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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
Dr Plamen Ivanov

EPS recognition for Dr Plamen Ivanov

Dr Plamen Ivanov has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award.
21 March 2022
FLASH simulations of the TDYNO platform

Laboratory replica of galaxy-cluster plasma

An international team led by the Department of Physics at Oxford, University of Rochester, and University of Chicago has been able to unravel the inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters
9 March 2022
Illustration of a swarm of smaller black holes in a gas disk rotating around a giant black hole

Black hole billiards in the centres of galaxies

Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit.
9 March 2022
Figure showing cell displacements and tissue flows during gastrulation

Using physics to transform our understanding of life

Nine ambitious multidisciplinary projects will receive funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Wellcome Physics of Life Strategic Priorities Fund including ‘Early-stage Embryo as an Active Self-tuning Soft Material’.
17 February 2022
Professor Julia Yeomans

Professor Yeomans recognised by IOP

Professor Julia Yeomans FRS has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Sam Edwards Medal and Prize 2021 in recognition of her personal contribution to the advancement of physics as a discipline and a profession.
29 November 2021
Professor Julia Yeomans

Professor Yeomans recognised by Royal Society of Chemistry

Professor Julia Yeomans has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Lennard-Jones Lectureship 2021.
2 November 2021
Professor Graham Ross

Obituary: Professor Graham Ross

Professor Graham Ross, theoretical particle physicist, passed away on 31 October 2021.
2 November 2021
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