Astrophysics
13 November 2020
Celebrating 10 years of Hintze lectures
Every year, the Department of Physics hosts two key public lectures focusing on contemporary developments in astrophysics and cosmology: the Hintze lectures. This month’s lecture on 24 November at 5pm is the 20th lecture and marks ten years of fascinating talks given by leading researchers from around the world.
29 October 2020
Dr Becky recognised by IOP
Dr Becky Smethurst from the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics has been awarded the Mary Somerville Medal by the Institute of Physics. The medal, awarded for exceptional early career contributions to public engagement within physics, is in recognition of the success of Becky’s YouTube channel, Dr Becky.
Challenges & Changes in Physics: Prof Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Prof. Bell Burnell discusses her research and the challenges that physics & physicists face, and shares some of her work to push for change.
Department of Physics colloquia: Dr Sanjay Padhi
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Challenges & Changes in Physics: Dr Clara Barker
Dr Clara Barker discusses her research and the challenges that physics and physicists face, and shares some of her work to push for change.
20 October 2020
Tides and tetrapods
Pioneering research, published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, into ancient tides during the Late Silurian - Devonian periods (420 million years ago - 380 million years ago), suggests that large tides may have been a key environmental factor in the evolution of bony fish and early tetrapods, the first vertebrate land-dwellers.
Challenges & Changes in Physics: Dr Jess Wade
Dr Jess Wade discusses her research and the challenges that physics and physicists face, and shares some of her work to push for change.
In the first lecture of this new series from the Department of Physics, we will hear from Dr Jess Wade [she/her], a research fellow at Imperial College, London where she works on chiral organic light emitting diodes. She is an advocate for minority voices in science and has created hundreds of Wikipedia pages to amplify the achievements of women and people of colour in science.
20th Hintze Lecture: Professor Victoria Kaspi - "Fast Radio Bursts"
World-renowned observational astrophysicist Vicky Kaspi will be talking about Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs): short bursts of radio waves, just a few milliseconds long, observed from cosmological distances. Their origin is presently unknown, yet their rate is many hundreds per sky per day, indicating a not-uncommon phenomenon in the Universe. Professor Kaspi will review the FRB field and present new results on FRBs from a new digital transit radio telescope: the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME).
6 October 2020
Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
As the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics are announced as Roger Penrose from the University of Oxford and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the University of California, Los Angeles respectively, we look at the significance of their ground-breaking work.
Gravity's role in the story of our universe by Dr Katy Clough
The IOP and Oxford University are pleased to present Gravity's Role in the Story of our Universe by Dr Katy Clough.
The event will be an online webinar held via the Zoom platform. Please register here and the joining link will be sent shortly before the talk.
