Staff
21 February 2013
Stargazing podcast series available now
Have you had a look at 'What's Hot' on the front page of iTunesU? You would have seen that the Stargazing podcast series is listed there.
For a complete list of free podcasts, check here.
18 February 2013
Oxford Climate Network Day
On Tuesday 26 February at 2pm in the Sheldonian there will be an open afternoon to showcase the diversity of climate research in Oxford, and give a flavour of the opportunities for research and collaboration across departments. Open to all, including undergraduates thinking about climate research; graduates, post-docs and faculty, to learn about what is going on in other departments; and interested members of the public. This event is organised by the Oxford Climate Research Network.
13 February 2013
Colourful ‘solar glass’ means entire buildings can generate clean power
Cleantech investment specialists MTI Partners has announced the completion of a £2 million investment round in Oxford Photovoltaics Limited (OPV), an Oxford University spin-out Materials/Cleantech company commercializing solid-state dye sensitized solar cells for the Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) sector.
Oxford Climate Research Network Day
On Tuesday 26 February at 2pm in the Sheldonian there will be an open afternoon to showcase the diversity of climate research in Oxford, and give a flavour of the opportunities for research and collaboration across departments. Open to all, including undergraduates thinking about climate research; graduates, post-docs and faculty, to learn about what is going on in other departments; and interested members of the public. This event is organised by the Oxford Climate Research Network (http://www.climate.ox.ac.uk).
Vasile Ersek, ersek@atm.ox.ac.uk
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
11 January 2013
Professor James Binney is awarded the RAS Eddington Medal 2013
The Eddington Medal is awarded for investigations of outstanding merit in astrophysics and in 2013 is awarded to Professor James Binney from the University of Oxford, in recognition of his fundamental and enduring contributions to galactic astrophysics. Prof.
21 December 2012
Climateprediction.net shortlisted at the Guardian University Awards
The project was one of three shortlisted in the category "Outstanding Research Impact" for the 2013 Guardian University Awards. Climateprediction.net, using volunteer computing to run climate simulations, is one of the world's longest-running public-participation scientific research projects with a number of high-profile research outputs over the past decade, including featuring on the covers of both Nature and Science."
Hamburg/Paris/Oxford Workshop on Astroparticle Physics with Multiple Messengers
This is the third in a series of workshops on astro-particle physics with multiple messengers and the first to take place in Oxford.
It includes a series of lectures on the topic at the post-graduate level given by members of the collaboration. These lectures are open to all interested.
Presentations of their current research will also be given by PhD students of the collaboration. These, however take place behind closed doors.
The programme is listed below:
Julien Devriendt (jeg@astro.ox.ac.uk)
3 October 2012
Oxford Climate Research Network launched
The newly launched Oxford Climate Research Network (OCRN) is a cross-divisional initiative aiming to promote collaborations between scientists who investigate climate-related issues in various departments at Oxford, and increase the visibility of climate research both within and outside the University.