Events scheduled in Conference Room 410A

Events scheduled in Conference Room 410B

PPRC Seminars

Peter Kalmus' 80th Birthday

The PPRC will hold a half day meeting in the afternoon of Wednesday 20th March 2013 to celebrate Peter Kalmus' 80th Birthday. The format of the meeting will be a series of talks by Peter's colleagues over the years, followed by a reception and dinner. The talks will take place in the G.O.Jones (Physics) Lecture Theatre.

Junk the Jargon

On Wednesday 27 February, ten PhD students from QM competed in the annual Junk the Jargon competition. Junk the Jargon challenges participants to communicate their research topic in an engaging and fun way to a broad audience - in just three minutes.

Juno Practitioner Status

The School of Physics and Astronomy is pleased to announced that it has been awarded Juno Practitioner status by the Institute of Physics. The aim of Juno is to recognise and reward departments that can demonstrate they have taken action to address the under-representation of women in university physics and to encourage better practice for both women and men.

The National Student Survey 2013

The National Student Survey 2013

National Student Survey is now open for all 3rd year BSc and 4th year MSci students to complete.  We would like to encourage all of these students to complete the survey as soon as possible.

YAE Logo

First Meeting of the Young Academy of Europe

The first meeting of the Young Academy of Europe (http://www.yacadeuro.org), YAE, of which Francesca Di Lodovico is a founding member, will be held in Brussels in Dec 7-8 2012.  Several high-ranking representatives of the European Community will attend and give talks.

Dr Ben Still, research associate and particle physicist from the School of Physics and Astronom

Ben Still Wins IoP Communicators' Award

Dr Ben Still, research associate and particle physicist from the School of Physics and Astronomy has won the Institute of Physics’ (IOP) Early Career Communicators’ Award for a range of exciting and innovative projects to share his love of physics.

The Higgs "seen" at CERN

The Higgs "seen" at CERN

CERN researchers working on the LHC have announced that they have discovered a particle where they would expect to find a Higgs boson. The announcement is a step forward for modern physics and Queen Mary has contributed technical expertise, engineering experience and computing resources to this work. The announcement however is not a categorical declaration of the Higgs existence or how it fits into the larger picture. 
 
Event display of a electron neutrino candidate at SK

T2K strikes back after the earthquake

At the 2012 Neutrino conference in Kyoto, Japan, the T2K collaboration presented new results on electron neutrino appearance from muon neutrino that confirmed their previous published results in PRL, in July 2011, which reported

Juno Practitioner

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