Upcoming events

2 May 2024
Illustration to represent JUICE, Jupiter's Icy Moons Explorer mission
Public talks and lectures

Halley Lecture: Jupiter’s icy moons

Professor Michele Dougherty delivers this year's public Halley Lecture: JUICE, the ESA spacecraft mission to Jupiter’s icy moons

7 May 2024
Astrophysics Colloquium
Seminars and colloquia

Professor Andrew Hamilton

Astrophysics Colloquium

13 May 2024
Early Career Showcase
Seminars and colloquia

Early Career Showcase

Early Career Showcase

17 May 2024
The Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture
Public talks and lectures

Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture 2024

Creation of crystalline organic and polymeric semiconductors with excellent charge and spin transport properties

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Alumni

Once a physicist, always a physicist...

Our alumni relations office exists to nurture and develop long-lasting relationships between students, staff and friends of the Department of Physics so please do get in touch with ideas, feedback or just to say hello!