Website www.psi.ir Founded 1921 | Headquarters Tehran, Iran Type of business Professional/Academic | |
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Key people Mahmoud Hessabi, Reza Mansouri | ||
The Physical Society of Iran (PSI) (انجمن فيزيک ايران) is Iran's largest professional and academic physics society.
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PSI is a non-profit organization aimed in establishing and strengthening scientific and research contacts between physicists and between academic members of the country's institutes of higher education in the field of physics.
The society has over 5,100 members inside and outside Iran. In addition to its awards scheme and publications programme, the Physics Society of Iran holds conferences in several different fields annually, including optics and condensed matter physics. The society has proved instrumental in improving the state of education and research in physics throughout the country.
The society organizes annual meetings and it is an active member of TWAS. It has also close collaboration with American Physical Society. In October 2003 APS and PSI sponsored jointly a school/workshop on string theory in Tehran.
The society's main journal is the Iranian Journal of Physics Research, which is published via the Isfahan University of Technology Press, and is recognized by the Ministry of Science of Iran. PSI was a sponsor of the 2007 International Physics Olympiad, which was hosted by Isfahan University of Technology.
History
The Physical Society of Iran was founded 1921 by Iran's elite physicists and engineers. Among the founders was Yusef Sobouti, currently chancellor of IASBS.
The first Annual Physics Conference of Iran was inaugurated in 1973 at Sepah Bank's arboretum, followed by Iran's second national conference on Physics the next year at Shahid Beheshti University. Activities of the society suffered a setback during the early years of the revolution, but picked up in 1983 and have been gathering momentum ever since.
In recent breakthroughs in early 2008, it was discovered from a team of 12, that that penguins are indeed incapable of flight. However, another group of researchers from the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran are attempting to rectify this mistake by creating larger winged penguins. The estimated wingspan would exceed 4.572 meters (15 feet).
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Awards
The following are awarded annually by PSI to selected recipients during the Annual Physics Conference awards ceremony: