GARDEN OF PHYSICS Episode 22 How to resist pseudoscience? Guests: Marija Đurić and Slobodan Bubnjević After a string of diverse topic discussed by researchers of the Institute of Physics, Belgrade, the finale of the first season of ‘The Garden of…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 22 – How to resist pseudoscience?

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 21 – Intelligence without people

GARDEN OF PHYSICS Episode 21 Intelligence without people Guets: dr Antun Balaž ’Without scientists, it will never be possible to have science’, says Dr Antun Balaž of the Institute of Physics, Belgrade in the twenty-first episode of the popular science…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 20 – Quantum heroes

GARDEN OF PHYSICS Episode 20 Quantum heroes Guest: dr Andrej Bunjac ‘We are frequently fond of choosing our tribe saying that either art or science is more important, but they cannot leave without each other’, says Dr Andrej Bunjac of…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 19 – What do we eat in food?

GARDEN OF PHYSICS Episode 19 “What do we eat in food?” Guest: dr Tijana Milićević ‘Food can be contaminated by various viruses, bacteria, parasites, however, food can also be contaminated by diverse chemicals’, says Dr Tijana Milićević of the Institute…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 18 – Entropy of life

GARDEN OF PHYSICS Episode 18 Entropy of life Guest: dr Nenad Vukmirović We cannot have an isolated living system. If the system is isolated the entropy will increase leading the system toward a greater disorder’, says Dr Nenad Vukmirović of…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 17 – How it rains

GARDEN OF PHYSICS Episode 17 How it rains Guest: Luka Ilić ‘Clouds form where there is a condensation of water vapour. Sometimes not only water droplets are present in the clouds but also water crystals, with various particles being contained…
COMPETITION: Marko Jarić Prize for 2020

The Governing Body of the Foundation ‘Prof. Dr Marko V. Jarić’, has announced a competition call for ‘Marko Jarić prize’ for 2020. Parallel with the announcement on the Foundation’s website, the competition call was released in ‘Politika‘ daily newspaper. This prestigious…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 16 – A profound insight of the artificial intelligence

GARDEN OF PHYSICS Episode 16 A profound insight of the artificial intelligence Guest: dr Andreja Stojić ‘Machines work and they do not get tired. We give them a task and they will carry it out until it is completed’, says…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: When will computers become quantum?

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 15 When will computers become quantum? Guest: dr Dušan Vudragović ‘The main difference between quantum and classical computers is that the classical computers use classical logic to calculate something, i.e. they see information as bits, while…
PROJECTS: Physicists against coronavirus

Researchers from the Institute of Physics, Belgrade are trying to contribute to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Although physics and related fields essentially cannot help in the treatment of patients, certain research may be useful in infection containment. Accordingly,…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Dayson sphere

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 14 Dayson sphere Guest: dr Marko Vojinović ’Dayson sphere is a hypothetical structure which encompasses a star’, says Dr Marko Vojinović of the Institute of Physics, Belgrade in the fourteenth instalment of popular science video series…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: The benefits of Chernobyl

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 13 The benefits of Chernobyl Guest: dr Vladimir Udovičić The construction of nuclear power plants is prohibited by law in the Republic of Serbia, but our country is surrounded by numerous reactors in the neighbourhood. ’Nuclear…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: The mechanism of lightning discharge

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 12 The mechanism of lightning discharge Guest: dr Saša Dujko ‘One of the most obvious manifestations of non-equilibrium plasmas in nature is lightning’, says Dr Saša Dujko of the Institute of Physics, Belgrade in the twelfth…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: The hidden world of the multitude

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 11 The hidden world of the multitude Guest: dr Dimitrije Stepanenko ’For most materials, the scale of 100 nanometres is the place where the quantum mechanics dies’, says Dr Dimitrije Stepanenko of the Institute of Physics,…
RESEARCH: Quantum scars in Nature edition

The image representing the connectivity of the Hilbert space in a quantum system, created with the help of the Mathematica programme, as part of a paper whose authors are two researchers of the Institute, was published at the end of…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Where is the universe expanding?

