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Upcoming events

28 November - 14 December 2023
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Primary school events

Galaxy Zoo: Galactic Explorers Challenge

We invite 7 - 12-year-olds from across the UK to become astrophysicists for a week, classifying galaxies from real satellite images and creating their very...

9 January 2024
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Secondary school events

Year 10 Materials and Physics Day

A fun-filled activity day hosted by the Oxford Physics & Materials Departments

9 March 2024
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Alumni events

Saturday Morning of Theoretical Physics

Save the date for the next Morning of Theoretical Physics

6 May 2024
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Seminars and colloquia

ALP Seminar: Optical Computing Redux: computing with disorder

Prof. Sylvain Gigan, ENS

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Find out how you can support our world-class scientific research and teaching and help the Department of Physics to tackle some of the most urgent and fascinating challenges we face today

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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!