Schools Outreach
Neutrino - the invisible messenger
Oxfordshire Science Festival
Dr Antonin Vacheret
Booking is now closed but there are still places available if you come along this evening.
How to discover a planet from your sofa, and other adventures.
Oxfordshire Science Festival
Booking recommended. Please complete this short web-form to register for the event: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/planetssofa
Key Stage 3 Physics in action day: light, lasers and optics
Students: Schools are invited to bring up to 3 teams of 5 students at Key Stage 3
Cost: Free
Students will complete a series of activities and technological challenges, all of which are designed to explore light, lasers and optics. Activities include making a laser maze and telescope.
Aims
To reserve places at the event please complete the booking form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/physicsinaction.
If you have any queries please contact: schools.liaison@physics.ox.ac.uk.
Mathemagics
Fully Booked
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28 August 2012
Department of Physics awarded Athena Swan Bronze Award
The Department of Physics has been granted an Athena Swan Bronze Award.
For further details, please see the full Story at www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/athena-swan.
The beliefs underpinning the Athena Swan Charter are:
Information Day - Friday 14th September 2012
Information Day - Friday 14th September 2012
A smaller open day, with tutors available to answer course-specific questions and course literature available for collection but no sample lectures or activities.
There will be an enquiry desk in the Martin Wood Complex from 10.00am to 4.00pm. For directions, please see the Oxford Physics Map
Some other Departments and Colleges will also be open on this day, some of which you do need to book to attend. For more information please see www.admissions.ox.ac.uk/opendays
31 July 2012
Physics newsletter 2012 now available
Summer 2012
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.
21 June 2012
Neutrinos put cosmic ray theory on ice
The IceCube telescope buried beneath the South Pole has failed to detect any high energy neutrinos accompanying exploding fireballs in space, undermining a leading theory of how cosmic rays are born (Nature 484:351,2012).
16 May 2012
Application submitted for Athena Swan Silver Award
Physics has long been a male-dominated subject. To fulfil the department's scientific mission, it is vital that we use the full potential of the population and redress that imbalance. Since 2010, the department has been developing a portfolio of new and existing actions to improve the employment conditions and practice for all staff and students. Good practice benefits everyone, but disproportionately benefits women. These actions, and the critical assessment that led to them, are described in our application for an Athena Swan Silver Award.
Science Club “Physics in Action” Day
Students: Schools are invited to bring a team of 4-5 students at Key Stage 3
Cost: Free
Students will complete a series of activities and technological challenges, all of which are designed with an Olympic theme and involve exploring materials, forces and structures. Activities include explore aerodynamics in a model wind tunnel.
To reserve places at the event please complete the booking form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/physicsinaction.
If you have any queries please contact: schools.liaison@physics.ox.ac.uk.
