Condensed matter physics
28 April 2014
55th Cherwell-Simon Lecture 2014
We are delighted to announce that the 2014 Cherwell-Simon Lecture will be given by Prof Peter Higgs CH DSc PhD MSc BSc FRS FRSE FInstP, Emeritus Professor University of Edinburgh, on 16th May at 4.30 pm in the Andrew Wiles Building, Mathematical Institute.
Prof Higgs will lecture on “My Life as Boson”.
55th Cherwell-Simon Lecture 2014
"MY LIFE AS BOSON"
Professor Peter Higgs CH DSc PhD MSc BSc FRS FRSE FInstP
Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh
ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS REQUIRED. ADMISSION IS WITH REGISTRATION CONFIRMATION ONLY.
You can register online at: http://cherwell-simon-lecture2014.eventbrite.co.uk.
Corinna Dahnke
email: cmp@physics.ox.ac.uk
phone: 01865 272225
11 April 2014
Alexander Hearmon has been awarded the PANalytical Thesis Prize 2014
Congratulations to Alexander Hearmon who has been awarded the PANalytical Thesis Prize 2014 for the best use of techniques or methods of Physical Crystallography in a successfully examined thesis. Alexander has recently completed his thesis "Neutron, X-ray and Optical Studies of Multiferroic Materials" under the supervision of Paolo Radaelli.
11 April 2014
Dr Roger Johnson awarded IoP Physical Crystallography Prize 2014
Congratulations to Dr Roger Johnson who has been awarded the IoP Physical Crystallography Prize 2014. This Prize is awarded for the best recently published work by a person in the early stages of their career, working in the field of Physical Crystallography, and whose research is expected to make a significant impact in the field. The award refers to Roger's recent publications in the Physical Review Letters.
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
Oxford Symposium on Quantum Materials 2014
An annual interdisciplinary forum to bring together physicists, chemists, materials scientists and theoreticians in and around Oxford to advance the science and promote direct collaboration between groups interested in novel quantum materials and phenomena. This meeting is organized by the Quantum Materials group in Condensed Matter Physics.
For further information please contact:
Amalia I. Coldea and Paolo G. Radaelli
19 December 2013
Henry Snaith named one of Nature's 10
Oxford Physicist Henry Snaith has been named one of Nature magazine's 10 people who mattered this year for his pioneering work on a new type of solar cell based on perovskite semiconductors which promise high energy conversion efficiency together with low fabrication costs.
See http://www.nature.com/news/1.14367 for more details.
Special lecture 'Low Temperature Physics and Physicists Six decades ago'
Professor B S Chandrasekhar (Walther Meissner Institute, Bavarian Academy of Arts and Sciences) is an Oxford Physics Alumnus and Rhodes Scholar, and will talk to us about Low temperature Physics and physicists Six Decades Ago. He finished his D.Phil at the Clarendon in 1952.
Abstract
Low Temperature Physics and Physicists Six Decades Ago
Val Crowder, Alumni Relations Officer
24 September 2013
When is a ferroelectric not a ferroelectric?
Ferroelectrics are insulating materials with an electrical polarisation that can be switched by an applied voltage. Ferroelectricity cannot occur in metals because it would be screened by the conduction electrons.
