Students
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
2014 Physics Leavers Reception
A Leavers Reception for Year 3 and Year 4 Physics Students only.
Lunch, Group Photo and the opportunity to collect your Oxford University Alumni Card.
Note that only students who have pre-booked will be able to attend.
Prof John Wheater, Head of the Department of Physics is pleased to invite you to
2014 Leavers Reception
Friday 23rd May, 1 to 4 pm
Martin Wood Complex Foyer
Event schedule:
28 April 2014
55th Cherwell-Simon Lecture 2014
We are delighted to announce that the 2014 Cherwell-Simon Lecture will be given by Prof Peter Higgs CH DSc PhD MSc BSc FRS FRSE FInstP, Emeritus Professor University of Edinburgh, on 16th May at 4.30 pm in the Andrew Wiles Building, Mathematical Institute.
Prof Higgs will lecture on “My Life as Boson”.
The 10th Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture
The 10th Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture
Professor James Binney
Department of Physics, Merton College and All Souls Visiting Lecturer, University of Oxford
Galaxies and the intergalactic medium
Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613973
Leanne.odonnell@astro.ox.ac.uk
Oxford Symposium on Quantum Materials 2014
An annual interdisciplinary forum to bring together physicists, chemists, materials scientists and theoreticians in and around Oxford to advance the science and promote direct collaboration between groups interested in novel quantum materials and phenomena. This meeting is organized by the Quantum Materials group in Condensed Matter Physics.
For further information please contact:
Amalia I. Coldea and Paolo G. Radaelli
26 February 2014
Oxford thesis wins European Physical Society Award
The Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society has awarded Edmund Highcock its prize for the best PhD thesis of 2012. Edmund, whose supervisor was Alex Schekochihin, is currently a Fellow by Examination of Magdalen College and works in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics. His thesis was entitled "The zero turbulence manifold of fusion plasmas".
21 November 2013
IceCube detects high-energy extraterrestrial neutrinos
IceCube provides first evidence for high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin