Upcoming events

19 March 2024
The Accelerate! show
Secondary school events

Marie Curious, Oxford 2024

Fun-filled day of physics for girls in Year 8 and Year 9

22 April 2024
Astrophysics Colloquium
Seminars and colloquia

Prof Clem Pryke

Astrophysics Colloquium

29 April 2024
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Seminars and colloquia

ALP Seminar: Optical Learning Machines

Prof. Demetri Psaltis

2 May 2024
Juice
Public talks and lectures

Halley Lecture - JUICE, the ESA spacecraft mission to Jupiter’s icy moons

JUICE, the ESA spacecraft mission to Jupiter’s icy moons

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Alumni

Once a physicist, always a physicist...

Our alumni relations office exists to nurture and develop long-lasting relationships between students, staff and friends of the Department of Physics so please do get in touch with ideas, feedback or just to say hello!