GARDEN OF PHYSICS Episode 10 Where is the universe expanding? Guest: Tijana Radenković People often ask: ’If the universe is expanding, where is it expanding?, says Tijana Radenković of the Institute of Physics, Belgrade in the tenth episode of the…
EVENTS: SPIG International symposium realized

The 30th Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG) were organized in virtual format from 24 – 28 August 2020 instead of it being located in Šabac, as it was initially planned. One of the…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Where do talents grow?

GARDEN OF PHYSICS Episode 09 Where do talents grow? Guests: European Physics Olympiad participants and Dr Marko Opačić The 4th European Physics Olympiad, the most prestigious competition of high school students alongside the International Physics Olympiad, this year was held…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Can physics change Serbia?

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 08 Can physics change Serbia? Guest: dr Aleksandar Bogojević ’We live in the universe brimming in treasures, but we are finite and cannot comprehend that infinite abundance of beauty. However, if we grasp one, two or…
COMPETITIONS: Extraordinary success of the students from Serbia at the European Physics Olympiad

The students from Serbia have achieved extraordinary success at the 4th European Physics Olympiad, winning two gold, one silver and two bronze medals. The European Physics Olympiad (EuPhO) was held remotely in the period 20-26 July, hosting more than 250…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: HIDDEN CITY JUNGLE

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 7 Hidden city jungle Guest: Dr Mira Aničić Urošević ‘Vegetation in urban environments has changed compared to the one in a natural setting, and pollution sensitive species have been completely neglected’, says Dr Mira Aničić Urošević…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: DARK MATTER, THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF OUR TIME

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 6 Dark Matter, the greatest mystery of our time Guest: Dr Marko Vojinović ‘The fact that there is a world around us of which we have no knowledge whatsoever, is something research-worthy, and it can bring…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: MECHANISM OF THE GOD PARTICLE

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 5 ‘Mechanism of the God Particle’ Guest: Dr Antun Balaž ’Beauty represents a guiding research principle, especially in high energy physics’, says Dr Antun Balaž of the Institute of Physics, Belgrade in the fifth episode of…
NEWS: The Science Fund has approved funding of the ATLAS artificial intelligence project

A group of researchers from the Institute of Physics, Belgrade participates in one of 12 projects in the field of artificial intelligence which, among 70 submitted proposals, have been approved for funding by the Science Fund of the Republic of…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Titan, the world of thunder

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 04 ’Titan, the world of thunder’ Guest: Dr Saša Dujko ’The atmosphere of Titan is an ideal environment where we are able to see how plasma physics and astrobiology interact’, says Dr Saša Dujko of the…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Science Day 2020

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 3 Science day 2020 The science day is celebrated in Serbia in honour of Nikola Tesla on 10 July. Since ten years ago this date was declared a science celebration, numerous institutions and organizations across the…
RESEARCH: Novel work on repulsive interaction of photons

At the beginning of June, a paper titled ’ Repulsive photons in a quantum nonlinear medium’ was published in the renowned journal Nature Physics, with one of the authors being Dr Branislav Jelenković, a researcher of the Institute of Physics,…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: episode 2

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: episode 2 “Hatred dynamics” Guest: Dr Marija Mitrović Dankulov In the second episode of the scientific-popular video series Dr Marija Mitrović Dankulov of the Institute of Physics, Belgrade talks about how physics and research methods developed for…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 1

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 1 “The Game of Life” Guest: Dr Aleksandar Bogojević In the first episode of the scientific-popular series, ‘The Garden of Physics’, which is aired every Friday online, the first guest, Dr Aleksandar Bogojević, director of the…
CERN: Particle physicists update strategy for the future of the field in Europe

Geneva, 19 June 2020. Today, the CERN Council announced that it had unanimously updated the strategy intended to guide the future of particle physics in Europe within the global landscape. The updated recommendations highlight the scientific impact of particle physics…
GARDEN OF PHYSICS: Episode 0

