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Three physicists from Oxford have contributed to a new book, 'The Language of Symmetry', out today, 16 May 2023.

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.

Department of Physics alumnus Dr David Hosking has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award.

The Oxonians from the University of Oxford secured first place at this year’s preliminary of the international theoretical physics competition, PLANCKS

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Sebastian von Hausegger and Professor Subir Sarkar and collaborators have revisited the standard cosmological model

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.

Professor Alex Schekochihin has been appointed Simons Investigator in Astrophysics by the Simons Foundation, New York.