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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.
'Finding aliens – An update on the search for life in the Universe', by Bill Diamond (President & CEO The SETI Institute)
Special Public Lecture
'Finding aliens – An update on the search for life in the Universe'
by Bill Diamond (President & CEO The SETI Institute)
The Department of Physics is delighted to invite you to a public lecture by Bill Diamond, President & CEO The SETI Institute, hosted by Prof Ian Shipsey, Head of Physics.
16 May 2019
Prof Katherine Blundell OBE appointed Gresham Professor of Astronomy
Prof Katherine Blundell OBE appointed Gresham Professor of Astronomy
Gresham College, London’s oldest Higher Education Institution, is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Katherine Blundell OBE as Gresham Professor of Astronomy from 2019 in succession to Professor Joseph Silk.
16 May 2019
Achillefs Kapanidis scoops Innovator of the Year award
Congratulations to Professor Achillefs Kapanidis and Mr Bo Jing, CEO of Oxford Nanoimaging who have been named as BBSRC’s Innovator of the year 2019 – an award celebrating excellent research which demonstrates impact.
Physics Alumni Garden Party
Physics Alumni & Friends Garden Party
This year we are hosting our yearly event in the wonderful riverside setting of Wolfson College.
Diversity & Awareness in STEMM Week - Monday 20th May to Friday 24th May
Diversity and Awareness in STEMM Celebration week
20 to 24 May
Join us in celebrating the UN World Day for Cultural Diversity with a week of events highlighting and discussing diversity in the field of STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine). There are a variety of workshops, lectures, panels, and a Wikipedia edit-a-thon exploring the intersection between sex, gender, disability, sexuality and race in STEMM and the researchers participating in it.
29 April 2019
Spinning black hole sprays light-speed plasma clouds into space
Astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole almost 8000 light-years from Earth.
Published today in the journal Nature, the research shows jets from V404 Cygni’s black hole behaving in a way never seen before on such short timescales.
The jets appear to be rapidly rotating with high-speed clouds of plasma—potentially just minutes apart—shooting out of the black hole.
“Science through exploration - Oxford Physics from the Earth to the Solar System” AOPP at the Royal Society
“Science through exploration - Oxford Physics from the Earth to the Solar System”.
The University of Oxford Department of Physics annual alumni event hosted by the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics (AOPP) at the Royal Society (London) will take place on November 15th.
The event will be hosted by Prof Philip Stier (Head of AOPP), with participation of other senior academics.
The format of the day will be:
Thinking 3D 'Space & Time'
Thinking 3D: Space & Time
The Department of Physics and Magdalen College, are happy to announce this fantastic event, part of the 'Thinking 3D' programme, that we will host together for alumni & general public.
This event is part of a wider programme of events, a year-long series of exhibitions, events, public talks, gallery shows, and academic symposia intended to incite dialogue between artists, art and book historians, mathematicians, astronomers, geometers, earth scientists, botanists, chemists...and more.
12 April 2019
Dr Becky Smethurst Discusses New Black Hole Image on Channel 4 News
Dr Becky Smethurst, Junior Research Fellow in Astrophysics at Christ Church, has been speaking in the media about the new image of a black hole at the centre of the galaxy M87, released on 10th April.
