Departmental news
Thursday 23 May 2013
Collaboration is concentrating on understanding topological insulators
Tuesday 21 May 2013
York physicists will have access to advanced research facilities
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Work has important implications for quantum optics
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Pioneering technique enabled study of two short-lived isotopes
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Groundbreaking find could aid cancer research
Friday 3 May 2013
Professor Mike Bentley has scooped a coveted VC's teaching award.
Friday 3 May 2013
Congratulations to Dr Kieran Gibson, Dave Coulthard, Richard Armitage, Neil Johnson and Bob Hide who have been awarded a Vice Chancellor’s Gold Award for Outstanding Achievement.
Friday 3 May 2013
Researchers the University of York will have access to the most impressive and advanced nuclear physics research facility in the world as the United Kingdom today becomes part of a €1.6 billion international project that will be to nuclear physics what CERN is to particle physics.
Wednesday 27 March 2013
An international team of plasma physicists has used one of the world’s most powerful lasers to create highly unusual plasma composed of hollow atoms.
Tuesday 19 March 2013
A consortium of top UK academics is developing computer codes to provide new insights into existing and predicted materials using the national supercomputer (HECToR).
Friday 8 March 2013
To mark International Women’s Day, leading physicists from the University of York and five other top universities are encouraging their colleagues across the country to do more to reduce the gender disparity in physics.
Thursday 24 January 2013
York astrophysicists shed new light on the explosive stellar events known as javascript:;novae
Friday 4 January 2013
Dr Gonzalo Vallejo Fernández, Rob Carpenter PhD student and Professor Kevin O’Grady visit Seagate Technology in Northern Ireland.
Thursday 3 January 2013
Professor Sarah Thompson, Head of the Department of Physics, has been made a Member of the British Empire(MBE) in the New Year’s Honours List.
Thursday 3 January 2013
Dr Matt Probert has successfully led a 12m grant proposal for renewed funding of the UK Car-Parrinnelo Consortium(UKCP)
Thursday 18 October 2012
Professor Pratibha Gai is named Laureate for Europe in the L'Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Awards 2013.
Friday 5 October 2012
A world-class interdisciplinary plasma research centre, designed to foster collaborations between industry and universities, has been officially opened at the University of York.
Friday 28 September 2012
NSS Results 2012 demonstrate high level of student satisfaction
Thursday 23 August 2012
HELIOS Magnet available for use from 2013
Monday 13 August 2012
A physicist at the University of York has played a key role in international research which has made an important advance in establishing the catalytic properties of gold at a nano level.
Friday 20 July 2012
Scientists at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the University of York have solved a lunar mystery. They have identified the origin of the enigmatic "lunar swirls" – swirling patches of relatively pale lunar soil, some measuring several tens of kilometres across.
Friday 11 May 2012
Dr Martin Smalley has been awarded a Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award.
Wednesday 9 May 2012
The Physics Undergraduate Admissions Team have won a Silver Award in the Excellence category of the Vice Chancellor's Awards for Outstanding Achievement for "an impressive approach to undergraduate recruitment"!
Friday 13 April 2012
Three University of York departments have received awards from the Athena SWAN Charter in recognition of their support for women in science.
Thursday 16 February 2012
Researchers from the University of York are pioneering the development of electron microscopes which will allow scientists to examine a greater variety of materials in new revolutionary ways.
Tuesday 7 February 2012
An international team of scientists has demonstrated a revolutionary new way of magnetic recording which will allow information to be processed hundreds of times faster than by current hard drive technology.
Monday 30 January 2012
An international team of scientists has used a laser to create magnetic fields similar to those thought to be involved in the formation of the first galaxies.
Monday 10 October 2011
The Department of Physics at York has been awarded "Juno Champion" status by the Institute of Physics, in recognition of its action to address the under-representation of women in university physics
Tuesday 13 September 2011
Professor Howard Wilson of the Department of Physics receives a prestigious Research Merit Award from the Royal Society
Wednesday 24 August 2011
A team in the Physics Department has been awarded a major EU grant for research into the underlying physics behind ultrafast magnetic processes.
Wednesday 10 August 2011
Four York teenagers experience the world of scientific research at the Physics Department thanks to Nuffield Foundation bursaries
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Dr Roland Kröger of the Physics Department is a co-organiser of an international and interdisciplinary workshop on mineralization in corals, to be held in York on 11-13 July 2011
Monday 4 July 2011
Outreach event at York shows local school pupils the wonders of liquid nitrogen ice-cream, how to track space debris, and what it's like to work as a scientist
Thursday 23 June 2011
Physics staff and students will take part in a symposium on magnetic materials and spintronics in York, co-organised by the universities of York and Tohoku (Sendai, Japan)
Wednesday 8 June 2011
The Physics Department is joined by three new academics, Professor Timo Gans, Dr Deborah O'Connell and Dr Erik Wagenaars, all specialists in low temperature plasma physics.
