Researchers at the Department of Physics have today published a paper reviewing the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning for understanding "extreme physics" – the physics of matter at extremely high temperatures and densities. This area of physics is crucial for our understanding of astrophysics, nuclear fusion, and many areas of fundamental physics.

Name: Dr Hannah Dalgleish
Job title: Postdoctoral Researcher in Astronomy for Development

Name: Chiara Spiniello
Job title: Hintze Fellow

As Buckingham Palace today announces the death of Prince Philip aged 99, our archivist, Professor Stephen Blundell describes a recorded visit to the Department of Physics on 4 November 1960.

‘The Clarendon archive contains several documents describing the detailed arrangements for Prince Philip’s visit to the Department of Physics, part of an Oxford day out for the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, and in reading them one gets the sense of a different age, where protocol and deference were very much the order of the day.

Dr Chiara Spiniello from Oxford’s Department of Physics is leading work to study 'fossilised' galaxies – galaxies frozen in time from when they were formed almost 10 billion years ago. Learning more about these 'ancient relics' will help to inform our understanding of the formation and evolution of our Universe.

On 8 December 2016, an electron antineutrino with an energy of 6300 TeV hurtled to Earth from a cosmic accelerator. Deep inside the ice sheet at the South Pole, it smashed into an electron and produced a massive particle that quickly decayed. This interaction was captured by a kilometre-sized 'telescope' buried in the Antarctic glacier – the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been recognised along with seven other women in the Vanity Fair International Women's Day Challenger Awards 2021.

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