AOPP
14 November 2017
Scientific and Policy Aspects of the Iran Nuclear Deal - Friday 1 December 2017
Professor Frederick K. Lamb
University of Illinois
Friday 1 December 2017 at 3.30pm
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, followed by reception
Title: Scientific and Policy Aspects of the Iran Nuclear Deal
Inaugural Oxford Network for Planets in the Universe Distinguished Lecture
Title: Getting to know alien worlds: Characterizing exoplanets from the ground and from space
Registration is required (no registration fee) Link to registration page
Time: 5 pm (to be seated by 4.50pm) on 8th November 2017
18 October 2017
Oxford Physics leads new instrument for research in Astronomy and climate change
Oxford Physics will play a leading role in the development of a new instrument that enables better understanding of climate change and star formation in the Universe.
29 September 2017
AOPP Retreat Prize Winners
Despite a very high standard of presentations overall, two stood out as being particularly clear and engaging presentations of some great physics work: Kevin Thielen and Chris MacMackin, both of the Ice and Fluid Dynamics group, won prizes for the best talk and poster respectively. Many congratulations to both of them!
14 August 2017
Oxford Physics Quantum projects secure industry funding
The Department of Physics has been successful in winning funding for three new exciting projects in the latest quantum technologies competition, which was co-funded by Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Of the funding, 65% will go towards supporting company activities, and the remaining 35% to academic research.
28 April 2017
Oxford reflects fondly on Cassini as the end draws near
Oxford reflects fondly on Cassini as the end draws near
On Wednesday 26 April 2017, Cassini became the first spacecraft to ever plunge between Saturn and its innermost rings. In doing so, it came closer to the planet than any probe before it. This historic manoeuvre marks the beginning of the end, for what has been a landmark space mission.
6 April 2017
Congratulations Luke Ceurvorst
Congratulations to Luke Ceurvorst who recently won the best poster prize at the 44th IoP Plasma Physics Conference on channelling results from OMEGA EP.
4 April 2017
Congratulations Subir Sarkar!
Many congratulations to Subir Sarkar who has been awarded the IUPAP-TIFR Homi Bhabha Medal and Prize 2017.
This prize is awarded for distinguished contributions in high energy cosmic ray physics and astro-particle physics.
You can read more here
6 March 2017
Friday: Astor Visiting Lecture 2: Prof Howard Milchberg @ 15.30pm
Prof Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland
10 Mar: ‘Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices’
3.30pm in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
21 February 2017
Physics Colloquia Series Presents: Prof Tom McLeish FRS, Durham University 'Learning new physics from a medieval thinker: Big Bangs and Rainbows’
Friday, 24th February 2017 at 15:30