Switzerland

For further information related to Swiss events, contact the Coordinators:
 Dr. Tibor Gyalog
(Swiss Physical Society)
Institut für Physik
Universität Basel
Klingelbergstrasse 82
4056 Basel, Switzerland
Email: tibor.gyalog@unibas.ch or info@wyp2005.ch
or
Dr Chris Rossel
IBM Zurich Research
Lab. Saeumerstr. 4
CH-8803 Rueschlikon, Switzerland
Email: rsl@zurich.ibm.com

Useful links:
www.wyp2005.ch
www.sps.ch
www.einstein2005.ch
www.eps13.org
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html
http://athome.web.cern.ch/athome/

Events in Bern:

  • 11-14 July 2005: General meeting of the European Physical Society, EPS13 “Beyond Einstein - Physics for the 21st Century”, University of Bern, Switzerland and an Open day, on 15 July in co-operation with Annual Meeting of Swiss Natioanl Academy of Science

  • 04 - 15 July 2005: Forum Einstein 2005 Bern: - Science History Colloquium on “Discovery, Heuristics and Innovation Culture” - “Festtag”: Science et Cité- in the streets, during the whole day of Saturday 10th July, probably on Sunday too; International Scientific Symposium; festakt (Forum Einstein Bern & Political Authorities)

  • Winterthur: Exhibition of Einstein “The steps towards Creativity”, interactive experiments and videos, int. young physicists tournement

Events in Zurich:

  • 8 - 11 June 2005: International Symposium on “Einstein and Contemporary Physics” in coordination with Pauli Lectures 2005, only invited speakers, some for broader audience. Most speakers already invited and even confirmed.

  • Month of October 2005: Exhibition “Einstein in Zurich” produced in collaboration with the Historical Museum Bern. Location : main lobby of ETH Zurich

  • 17 June 2005: Event “Nacht der Physik” on ETH Hoeggerberg campus.

  • Physics for Primary school teachers. Single event (eventually repeated) on the ETHZ site.

  • Physics for secondary schools and colleges (gymnasium). Local and delocalized events with visit to some schools.

  • Summer semester 2005: Physics and the Public. Cycle of conferences on topics of general interest (Energy, Medicin, Informationtechnology, etc.).

  • Physics in Ticino. Shared events between D-PHYS and local interessees and schools in Ticino

  • D-PHYS-PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute). Shared events in Canton Aargau.

  • Physics and Industry. Events at the ETH Hoenggerberg with invitation to the representatives and interesees of the Swiss Industry. In Lucern: 1. Swiss Museum of transport (cycle of conferences on physics, virtual art gallery, exhibition and interactive experiments, display of research projects for swiss universities)

  • International Young Physicist Tournament
    The occurence of avalaches and the flight of a dragonfly are complex physics problems. High school students -- which are going to enter University soon have researched these topics among many others and are presenting their results. Please come and see on what an impressive level science can be performed by not even yet university students. The Finals of the one week Tournament are going to be held in public at the University of Zurich, Irchel on the 20th of July.

    Further Info: www.iypt.ch or download the flyer (only in german) by clicking here

Events in Geneva:

  • CERN (50th anniversary)

  • Exposition at the Geneva Art Museum on Einstein (Nov. 2005 to March 2006), please look on: www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/mahg/musee/mhs/expomhs.html

  • The time machine challenge (from October 2004 to March 2005)

  • Physics on Stage

  • University of Geneva (workshop scientific; experimetns of General Relativity)

  • Other: - National website (www.wyp2005.ch) - Travelling exhibition and swiss railway stations

  • ICALEPCS 2005, the tenth International Conference on Accelerator and
    Large Experimental Physics Control Systems, that will be held in Geneva,
    Switzerland, 10-14 Oct. 2005 at the International Conference Center
    Geneva (CICG).
    For details on ICALEPCS 2005 please refer to:
    http://icalepcs2005.web.cern.ch/Icalepcs2005/