AOPP
20 April 2020
Sir John Houghton CBE FRS FLSW
The remarkable Sir John Houghton CBE FRS FLSW, meteorologist, climate change expert and Honorary Fellow of Jesus College has died, aged 88.
27 March 2020
COVID-19: physics in the real world
Scientists around the world are racing to understand more about the COVID-19-causing virus – and physicists at Oxford are no exception. 'Without physics and physicists there could be no modern technological society, from microelectronics and telecommunications, to LCD displays and PET scanners in hospitals; it is therefore not surprising that physics has much to offer in the battle against CoV2,' explains Head of Department, Professor Ian Shipsey.
Postponed - Oxford Physics Y12 Summer School 2020
The Oxford Physics Y12 Summer School is planned to run from 27th - 31st July 2020. Anyone in Year 12 or equivalent is welcome to apply. We will be constantly considering the summer school in light of arrangements for the coronavirus pandemic, but are currently planning as though it will go ahead.
Dr Kathryn Boast
Access Officer
kathryn.boast@physics.ox.ac.uk
Guest lunch with Dr Sam Henry
Come and join the Women in Physics society for lunch with special guest Dr Sam Henry. Want to know more about the recent UCU strike action or interested in addressing the gender pay gap? Bring along your questions for Sam. We'll also be hearing all about Sam's outreach and public engagement activities. Lunch is provided - sign up at the OxWiP website: https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/oxwip .
Academic Consulting Seminar (POSTPONED)
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Consulting Services is the consulting arm of Oxford University Innovation Ltd, the University’s technology transfer company.
Come and join us on 18th March 2020, 11.00am in the Simpkins Lee Room, Beecroft Building, to learn about how you can undertake consultancy activity as an integral part of your research activity whilst at Oxford. This seminar will be of interest to academics, researchers and DPhil students.
Enterprising Women POSTPONED
POSTPONED
Hear from two enterprising and successful women, who have helped form spin-out companies from Oxford Physics research, sharing their personal journeys into entrepreneurship and advice for students and researchers.
Ilana Wisby (CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC)) gained a PhD in quantum physics, after which she entered the world of start-ups and is now leading an Oxford University spin-out company, creating the core of the quantum revolution.
10 December 2019
Large atmospheric waves present risk to global food production
Oxford University’s Kai Kornhuber and colleagues have discovered jet stream patterns that could affect up to a quarter of global food production.
2 December 2019
A CERN for climate change
In order to successfully tackle climate change, Professor Tim Palmer from Oxford University and Professor Bjorn Stevens from the Max Planck Society argue that we must invest in an ambitious new multi-national modelling strategy to further our knowledge of climate science – they are calling for a climate change equivalent of CERN.
Bold initiatives are needed
10 October 2019
This year's Nobel Prize
As James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz are announced as the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in physics, we look at the significance of their work.
The 2019 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to James Peebles for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology and to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
Physics: Lab to Life
Physics is changing your life.
At the Department of Physics, our research spans everything from the tiniest particles to the entire cosmos, but we don’t just leave the ideas scrawled on blackboards, hidden on hard drives or tucked into unfathomable scientific papers. We take our research and make it work for you.
Dr Kathryn Boast: kathryn.boast@physics.ox.ac.uk