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COVID-19 Dashboard: The Facts at Your Fingertips in Africa
Particle and Nuclear physicists use their data experience for fast information display on COVID-19.
Protecting Health Care Workers in the Pandemic
Engineers support hospitals by designing and producing face shields, putting their physics background to work.
 
APS Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Resources for the Global Physics Community
In the light of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the American Physical Society (APS) remains dedicated to supporting the physics community by ensuring the continuity of research and education.
 
Developing Africa with Radio Astronomy (DARA) - the Kenyan Experience
DARA is a joint UK-South Africa Newton Fund project developing high tech skills among young people across partner African countries.
Botswana Takes to the Air to Combat COVID-19
Disinfecting public spaces is a major part of controlling infection. Drones can do this dirty and dangerous job.


Physicists in the Time of COVID-19



We asked the African Physics Newsletter Editors to tell us about their experiences during these unprecedented days. They have responded with an insight into their lives, their homes, and the shifting paradigms around them.

We welcome your own contributions for the next issue on your own circumstances.

Please do send articles on the response by your university to the crisis! Physicists are ingenious and imaginative, and your colleagues across the continent would like to know about what is being done.
 
Physicists Activities During COVID-19 Pandemic in Senegal
 
Letter from Egypt
Letter from Kenya: University of Kenya
A Physicist’s Life Under COVID-19 Pandemic
 
Letter from South Africa
Letter from Kenya: Masinde Muliro University
 

Save the Date: Upcoming Events & Activities



6th African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications ASESMA-2020 
(POSTPONED – Check Status Online)
Organizers plan to hold the school at a later moment, still to be determined, either later in 2020 or in 2021.
 
2020 Workshop on Nuclear Technology for Water and Food Security
20 - 31 July 2020 (Check Status Online)
The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania
This two-week short course introduces food irradiation, the use of nuclear technology for controlling spoilage and eliminating foodborne pathogens in food, and the utilization of nuclear technology to determine the source, age, movement and interaction of water above and below the ground.
 
The Third African Synchrotron Light Source Conference AFLS3
16 - 21 November 2020
Kigali, Rwanda
The third African light source conference will review the light source based science and further progress the vision of an African Light Source.
 
Federation of African Medical Physics Organizations 2020 Conference
27 - 29 November 2020
Marrakech, Morocco
The Federation of African Medical Physics Organizations (FAMPO) will host its 1st Regional Conference on Medical Physics from 27 – 29 November 2020 in Marrakech, Morocco.
 
CRéPAs Science and Society: Energy, Health and Environment in Africa
14 – 19 December 2020 (Postponed from July 2020)
Lomé, Togo
The theme of this second edition is "Science and Society: Energy, Health and Environment in Africa." This unifying theme will allow us to discuss all the issues related to renewable energy needs at the heart of the concerns about global warming, the automation of hospital practices in the era of "Internet of Things (IoT)" and the biological ecosystem (marine, forest and materials).
 
16th International Conference on the Dark Side of the Universe
12 - 16 July 2021
EAIFR, Kigali, Rwanda 
The DSU conferences are a series of international workshops in cosmology and astro-particle physics. The workshops bring together a wide range of theorists and experimentalists to discuss current ideas on models of the dark sector of the Universe, and relate them to ongoing and future experiments. Topics covered include: dark matter, dark energy, cosmic rays, neutrino physics, large-scale structure, black holes, gravitational waves, physics beyond the standard model, and more.
 
ASP2020 African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications
(POSTPONED - Check Status Online)
The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania
This two-week short course introduces food irradiation, the use of nuclear technology for controlling spoilage and eliminating foodborne pathogens in food, and the utilization of nuclear technology to determine the source, age, movement and interaction of water above and below the ground.
 
[CANCELLED] 2020 SAIP Annual Conference 
Potchefstroom, South Africa
South African Institute of Physics Annual Conference
 
ICTP Conference Notice
PLEASE NOTE: Due to ongoing concerns about the COVID-19 virus, ICTP conferences, schools and workshops are cancelled until mid-June 2020. Please note that some of the activities that have been cancelled this year will, in fact, be postponed until next year. The decision on which activities are to be postponed will be made after the COVID-19 emergency has passed. Please check ICTP's Scientific Calendar frequently for updates
 

Your Online Resources


 
FAMPO Free Resources
The National Physical Lab (NPL) has opened up its online training for free. Students, lecturers, early career researchers and academic staff are encouraged to register and take advantage of this important opportunity.
 
Physics World Webinars
Physics World Webinars from the Institute of Physics 
 
APS Career Guidance Webinars
Physics Career Guidance Webinars provided by the American Physical Society
 
SPS Career Webinars 
Society of Physics Students Archived Career Webinars
 
ICTP Virtual Seminars
ICTP is expanding its free, online, interactive streaming options for its seminars and colloquia to mitigate some of the effects of isolation during the COVID-19 emergency and beyond.

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