Gazeta de Física: a year to celebrate
Gazeta de Física, the quarterly magazine of the Portuguese Physical Society, turns 70 this October. Published for the first time in 1946, it is one of the longest-running publications aimed at scientific dissemination in Portuguese.
FISICA 2014 – Biennial meeting of the Portuguese Physical Society
The 19th National Conference on Physics and 24th Iberian Meeting for Teaching Physics – jointly named “FISICA 2014” – was held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 2-4 September 2014. This biennial meeting is organized by the Portuguese Physical Society [SPF] and attracts physicists, teachers and students from all over the country and from neighbouring Spain. The total number of participants was 250.
This year’s event was hosted and co-sponsored by the Instituto Superior Técnico, the science and engineering faculty of the University of Lisbon. The local organizing committee enlisted the assistance of a team of twenty physics…
