University of Cyprus - 3rd Bicommunal School of Physics - 2025

11 Dec 2025, 08:00 → 14 Dec 2025, 20:30 Europe/Athens

The School is organized by the Physics Department of the University of Cyprus. It is addressed to high school (lyceum) students of Cyprus with an interest in modern physics. It will be conducted in English.

Venue: Home for Cooperation (UN Buffer zone at Ledra Palace, Nicosia).

On Saturday, December 13, the venue will be the UCY Physics Department (see on map).

Thursday 11 December

14:00 → 14:15 Registration

14:15 → 14:30 Opening Remarks

14:30 → 15:45 Space-time: Introduction to Special Relativity (Part 1)

Speaker: Haris Panagopoulos

15:45 → 16:00 Break: refreshments & cookies

16:00 → 17:15 Physics of Modern and Future Technology

Speaker: Theodosis Trypiniotis

17:15 → 17:30 Break: refreshments & cookies

17:30 → 18:45 Biophysics Inspired by Brain Function

Speaker: Georgios Archontis

Friday 12 December

14:00 → 15:15 Space-time: Introduction to Special Relativity (Part 2)

Speaker: Haris Panagopoulos

15:15 → 15:30 Break: refreshments & cookies

15:30 → 16:45 Gravity, Cosmology, Black Holes and Holography

Speaker: Nicolaos Toumbas

16:45 → 17:00 Break: refreshments & cookies

17:00 → 18:45 The Strong Interactions and their role in the Evolution of the Universe

Speaker: Constantia Alexandrou

Saturday 13 December

10:00 → 11:15 Adventures with Elementary Particles

Speaker: Fotis Ptochos, Halil Saka

11:15 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:45 Physics at the Nanoscales - Laboratory tour

Speaker: Grigorios Itskos

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 19:00 Excursion to the Troodos Observatory (Agridia)

19:00 → 20:30 Dinner in Nicosia

Sunday 14 December

09:30 → 10:45 The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics

Speaker: Spyros Skourtis

10:45 → 11:00 Break: refreshments and cookies

11:00 → 12:15 The Structure of the Proton

Speaker: Jonathan Gaunt, Eleni Vryonidou

12:15 → 13:30 The quantum world, Annenberg learner documentary

Speaker: Nicolaos Toumbas (University of Cyprus)

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch