2014 IPF Program Schedule
General information | Session Topics | Confirmed speakers | Planning Committee | Science Entrepreneurship Short Course
Session Topics (as currently planned – speakers to be announced):
Frontiers in Physics
- Physics research on the leading edge of scientific discovery
Industrial Physics in Emerging Economies: What is Trending?
- Manufacturing
- Telecommunications & photonics
- Health, biophysics
- Agriculture, energy, and climate
International Research & Development in a Global Company
- Agilent Technologies IBM Intel
Science and Diplomacy
- Representatives from the Brazilian and US government
The Entrepreneurial Professor – Success Stories
- Physics professors from around the world who have started their own companies
Energy, Climate, and Risk
- How the physical sciences are addressing global energy challenges, climate change, and natural hazard risk
Physics in the Brazilian Economy
- Optics & Photonics
- Natural Resource Exploration
- Agriculture
- Manufacturing
Physics in the (Oil) Field
- NMR in exploration and oil well logging
Industrial Physics Around the World
- How physicists around the world are innovating to solve problems, create jobs, and build economies
Excursions to local companies
- Destinations to be announced