Students
Organic Semiconductors: From a lab curiosity to highly efficient devices
Prof Karl Leo, Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonics (IAPP),
Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany www.iapp.de
Niamh Coll
25 March 2019
Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund

On Wednesday, 20 March 2019, The Institute of Physics announced the launch of The Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship bursary scheme.
60th Cherwell Simon Memorial Lecture: “The XENON project: at the forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection”

Professor Elena Aprile, Department of Physics
Columbia University, New York
“The XENON project: at the forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection”
Registration essential via: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/60th-cherwell-simon-memorial-lecture-ticket...
Password: Physics2019
Women in Science: a lecture by Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS
A special lecture intended especially for early-career scientists
Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS is Visiting Professor in Astrophysics at Oxford
In this talk Professor Bell Burnell will describe UK initiatives by some senior women scientists to enable women to participate more in science, and how these initiatives have been adopted by research funding bodies and are now spreading world-wide.
All welcome, no booking required.
20 March 2019
Japanese weather satellite gives a unique perspective on a huge meteor

Sometimes satellites can provide an unexpected view of events. On the 18th December 2018 a huge meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the northern Pacific Ocean, an event that – due to its isolated location – attracted very little attention at the time. American military satellites that look for bright flashes detected the meteor as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere and this enabled scientists at NASA to calculate its trajectory[1].
MaNGA Public Lecture
TITLE: MAPPING THE UNIVERSE
Professor Karen Masters, Haverford College, PA, USA
I will talk about state-of-the art maps of the Universe, such as those produced by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which have revealed the complexity of structures on many scales found in our Universe. I will also talk about the development of these maps, and how our knowledge of the basic structure of the Universe, along with our place in it has changed so dramatically in the last several hundred years.
Leanne O'Donnell
Leanne.odonnell@physics.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 613 973
The 18th Hintze Lecture: Professor Jacqueline van Gorkom

Professor Jacqueline van Gorkom, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University
The Role of Gas in Galaxy Evolution
Wednesday 22nd May 2019 at 17:00 (to be seated by 16:50)
Lara Maisey, lara.maisey@physics.ox.ac.uk and Leanne O'Donnell, leanne.odonnell@physics.ox.ac.uk
29 January 2019
First SCS Experiments at EuXFEL

Oliver Humphries and Sam Vinko from Oxford Physics were part of one of the first user experiments to take place at the European XFEL, the flagship x-ray free-electron laser facility currently being commissioned at DESY in Hamburg, Germany. The first user results were reported at the annual XFEL User meeting on 23 January.
15 January 2019
Congratulations to Sir Alex Halliday who has been knighted for services to Science and Innovation
Congratulations to Sir Alex Halliday who has been knighted for services to Science and Innovation in the New Year's Honours list for 2019.
Alexander Halliday FRS, Visiting Professor of Geochemistry at the Department of Earth Sciences and recently Head of Oxford’s Mathematical Physical and Life Sciences Division, is knighted for services to science and innovation.
To see the full list please click here
15 January 2019
Galaxy Zoo wins the RAS Group Achievement Award

The Royal Astronomical Society has given the Galaxy Zoo team – including the volunteers who have made the project the success it is – their Group Achievement Award for 2019.
Citation for the 2019 RAS Group Achievement Award: