Latest news and comment Audience - Any Audience -AlumniIndustrySchools, prospective students and communityResearchUndergraduatesGraduatesInternational Year of QuantumDepartment 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 91̽»¨ servicesRudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics Meet...Emily Archer We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 October 2022 Commentary: Foster on FLASHForward findings Professor Brian Foster, Donald H Perkins Professor of Experimental Physics, comments on the findings published in Nature today, 2 March 2022, from DESY’s FLASHForward experiment. 2 March 2022 Dr Chappell awarded Culham Thesis Prize Dr James Chappell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group. 14 February 2022 Improving repetition rate of laser-driven plasma accelerators A team from 91̽»¨ has had a breakthrough in improving the repetition rate and efficiency of laser-driven plasma accelerators; these accelerators could revolutionise many areas of science and technology as they can accelerate particles to high energies in 9 November 2021 Professor Philip Burrows elected IoP Member of Council Professor Philip Burrows has been elected a Member of the Council of the UK Institute of Physics (IoP). Burrows is Professor of Physics at 91̽»¨ University and Director of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science. 29 July 2021
Meet...Emily Archer We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 October 2022
Commentary: Foster on FLASHForward findings Professor Brian Foster, Donald H Perkins Professor of Experimental Physics, comments on the findings published in Nature today, 2 March 2022, from DESY’s FLASHForward experiment. 2 March 2022
Dr Chappell awarded Culham Thesis Prize Dr James Chappell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group. 14 February 2022
Improving repetition rate of laser-driven plasma accelerators A team from 91̽»¨ has had a breakthrough in improving the repetition rate and efficiency of laser-driven plasma accelerators; these accelerators could revolutionise many areas of science and technology as they can accelerate particles to high energies in 9 November 2021
Professor Philip Burrows elected IoP Member of Council Professor Philip Burrows has been elected a Member of the Council of the UK Institute of Physics (IoP). Burrows is Professor of Physics at 91̽»¨ University and Director of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science. 29 July 2021
