1. IPS2004 will be part of the TECHNION's 80th Birthday celebrations.
2. IPS2004 will
be held in
the Technion's new LIDOW Physics Complex.
3. IPS2004 is a preliminary event for the World Year of Physics in 2005.
The images relate to all three events, via our special connection with Albert Einstein.
The World Year of Physics celebrates 100 years after 1905 when
Einstein wrote three fundamental papers, all in a few months.
The first paper claimed that light must sometimes behave like a stream
of particles with discrete
energies, "quanta."
The second paper offered an experimental test for the theory of heat.
The third paper addressed a central puzzle for physicists of the day -
the connection between electromagnetic theory and ordinary motion -
and solved
it using the "principle of relativity."
Albert Einstein has a special connection to the Technion. In 1923, Albert Einstein visited the then empty Technion building in Hadar. View a picture taken when Einstein visited the Technion.
Today the old Technion building is the National Science Museum, where two trees planted by Einstein and his wife still survive. On his return to Germany Einstein founded the first Technion Society. Einstein said ``Israel can win the difficult battle of survival only by developing painstakingly the intelligence and expert knowledge of her young people in the field of technology.''
The image at upper center of the poster was taken in August 2004 and shows the slightly more than 80 year-old tree planted by Albert Einstein in 1923 at the old Technion campus (in background) in Hadar. The tree plaque, which is reproduced on the poster connecting the old and new buildings in the center of the poster, is situated in the background of the tree and reads:
The lower picture shows the entry to the new Lidow Physics Complex, and will double as a map directing participants to the locations of the different sessions of IPS2004.