Latest news and comment Audience - Any Audience -AlumniIndustryGeneral publicResearchSchoolsUndergraduatesGraduatesDepartment of Physics (requires login) Research theme - Any Research theme -Accelerator physicsAstronomy and astrophysicsBiological physicsClimate physicsExoplanets and planetary physicsFields, strings, and quantum dynamicsFundamental particles and interactionsInstrumentationLasers and high energy density scienceParticle astrophysics & cosmologyPhotovoltaics and nanosciencePlasma physicsQuantum information and computationQuantum materialsQuantum optics & ultra-cold matter Sub-department - Any Sub-department -AstrophysicsAtmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary PhysicsAtomic and Laser PhysicsCondensed Matter PhysicsParticle PhysicsProfessional and support servicesRudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 '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 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 Schekochihin appointed Simons Investigator Professor Alex Schekochihin has been appointed Simons Investigator in Astrophysics by the Simons Foundation, New York. 20 June 2022 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 Load More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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 Schekochihin appointed Simons Investigator Professor Alex Schekochihin has been appointed Simons Investigator in Astrophysics by the Simons Foundation, New York. 20 June 2022
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