Schools Outreach

7 February 2018

Triple Physics win at Impact Awards

The annual MPLS Impact Awards aim to foster and raise awareness of impact by rewarding it at a local level, and prepare the ground for the impact case studies that will be needed for REF 2021, and future similar exercises. This year’s awards were presented at the MPLS Winter Reception on the 6th February at Mansfield College, with the winners receiving a pay award of £1,000 (minus taxes).

Oxford Physicists won awards in three out of the four categories!

Oxford Physics Masterclass

Date: 
14 Apr 2018 - 10:30am to 3:15pm
Venue: 
martinwood
Audience: 
Schools (secondary)
For more information contact: 

isaac.physics@physics.ox.ac.uk (please include 'Oxford Physics Masterclass' in the subject line).

Magnets Fantastic - Family Friendly Christmas Lecture

Date: 
11 Dec 2017 - 6:15pm to 7:15pm
Venue: 
martinwood
Room: 
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Audience: 
Family friendly

The show will still go ahead this evening but please take care on your way into the Department and only travel if it is safe to do so.

Doors open: 6:00pm, arrive to be seated by 6:15pm

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Christmas Lecture

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Inaugural Oxford Network for Planets in the Universe Distinguished Lecture

Date: 
8 Nov 2017 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
clarendon
Room: 
Lindemann Lecture Theatre
Audience: 
General public (Age 14+)

Title: Getting to know alien worlds: Characterizing exoplanets from the ground and from space

Registration is required (no registration fee) Link to registration page

Time: 5 pm (to be seated by 4.50pm) on 8th November 2017

For more information contact: 

15th Hintze Lecture 'State of the Universe'

Date: 
13 Nov 2017 - 5:30pm
Venue: 
martinwood
Room: 
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Audience: 
General public (Age 14+)

The 15th Hintze Lecture will be delivered by Professor Brian Schmidt, Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University and 2011 Noble Prize Winner in Physics.

Title: State of the Universe
Abstract: Our Universe was created in 'The Big Bang' and has been expanding ever since. Professor Schmidt will describe the vital statistics of the Universe, including its size, weight, shape, age, and composition. Professor Schmidt will also try to make sense of the Universe's past, present, and future – and describe what we know, and what we do not yet know, about the Cosmos

For more information contact: 

Leanne O'Donnell
Tel: 01865 613 973
email : Leanne.odonnell@physics.ox.ac.uk

Magnets Fantastic

Date: 
7 Dec 2017 - 1:30pm to 8 Dec 2017 - 2:30pm
Venue: 
martinwood
Audience: 
Year 7 to Year 9 (11+)

Lecture date: Friday 8th December 2017, 13:30-14:30

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Schools Physics Christmas Lectures

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Oxford Physics Taster Day

Date: 
13 Jul 2017 - 9:30am to 4:30pm
Venue: 
dwb
Audience: 
Schools (secondary)

FULLY BOOKED !!

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For more information contact: 

isaac.physics@physics.ox.ac.uk (please include 'Oxford Physics Taster Day 2017 enquiry' in the subject line). Note: This event is now fully booked but we hope to run other taster days during the summer holidays.

Isaac Physics Calculus Workshop

Date: 
16 Jun 2017 - 9:00am to 1:00pm
Venue: 
Abingdon School, Abingdon
Audience: 
Schools (secondary)

The Abingdon Science Partnership have teamed up with Isaac Physics and the University of Oxford Physics Department to offer an exciting end of term experience which aims to stretch and challenge Year 12 Physics students. We aim to help students improve their problem solving skills within a scientific context, a key requirement for students who wish to study STEM subjects at university.

For more information contact: 

To register your interest please click here. If you have any further queries please email isaac.physics@physics.ox.ac.uk

Isaac Physics Year 12 Problem Solving Event

Date: 
21 Jun 2017 - 9:30am to 1:00pm
Venue: 
Magdalen College School, Oxford
Audience: 
Schools (secondary)

The Ogden Trust Oxford Partnership have teamed up with Isaac Physics and the University of Oxford Physics Department to offer an exciting end of term experience which aims to stretch and challenge Year 12 Physics students. We aim to help students improve their problem solving skills within a scientific context, a key requirement for students who wish to study STEM subjects at university.

For more information contact: 

To register your interest please click here. If you have any further queries please email isaac.physics@physics.ox.ac.uk

APPEAL-8 - Misadventures Along the Path to Big Physics Discoveries

Date: 
8 Jul 2017 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
Venue: 
dwb
Audience: 
Teachers of physics

Stories of science are filled with eureka moments—from Archimedes’ bath to Newton’s apple—but the scientific method or procedure of discovery also includes false starts and mistakes that are essential to longer-term success. The scientific method is characterised by the systematic observation, measurement and experiment as well as the formulation, testing and modification of hypotheses – for which critical analysis and thinking form a central part of the process.

For more information contact: 

To sign up for the event, please register your details here: https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/my-forms/appeal-8-registration

Please email schools.liaison@physics.ox.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Timetable information will be updated here and we will send a finalised copy in the lead up to the event: https://indico.cern.ch/event/613680/page/9634-home

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