Tuesday 5 April 2011
In a paper published this week in the journal Nature, members of the York Physics Department’s Condensed Matter Theory group in collaboration with experimental colleagues from Nijmegen University in the Netherlands, have demonstrated ultrafast magnetisation reversal by a new and unconventional route, using the heating effect of a laser.
Monday 28 March 2011
Nuclear physicist Adam Tuff has seen off over 200 competitors to win the national competition "I'm A Scientist Get Me Out Of Here"
Wednesday 19 January 2011
York's Physics Department involved in local astronomy events for 'Stargazing Live' season
Monday 17 January 2011
Dr Yvette Hancock's pantomime 'Ellie the Electron' launches to enthusiastic reception
Tuesday 21 December 2010
EPSRC-funded York Plasma Institute to provide unique integrated research and education facility for plasma studies
Tuesday 7 December 2010
York researchers publish invited review article in Nature Photonics on semiconductor lithography
Monday 25 October 2010
Planning approval granted for the Physics Department's new Astrocampus project
Friday 10 September 2010
The York Institute for Materials Research wins funding for joint project to purchase world-leading microscope
Monday 6 September 2010
Students from the Fusion Doctoral Training Network bring the "Sun Dome" to York schoolchildren
Friday 6 August 2010
Dr David Jenkins' study into exotic lead nucleus Pb-180 is the main feature article on the Physical Review C website
Tuesday 6 July 2010
Dr Phil Lightfoot of the Physics Department is voted Supervisor of the Year by his students
Tuesday 6 July 2010
Prof. Pratibha Gai wins the prestigious Gabor medal and prize for 2010 for her pioneering development of atomic resolution environmental transmission electron microscopy
Friday 25 June 2010
York's physicists' involvement in the development of fusion power is the subject of a feature article this week in The Press
Tuesday 8 June 2010
Dr Roland Kröger of the Department of Physics wins EPSRC Platform Grant funding for biomineralization research
Wednesday 2 June 2010
Dr Louise Dash of the Physics Department is to take part in a national schools science communication event from 14 to 25 June 2010
Friday 28 May 2010
Dr Ben Kay to join York's Physics department as STFC Advanced Fellow
Wednesday 19 May 2010
New grant award made to York's Physics department for research into plasma instability led by Dr Kieran Gibson
Monday 17 May 2010
York's plasma physicists agree new collaboration with University of Zhejiang in China
Wednesday 21 April 2010
The Department of Physics at the University of York becomes one of the first recipients of the Institute of Physics' new Juno Practitioner award
Tuesday 13 April 2010
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM (ICOAM) at the University of York – 23-25 March 2010
Monday 15 March 2010
University of York Physics Department forges new international links
Tuesday 2 March 2010
International Conference on Optical Angular Momentum to be held at the University of York, 23-25 March 2010
Thursday 4 February 2010
University of York Physics department hosted workshop on 13-15 January 2010
Thursday 4 February 2010
Special astronomy celebration event hosted by the Department of Physics on 27 January 2010
Tuesday 5 January 2010
Department of Physics Research Services Manager Dave Coulthard is awarded the MBE in the 2010 New Year's Honours list
Monday 30 November 2009
The University of York is a major partner in a project unveiled today that will help scientists harness the potential of fusion energy.
Monday 30 November 2009
A new series of informal science talks given by Physics graduates, aimed at a general audience
Friday 27 November 2009
Professor Kevin O'Grady, of the Department of Physics, talks to Physics World about the science of magnetic nanoparticles and the scope for their application in biomedicine.
Monday 23 November 2009
The Department is to host an IOP half day meeting on the use of GEANT4 in Nuclear Physics on Jan 6th 2010.
Thursday 19 November 2009
Research in the Department of Physics is revealing the properties of some promising building blocks for nanotechnology.
Thursday 20 August 2009
A record number of students join research groups in York this summer.
Thursday 20 August 2009
The Institute of Physics has produced blue plaques in honour of two famous names in science from the Yorkshire region.
Monday 17 August 2009
In the 2009 National Student Survey, York Physics was once again rated as one of the top physics departments in the country.
Tuesday 14 April 2009
A pioneering new course at the University of York will train scientists whose work could pave the way for a world powered by limitless energy.
Thursday 18 December 2008
The UK's 2008 RAE has recognised the department's strength across its research groups, with 55% of its submission judged by an independent panel to be of internationally excellent or internationally leading quality.
