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10 November 2017
Magnetic Wand Directs Particles in Microfluidic Device
Researchers propose a scheme to position, focus, and sort magnetic particles in a microchannel with a magnetic field.
Physics Department Carol Service
Physics Department Carol Service 2017
The Carol Service will be held this year on Friday, 15th December, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High St, followed by wine and mince pies in the church. Please make a note in your diary. As always friends and family, especially children, are welcome to attend.
Inaugural Oxford Network for Planets in the Universe Distinguished Lecture
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
17 October 2017
Jessica Bolan awarded the Institute of Physics 2017 Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize
Congratulations to Jessica Boland who has been awarded the Institute of Physics 2017 Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize
for her work developing 'novel techniques for characterising the charge carrier dynamics of semiconductor nanowires, enabling demonstration of single nanowire terahertz detectors and ultrafast optically switchable nanowire-based terahertz modulators for ultrafast wireless communication.'
15th Hintze Lecture 'State of the Universe'
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
Leanne O'Donnell
Tel: 01865 613 973
email : Leanne.odonnell@physics.ox.ac.uk
20 September 2017
Oxford physicists could change our understanding of the universe in this new venture
"Why are we here?"
Oxford physicists could change our understanding of the universe in this new venture...
(In the photo we see from left to right, Prof Alfons Weber, Prof Giles Barr and Dr Farrukh Azfar. Photo copyright Department of Physics/S.Bebb)
15 August 2017
Oxford Physicists Line Up Laser Pulses To Drive Plasma Wakefields
Oxford Physicists Line Up Laser Pulses To Drive Plasma Wakefields
A team led by Professor Simon Hooker's group at Oxford have shown that very compact particle accelerators could be driven by trains of laser pulses travelling through a plasma (an ionized gas). This work illustrates the potential for efficient plasma accelerators operating at much higher pulse repetition rates than possible to date.
14 August 2017
Congratulations Tim Palmer
Congratulations to Tim Palmer who has been elected a Foreign Member of the Italian Accademia dei Lincei which was founded in 1603 and is the oldest such academy in the world.
21 July 2017
Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell awarded the President’s Medal of the Institute of Physics
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell awarded the President’s Medal of the Institute of Physics
Many Congratulations to Jocelyn Bell Burnell who has been awarded the President’s Medal of the Institute of Physics "for her outstanding contributions to physics through pioneering research in astronomy, most notably the discovery of the first pulsars, and through her unparalleled record of leadership within the community"
14 July 2017
Prof Paolo Radaelli awarded the Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia
Congratulations to Prof Paolo Radaelli (Head of Condensed Matter Physics), who has been awarded the Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy) by the President of the Italian Republic.
