Public Outreach
Higgs Hunters: Uncover the building blocks of the Universe
As the Large Hadron Collider pushes to ever-higher energies, join Prof Alan Barr to find out about the mysteries of particle physics and how the citizen scientists of Higgs Hunters are helping researchers in their search for unknown exotic particles.
Booking required
Please complete the online booking form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HiggsHunters15.
The Hintze Lecture Series - "Growing Black Holes over 12 Billion Years"
The next Hintze Lecture will be delivered by Professor Meg Urry, Israel Munson Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Director, Yale Centre for Astronomy & Astrophyiscs.
Growing Black Holes over 12 Billion Years
Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613 973
Leanne.odonnell@physics.ox.ac.uk
22 July 2015
LPAG graduate student is runner up in FameLab
Rob Shalloo, a first year graduate student studying laser plasma wakefield acceleration in the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, was awarded one of two runners up prizes in the UK national final of FameLab on 22nd April.
28 May 2015
Podcast of 55th Cherwell-Simon Lecture now online
The video-recording of the 55th Cherwell-Simon lecture on Topological Boundary Modes from Quantum Electronics to Classical Mechanics, delivered by Prof Charles Kane (University of Pennsylvania) on 15 May 2015 is now available
here
28 May 2015
LHC Run 2 collisions seen by ATLAS
Congratulations to all of the ATLAS Oxford team involved in detecting, triggering, recording, and reconstructing the first collision events seen at the record-breaking energy of 13 TeV!
See more examples at the ATLAS Event Display web page.
Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture
Title:
Effective field measurements and spin torque dynamics in magnetic nanostructures
Olivia Hawkes
Condensed Matter Physics
T: (01865) 272225
e: olivia.hawkes@physics.ox.ac.uk
30 April 2015
Oxford graduate student is runner-up in UK FameLab final
Rob Shalloo, a first year graduate student studying laser plasma wakefield acceleration in the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, was awarded one of 2 runners up prizes in the UK national final of FameLab on 22nd April.
The Hintze Lecture ‘The Quantum Universe’ by Prof Hitoshi Murayama
The 10th Hintze Lecture will be delivered by Professor Hitoshi Murayama, Director, Kavli Institute for the Physics & Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), The University of Tokyo.
Title: The Quantum Universe
Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613 973
Leanne.odonnell@physics.ox.ac.uk
55th Cherwell-Simon Memorial Lecture 2015
Professor Charles Kane, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Chair & Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania will deliver the 55th Cherwell-Simon Lecture.
Title
Topological Boundary Modes from Quantum Electronics to Classical Mechanics
Olivia Hawkes, Condensed Matter Physics
T: 01865 272225
E: olivia.hawkes@physics.ox.ac.uk
26 March 2015
Oxford graduate student's supersymmetry search is LHC physics highlight
The first ever search for the supersymmetric partner of the charm quark, led by Oxford graduate student Will Kalderon, has been selected by the ATLAS experiment at CERN as one of its physics highlights of the first run of the LHC.
