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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
Dr David Hosking

EPS recognition for Dr David Hosking

Department of Physics alumnus Dr David Hosking has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award.
13 April 2023
The Oxonians, winners of this year's preliminary of the international theoretical physics competition, PLANCKS

Oxford undergrads take top spot at PLANCKS 23

The Oxonians from the University of Oxford secured first place at this year’s preliminary of the international theoretical physics competition, PLANCKS
2 March 2023
Professor Shivaji Sondhi

Meet...Shivaji Sondhi

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. Here we meet Professor Shivaji Sondhi, Wykeham Professor of Physics
2 February 2023
Dr Nick Bultinck, left, and Dr James Matthews, right

Royal Society University Research Fellows join Physics

The Department of Physics is delighted to welcome two Royal Society University Research Fellows: Dr Nick Bultinck and Dr James Matthews.
12 December 2022
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
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
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