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Every Friday - Physics Colloquia Series 15:30 all welcome
The following Department colloquia will take place during Michaelmas term 2017 as we aim to share with you the latest research and developments across the discipline - Undergraduates, Graduate, Postdocs, Support Staff and Faculty members are all encouraged to attend. Alumni and members of the University in other departments/colleges, too!
Each talk is followed by tea in the Physics common room. We look forward to seeing you there!
All lectures will commence at 3.30pm, in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory.
Alumni Garden Party
Sunday 29th June, afternoon tea in the Garden at St Hugh's College, Oxford
Following on the success from last year’s first Physics Alumni Garden Party, and thanks to the generosity of one of our alumnus, we are hosting this year’s party at St Hugh College’s beautiful gardens on Sunday 29th June, 4-6:30 pm.
Gravitational Waves and Prospects for Multi-messenger Astronomy Prof Barry C Barish (Caltech - Nobel Prize Physics 2017)
Oxford Physics Colloquium
Gravitational Waves and Prospects for Multi-messenger Astronomy
Prof Barry C Barish (Caltech - Nobel Prize Physics 2017)
9 July 14:30 - 15:30 hs
Venue: Lecture Theatre University of Oxford Museum Natural History
The quest for gravitational waves, following their prediction by Einstein in 1916 to their detection 100 years later will be traced. The subsequent opening of exciting new science, from rigorous tests of general relativity to using gravitational waves to explore the universe will be discussed.
21 June 2019
Physics Newsletter - Spring 2019
Physics Newsletter Spring 2019
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) or in a digital version.
Have a look at the wide range of work that we do in front-line research, teaching, public outreach and school education.
14 June 2019
Thinking 3D in Oxford & Physics
Physics researchers taking part of the 'Thinking 3D' programme of events
From March this year, until February 2020, visitors to Oxford will have a chance to learn the answer to questions such as: 'How did humans first learn to communicate a three-dimensional idea on the two-dimensional page? What can we learn from past attempts by great thinkers like Leonardo, with his heart of glass? And whose work is pushing the boundaries of three-dimensionality in Oxford today?'
SETI Institute - An introduction to the research & education programs of SETI
Celebrating its 35th year in 2019, the SETI Institute, founded by Astronomers Carl Sagan, Jill Tarter and Frank Drake, has grown from a small research team focused on searching for radio signals beyond our solar system (as a proxy for intelligent civilizations) to an organization of over 90 PhD scientists representing 23 different academic backgrounds, organized into 6 divisions of research. CEO, Bill Diamond, will describe the multidisciplinary structure and research of the Institute, whose mission is to explore, understand and explain the nature and origins of life in the universe.
Diversity and Awareness in STEM Week
Physics celebrates Diversity - Join Us!
20 May 2019
Physics celebrates Oxford Diversity Week
Physics celebrates Diversity - Join Us!
This week the world celebrates UN World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development on 21 May.
In our city, the Oxford Pride Festival is taking place from last Friday, 17 May, until 2nd of June.
19 May 2019
Alex Savin receives a best student presentation prize at ICHED 2019
Alex Savin, a third year DPhil student in Prof Peter Norreys group in Atomic and Laser Physics, received the runner-up student presentation prize for his talk at the International Conference on High Energy Density science (ICHED 2019) conference in University College Oxford in April 2019. Alex's paper was entitled "Energy Absorption in the Laser-QED Regime" and described the interaction of multi-petawatt laser pulses with solid targets.
19 May 2019
Marko Mayr wins a best poster prize at an international workshop
Marko Mayr, a second-year DPhil student under the supervision of Prof Peter Norreys, was awarded a best poster competition prize by an expert panel at the Laser Plasma Accelerator Workshop, Split, Croatia, 6th -10th May 2019. Marko's poster was entitled "Wakefields in a Cluster Plasma" and described the research work he had conducted at the Clarendon Laboratory over the past eighteen months since he started his doctoral degree.
