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“Shine: art navigating through the code of starlight”
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Tim Fitzpatrick, Artist in residence for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Apache Point Observatory, New Mexico)
“Shine: art navigating through the code of starlight”
15 January 2019
Congratulations to Sir Alex Halliday who has been knighted for services to Science and Innovation
Congratulations to Sir Alex Halliday who has been knighted for services to Science and Innovation in the New Year's Honours list for 2019.
Alexander Halliday FRS, Visiting Professor of Geochemistry at the Department of Earth Sciences and recently Head of Oxford’s Mathematical Physical and Life Sciences Division, is knighted for services to science and innovation.
To see the full list please click here
15 January 2019
Galaxy Zoo wins the RAS Group Achievement Award
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The Royal Astronomical Society has given the Galaxy Zoo team – including the volunteers who have made the project the success it is – their Group Achievement Award for 2019.
Citation for the 2019 RAS Group Achievement Award:
15 January 2019
Inaugural Brebis Bleaney Memorial Lecture
Inaugural Brebis Bleaney Memorial Lecture
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance: Past, Present and Future
Prof Mark Newton
Department of Physics, University of Warwick
3.30pm on 22 February 2019
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory
The Inaugural Brebis Bleaney Memorial Lecture, by Prof Mark Newton
The Inaugural Brebis Bleaney Memorial Lecture
'Electron Paramagnetic Resonance: Past, Present and Future'
Prof Mark Newton (Department of Physics, University of Warwick)
3.30pm on 22 February 2019
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory
Meeting Minds - Alumni Weekend in Tokyo
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Alumni Weekend in Tokyo
22-24 March 2019
Booking is now open for the next Meeting Minds weekend, to be held in Tokyo from 22-24 March 2019.
This event is organised by the Central Alumni Office for ALL alumni of University of Oxford, regardless of the discipline of study.
'The Physics of Life' - Saturday Morning of Theoretical Physics
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'The Physics of Life' - Saturday Morning of Theoretical Physics
Booking is now open for the first Morning of Theoretical Physics of the year.
For more details and to book (free) please visit this page.
We look forward to seeing you there!
30 November 2018
Physics Newsletter Autumn 2018
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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).
Have a look at the wide range of work that we do in front-line research, teaching, public outreach and school education.
Atomic & Laser Physics Open Day
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You are invited to the Atomic & Laser Physics Open Day!
Have you ever thought of what graduate opportunities there may be within the Atomic & Laser sub-Department? This is your chance to come and visit the labs, meet the teams and everyone currently researching the interaction of light and matter. You could be joining them for a DPhil in 2019!
Physics Carol Service
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Physics Carol Service
The Carol Service will be held this year on Monday 17th December, 2018 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, staff, alumni, friends and family, especially children, are welcome to attend.