Real Sociedad Espaola de Fsica RSEF

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Real Sociedad Española de Física (RSEF)

• World Year of Physics
• 2005

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Official Opening and Closing Sessions

• Opening lectures at the Spanish Parliament in
  Madrid
• Date First week of February
• Speakers Steven Chu (Nobel Prize), P. Echenique,
  G. Moliner
• Closing lectures at the Spanish Senate
• Date First week of December
• Speakers M. Gell-Mann, F. Vidal-Costa
• Audience Representatives of the Government, the
  Parliament and people in general

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Golden Medal of the Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

• Awarded Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
• Chairmanship The Prince of Spain and the
  President of the Spanish Government

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International Physics Olympiad 2005

• Venue Salamanca
• Date 2-12 July 2005
• Inviteds The President of the EPS and Martial
  Ducloy, Chair of the WYP2005 Steering Committee
• Chairmanship The King and Queen of Spain

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Scientific Exhibitions Organised by the RSEF

• CSIC Student Residence Einstein and Spain. 200
  m2. 15 September- 31 October
• Royal Botanic Garden (CSIC) Advances of Physics
  in the XX Century and Future Perspectives. 600
  m2. 1 October- 30 November
• Real Casa de la Moneda (The Mint and the Stamp
  Factory). 200m2. 1 April-31 May

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Scientific Exhibitions Organised by the RSEF-CSIC

• Natural Sciences Museum. Physics and Life. 250
  m2. 1 May-30 June
• Planet Observatory of Madrid Physics and Mars
• University of Las Palmas and University of La
  Laguna, about Einstein
• University of La Coruña about Physics
• Other Universities Salamanca, San Sebastian,
  Barcelona.

Other exhibitions
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Fair of Science in MadridOrganised by the local
government of Madrid

• Annual event in the fairground of Madrid (2.000
  m2) devoted to sciences Equipment, books,
  experiences, etc..
• Next year will be devoted the 50 to Physics.
  17-20 March
• Devoted to Physics and Cervantes. November

Week of Science in Madrid
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Conferences and Seminars

• Biannual Conference on Physics of the RSEF
  (Orense, September 2005). Opening lecture by
  P.-G. de Genne
• Meeting on Relativity in San Sebastian. Organised
  by P. Echenique
• Seminar Einstein in the Student Residence of
  CSIC, 3 day meeting participating physicists,
  historians and philosophers
• Several cycles of cultural seminars at different
  places in Spain.

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Special Publications

• 1st Latin American Journal of Physics
• Commemorative book of the main events of the
  World Year of Physics, including the 1905 papers
  of A. Einstein (Translated to four Spanish
  languages Catellano, Euskera, Català and Galego)
• Book of the opening and closing lectures (15,000
  copies)

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Financial support

• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
• Ministry of Science and Education
• Foundations R. Areces, BBVA
• Companies BBVA, ENRESA