In 2017, as always we organised Researcher’s Night for the physics institution of Eötvös Loránd University. This event is held nation-wide and takes place in several universities, museums and research institutes. It’s main goal is to educate mostly children, or anybody visiting in a fun, yet informative way to show them interesting aspects of science that they most likely won’t see in school.
The event started mid-afternoon. Visitors could choose from numerous different themes of physics, we had five desks full of various experiments. The themes of these were mechanics, hydrodinamics, electricity, optics and thermodinamics. Parts of the experiments were especially interesting for the younger audience, since they could touch new materials or hold unfamiliar tools and also for teenagers and adults. We purchased varied tools from the grant, such as prisms and lasers, which all were highly popular among the guests. The more dangerous things were handled by demonstrators, who were students at the university.
The other major section of the night were the lectures. These were designed to be clear and interesting, suitable both for young children and their parents. One was held by a university student, the vice president of BYMS. He talked about the structure of the universe. Our other lecturer was an associate professor at our physics institution. He presented the Big Bang Theory, the quark-gluon plasma and the experiments currently going on in CERN.
A few people from different research institutes were visiting us to see the event. Since they all liked our program, it is very likely we will be able to work together with them in the following years to make the event bigger.

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The main goal of this well-known EU project is to raise public awareness to the everyday influence of research in our life. We have taken out our part in the International initiation by organising a physics related event at the Eötvös University on the 30th of September 2016. This is now a traditional program for us every year: it is an open and free event for any curious person, but every year our main focus is on families, teenagers and younger children. There were some easily understandable and entertaining scientific presentation, which were presented by renewed researchers and students alike, with topics from the most novel and interesting research areas and present the tools of science. During the whole afternoon and evening (for seven hours) there were five thematic demonstration stands with over a 100 different experiments (the five themes were: thermodynamics, electromagnetism, modern physics, mechanics and liquids). The participants were be able to try out most of the non-dangerous experiments themselves, many of which can be easily reproduced at home. There were at least two presenters at each table, who were mostly physics students, and there were additional organisers who have taken small sized groups to the digital planetary at the campus. with the help of the staff of our Astronomical Department at the university. This event was another evidence that with the cooperation of the Roland Eötvös Physical Society, the two local universities (Eötvös Loránd University and the Budapest University of Technology and Econimics) and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Institutes we can organise a professional and interesting Physics Researchers Night event in Budapest.

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The main goal of the project was to raise public awareness to the everyday influence of physics in our life. Physics themed presentations were held in the whole country organised by the Hungarian EPS member ELFT, and we took our part in the project by organising the main flagship event at the Eötvös University. This was an open and free event for any curious persons, but our main focus was on families, teenagers and younger children. There were three 60 minute long easily understandable and entertaining scientific lectures. The lectures were presented by renewed scientists and students alike, with topics from the most novel and interesting research areas. During the whole afternoon and evening (for seven hours) there were four thematic demonstration stands with over a 100 different experiments (the four themes were: thermodynamics, electromagnetism, mechanics and fluid dynamics). The participants were also able to try out most of the non-dangerous experiments themselves. There were at least two presenters at each table, who were mostly physics students, and there will were additional organisers who have shown modern physics simulations and optical experiments at the lecture hall to small sized groups.There there was also an hourly rocket and explosion experiment in the open, and one of our guests lifted a car with PET bottles. We and the ELFT are happy to have organised this event a second time, and we hope to grow this national event to an international celebration for physics in the following years.

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The Budapest YM Section participated in the international outreach initiation called “Researchers Night” by organising a physics related event at the Eötvös University. This was an open and free event for any curious person, but our main focus was on families, teenagers and younger children. Altogether in the end we had around eight hundred participants during the night, most of the visitors were families and student groups with teachers.

There were a couple short, easily understandable and entertaining scientific presentation. The presentation were presented by renewed researchers and students alike, with topics from the most novel and interesting research areas, showcasing the methodology of scientific research. During the whole afternoon and evening (for seven hours) there were five thematic demonstration stands with over a 100 different experiments (the five themes were: thermodynamics, electromagnetism, modern physics, mechanics and liquids). The participants were able to try out most of the non-dangerous experiments themselves, many of which can be easily reproduced at home. Some grand experiments were presented on the bank of the Danube on an hourly basis . There were two to four presenters at each table, mostly physics students.

In cooperation with the Roland Eötvös Physical Society, the two local universities (Eötvös Loránd University and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics) and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Institutes we organised a professional and interesting Physics Researchers Night event in Budapest. With the help of the Hungarian Astronautical Society, we also had a poster session in front of the experiments hall, where the participants could get a broad view of Hungarian scientific achievements in space.

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