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Dept of Physics,Univ of Oxford
Joined April 2012
Take note of the dates below if you are interested in Graduate Open Days at Physics. More details of each event in our website: https://t.co/6r9NooSR06
#Graduate #OpenDays @UniofOxford @OxfordGradStudy
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We organise a diverse range of events to bring physics into the lives of as many people as possible; search the listings below to find out what's coming up.
📚 GRADUATE OPEN DAYS | Interested in pursuing graduate study in physics? Register to join one of our Open Days! There will be opportunities to meet academics and current students across our many sub-departments. Details and registration: https://t.co/6r9NooSR06
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Congratulations to the MicroBooNE team on their latest publication in Nature. Check out our video with Prof Kirsty Duffy explaining how their study went hunting for 'sterile' neutrinos. https://t.co/JRtk6OBjO8
@Microboone @Fermilab
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Professor Andrea Cavalleri received the German Physical Society’s 2026 Stern-Gerlach Medal for his pioneering work on light-based control of quantum materials, with which he has made ground-breaking contributions to the control of emergent phenomena in solid-state physics.
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Use promo code BARSTOOL to get 20% off your first order @lucynicotine
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Physicists have found a ‘razor-thin’ string of galaxies rotating together inside a giant cosmic filament 140 million light-years away – one of the largest spinning structures ever seen. The findings could offer insights into how #galaxies formed. ➡️ https://t.co/uh09FHJzOZ
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Condensed Matter Physics (CMP) Graduate Open Day 2025 will take place tomorrow - Thu 4 Dec - More details https://t.co/72x6DIXHgS
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Prospective DPhil candidates can meet supervisors as well as postdocs and current graduate students at this in-person event..
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This is tomorrow - Thu 4 Dec - More details:
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Find out more about this 4-year PhD training programme funded by EPSRC.
The Superconductivity CDT will be holding an in-person/online open day for any prospective DPhil applicants on 4 December 2025. An opportunity to meet potential supervisors, current members and visit labs. Link in bio or https://t.co/to9Swt5a0y
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🎙️ As we near the end of @QuantumYear2025 we ask experimental physicist William Cutler to break it down for us...what exactly is quantum computing? 🎧 https://t.co/XnYaXzCsfD
@OxfordPhysics @mplsoxford @UniofOxford @EPSRC @UKRI_News #QuantumComputing
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The Superconductivity CDT will be holding an in-person/online open day for any prospective DPhil applicants on 4 December 2025. An opportunity to meet potential supervisors, current members and visit labs. Link in bio or https://t.co/to9Swt5a0y
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📚 GRADUATE OPEN DAYS | Interested in pursuing graduate study in physics? Register to join one of our Open Days! There will be opportunities to meet academics and current students across our many sub-departments. Details and registration: https://t.co/6r9NooSR06
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Year 12 Physics Taster Morning - for those considering studying physics at Oxford, but are not quite sure about either physics or Oxford 😉 Complete the registration form soon via link in bio or visit https://t.co/cmbiRUpCIY
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The Lamb Public Lecture 2025 - 'Fractionalisation: Dividing the Indivisible' by Prof Roderich Moessner (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems). Lecture 24 Nov, 5pm. Register, in person/online, via link in bio or https://t.co/jxqYIDFFQL
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Particle Physics *Online* Graduate Open Day 💫 Mon 8 Dec - 11.00 am GMT An event to provide information for students interested in a DPhil in Particle Physics starting in October 2026. For more information about Particle Physics and to register visit: https://t.co/fzvlTIJnJE
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Two weeks ago, Head of Department Prof Andrew Boothroyd hosted a fab alumni event at Draper's Hall (London), with guest speakers Prof J.C. Séamus Davis ('Visualizing the quantum world') & Dr Péter Juhász (‘The Pursuit of Absolute Zero: Exploring Many-Body Quantum Physics').
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'Navigating the Quantum Wonderland' Free public talk by Paul Davies. Explore 100 years of perplexing quantum mechanics, the rise of Quantum 2.0 (AI, computing), and its challenges, from the universe's birth to consciousness. Register: https://t.co/RORT1U8ZHN
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Oxford Physics hosted a wonderful International Observe the Moon Night! Visitors explored lunar science with telescopes & demos. Missed it? Explore Oxford's lunar research and watch "Is There Water on the Moon?" 🌙🔭 https://t.co/mWQh7M01X0 (more via link in bio -> news)
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Northern lights observed from Idar-Oberstein, southwest Germany, between 02:30 and 03:40 UT on November 12, 2025. The last image shows me as a Brocken Spectre with a fogbow in front of the northern lights. Smartphone shots: @SeVoSpace
#auroraborealis #northernlights
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'Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow' ⚙️ Talk by Nicole Yunger Halpern (Univ Maryland). Nov 17, 5 pm, Simpkins Lee Seminar Room, Beecroft Building, Oxford. Open to all (no physics required)! 👍 Organised by OQIS/Physics Society. Pub chat to follow!
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Congratulations Dr Alex Picksley, former Oxford DPhil student, for winning the 2025 Simon van der Meer Early Career Award for Novel Accelerators! A brilliant achievement! ✨ Read more: Link in bio or https://t.co/r2suNFGl03
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As #COP30 kicks off, we revisit Prof Myles Allen’s lecture on how to stop fossil fuels causing global warming. His solution: we make CO₂ disposal a licensing condition to sell/use fossil fuels. If you pollute, you pay. 👉 https://t.co/JBPVwy6lDI
@OxfordNetZero @OxfordPhysics
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'Spaceflight succeeds through clever fixes to specific problems, not grand gestures.' NASA’s Artemis III mission aims to return humans to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years, but progress depends on focus, not scale, argues @oxfordphysics’ Dr Kevin Olsen ⬇️
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