Vietnam

For further information related to Vietnamese events, contact the Coordinator:
Dr. Phan Hong Khoi
President of VPS;
Institute of Materials Science (IMS), Vietnamese Academy of Science and
Technology (VAST) • Faculty of Engineering Physics and Nanotechnology,
Hanoi National University (HNU)
Email: phkhoi@ims.ncst.ac.vn
or
Prof. Nguyen Van Hieu
Email: nvhieu@ims.ncst.ac.vn

Events:

• Press conference ( with media incl. press, televisions, radios):
  • to announce UNESCO’s decision on the aim and meaning of the 2005 -
  World Year of Physics;
  • to announce establishments of the National Steering Committee and
  Organisation Committee for celebration of the World Year of
  Physics/Einstein;
  • to introduce celebrating programmes in the world and Vietnam
  • Interviews with press and media

• To organise regular propaganda programmes on media (televisions,
  radios, press and meetings in provinces and universities ect.) aiming
  at purposes and meanings of the World Year Physics; 100-year anniversary
  of invention of the Relativity Theory & the Quantum Theory by Albert
  Einstein, and the famous Brownian Movement Theory; to introduce
  development of physics in general, of Vietnam in particular and its
  contribution in mankind society development and in protection process of
  the country.

• To shoot a documentary film on 50-year establishment and development
  of the physics sector of Vietnam.

• To coordinate with the Education Publishing House to announce a few
  scientific publications on physics, mainly introducing valuable
  scientific researches of Vietnamese physicists

• To organise the 6th national conference on physics:
  Dates: 23-25 November 2005
  Organiser: The Research Institute of Materials, the Vietnam Institute of Science and Technology.
  Venue: Hanoi Technical University
  Contents: Reports on newly researched results in the following fields:

• Theoretical physics
• Nuclear physics
• Astronomic and geographic physics
• Optical physics and spectrum
• Material physics
• Applied physics
• Teaching of physics

• To organise the 9th Olympia contest on physics in Hanoi among physics
  students from the whole country.
  Organisers: Physics Divisions of Hanoi University of Natural
  Sciences and the National University

• To intensify activities of the Physics Club.