Schools Outreach
Women in STEM Subjects Access Day
Cost: Free
Hertford College celebrates 40 years since its first intake of women undergraduates, and is holding an Access Day for female state school students interested in pursuing STEM subjects at A-Level and beyond.
Accelerator and Particle Physics Education at A-Level: APPEAL 6
Cost: Free
A one-day conference at Oxford Physics to give A-level teachers an opportunity to learn about the phenomena and scientific challenges which connect astronomy, particle physics and the physics of particle accelerators.
This is the sixth APPEAL teachers’ conference exploring High Energy Physics and Accelerator Science. This year we link to "The International Year of Light".
The Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture
The 11th Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Philip Candelas, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
Title: Simple Calabi-Yau Manifolds and the Landscape of String Vacua
Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613 973
Leanne.odonnell@astro.ox.ac.uk
The Wetton Lecture
The Wetton Lecture will de delivered by Professor Carlo Frenk, Director, Institute for Computational Cosmology, University of Durham.
Title: "Everything from nothing, or how our universe was made"
Public Talk: Darkness and dragons - the importance of eclipses by Charles Barclay
This month's public talk will get us ready for the Total Solar Eclipse on 20th March 2015!
26 November 2014
Now you can look for Higgs boson siblings by eye!
Oxford physicists are asking online volunteers to spot tiny explosions that could be evidence for as-yet-unobserved relatives of the Higgs boson.
The Higgs Hunters project launched today enables members of the public to view 25,000 images recorded at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. By tagging the origins of tracks on these images, volunteers could spot tiny sub-atomic explosions caused when a Higgs boson ‘dies’, which would be evidence for a kind of particle new to physics.
Key Stage 3 Physics Challenge Day
THIS IS LAST YEARS EVENT IN 2015
Oxford University Education Department is hosting another KS3 Physics Challenge Day.
Purpose:
• To promote physics
• To encourage the take up of triple science GCSE
• To motivate students to attend science clubs
• To give students experience of ‘real life problem solving’
• To develop knowledge of applied physics and practical
• To provide students with an enjoyable experience of science
Stargazing Oxford
The Oxford University Physics Department is set to host another one of its eagerly-anticipated Stargazing Nights! This fun-filled evening of space activities will bring you closer to the stars and galaxies, and let you see some of the ways astronomers are able to learn about how the Universe works. Some of the things you can look forward to are:
Oxford Physics Public Talk: Exploring Solar Systems - Ryan MacDonald
Abstract: Our understanding of the solar system has changed considerably since the dawn of the space age. It was only 50 years ago that many scientists believed in algal blooms on Mars and rainforests on Venus (we were pretty sure the Moon wasn't made of Cheese though). Now we stand at the dawn of a new era, where we are receiving the first tantalising glimpses of the conditions on planets around other stars. Join us for a tour of the solar system, from the sun-scorched surface of Mercury, to the icy bodies of the Kuiper belt and beyond.
The 9th Hintze Lecture - Professor Scott Ransom - Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and Black Holes: The Wickedly Cool Stellar Undead
Professor Scott Ransom US National Radio Astronomy Observatory will give the 9th Hintze Lecture.
"Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and Black Holes: The Wickedly Cool Stellar Undead"
Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613 973
Leanne.odonnell@astro.ox.ac.uk
