Staff
30 June 2015
David Ryan Prize 2015
June 2015
Condensed Matter Physics is delighted to announce that Noah Waterfield Price, second year postgraduate student, has been awarded the David Ryan Prize 2015 for the best research presentation by a postgraduate student in their second year at the annual poster session.
Well done Noah!
15 June 2015
Prof Fabian Essler wins MPLS Excellence in Teaching Award
Congratulations to Prof Fabian Essler, who has been awarded a 2015 MPLS Individual Divisional Teaching Award.
The MPLS Divisional Teaching Award Scheme celebrates success, and recognises and rewards excellence in teaching. Awards are available to all those who teach, including graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and learning support staff. The Teaching Award Scheme is administered by the MPLS Divisional Office and awards are made, on merit, across the departments by a cross-departmental panel chaired by the Associate Head of Division (Academic).
15 June 2015
Christopher Palmer wins MPLS Divisional ‘Project Award’ for innovative teaching
The Divisional Teaching Awards were announced at the MPLS Summer Party by the Head of Division Prof. Alex Halliday. Dr Christopher Palmer, Departmental Lecturer in Physics, was awarded the ‘Project Award’ for innovative teaching, worth £3k. Dr Palmer has been running the annual Oxford Undergraduate Physics Conference since 2007, when it was initially funded with an earlier Teaching award. Dr Palmer's new project will extend this concept to an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference, tackling themes of broad interest across the University.
Dr Palmer comments
28 May 2015
Podcast of 55th Cherwell-Simon Lecture now online
The video-recording of the 55th Cherwell-Simon lecture on Topological Boundary Modes from Quantum Electronics to Classical Mechanics, delivered by Prof Charles Kane (University of Pennsylvania) on 15 May 2015 is now available
here
28 May 2015
LHC Run 2 collisions seen by ATLAS
Congratulations to all of the ATLAS Oxford team involved in detecting, triggering, recording, and reconstructing the first collision events seen at the record-breaking energy of 13 TeV!
See more examples at the ATLAS Event Display web page.
Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture
Title:
Effective field measurements and spin torque dynamics in magnetic nanostructures
Olivia Hawkes
Condensed Matter Physics
T: (01865) 272225
e: olivia.hawkes@physics.ox.ac.uk
26 March 2015
Oxford graduate student's supersymmetry search is LHC physics highlight
The first ever search for the supersymmetric partner of the charm quark, led by Oxford graduate student Will Kalderon, has been selected by the ATLAS experiment at CERN as one of its physics highlights of the first run of the LHC.
The Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture
The 11th Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Philip Candelas, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
Title: Simple Calabi-Yau Manifolds and the Landscape of String Vacua
Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613 973
Leanne.odonnell@astro.ox.ac.uk
The Wetton Lecture
The Wetton Lecture will de delivered by Professor Carlo Frenk, Director, Institute for Computational Cosmology, University of Durham.
Title: "Everything from nothing, or how our universe was made"
28 January 2015
Professor Roger Cowley, 1939-2015
The Physics Department is sad to announce the death of Professor Roger Cowley.
Roger was Dr Lee’s Professor of Experimental Philosophy and Fellow of Wadham College from 1988 to 2007.
He served two spells as Chairman of Physics, from 1993 to 1996 and then from 1998 to 2002. In 1973 he was the
first ever recipient of the Max Born Medal and Prize, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978.
In 2008 he was awarded the Faraday Medal of the IoP "For pioneering work in the development and application
