Light in a twist in San Jose

Tue, 19 May 2015 08:55:00 BST

Miles Padgett joined 6 Noble Prize winners as this years Plenary Speakers at the world’s leading optics conference; CLEO 2015. Speaking last week to over 2000 scientists, Miles used light sticks to explain the properties of twisted light pioneered by the University of Glasgow...

Glasgow work on the Higgs boson highlighted by Physical Review D

Tue, 05 May 2015 15:11:00 BST

A recent article by Dr Christoph Englert on the effects of the Higgs Boson on the fundamental models of particle physics has been highlighted for its high importance by the Editors of Physical Review D

Best Teacher: Science & Engineering awarded to Dr Morag Casey

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:24:00 BST

The School of Physics & Astronomy is very pleased to announce that Dr Morag Casey has won the award of "Best Teacher: Science & Engineering" at the University of Glasgow Student Teaching Awards

Weighing up quarks

Thu, 05 Mar 2015 10:08:00 GMT

Quark masses are difficult to determine because

Glasgow-Japan consortium receives £1.5m advanced materials grant

Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:03:00 GMT

Researchers from the MCMP group and School of Chemistry are beginning work on a £1.5m collaboration to develop new advanced material technologies

Dr Stefan Hild has been appointed to the Global Young Academy

Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:45:00 GMT

The School of Physics and Astronomy is very pleased to announce...

Two Glasgow Students win the Higgs Prize for Physics

Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:37:00 GMT

Two Students at the University of Glasgow were awarded Higgs Prizes for Physics by the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon

Racetrack memory on track

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:02:00 GMT

New research from the Universities of Glasgow and Leeds could be an important step towards creating faster, higher-capacity, lower-power data storage.

IGR celebrates successful launch of LISA Pathfinder

Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:52:00 GMT

Staff and students in the School’s Institute for Gravitational Research are celebrating the successful launch of the European Space Agency’s LISA Pathfinder spacecraft

Science Communication in Romania

Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:32:00 GMT

Dr. Adrian Buzatu spoke last week at several science communication events in Romania about elementary particle physics and the Higgs boson...

Medal Awarded to Steve Barnett

Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:59:00 GMT

Prof. Steve Barnett has been awarded the Medal of the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague

Prof Miles Padgett Collects Kelvin Medal

Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:46:00 BST

Miles Padgett has collected his Kelvin Medal

Scotland and India are working together to study eruptions on the Sun

Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:37:00 BST

Dr Prasad Subramanian, an associate professor of Physics at IISER Pune, visited the Glasgow Astronomy Group to study eruptions on the Sun...

2015 CESRA radio summer school

Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:11:00 BST

Glasgow University is hosting the 2015 CESRA radio summer school on the 24-28th August 2015

A&A group members take on new roles in the International Astronomical Union

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:40:00 BST

Congratulations to Drs Eduard Kontar and Nic Labrosse who have been newly elected to positions in the International Astronomical Union, as well as to Prof. Lyndsay Fletcher who takes on a leading role...

Glasgow research featured on the front cover of "Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences"

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:05:00 BST

New research by a team including Dr Ian MacLaren of the School of Physics and Astronomy has revealed unprecedented detail about water interacting with rocks on the surface of Mars...

Students win water innovation challenge

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 12:37:00 BST

Kirsty Annand and Scott Smith from the University of Glasgow’s MCMP group were winners in the Research Frontiers: Water Innovation challenge led by Targeting Innovation...

MSc Programmes Induction Date

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:29:00 BST

An induction meeting will be held...

Oral Presentation Award for Dr Guangliang Yang

Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:45:00 BST

Dr Guangliang Yang, a member of the Nuclear Physics group, has won the second prize for best oral presentation at the 12th International Conference on Electronic Measurement & Instruments (ICEMI 2015)...

Most downloaded paper at Ultramicroscopy

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:25:00 BST

A paper by Joanna Bobynko, one of our PhD students, together with Dr Ian MacLaren and Prof Alan Craven has been named as the most downloaded paper at Ultramicroscopy in the past three months.