The School of Mathematics and Physics at Queens University Belfast and IoPI are inviting your female students to participate in the first “Women in Physics – Ireland” event on the 19th of March 2014. Please email mp.outreach@qub.ac.uk by Friday 13th of December indicating the number of required places, which will be allocated on a first come first served basis. 

The event is focused on promoting Physics among young women in Ireland. We are inviting women at various career stages working in Physics areas (both from academia and industry) to participate in this event, offering a friendly atmosphere that will provide all participants with the opportunity of interacting.

The event will include A-level, undergraduate, master and PhD students, invited speakers, as well as guests from other institutions and industry. It will start with registration at 9.30 am at the Whitla Hall (QUB) and will finish by 4.30 pm, with the option to leave at 2.30 pm if needed. The day will include talks, poster session with prices and a Science Fair (sponsored by Seagate) with both demonstrations and hands-on experiments for everyone to enjoy (see attached information). Among the invited speakers we will have Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (discoverer of the first radio pulsars).

This year’s lecture will explore the Chemistry of Light: how light is ‘made’ – from lamps, lasers or ‘liquid light’ – and its applications in medicine and technology, including CD players, electroluminescent paper, photography, neo-natal phototherapy and clean energy. Suitable for Senior students. Limited places – Advance Booking Essential. Check it out!

The lecture has been widely sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry for schools in the UK and is suitable for students from transition year to sixth year. It will include extensive demonstrations with equipment transported from Swansea to Cork and Dublin.   It is one of the events marking 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry and will be presented at the following times and venues.

1. University College Cork
12.00pm Wednesday May 18th
Lecture Theatre G19, Kane Building

2. Trinity College Dublin
11.00am and 2.00pm Friday May 20th
Burke Lecture Theatre (accessed through entrance to TCD at the bottom of Dawson Street)

Who can attend?
This talk is suitable for students from transition year to sixth year.

How to book seats?
Pre-booking is essential and enquiries may be made to the following:

University College Cork
Dr. Declan Kennedy
Department of Education, University College, Cork.

Trinity College Dublin
Dr Rachel Evans at raevans@tcd.ie
School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2

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