Physics and Astronomy Southampton

14/03/2024

Join our PhD programmes in Engineering & Physical Sciences. Work with world-class researchers and access cutting-edge facilities to turn your ideas into reality. 🧠🔬

Learn more and apply now!
👉https://tinyurl.com/SotonPhDEngineer

14/03/2024

Happening this Saturday! Register NOW and join us for a day to explore, experience, and experiment. 🧪🦠🔬

More info below 👇

08/07/2022

✨ We are very excited to announce that the Physics and Astronomy department will be hosting an online Physics and Astronomy summer school for UK A-level students of Afro-Caribbean heritage on 20th July. ✨

🚩This will be our second annual summer school for students of African-Caribbean heritage with the first such event last year receiving extremely positive feedback from attendees.

🚩The day will feature a presentation by Benyam Dejen, Director of Outreach at the Blackett Lab Family. The Blackett Lab Family is a social enterprise made up of people from a variety of professions and specialisms who share a passion for physics and positive representations of the Black community.

To register for this free online event: https://fal.cn/3q54T

Email [email protected] if you have any further questions or queries about the event.

20/06/2022

We are excited to announce that Southampton physicists are developing new tools to improve environmental sustainability when producing photonics circuits at a high volume scale.

Physics and Astronomy research at Southampton have been awarded more than £700,000 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funding to develop new instruments that can improve environmental sustainability when testing photonic integrated circuits at full wafer scale.

Read more: https://fal.cn/3pALr

09/06/2022

🚩This Saturday is Future World's biggest event of the year! 🚩 If you didn't know Future Worlds is Southampton's on-campus tech startup accelerator, helping our university startup founders to change the world with their ideas.

Their Demo event day is something you do not want to miss, make sure to grab your free tickets below!👇

💥Civil Eng student and Social Media Officer, Virtue encourages all students to get involved because 'Future Worlds provides the support and mentoring Southampton student and staff really need to push their start-ups and get investment!'💥

➡️ https://fal.cn/3pjvo

08/06/2022

Exciting new research from Southampton researchers are helping to challenge the cause of halting star formation in massive galaxies.

Massive galaxies could actually generate a sudden increase in star formation just before they shut down completely, according to new research by a team of astronomers including researchers from Physics and Astronomy at Southampton.

Read more: https://fal.cn/3phSV

24/05/2022

Future Worlds is our on-campus startup accelerator at Southampton. Join the biggest event of the Future Worlds year on Sat 11 June at 2pm and meet the latest startups!

Read more: https://fal.cn/3oSrI

Join us for Future Worlds Demo Day 2022. It’s the biggest event of the Future Worlds year and your chance to meet the latest startups.

12/05/2022

"In 2019, 39% of A-Level exam entrants in maths were girls, compared to 23% in physics. This shows that the reasons girls don’t take physics has more to do with physics than maths."

Read more: https://fal.cn/3oz3g

Girls report not feeling clever enough to take physics.

06/05/2022

🚀 It's Science and Engineering Day this weekend!

Here's a sneak peek at what our academics & students have planned for the big day

🗓 Saturday 7 May
⏰ 10.30am - 4.30pm
📍 Highfield & Boldrewood Innovation Campuses

Find out more 👉 https://fal.cn/3onrw

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23/03/2022

Webinar tonight at 4.30pm. Consider where your could take you in the future. You'll learn how your physics knowledge could make a real difference to the world.

Sign up here: https://fal.cn/3naRI

18/03/2022

We are excited to announce that Southampton will be hosting the 30th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY) 2023. It is one of the world's largest gatherings of particle physicists and focuses on news ideas in the fundamental interactions of elementary particles.

Read more: https://fal.cn/3n3R5

15/03/2022

Want to learn how your physics knowledge could make a real difference to the world? You’ll hear about applications of physics that you might not have known about and consider where your physics A level could take you in the future.

Sign up: https://fal.cn/3mXyb

09/03/2022

An exciting study with Southampton and led by the University of Groningen astronomers in the Netherlands have found the black hole's "heartbeat." They identified the behavior of a black hole and developed a specialist graph, showing its "heartbeat."

Read more: https://fal.cn/3mNVW

08/03/2022

We continue to be inspired by the success of our women in Physics, such as Dr Sadie Jones. “It feels like there is much more support now to allow women to stay within academia and work their way up to being a Professor."

08/03/2022

In celebration of International Women's Day, University of Southampton is hosting its first online panel event tonight: 'Southampton's Inspiring Women: International Women’s Day.'

Hosted by our Vice-President (Operations) Wendy Appleby, our three speakers, Lorna Tilbian, Mfon Ekpo and Dr Nisreen Alwan MBE will inspire us as they talk about their roles and highlight their key achievements.

Register here: https://fal.cn/3mKMf

04/03/2022

An exciting study led by Southampton recently discovered behaviours of some of the most extreme objects in the universe. A team of researchers from eleven countries, studied the eruption of the X-ray binary known as Swift J1858. They found hot, warm and cold winds from a neutron star whilst consuming matter from a nearby star.

Read more: https://fal.cn/3mFpX

11/02/2022

“I think I was lucky, because my parents were very supportive. I would say stuff like, ‘I want to be an astronaut’, and they would say: ‘Why not?’” Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science day, Dr Sadie Jones, Astronomy Outreach Leader at Southampton discusses how parents can encourage more women in STEM and her journey into becoming a female scientist.

Read more: https://fal.cn/3m53J

19/01/2022

Head of Hybrid Photonics Professor Pavlos Lagoudakis and research fellow Dr Sigurdsson demonstrated Thomas Young's famous 220 year old double-slit experiment in the reciprocal space. During the one experiment, an optical analogy of two fundamental experiments of quantum mechanics were observed.

Dr Sigurdsson mentioned: "photonic spin orbit coupling is a relatively young field of research and full of opportunities to control the properties of light, like we show in our study."

Read here: fal.cn/3lrMD