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Professor Ian Shipsey

Professor Shipsey awarded IOP honorary fellowship

Professor Ian Shipsey FRS, Head of Department, has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics in recognition of his leadership in experimental particle physics.
16 October 2023
Professor Gavin Salam

Professor Salam recognised by IOP

Professor Gavin Salam FRS has been awarded the 2023 Institute of Physics Paul Dirac Medal and Prize for his profound, wide-ranging and impactful contributions to particle physics.
16 October 2023
The Milky Way seen through a neutrino lens (blue).

A new window on the cosmos

Data collected by an observatory in Antarctica has produced our first view of the Milky Way galaxy through the lens of neutrino particles. Emeritus Professor Subir Sarkar from the University of Oxford comments in The Conversation.
3 July 2023
Professor Claire Gwenlan

Professor Claire Gwenlan receives teaching award

Professor Claire Gwenlan has been recognised in the Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Teaching Awards; the scheme celebrates success and recognises and rewards excellence in innovative teaching practice.
29 June 2023
Holly Pacey

Meet...Holly Pacey

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
8 June 2023
Book cover: The Language of Symmetry

The language of symmetry

Three physicists from Oxford have contributed to a new book, 'The Language of Symmetry', out today, 16 May 2023.
16 May 2023
A reconstructed event in the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at the Large Hadron Collider

A fractal tree of quarks and gluons

A startlingly beautiful image that has just been published was inspired by an algorithm proposed by theorists from the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford in 2018.
18 April 2023
The ~2m-diameter carbon fibre cylinder for the outer layer of the strip tracker

Major milestone in ATLAS tracker upgrade

After more than 10 years of research and development, an upgraded tracker that is fundamental to the ATLAS experiment, is moving to production marking a major milestone for the collaboration.
16 March 2023
Cover of Collision: stories from the science of CERN

Putting the science into science fiction

Collision: Stories from the Science of CERN brings together 13 physicists from CERN, including Dr Daniel Cervenkov, with award-winning writers and authors
3 March 2023
Dr Maria Mironova

ATLAS Thesis Award for Dr Mironova

Dr Maria Mironova was one of eight PhD students to be recognised with a 2022 ATLAS Collaboration Thesis Award.
1 March 2023
Two males standing in front of a blackboard with equations written on it

Oxford to benefit from STFC theoretical physics funding

The Department of Physics and Mathematical Institute will benefit from STFC's £20 million investment in theoretical physics.
25 October 2022
Student and teacher in front of research posters

Providing opportunities for physicists of the future

Big Data: ATLAS is recruiting schools and colleges now offering students the opportunity to work with research data direct from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
4 October 2022
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