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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
Professor Caroline Terquem

Meet...Caroline Terquem

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
6 October 2022
Gowri Kurup

Meet...Gowri Kurup

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
8 September 2022
Dipole anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background, interpreted as due to our motion towards the hotspot. The horizontal dark stripe is emission from our Galaxy (Planck collaboration 2020).

'Lopsided' Universe could mean revision of standard cosmological model

Dr Sebastian von Hausegger and Professor Subir Sarkar and collaborators have revisited the standard cosmological model
7 September 2022
Visit to Culham

Alumni donors visit national fusion lab

Alumnus Alan Fox was one of the VIPs on a recent Henry Moseley Circle visit to the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy – the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s national fusion laboratory in Oxfordshire.
23 June 2022
Professor Alex Schekochihin

Professor Schekochihin appointed Simons Investigator

Professor Alex Schekochihin has been appointed Simons Investigator in Astrophysics by the Simons Foundation, New York.
20 June 2022
Katja Klobas

Meet...Katja Klobas

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
6 June 2022
Graphic to represent tracing movement of galaxies back in time.

Cutting-edge maths turns back time in our universe

An international team of researchers including Dr Sebastian von Hausegger, used insights from physics, mathematics, and computer science to create a novel method that traces the movement of galaxies back in time.
19 May 2022
Juan Ruiz Ruiz

Meet...Juan Ruiz Ruiz

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
10 May 2022
Illustration of a one dimensional moire pattern that emerges on twisting a two-dimensional crystal

Unusual new state of matter

Writing in Nature, a team of physicists including three from Oxford - DPhil student Yves Kwan and Professors Shivaji Sondhi and Sid Parameswaran – report the emergence of an unusual new state of matter in a newly-explored moiré system
4 May 2022
Professor Ard Louis

Commentary: Professor Ard Louis on symmetry in evolution

Professor Ard Louis is a theoretical physicist here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics; he explains the work behind his latest paper
28 March 2022
All winners and the committee from this year's PLANCKS

Oxford undergrads take second and third at PLANCKS 22

Oxford teams The Fences and Hildabeasts took second and third place at this year's theoretical physics competition
25 March 2022
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