a maximum of €1000 per grant. The rest of the travel expenses and fees should be provided by the university or by the student themselves. The grant will be post-financed, which means the costs will be reimbursed after the conference.

There will be only two grants available and they are awarded on a competitive basis. Please note that priority will be given to applicants from outside of Europe and with financial hardship.

 The selected student must meet the following requirements in order to receive the grant:

• Student of physics or related discipline (at any stage of study), aged lower than 26 years of age
• Must be selected from the top 10% of the class

The application for this grant should include:

• Motivational letter from the student
• Transcript of study records
• Student’s curriculum vita (CV) or resume
• Photocopy of passport
• Recommendation letter from a senior university staff member
• Preliminary abstract for the short student lecture that will be presented at ICPS 2012
• Documents certifying financial background (optional)

If any of the above requirements are missing then the grant application cannot be considered.

In order to be guaranteed the grant, the selected successful student applicant will be expected to

• Registerfor the conference at the annually designated website
• Present a lecture or a poster at ICPS. The topic of the lecture must be related to physics.
• Attend the conference for the whole duration of the event, including the Annual General Meeting, and any possible workshops

If the student does not comply with these rules, IAPS may decide to desist from paying the grant.

All official documents submitted for the application must be inEnglish or German or French. The official documents in the original language must also be submitted in copy in addition to the translated documents. All applications have to be submitted by email to icpsgrant@iaps.info as a pdf file.

For more detailed information, please contact the Executive Committee at ec@iaps.info.

Specifics of current grant cycle:

The deadline for applications is 31 March 2012! Any late submissions will not be accepted. The selected students will be notified by 30 April 2012.

ICPS 2012 will be held in Utrecht, Netherlands from 4th to 10th of August. For more information and the registration form please visit: www.icps2012.com.

Full details: pdf

This school is the 49th in the series organized at Culham Science Centre, near Oxford. No preceding knowledge of plasma physics is assumed. Previous schools have attracted students from more than 50 different countries.

Lectures for the Summer School are drawn from the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy and leading laboratories and university groups in magnetic and laser confinement fusion, space and astrophysical plasmas and low temperature plasmas from Britain and abroad.

For more information and registration please click here.

Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Sarajevo School of High Energy Physics 2012” (SSHEP 2012) will be held at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo from May 9 to May 13, 2012. The School aims at the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students who are interested in topics pertaining to High Energy Physics (HEP).

The application process for participation at SSHEP 2012 was opened on December 1st, 2011. Application closing date is March 15th, 2012. To apply, it is sufficient to send a short Curriculum Vitae and a Letter of Motivation to any of e-mail addresses listed in CONTACTS. All students who would require support for travel and lodging during the School are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

For more information and for registration please click here.

Every effort will be made during the selection procedure to produce a well-balanced list of participants in order to promote high academic standards while reflecting international character of the School. The level of support will be known once the final decisions from relevant funding agencies and supporting institutions are known.

The SSHEP 2012 topics include:

•Accelerator physics: Large Hadron Collider

•Data analysis in High Energy Physics

•Instrumentation

•Standard Model

•Physics beyond the Standard Model

•Symmetries in High Energy Physics

•Astroparticle physics

•Medical Physics

Department of Astronomy & Space Physics and Virtual Roentgen and Gamma Observatory(VIRGO.UA) announce the 19th Open Young Scientists’ Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics. The conference will take place at the Faculty of Physics of National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv on April 23-28, 2012.

For more information and for registration please click here.

The conference is intended for participation of students, PhD students and
young researches who are involved in research in one of the following
fields:

• atmospheric studies and space geophysics
• Solar physics and heliosphere
• Solar System & extrasolar planets
• stellar astrophysics
• interstellar and intergalactic medium
• extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology
• high-energy astrophysics and astroparticle physics
• positional astronomy and astronomical equipment
• computers in astronomy

During the Conference each young participant should present a short report (12 minutes) about results of his/her research or a poster (with an oral (!) poster presentation for 5 minutes). Besides students’ reports several invited lectures are planned.

Working language of YSC’19 is English.

Deadline for registration and abstract submission is March 1 2012.

Deadline for reservation accomodation in the Hostels (#12, #13) of
Preparation Faculty of University and the Hostel of the Institute of Continuing
Education – March, 30, 2011. Abstracts sent after deadline will not be
published.

Dear Physics (and also other) Students
The Hungarian Association of Physics Students is happy to announce,the 42nd and for the 13th time international Rudolf Ortvay International Problemsolving Competition in Physics.
http://ortvay.elte.hu

The competition is electronic, so you are likely to join from any country in the world if you are a university or PhD student in any field.
The goal is to solve as many from the 30-40 problems given, these can be downloaded from the web page above in several formats from 11 am (GMT), the 28th of October, and send your solutions back via email or fax till the deadline, that is 7th November 2011. You have to solve the problems by yourself (no group works are accepted) but you are welcome to use any tools you wish (including computers).
The assigned problems do not focus on school-level problem-solving routine but rather on the skills of physical way of thinking,recognition of the heart of the problem, and the appropriate choice in the mathematical armory.

The competitors are selected into categories by their years of study(PhD students also form an separate category), so dear Undergraduates,don’t be afraid to join! The first three places in each category are rewarded by a certain amount of money and an official certificate signed by the president of the jury, a well known university professor in Hungary, and the president of the Hungarian Association of Physics Students.

Above this, the jury also rewards the best solutions to certain problems, and there are also some special prices given, so if you only have one or two problems solved, its still wise to send them.During the past years prizes won in the Ortvay Contest became an ever more important factor in choosing the best candidates for thesis topics as well as PhD and student exchange scholarships. Among the one-time contestants and winners of the Ortvay Contest there are several internationally acknowledged researchers.If I made you curious, take a look at the problems, and you are welcome to participate!

Acireale (CT), Sicily, Italy

We are glad to announce that the Advanced School and Workshop on Nuclear Physics Signal Processing, ANSiP-2011, will be held on November 21-24, 2011 in the Sicilian town of Acireale, close to Catania (Italy).
The meeting is organized by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Catania and Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS), the Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia of the Università di Catania and the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano.

The meeting will be structured to cover introductory base concepts followed by cutting edge electronics contributions and open discussions on the topics outlined above. Due to the educational character of the meeting, participation by students, postdocs, technical staff and engineers is strongly encouraged.
Submitted abstracts will be selected by the organizing committees for oral or poster presentations.
A cocktail & poster session will be held on November 23rd. A final exam may be organized, on request, for PhD students attending the school.
      Registration deadline: 7 November 2011

For more information please click here.

The dates of the event are Monday 16^th to Thursday 19^th of April 2012.