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Welcome to the School of Physics & Astronomy

We run one of the most popular undergraduate physics programmes in the country. Our teaching has been rated 'excellent' and in the last Research Assessment Exercise we were placed joint 2nd with Cambridge and St Andrews in a ranking of 42 Physics departments. We pride ourselves on being a centre that is internationally recognised for the quality of our teaching and research and hope that you will enjoy learning a little more about us through this site.

 

Events

Cold Atoms Seminar

Date
29/05/2012
Location:
B21 Physics Building
Description
Iacopo Causotto, University of Trento, "Analog Hawking radiation from acoustic black holes in superfluids of atoms and of light"

School Colloquium

Date
06/06/2012
Location:
B13
Description
Professor Jeff Forshaw, School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Manchester, "Teaching Quantum Physics: Particles, Waves & Fields"

Cold Atoms Seminar

Date
13/06/2012
Location:
B21 Physics Building
Description
Ian Walmsley, University of Oxford, title "TBA"

Latest News

Protein aggregates shed new light on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

Description
Recent School research on the growth properties of amyloid protein aggregates may point the way towards future diagnostic and therapeutic treatments for degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
Date:
15/03/2012

Levitating flies give clues to future life in space

Description
Nottingham physicist Dr Richard Hill has shown how magnetically levitated fruit flies can provide vital clues to the way biological organisms are affected by weightless conditions in space.
Date:
05/01/2012

School Researcher plays with nano Jigsaw

Description
School researcher Dr Andrew Stannard has discovered a way to control how tiny flat molecules fit together in a seemingly random pattern - a nano jigsaw.
Date:
01/12/2011

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School of Physics and Astronomy

The University of Nottingham
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Nottingham NG7 2RD

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