Students
Academic Consulting Seminar (POSTPONED)
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Consulting Services is the consulting arm of Oxford University Innovation Ltd, the University’s technology transfer company.
Come and join us on 18th March 2020, 11.00am in the Simpkins Lee Room, Beecroft Building, to learn about how you can undertake consultancy activity as an integral part of your research activity whilst at Oxford. This seminar will be of interest to academics, researchers and DPhil students.
Enterprising Women POSTPONED
POSTPONED
Hear from two enterprising and successful women, who have helped form spin-out companies from Oxford Physics research, sharing their personal journeys into entrepreneurship and advice for students and researchers.
Ilana Wisby (CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC)) gained a PhD in quantum physics, after which she entered the world of start-ups and is now leading an Oxford University spin-out company, creating the core of the quantum revolution.
Oxford Physics Masterclass 2020 - Online
This year the Oxford Physics Masterclass will be on Saturday 18th April 2020. Owing to the current restrictions on face-to-face events, we are planning to run this as an online event. Details of how to join the event will be sent to those who successfully registered for it or were placed on the waiting list.
The Oxford Physics Masterclass aims to:
Dr Kathryn Boast, Access Officer: kathryn.boast@physics.ox.ac.uk
Preparing for the PAT 2020
This course, which runs over the summer, is designed to improve your physics and maths problem-solving skills and help you prepare for the Physics Aptitude Test.
The 2020 'Preparing for the PAT' course will run with full study days on Saturday 27th June and Saturday 10th October. Both of these will be online.
Registration for this course is now closed.
Professor Andrea Ghez
Professor Andrea Ghez, UCLA
Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes
SETI Institute - An introduction to the research & education programs of SETI
Celebrating its 35th year in 2019, the SETI Institute, founded by Astronomers Carl Sagan, Jill Tarter and Frank Drake, has grown from a small research team focused on searching for radio signals beyond our solar system (as a proxy for intelligent civilizations) to an organization of over 90 PhD scientists representing 23 different academic backgrounds, organized into 6 divisions of research. CEO, Bill Diamond, will describe the multidisciplinary structure and research of the Institute, whose mission is to explore, understand and explain the nature and origins of life in the universe.
19 May 2019
Alex Savin receives a best student presentation prize at ICHED 2019
Alex Savin, a third year DPhil student in Prof Peter Norreys group in Atomic and Laser Physics, received the runner-up student presentation prize for his talk at the International Conference on High Energy Density science (ICHED 2019) conference in University College Oxford in April 2019. Alex's paper was entitled "Energy Absorption in the Laser-QED Regime" and described the interaction of multi-petawatt laser pulses with solid targets.
16 May 2019
Achillefs Kapanidis scoops Innovator of the Year award
Congratulations to Professor Achillefs Kapanidis and Mr Bo Jing, CEO of Oxford Nanoimaging who have been named as BBSRC’s Innovator of the year 2019 – an award celebrating excellent research which demonstrates impact.
Finance & Physicists Lecture
Finance might appear to be a world away from physics and hence from your life. However, whether you take not of it or not, your daily life is governed by markets. Finance is ultimately the study of markets, specifically seen through a financial lens and the understanding of these has ramifications for everything from how much we are paid to where we live and what is available in the supermarket.
Physics Colloquia: The hydrodynamic black hole
All are welcome to this colloquium delivered by Dr Silke Weinfurtner, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Faculty of Science, University of Nottingham