GARDEN OF PHYSICS: 0 Episode Promo video Inspired by the concept of popular IPB forums which, before the pandemic broke out, had brought together large audience at the big hall of the Students’ Cultural Centre, the Institute of Physics, Belgrade…
RESEARCH: In search of antimatter

Based on the Standard Model of particle physics, an equal number of matter and antimatter particles formed in the Big Bang. Since each matter particle has an associated antiparticle, they clash at some point over the course of billion years…
HONOURS: Amit Kumar, Winner of Falling Walls Lab Slovenia 2020

This month, while many activities of researchers are being carried out in somewhat changed circumstances, the Institute of Physics, Belgrade has received welcome news that Amit Kumar of the Laboratory for Non-equilibrium Processes and Plasma Application is the winner of…
NEWS: Agreement of Six National Institutes

Six national institutes of the Republic of Serbia have joined and signed the Agreement on Scientific and Business-Technical Cooperation. According to the Cooperation signatories, the association of the six leading scientific-research institutions in the country, unprecedented in the history of…
GALLERY: IPB Garden in May

Even though this May a limited number of researchers come to the Institute of Physics, Belgrade, in accordance with the Plan on work during emergency measures, the garden of the Institute has awoken once again as in previous years.
FEATURE: 60th Anniversary of the Laser

Exactly 60 years ago, physicists accomplished one of the historical breakthroughs in the development of science and technology. Specifically, the first laser which emitted a beam of light was created on 16 May 1960, which represents a date of particular…
PHOTO GALLERY: Physics at the Time of Corona

During the pandemics, researchers of the Institute of Physics, Belgrade adapted to the new circumstances, but they continued to do physics nonetheless. In the fight against the dangerous infection, the fundamental burden was upon the medicine and related disciplines, while…
NEWS: Day of Light During the Epidemics

For the third time in a row, The National Coordinating System of Serbia organizes the International Day of Light popular campaign on 29 and 30 May, with the Institue of Physics, Belgrade being one of the partners. UNESCO declared 16…
NEWS: The Institute During the Epidemics

In the conditions of the state of the emergency and severe epidemiological situation due to COVID-19 spread, only the departments providing basic infrastructure maintenance services work at the Institute of Physics, Belgrade. The flags have been at half-mast as a…
RESEARCH: Our researchers in a revolutionary experiment with muons

The acclaimed journal Nature has published groundbreaking results of an international experiment with muons involving researchers from the Institute of Physics, Belgrade. The paper titled Demonstration of cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment published on 6 February 2020, has…
IN MEMORIAM: Goran Stanišić

Goran Stanišić, a retired principal research fellow of the Institute of Physics, passed away on 25 January 2020, at the age of 67. He was born on 23 April 1952 in Belgrade, where he completed eight years of primary education…
HONOURS: Professor Adžić Receives Saint Sava Award

Dr Petar Adžić, a professor at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Belgrade is a recipient of Saint Sava Award for 2019. At the proposal of the Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Professor Adžić was presented with the award…
IN MEMORIAM: Ratko Janev (1939-2019)

A distinguished Macedonian physicist, whose scientific career was bound to Serbia, Ratko Janev (1939-2019) passed away in Belgrade, on 31 December 2019. Janev was a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and in the period 1972 –…
POPULAR TALK: Is There Life After Anthropocene?

(PHOTO/VIDEO) Despite the bad weather, the Big Hall of the Students’ Cultural Centre was packed with those interested in how humans impact the world and whether the planet will survive their domination. The Pre-New-Year popular talk entitled ’Is There Life…
OPEN DOOR DAY: Visiting the Institute

Ever since the Institute of Physics, Belgrade gained the status of ’the National Institute of the Republic of Serbia’ two years ago, in accordance with its new role and obligations, it opened its doors to its fellow citizens – especially…
OUR GUEST: President-Elect of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts Ljupčo Kocarev

