The IAC goes back to school23 December 2013The reception students at Southville Primary School are currently studying the differences between liquids and solids.
Accelerating world-class natural science research23 December 2013Dr Jaap Velthuis of the School of Physics and Dr Joachim Gottsmann of the School of Earth Sciences have received a NERC award to accelerate the impact of their research.
Creating the next generation of engineers and scientists22 November 2013The Universities and Science Minister, David Willetts, will provide details of how a £350 million fund will be used to train tomorrow’s engineers and scientists at an event in London today.
What happened when the German physicists came to stay22 November 2013The fascinating story of what happened eighty years ago when German physicists came to Bristol features in the Autumn edition of Nonesuch magazine.
Dr John Wilson16 October 2013Dr John Wilson, retired George Wills Senior Research Fellow in Physics, died on 7 October 2013.
Professor Sir Michael Berry Awards in India and the USA15 October 2013Congratulations to Professor Sir Michael Berry, who was awarded a Doctor of Science at Hyderabad - and has also been selected to give the Richtmyer Memorial Lecture by the American Association of Physics Teachers
Research Frontiers in Radioactive Waste Management8 October 2013This meeting will bring together scientists and engineers to showcase R&D in all aspects of managing the UK radioactive waste legacy, including: decommissioning technologies, waste characterisation, treatment, packaging, and disposal; site remediation; and radiation effects.
Well done Ruth20 September 2013Congratulations to Dr Ruth Oulton who won a prize for her talk at Complex Nano-Photonics Conference titled "Light-matter angular momentum exchange: beyond 'spin' and 'orbital' angular momentum'. Well done Ruth!
Well done Mark18 September 2013Dr Mark Thompson has been awarded EPSRC early career fellowship on "Silicon Quantum Photonics". Well done Mark.
Bristol nanophysics visits China17 September 2013Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials (BCFN) staff and students presented their work in China recently.
Dr Derek Parsons16 September 2013Dr Derek Parsons, retired Lecturer and Departmental Administrator in Physics, died on 22 August 2013.
Launch of world-leading power electronics research centre3 July 2013A Centre for Power Electronics that will focus on delivering the underpinning science and engineering behind many low carbon technologies from electric vehicles to renewable energy generation and distribution has been launched thanks to funding of £18 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
CQP Physics welcomes new visitor2 July 2013Welcome to Ivo Straka who is working with CQP for a couple of weeks from the Palacky University, Czech Republic
School of Physics student society is the Best!27 June 2013It's official - we've always known Chaos, the School of Physics' student society, is pretty good. But now this has been confirmed as the University of Bristol Students' Union (UBU) has awarded Chaos the Best Student Society acolade in the recent UBU awards.