Staff
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
2 October 2014
Jena Meinecke: American Physical Society October Woman Physicist of the Month
Each month, the American Physical Society's Committee for the Status of Women in Physics recognizes a female physicist who is making an impact in the physics community. Jena Meinecke, a graduate student in Atomic and Laser Physics, is October's Woman Physicist. Full story at http://www.aps.org/programs/women/scholarships/womanmonth/2014.cfm
Massive Black Holes and Galaxies
Prof. Reinhard Genzel
MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching
University of California, Berkeley
Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613 973
Leanne.odonnell@astro.ox.ac.uk
26 June 2014
Black hole trio holds promise for gravity wave hunt
The discovery of three closely orbiting supermassive black holes in a galaxy more than four billion light years away could help astronomers in the search for gravitational waves: the ‘ripples in spacetime’ predicted by Einstein.
Martin Wood Prize Lecture 2014
"Development of an advanced scanning transmission electron microscope for material science research" by Dr Naoya Shibata, The University of Tokyo
Abstract:
Corinna Dahnke email: cmp@physics.ox.ac.uk , phone: 01865 272225
Sophie Walker email: Sophie.WALKER@oxinst.com , phone: 01865 393349
Special Seminar : Detection of B-mode Polarization at Degree Scales using BICEP2, Clem Pryke
Special Seminar : Clem Pryke, University of Minnesota & Co-lead, BICEP2
Chris Lintott cjl@astro.ox.ac.uk
3 June 2014
Joseph Conlon wins 2014 OUSU Outstanding Tutor Award
Congratulations to Dr Joseph Conlon, who has been awarded the 2014 Oxford University Student Union (OUSU)'Outstanding tutor' Award for Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS).
2014 Halley Lecture
University of Oxford
Halley Lecture
"How the Universe Evolved From Smooth to Lumpy -- the Physics of Galaxy Formation"
Professor Eliot Quataert
University of California, Berkeley Astronomy Department
Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 5pm
(to be seated by 4.50pm)
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Clarendon Laboratory
Parks Road, Oxford
THIS LECTURE IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This lecture will be followed by a Drinks Reception in the foyer of the Martin Wood
Leanne O'Donnell
Tel: 01865 613 973
Email: Leanne.odonnell@astro.ox.ac.uk
15 May 2014
Phil Burrows elected spokesperson of the International Compact Linear Collider
Congratulations to Professor Phil Burrows who has been elected Spokesperson of the international Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) accelerator collaboration, which is a multi-national consortium of 65 institutes in 29 countries. Over the next three years, Phil will engage with the institutes to ensure that CLIC’s R&D programme pushes ahead during the critical phase ahead of the next update of the European strategy for particle physics.
