Samahang Pisika ng Visayas at Mindanao

18/05/2026

18/05/2026

📢 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 📢

Calling all physics researchers, educators, and students! 📢
Be part of the SPVM National Physics Conference 2026 and share your work with the growing physics community. Submit your abstracts now!

First call submission deadline: May 29, 2026
Submission link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0f0L0_6P-wwG_J-JCl2tWYaQu_0kn77w70sVGHTS6U4gmpQ/viewform

Visit the SPVM website for more conference updates: https://spvm.org.ph/

06/05/2026

What is time, exactly, and how can we keep track of it? As strange as it may seem, physicists are still looking for precise answers to these questions.

An international collaboration including ICTP postdoctoral fellow Ludmila Viotti and ICTP senior research scientist Rosario Fazio might have just found a route to answering this question by proposing a protocol to build a high-precision clock that exploits the properties of quantum mechanics. In an article published in Physical Review Letters, they suggest that the properties of time crystals, a new quantum phase of matter recently predicted and experimentally explored, could be used for timekeeping.

👉 Read more: https://www.ictp.it/news/2026/5/quantum-clocks

13/04/2026

Could the universe’s earliest gravitational waves have helped create dark matter?

A new theoretical study published in Physical Review Letters explores how waves that formed shortly after the Big Bang may have introduced new physical scales, breaking the symmetry of the early universe. This process could have led to the creation of Weyl fermions — particles that may have later acquired mass and contributed to the dark matter we observe today.

Read more: https://go.aps.org/41OQhln

13/04/2026

Using a superconducting trap and superconducting quantum interference device, researchers levitated a microscopic ferromagnet and measured its wobble, extracting key signatures of spin-rotation coupling — a long-theorized effect uniting quantum spin and classical rotation.

Read more in Physical Review Letters: https://go.aps.org/4mjnheW

06/04/2026

BASE experiment at CERN succeeds in transporting antimatter

The experiment successfully transported a trap filled with antiprotons across CERN’s main site, a remarkable first step towards delivering antimatter to other European laboratories.

Find out more: https://home.cern/news/press-release/experiments/base-experiment-cern-succeeds-transporting-antimatter

25/03/2026

"From exploring the stars to inspiring the next generation"
Check out this feature on SPVM Member Dr. Reina Reyes in Allure.
Keep shining, Doc! The SPVM community is cheering on you.

24/03/2026

The Samahang Pisika ng Visayas at Mindanao (SPVM), in partnership with the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas (SPP), is thrilled to celebrate the brilliant minds of the Philippine Physics Olympiad 2026 National Finals!

​Held last March 21-22 at UP Los Baños, this year's competition showcased the incredible potential of our young physicists. A huge congratulations to our Absolute Winner, Alfonso Miguel C. Dizon from PSHS-Main Campus, and to all the medalists who rose to the challenge!

21/03/2026

18/03/2026

The Samahang Pisika ng Visayas at Mindanao (SPVM) expresses its sincere appreciation to Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU) and Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) for formalizing our partnership through a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) in preparation for the 28th National Physics Conference (NPC 2026).

The conference will be held on 22–24 October 2026 at the Ateneo de Davao University, Davao City.

This collaboration reflects a shared commitment to advancing physics research, strengthening academic networks, and fostering scientific exchange across the Visayas and Mindanao.