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12 April 2019
British Instruments Reveal Secrets of Martian Sky
The first results from the ExoMars mission supported by the UK Space Agency reveal the effects of a massive, global dust storm on the Red Planet.
British instruments reveal secrets of martian sky
Over the last year the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) spacecraft followed the onset of the storm and monitored how the increase in dust affected the water vapour in the atmosphere - important for understanding the history of water on Mars.
Preparing for the PAT - Developing Skills in Problem Solving
Developing the problem solving skills necessary for the Physics Aptitude Test (PAT)
This course is for year 12 students from state-funded schools, academies and colleges with little or no history of successful applications to the University of Oxford who are interested in applying to study Physics, Physics and Philosophy, Engineering or Materials Science.
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
Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and New Progress
Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and New Progress
Professor Qi-Kun Xue
Tsinghua University & Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100084, China
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
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.
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