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Professors Patrick Woudt and Azwinndini Muronga acknowledge financial support from the NRF through an
ICSU travel grant that enabled them to attend the 29th IUPAP General Assembly.
Highlights on IUPAP activities are available in the IUPAP newsletter that can be downloaded here http://
iupap.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/IUPAP-Dec2017-web.compressed.pdf
SAIP to launch a Physics in Industry Day at SAIP2018
SAIP is planning to launch a “Physics in Industry Workshop” at the 63rd Annual Conference of the SAIP that
will be hosted by the University of the Free State, in Bloemfontein, from the 25th to the 29th of June 2018. It
will be a half-day parallel session. The last workshop was a partnership between the IOP-UK, APS and ICTP
and it was recommended that instead of waiting for annual conferences and workshops in South Africa, one of
the options is to start a Physics in Industry Day then link it to the SAIP conference for easy organisation and
logistics.
The Physics in Industry Day will be integrated with the Entrepreneurship for Physicist and scientists where
SAIP wants to expose innovation to physicists in order to transfer what they are researching into products to
support socio-economic development. The workshops will bring together physicists, students, scientists and
industry. The physicist will have the opportunity to share their ideas that may solve challenges industry is
facing while the industry can look at presentations that are ready for commercialisation.
There will be local and international speakers with topics that encourage application of research in industry
and motivation to create a culture of innovation in Physics.
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