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…
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…
Serbia joins CERN as its 23rd Member State Geneva, 24 March 2019. Today, CERN welcomes Serbia as its 23rd Member State, following receipt of formal notification from UNESCO that Serbia has acceded to the CERN Convention. “Investing in scientific research is important for the development of our economy…
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…
INTERVIEW: Dr Milivoj Belić ‘At the end of my active career as a physicist, I still think that one should not confine themselves to their field only, but broaden the horizons and search for new challenges’, says Dr Milivoj Belić, a full professor at…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
