Fusion - The Open University Physics Society
Fusion Events

Please ALWAYS contact our Event Organiser at fusionevents@oufusion.org.uk if you wish to attend any Fusion event. It is important that we know the names of Fusion members who will be attending, as in some cases we need to send the institution being visited a list of those who will be attending the event.

Fusion members with special needs
Members with special needs wishing to attend a Fusion event, should contact our Events Organiser at the earliest opportunity, so that appropriate arrangements can be made with the institution being visited.

Forthcoming Fusion Events

Weekend Astronomy Event

Meade telescope

We will be repeating last year's successful Weekend Astronomy Event on the OU campus at Milton Keynes (see autumn 2007 newsletter for report), on Saturday November 15th., hopefully with additional activities such as lab tours.

A return to Jodrell Bank is also being planned.

We will post more information here when these events have been finalised.

Please contact Dwyn at

Events E-mail

to express your interest in any of these visits.

We will also be organising a second S207 Preparation Weekend in September, and, as usual, helping to organise the Science Revision Weekend. For details of these events, click here.

Other Events for Physics Students

ICPS 2008

23rd International Conference of Physics Students:
Cracow, Poland, 6-13 August 2008

ICPS08

Main Market Square in Cracow is the heart of the Old Town.
This is the largest medieval town square in Europe.
(It doesn't usually snow that much in August, though!)

Registration closed on 31 May, but you may still be able to squeeze in! Click here to contact the organisers; or contact IAPS at www.iaps.info.

Physics and Astronomy
Lectures Around the UK

OU and other university lecturers giving public talks which would be of interest to OU students.

Students should always check with the organisers at each venue to make sure the lecture is still running.

Barrie Jones: Title to be advised
6/7 September 2008 (date and time to be finalised): Liverpool Festival of Science  

Barrie Jones: Life beyond the Solar System
Saturday 20 September 2008, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. FAS Convention 2008

Barrie Jones: Planets and life beyond the Solar System
Wednesday 1 October 2008, Ross on Wye Science Society

Mark Jones: Title to be advised
1 October 2008, Lancaster and Morecambe Astronomical Society

John Zarnecki: The Cassini-Huygens Mission
8 pm Friday 24 October; Milton Keynes Astronomical Society (Richard Lambert Memorial Lecture)

John Zarnecki: Touchdown on Titan
7.30 pm Thursday 30 October 2008, Luton Astronomical Society

Barrie Jones: Mars before the Space Age
Tuesday 7 April 2009, Monmouth Astronomical Research Society; contact Keith Moseley at moseleyk@cardiff.ac.uk for more info.

Barrie Jones: (No title given yet)
Wednesday 15 April 2009, Wycombe Astronomical Society

Physics and Astronomy Talks at Milton Keynes
To confirm subjects, dates and times, please check the Events Page on the OU Physics & Astronomy Department's web site.

Please note that, while students are welcome to attend these talks, they are primarily aimed at academics, and cannot therefore be guaranteed to be intelligible!

Institute of Physics
What's On in Physics and
Nexus Members' Area

Visit What's On in Physics for details of other seminars and lectures organised by the Institute of Physics. You can also check out the IoP Branch Links on this site.

Logon to the Nexus Members' Area and receive your own portable email address or change your contact details. Alternatively email Nexus at membership@iop.org.

Revision and Preparation Weekends
Science Revision Weekend,
Yarnfield Park Training and Conference Centre,
Stone, Staffordshire

26 - 28 September 2008

Yarnfield Park

This year's event will again be held at the Yarnfield Park Conference Centre in Staffordshire. The Science Revision Weekend will cover Open University chemistry, physics, biology and geoscience 'S' courses, subject to sufficient student numbers.

Full details are available on The Science Revision Weekend web site.

S207 Preparation Weekend,
Yarnfield Park Training and Conference Centre,
Stone, Staffordshire

27 - 28 September 2008

Yarnfield Park

Organised by Fusion with support from The OU's Department of Physics and Astronomy, and The Institute of Physics.

We will be running a second S207 Preparation Weekend in September 2008 for those starting the course in October. The event will run alongside the Science Revision Weekend (see above) but booking will be handled separately.

Interested students should register now by downloading the S207 Preparation Weekend Booking Form in PDF format.