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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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

The CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings, and Gauge Theory is the
analytic continuation of the yearly training school of the former EC-RTN string
network “Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe”. The 2012 edition of the school is supported and organized by the CERN Theory Divison, and will take place from Monday February 6 to Friday February 10, at CERN.

As its predecessors, this school is meant primarily for training of doctoral
students and young postdoctoral researchers in recent developments in
theoretical high-energy physics and string theory. The programme of the school
will consist of five series of pedagogical lectures, complemented by tutorial
discussion sessions in the afternoons.

Previous schools in this series were organized in 2005 at SISSA in Trieste, and in 2006,
2007, 2008, 2009,  2010 and 2011 at CERN, Geneva. Other similar schools have been organized in the past by the related RTN network “The Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions”. The school is funded by the CERN Theory Division, and the Arnold Sommerfeld Center at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich.

Scientific committee: M. Gaberdiel, D. Luest, A. Sevrin, J. Simon, K. Stelle,
S. Theisen, A. Uranga, A. Van Proeyen, E. Verlinde, J Walcher

Local organizers: N. Lambert, B. Pioline

• Registration start date: Tuesday 01 November 2011
• Registration end date: Monday 16 January 2012

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ICPS 2013 will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland in the United Kingdom in cooperation with Heriot-Watt University.

Also, a new Executive Committee (EC) was elected:
President – Bence Ferdinandy
Vice-president – Sahra Haji
Secretary – Thomas Kotzott
Treasurer – Ralph Lenssen
General Members – Dragos Carabet, Sander Smink, Norbert Bonnici, Lily Chowdhury, Anatolii Koval