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'Poles apart!' AOPP at the Royal Society Alumni event
Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics (AOPP) annual alumni event at the Royal Society
Poles Apart!
Short talks, panel discussions and a drinks and canapes reception at this wonderful venue.
Please book soon to avoid disappointment! Booking ends 2 November.
The format of the event will include four short talks from leading academics, followed by a Q&A session, moderated by Prof Phil Stier, Head of AOPP.
18 June 2018
Whirlwinds in rust: antiferromagnetic vortices spotted for the first time
Vortices are beautiful structures that are encountered in nature at all length-scales, from the nanometer to the billions of light years. In a paper appearing today in Nature Materials, the Oxide electronics group at the University of Oxford and their collaborators at University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) and the Diamond Light Source (UK) describe how they used a synchrotron-based microscopy technique to image an unprecedented form of magnetic vortices in thin films of hematite (α-Fe2O3, a form of ordinary rust).
14 June 2018
Physics Newsletter Spring 2018
Our latest Department newsletter is now available to download in PDF format here (the file may not display correctly with Firefox/Chrome pdf viewers -- in this case save a file and open it with e.g. Acrobat reader or Preview).
Have a look at the wide range of work that we do in front-line research, teaching, public outreach and school education.
11 June 2018
Rising CO2 may increase dangerous weather extremes, whatever happens to global temperatures
Rising CO2 may increase dangerous weather extremes, whatever happens to global temperatures
New research from the University of Oxford and collaborators at several other institutions provides compelling evidence that meeting the global warming target of 1.5°C may not be enough to limit the damage caused by extreme weather.
Meeting Minds Oxford Alumni Weekend
Meeting Minds Alumni Weekend in Oxford
September - Friday 14 evening and Saturday 15 afternoon.
This year we will host telescope tours and bigger 'astro' night on Friday 14th, and tours of the Beecroft Building and a talk by the new Head of Department (to start after summer), Prof Ian Shipsey.
Booking is open.
The Henry Moseley Society Special Event
For Science, King and Country
We are delighted to host a second event this year for all our members of The Henry Moseley Society.
Our guest speaker is Prof Russell Egdell who has recently finished a book 'For Science, King and Country' and will give us a talk about the life of Henry Moseley (new things he has found out during his research for the book), and share lunch here in Oxford, plus there will be a chance to tour the new Beecroft Building and another new special exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science (optional).
The Wetton Lecture 'How do we find planets around other stars?'
Realising The Astronomy of the Future III: The Wetton lecture
How do we find planets around other stars?
Professor David W. Hogg
Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University
Morning of Theoretical Physics 'Quantum Amplitudes, Classical Ignorance & Quantum Information Processing'
Quantum Amplitudes, Classical Ignorance & Quantum Information Processing
Speakers: Prof James Binney FRS, Prof Fabian Essler and Prof Artur Ekert FRS.
4 June 2018
2018 Amelia Earhart Fellows
Congratulations to Helena Bates who has been selected as one of the 2018 Amelia Earhart Fellows, https://www.zonta.org/Media-News/News-Feed/News-Detail/zonta-internation....
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22 May 2018
MeerLICHT telescope is inaugurated at the Sutherland Observatory, South Africa
On Friday May 25 – Africa Day 2018 - a new telescope has been inaugurated at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), near Sutherland, that will be an “eye of the MeerKAT radio array”, the country’s precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
