News and events within the Department of Physics

Welcome to the Department of Physics News & events section. This is where you can find out exactly what's going on in and around the Physics Department at York. The Department also plays host to a number of public lectures, research group seminars and physics-related colloquia throughout the academic year. Here, you can also find details concerning lectures from the Institute of Physics, particularly those from the Yorkshire Branch, that are taking place in York.

Latest Departmental news

First videos to show the helix of ‘dancing DNA’ developed by scientists

Monday 22 February 2021

Videos allowing us to see for the first time how small circles of DNA adopt dance-like movements inside a cell have been developed by researchers at universities in Yorkshire.

Physics at York academic to give the Robert Boyle Lecture 2021

Friday 29 January 2021

Tom McLeish is Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of York

Graduation celebrations held virtually

Tuesday 26 January 2021

Congratulations to all our students who graduated this month