Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's "Miraculous Year", the events of WYP 2005 aim to raise the worldwide public awareness for physics and more generally for physical sciences.

The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics declared the year 2005 as the World Year of Physics. With this declaration, people all over the world are joining in the celebration of physics and its importance in our everyday lives.  On June 10, 2004, the United Nations proclaimed their support by declaring 2005 as the International Year of Physics.

The MIT Department of Physics is actively participating in this occasion, hosting several events listed on our WYP 2005 calendar. The events begin in January with a lecture series for the MIT community and a film series by Nobel laureate Richard Feynman.

Find out about events worldwide by visiting the official US World Year of Physics website.  Interested in getting involved locally? Check out the Society of Physics Students Chapter Challenge.

News

> Haystack Laboratory revisits "The Fourth Test of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity"

> Pi Day - Monday, March 14: Harvard celebrates Einstein's birthday with a pi(e) eating content and many other events

> Inside Einstein's Universe: year-long series of events exploring key questions about space and time, sponsored by NASA and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

> Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle, recipient of the 2004-05 Killian Faculty Achievement Award, to deliver Killian Lecture March 15th

> Celebrating Einstein: two-day event will include talks by MIT physics faculty, TEAL classroom workshops, a poster session and more (April 1-2)

> MIT students travel to Paris to represent US at "Physics for Tomorrow" conference

> Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek discusses Einstein's work in BBC interview (requires free RealPlayer download)

Publications

Frank Wilczek, "In Search of Symmetry Lost," Nature, 20 January 2005, Vol. 433, pp. 239-247.

Alan H. Guth and David I. Kaiser, "Inflationary Cosmology: Exploring the Universe from the Smallest to the Largest Scales," Science, 11 February 2005, Vol. 307, pp. 884-890.