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A community engagement project supported by the Department of Physics has won the Engaging with Communities category at the national Ogden Outreach Awards 2024; the project was also awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Community Partnership Award this year.

Results released by the Department of Physics’ Comprehensive Oxford Mathematics and Physics Online School (COMPOS) show more than 90% of GCSE and A-level students completing the programme improved their ability and performance.

Secondary school students taking part in the Big Data: ATLAS project have had their results published in the European Physical Journal Plus.

Professor Peter Norreys helped to mark 30 years since the opening of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) London office by delivering the keynote speech at a celebratory event.

Research led by Dr Shuxiang Cao introduces a new methodology that can enhance the efficiency of characterising quantum systems which could greatly impact the ability to scale quantum computers.

DPhil student Jonathan Classen-Howes was awarded the Early Career Researcher Poster Prize at the Theory of Condensed Matter Group Meeting organised by IOP.

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Professor Julia Yeomans FRS has been awarded the European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division’s Liquid Matter Prize 2024.

A new stream in the summer school asked students to explore the impact of human activities on climate change

Associate Professor Hannah Christensen has been awarded the Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Professor Tony Bell FRS has been awarded the Royal Society’s Rumford Medal for his seminal contributions to theoretical developments of cosmic ray acceleration and origins.

The latest results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, the world's most sensitive dark matter detector located nearly a mile underground in South Dakota, narrow down the possibilities for a leading dark matter candidate.