The newly elected president of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts Ljupčo Kocarev visited the Institute of Physics in Belgrade on Thursday, 5 December 2019. On this occasion, Academician Lj. Kocarev delivered the lecture titled ‘Exchangeability and symmetry’ as…
HONOURS: Award of the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia to Bojan Stojadinović’s Doctoral Dissertation

A research associate of the Institute of Physics, Dr Bojan Stojadinović is one of the winners of the Annual Award of the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia for the best doctoral dissertations. He received the award for a paper which…
POPULAR TALK: How Much We Do Not Know

(PHOTO/VIDEO) Although we did not try to explain new scientific achievements or phenomena, quite the contrary – we tried to present a different face of science, the one not omnipotent and all-knowing, plagued and bothered by numerous open questions –…
SEMINAR: dr Sonja Predin

You are cordially invited to the SCL seminar of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, which will be held on Monday, 25 November 2019 at 14:00 in the library reading room “Dr. Dragan Popović” of the Institute of…
VIDEO: “Teslagram” in the “ Serbia Creates” campaign

A third promotional video in the “Serbia Creates” campaign, posted on Nov. 3, is dedicated to Teslagram, a new technology that is being developed at the Institute of Physics, Belgrade. The sixty-second video presents the basic idea behind this patent,…
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION: Agreement with Dubna

A delegation from Serbia that included researchers from the Institute of Physics, Belgrade, and representatives of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, State Secretary Prof. Vladimir Popović and Assistant Minister Prof. Viktor Nedović, as well as representatives…
SEMINAR: Prof. Jacek Zakrzewski

You are cordially invited to the seminar of the Photonics Center, Laboratory for photoacoustics, which will be held on Thursday, 24 October 2019 at 11:00 in the “Zvonko Marić” hall, Institute of Physics Belgrade. The talk entitled Photothermal Spectroscopy of…
SEMINAR: Marko Cvejić

You are cordially invited to the seminar of the PSL (Plasma Spectroscopy and Lasers)laboratory , which will be held on Wednesday, 23 October 2019 at 12:00 in the library reading room “Dr. Dragan Popović” of the Institute of Physics Belgrade.…
SEMINAR: dr Igor Stanković

You are cordially invited to the SCL seminar of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, which will be held on Thursday, 24 October 2019 at 14:00 in the library reading room “Dr. Dragan Popović” of the Institute of…
SEMINAR: dr Sandra Stupar

You are cordially invited to the SCL seminar of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, which will be held on Wednesday, 16 October 2019 at 14:00 in the library reading room “Dr. Dragan Popović” of the Institute of…
SEMINAR: dr Bosiljka Tadić

You are cordially invited to the SCL seminar of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, which will be held on Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 14:00 in the library reading room “Dr. Dragan Popović” of the Institute of…
EVENTS: Symposium on condensed matter physics

Leading Serbian researchers and prominent foreign lecturers gathered in Belgrade this October in order to present an overview of the most important results and trends of development in the modern physics of condensed matter. The Symposium on Condensed Matter Physics,…
SEMINAR: R. G. Nazmitdinov

You are cordially invited to attend a seminar organized by the Laboratory for Atomic Collision Processes which will be held on Wednesday, 25. September 2019 (tomorrow) at 12:00 in the library reading room “Dr. Dragan Popovic” of the Institute of…
EVENTS: International ATLAS workshop in Belgrade

The International ATLAS Standard Model Workshop. opened at the Grand Hall of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts on Tuesday, September 17. The event brought together over 80 researchers involved in CERN’s ATLAS collaboration. The workshop lasted until September…
СЕМИНАР: др Станко Недић

You are cordially invited to attend a seminar which will be held on Wednesday, 18 September 2019 at 13:00 (c.t.) in the library reading room “Dr. Dragan Popovic” of the Institute of Physics Belgrade. The talk entitled: Zinc oxide nanowire…
SEMINAR: Dr. Jovan Odavić

You are cordially invited to the SCL seminar of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, which will be held on Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 14:00 in the library reading room “Dr. Dragan Popović” of the Institute of…