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Celebrating New Ideas in Physics

24-26 October 2011 National Science Complex University of the Philippines
National Institute of Physics
College of Science, National Science Complex
University of the Philippines Diliman
1101 Quezon City, Philippines

29th SPP National Physics Congress

Call for Papers

You are cordially invited to participate in the 29th Annual National Physics Congress of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas (SPP, Physics Society of the Philippines) which will be held at the National Institute of Physics on (Mon-Wed) 24-26 October, 2011. The congress will include plenary, invited and contributed papers and workshops. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process prior to acceptance.

Selected papers will be invited for publication in the Science Diliman, an internationally refereed semi-annual journal of pure and applied sciences.

Important Dates:
Manuscript Submission: 15 July - 15 August 2011
Acceptance Notification: 15 September
Pre-registration**: 15-24 September
Start of Congress: 24 October
End of Congress: 26 October

Research Topics (among others):

Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics, Complex Systems, Computational Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Instrumentation Physics, Lasers and Their Applications, Liquid Crystals, Material Science, Optics and Photonics, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Plasma Physics, Signal and Image Processing, Theoretical Physics

Physics Education Topics (among others):

Physics Education Research, Learning Techniques, IT in Physics Education, Careers in Physics, Original Laboratory Experiments, Physics Concepts and Misconceptions

Registration fee**:
Participants USD 200

**SPP member participants and undergraduate students may avail of discounts upon pre-registration.

Other details:
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website: www.spp-online.org or paperview.nip.upd.edu.ph/spp2011

Download poster here (pdf, 275KB)

Possible Accommodations:

Marivic and Christopher Bernido, 2010 Ramon Magsaysay awardees

August 31, 2010 Manila, Philippines. Two filipino physicists are recipients of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards for "their purposeful commitment to both science and nation, ensuring innovative, low-cost, and effective basic education even under Philippine conditions of great scarcity and daunting poverty."

Tackling old problems besetting science education in the Philippines with a fresh perspective, husband-wife tandem, Christopher and Marivic Bernido, solve the problem of having very few qualified teachers, the insufficiency of good textbooks, and the scarcity of science laboratory equipments. They developed a program known as CVIF Dynamic Learning Program (DLP) which tries to solve these biggest problems in the most cost efficient and most effective way. In the DLP, teacher participation is limited and 70 percent of class time is devoted to student-driven activities built around clear learning targets, aided by well-designed learning plans and performance tracking tools. The program also made use of indigenous teaching aides and a “parallel classes’ scheme," in which multiple classes can be simultaneous handled by one expert teacher with assistance from facilitators.

Dr. Maricor Soriano, TWAS awardee

14 July 2009. Manila, Philippines. The former president of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas (SPP) received the 2009 Young Scientist award from the Third World academy of Science (TWAS). The National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) conferred this award to Dr. Maricor Soriano, during the Annual Scientific meeting held on July 8-9, 2009 at the Manila Hotel, Manila, Philippines. The NAST was established as the government’s highest recognition and advisory body on S&T. It has been recognizing Filipino scientists who excel in various fields of science.

21 April 2009. Roskilde, Denmark. A collaborative team of researchers from the Danmarks Tekniske Unversitet (DTU), Denmark and the University of the Philippines-Diliman (UPD) has developed a novel method that utilizes random speckle patterns to analyze time-varying electromagnetic wavefronts [1]. Speckle patterns are random light distributions formed when a laser beam is transmitted or reflected from a rough object. Speckles are generally considered optical noise and are undesirable due to image degradation.

NRCP Award for Physics

Dr. Christopher Monterola
25 March 2009. Manila, Philippines. The National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP ) conferred the 2008 Basic Research Achievers to twelve Filipino scientists in its 76^th General Membership Assembly at the Polkabal/Rigodon Halls of the Manila Hotel. The achievement award for Physics goes to Dr. Christopher Monterola of the National Institute of Physics (NIP ), University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. Dr. Monterola has been awarded for his pioneering work in the innovative use of physical and mathematical concepts to the study of complex systems such as neural networks and self-organized criticality. His research sheds new light in understanding a wide variety of phenomena such as segregation of particle suspension, granular flow and avalanche, fracture propagation, classroom learning dynamics, and opinion forecasting among others.

Granular segregation by heating

12 March 2009. Quezon City, Philippines. A novel idea by researchers from the University of the Philippines - Diliman has potentials for significant industrial applications. Granular materials are the second most manipulated substance in the industry after water. Completely mixed cement, sand and gravel in the right proportions is vital in construction, while segregation is important in handling chemicals and drugs. This led to a surge in the number of granular materials research aiming to quantify the conditions needed for segregation and/or mixing. Rotating or vibrated tumblers have been shown to produce either phenomena for particular values of frequencies or under special configurations (e.g. baffled tumblers). But there is yet another possible driver of segregation or mixing that is relatively untouched: the convection cells of made by a fluid heated at the bottom and cooled at the top.