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12 April 2019

British Instruments Reveal Secrets of Martian Sky

The first results from the ExoMars mission supported by the UK Space Agency reveal the effects of a massive, global dust storm on the Red Planet.
British instruments reveal secrets of martian sky

Over the last year the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) spacecraft followed the onset of the storm and monitored how the increase in dust affected the water vapour in the atmosphere - important for understanding the history of water on Mars.

9 April 2019

Prestigious STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship awarded to Oxford Physicist

We are delighted to announce that nuclear and particle physicist Dr Xianguo Lu has been awarded an Ernest Rutherford Fellowship 2019 to work on 'Neutrino interactions in the GeV regime'.

You can read more about his work here.

Congratulations Xianguo!

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Alumni Reception at The New Club (Edinburgh)

Date: 
2 Jul 2019 - 6:30pm
Venue: 
The New Club, 86 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2BB
Audience: 
Physics Alumni & Guests

Alumni Reception in Edinburgh

We are delighted to invite you to our physics alumni event in Scotland, our first ever! This time will be at the New Club (Princes Street), in the beautiful Ramsay & Long Rooms on July 2nd.

This will be an evening event hosted by Head of Department, Prof Ian Shipsey and alumna Dr Susan Hezlet, whose idea and support were vital for this fantastic opportunity. We are very grateful to Dr William Duncan for his time and support, too.

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29 March 2019

Fusion scientists gather in Oxford

Peter Norreys, Oxford’s Professor of Inertial Fusion Science, is chairing the “International Conference on High Energy Density Science” in University College Oxford on behalf of the Institute of Physics plasma physics group from 1st – 5th April 2019. The 120 registered participants from all over the world will be coming to Oxford discuss a range of topics ranging from the behaviour of matter under extreme pressures, laboratory plasma astrophysics, progress in inertial confinement fusion through to high laser electric field phenomena.

Organic Semiconductors: From a lab curiosity to highly efficient devices

Date: 
17 May 2019 - 3:30pm
Venue: 
martinwood
Room: 
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre

Prof Karl Leo, Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonics (IAPP),
Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany www.iapp.de

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Niamh Coll

25 March 2019

Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund

On Wednesday, 20 March 2019, The Institute of Physics announced the launch of The Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship bursary scheme.

Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and New Progress

Date: 
22 Mar 2019 - 3:30pm
Room: 
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre

Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and New Progress
Professor Qi-Kun Xue
Tsinghua University & Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100084, China

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Women in Science: a lecture by Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS

Date: 
25 Mar 2019 - 11:30am
Venue: 
martinwood
Room: 
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Audience: 
Specialised / research interest

A special lecture intended especially for early-career scientists

Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS is Visiting Professor in Astrophysics at Oxford

In this talk Professor Bell Burnell will describe UK initiatives by some senior women scientists to enable women to participate more in science, and how these initiatives have been adopted by research funding bodies and are now spreading world-wide.

All welcome, no booking required.

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20 March 2019

Japanese weather satellite gives a unique perspective on a huge meteor

Sometimes satellites can provide an unexpected view of events. On the 18th December 2018 a huge meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the northern Pacific Ocean, an event that – due to its isolated location – attracted very little attention at the time. American military satellites that look for bright flashes detected the meteor as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere and this enabled scientists at NASA to calculate its trajectory[1].

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