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30 October 2014
Oxford Physics features on QI
Followers of the popular BBC TV quiz show QI, hosted by Stephen Fry, were able to enjoy a demonstration of superconducting levitation developed in the Oxford Physics Department. The show, which was entitled Levity and was aired on 24 Oct 2014, included a sequence in which Stephen Fry cools a slab of ceramic superconductor in liquid nitrogen and demonstrates it levitating over a permanent magnet through the mechanism of flux exclusion (the Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect).
The 9th Hintze Lecture - Professor Scott Ransom - Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and Black Holes: The Wickedly Cool Stellar Undead
Professor Scott Ransom US National Radio Astronomy Observatory will give the 9th Hintze Lecture.
"Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and Black Holes: The Wickedly Cool Stellar Undead"
Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613 973
Leanne.odonnell@astro.ox.ac.uk
15 October 2014
Physics Autumn 2014 Newsletter
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 it to a file and open it with e.g. Acrobat reader or Preview). Have a look at the wide range of work that we do in front-line research, teaching, public outreach and school education.
Christmas Carols and Reception
Physics Christmas Carols and Reception
The Physics Department Carol Service will be held this year on Friday 19th December, University Church of St Mary the Virgin followed by wine and mince pies in the de Brome Chapel.
The Service is at 16:30, and an informal reception with mince pies and wine will follow.
9 July 2014
Oxford Physics space instrument now successfully in Earth orbit on TechDemoSat-1
Yesterday a Soyuz-Fregat rocket lifted off at just before 5PM and along for the ride was a new, compact infrared instrument developed by the Planetary Experiments Group in Oxford Physics and RALSpace at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Called the Compact Modular Sounder, or CMS, the instrument is designed to map surface and atmospheric temperature properties, is about the size of a shoe box and has a mass of just 4.5 kg.
2014 Halley Lecture
University of Oxford
Halley Lecture
"How the Universe Evolved From Smooth to Lumpy -- the Physics of Galaxy Formation"
Professor Eliot Quataert
University of California, Berkeley Astronomy Department
Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 5pm
(to be seated by 4.50pm)
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Clarendon Laboratory
Parks Road, Oxford
THIS LECTURE IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This lecture will be followed by a Drinks Reception in the foyer of the Martin Wood
Leanne O'Donnell
Tel: 01865 613 973
Email: Leanne.odonnell@astro.ox.ac.uk
2014 Physics Leavers Reception
A Leavers Reception for Year 3 and Year 4 Physics Students only.
Lunch, Group Photo and the opportunity to collect your Oxford University Alumni Card.
Note that only students who have pre-booked will be able to attend.
Prof John Wheater, Head of the Department of Physics is pleased to invite you to
2014 Leavers Reception
Friday 23rd May, 1 to 4 pm
Martin Wood Complex Foyer
Event schedule:
The 10th Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture
The 10th Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture
Professor James Binney
Department of Physics, Merton College and All Souls Visiting Lecturer, University of Oxford
Galaxies and the intergalactic medium
Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613973
Leanne.odonnell@astro.ox.ac.uk
Weighing Black Holes, by Dr Martin Bureau - Tokyo, Japan
Dr Martin Bureau
Lecturer in Astrophysics, Fellow of Wadham College
