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The John Adams Institute, part of the Department of Physics, is one of the beneficiaries of a major award from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to support the participation of UK institutions in CERN's AWAKE experiment.

Following two large meteorite impacts on Mars, near-surface seismic waves have been recorded for the first time on a planet other than Earth.

The Department of Physics and Mathematical Institute will benefit from STFC's £20 million investment in theoretical physics.

Professor Gianluca Gregori has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ 2022 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin medal and prize.

Professor Philip Burrows has been elected Chair of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Collaboration Board.

Professor Michael Johnston has been made a 2022 Fellow of the American Physical Society for the development of a new platform for terahertz photonics based on semiconductor nanowires.

Dr Hariom Jani has been awarded the Emerging Investigator Medal and Prize 2021 by the Institute of Physics Singapore.

Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics are part of a UK-based consortium that has recently been awarded an £18 million grant by the UK Research and Innovation Infrastructure Fund.

Professor J C Séamus Davis has been awarded 2023 Oliver E Buckley Prize by the American Physical Society, one of the most prestigious awards in world science.

Research led by Dr Ismael García-Bernete from the University of Oxford is the first of its kind to study tiny dust molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the nuclear region of active galaxies using early observations from the JWST.

Professor Stephen Smartt joined the artist and author Oliver Jeffers on stage at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Saturday 8 October in the Garden Theatre.

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