Past events

We organise a diverse range of events to bring physics into the lives of as many people as possible – from family-friendly open-door events where you can chat to our researchers to stimulating lectures about our ground-breaking research. See a list of our past events below or search the upcoming events listings to find out what's coming up.

22 April 2024
Two physicists (a female and male) working on a lab experiment
Seminars and colloquia

ALP Seminar: Searching for a fifth fundamental force using precision trapped-ion spectroscopy

Dr Diana Craik, ETHZ

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18 April 2024
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Seminars and colloquia

CMP Seminar: Photoelectron spectroscopy – a powerful tool for investigating materials for optoelectronic applications

Dr. Selina Olthof

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18 March 2024
Seminars and colloquia

Multi-scale cross-attention transformer encoder for event classification

Multi-scale cross-attention transformer encoder for event classification

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16 March 2024
An image of a nebula taken by the Hubble space telescope, with a dark background, some bright stars, and a structure of orange and blue clouds.
Secondary school events
Events for prospective students

Year 12 Online Masterclass (March 2024)

Online masterclass for students in Year 12 who are interested in studying physics at Oxford University.

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14 March 2024
A collage of images of Don Perkins, his famous book, copyright: varied, CERN, Royal Society, internet and our own.
Public talks and lectures
Alumni events
Other

‘Physics then and now – the life and work of Don Perkins’

A celebration of the life and work of Professor Donald ‘Don’ Perkins CBE FRS (1925 – 2022) - In person and online

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11 March 2024
Early Career Showcase
Seminars and colloquia

Astrophysics - ECS

Astrophysics - Early Career Showcase

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11 - 15 March 2024
Seminars and colloquia

Quantum Gravity Conference

Invitation only conference on Quantum Gravity with lead speaker, Professor Herman Verlinde

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10 March 2024
Seminars and colloquia

ALP Seminar: The Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a binary quantum fluid

ALP seminar

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9 March 2024
A group of people working on a blackboard in the Beecroft Building
Alumni events

Saturday Morning of Theoretical Physics

Meet our Leverhulme Peierls Fellows

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8 March 2024
Two physicists (a female and male) working on a lab experiment
Seminars and colloquia

ALP Seminar: Dimensionality Reduction in the Presence of Quantum Models and Agents

Dr Mile Gu (National University of Singapore)

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7 March 2024
Seminars and colloquia

Axion Clouds around Pulsars

Axion Clouds around Pulsars

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7 March 2024
Seminars and colloquia

AOPP Seminar - The dynamics of Jupiter’s polar vortex crystals

Dr Stephen Thomson (University of Exeter)

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