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2018 Astor Visiting Lecture: Professor Adam Leroy
Professor Adam Leroy, The Ohio State University
ALMA and the Birth of Stars Across Galaxies
Wednesday 14 March 2018 at 18:00 (to be seated by 17:50)
Lara Maisey, lara.maisey@physics.ox.ac.uk
Oxford Symposium on Quantum Materials 2018
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.
The theme of this year is Dynamics and Topology in Quantum Materials and it will take place at Somerville College, Oxford on 27 April 2018.
This symposium is organized by Amalia I. Coldea and Paolo G. Radaelli and is supported by the Oxford Quantum Materials Platform Grant.
Deadline: 9 April 2018
Amalia I. Coldea and Paolo G. Radaelli
1 March 2018
New speed record for trapped-ion 'building blocks' of quantum computers
Researchers Vera Schäfer and Dr Chris Ballance in Professor David Lucas's group have set a new speed record for the 'logic gates' that form the building blocks of quantum computing – a technology that could transform the way we process information.
Oxford Physics at the ATOM festival
Come and say hello to our researchers at the ATOM Festival of Science! Our physics features in a number of activties:
21 February 2018
Kerri Donaldson Hanna awarded the Royal Astronomical Society 2018 Winton Award for Geophysics
Congratulation to Dr Kerri Donaldson Hanna who has been awarded the 2018 Winton Award for Geophysics by the Royal Astronomical Society.
16 February 2018
Prof Ian Walmsley becomes President of the Optical Society of America
Professor Walmsley took up the role of President of the Optical Society of America (OSA) on 1st January this year, having been elected to the role of Vice-President in 2016.
12 February 2018
Migration of Physics Email to Nexus
The decision to run down the Physics departmental email service and to use the University Nexus system instead was taken some years ago but the department had to wait until the system could provide sufficient storage to absorb our existing mailboxes. Nexus is now about to move into a cloud based service known as Nexus 365 which has a number of benefits, not least significantly larger mailbox storage which will enable that process. You can find out more about Nexus 365, including FAQ, here.
10 February 2018
Shine at Stargazing Oxford
BPhO lecture: SPACECRAFT I HAVE KNOWN AND LOVED
FULLY BOOKED
Waiting list: http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/my-forms/bpho-lecture-booking.
We are pleased to invite BPhO schools to attend our second open lecture at the Royal Society. Schools may bring up to 10 students from Year 10-12.
Please contact schools.liaison@physics.ox.ac.uk if you have any questions about the event.
7 February 2018
Triple Physics win at Impact Awards
The annual MPLS Impact Awards aim to foster and raise awareness of impact by rewarding it at a local level, and prepare the ground for the impact case studies that will be needed for REF 2021, and future similar exercises. This year’s awards were presented at the MPLS Winter Reception on the 6th February at Mansfield College, with the winners receiving a pay award of £1,000 (minus taxes).
Oxford Physicists won awards in three out of the four categories!