Atomic and Laser physics
The 10th Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture
The 10th Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture
Professor James Binney
Department of Physics, Merton College and All Souls Visiting Lecturer, University of Oxford
Galaxies and the intergalactic medium
Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613973
Leanne.odonnell@astro.ox.ac.uk
22 October 2013
Atomic movies reveal 'ultimate spring'
An international team, including Oxford Physicists Professor Justin Wark and Dr Andrew Higginbotham, has used the powerful X-ray laser at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to create atomic-scale movies of 'the ultimate spring'. They subjected a micron thick layer of copper to nearly a million atmospheres of pressure within a few tens of trillionths of a second, and used x-rays with a shutter speed of a tenth of a trillionth of a second to record the atomic motion under these extreme conditions.
Half day interdisciplinary meeting on applications of SQUIDs
The aim of this meeting is to bring together researchers using SQUIDs (Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices) for a range of science needs in different fields. SQUID sensors have found applications in geophysics, magnetoencephalography, measuring magnetic properties of materials, quantum information, detector readout and many other areas. This meeting will cover the full range of research using SQUIDs, and identify areas of common interest between researchers from different fields.
Sam Henry - s.henry@physics.ox.ac.uk
29 August 2013
Physics newsletter 2013
Summer 2013
Our latest Department newsletter is now available to download in PDF format here. Have a look at the wide range of work that we do in front-line research, teaching, public outreach and school education. We would welcome contributions to future newsletters from undergraduate or postgraduate alumni and previous members of the physics department.
Oxford Physics Department Industry Day
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1 July 2013
Professor Peter Norreys awarded 2013 IoP Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize
Professor Peter Norreys has been awarded the 2013 Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics for his pioneering contributions to the physics of fast particle generation and energy transport in relativistic laser-plasma interactions.
Further details can be seen at http://www.iop.org/about/awards/subject/payne_gaposchkin-/medallists/page_60384.html
1 July 2013
Jo Dunkley awarded 2013 IoP Maxwell Medal and Prize
Dr Jo Dunkley has been awarded the 2013 Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics for her contributions to determining the structure and history of our Universe. Further details can be seen at
http://www.iop.org/about/awards/career/maxwell/medallists/page_60402.html
8 February 2013
The Steve Rawlings Memorial Fund
Message from Roger Davies, Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford
Dear all,
The 11th January this year marked the first anniversary of Steve Rawlings’ death. It has been a very difficult twelve months – Steve was a much loved colleague and is greatly missed as both a person and a phenomenal astrophysicist.
4 February 2013
New Blogs section
A new section available
A new section with blogs has been made available, and a few new blogs have been started already: Astro, Funding news, OSMOSIS Research Cruise and Alumni are already up.
To visit, go to the top menu at the home page -> MORE -> BLOGS
