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 Scaling perspective on a 2-D quantum gas Experimental physicists at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, along with theorists from the University of Hamburg, have made a new observation of vortex-antivortex unbinding dynamics. 29 November 2023 Dr Hird and Dr Shirley recognised by SEPnet Dr Thomas Hird and Dr Katherine Shirley were both highly commended in the South East Physics Network (SEPnet) Public Engagement Awards 2023. 2 October 2023 Meet...Thomas Hird We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 11 August 2022 Making an impact The Department of Physics had two winners in this year’s Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Impact Awards. 11 July 2022 Péter Juhász to present research in Parliament Péter Juhász is to present his physics research in Parliament to a panel of expert judges and politicians, as one of the finalists in STEM for BRITAIN 2022. 24 February 2022 A quantum-inspired perspective on turbulence A recent publication in Nature Computational Science describes a new route of attack on the yet unsolved problem of turbulence. 13 January 2022 Meet...Elliot Bentine We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 4 November 2021 Meet...Jiri Kucera Five minutes with Jiri Kucera, graduate student in Atomic and Laser Physics 4 May 2021
Scaling perspective on a 2-D quantum gas Experimental physicists at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, along with theorists from the University of Hamburg, have made a new observation of vortex-antivortex unbinding dynamics. 29 November 2023
Dr Hird and Dr Shirley recognised by SEPnet Dr Thomas Hird and Dr Katherine Shirley were both highly commended in the South East Physics Network (SEPnet) Public Engagement Awards 2023. 2 October 2023
Meet...Thomas Hird We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 11 August 2022
Making an impact The Department of Physics had two winners in this year’s Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Impact Awards. 11 July 2022
Péter Juhász to present research in Parliament Péter Juhász is to present his physics research in Parliament to a panel of expert judges and politicians, as one of the finalists in STEM for BRITAIN 2022. 24 February 2022
A quantum-inspired perspective on turbulence A recent publication in Nature Computational Science describes a new route of attack on the yet unsolved problem of turbulence. 13 January 2022
Meet...Elliot Bentine We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 4 November 2021
Meet...Jiri Kucera Five minutes with Jiri Kucera, graduate student in Atomic and Laser Physics 4 May 2021
