MSc induction

Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:41:00 GMT

There will be an induction to our MSc courses on Monday 9th January 9am in Room 323 of the Kelvin Building (School of Physics and Astronomy), University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ. B8 on your campus map.

Kelvin Photography Competition Winners

Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:31:00 GMT

The winners of the PHAS Photography Competition have been announced...

The Glasgow LISA Pathfinder team wins a Sir Arthur Clarke Award

Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:24:00 GMT

The University of Glasgow's LISA Pathfinder team won the 2016 Sir Arthur Clarke Award for "Space Achievement in Academic Research or Study" at an awards ceremony held at The Royal Society in London

Particle physicist elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:00:00 BST

Prof. Christine Davies elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Athena SWAN Silver Renewed

Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:55:00 BST

The School of Physics and Astronomy has been recognised for its work on promoting gender equality with the re-award of Athena SWAN Silver status...

Royal Society Research Professorship for University physicist

Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:32:00 BST

Professor Stephen Barnett of the University of Glasgow’s School of Physics and Astronomy has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Research Professorship.

Poster Prize for ATLAS member

Fri, 12 Aug 2016 09:27:00 BST

Dr Adrian Buzatu of our Particle Physics Experimental group recently won a prize for his poster presentation at the ICHEP conference on studies of Higgs boson decays at the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider...

A boxing day present from the universe

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:44:00 BST

Members of the Institute for Gravitational Research and the Astronomy and Astrophysics Research group have been involved in the second detection of gravitational waves from signal picked up on boxing day (26th December) 2015.

Funding unveiled for new ion beam microscope

Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:33:00 BST

The University’s Materials and Condensed Matter Physics research group has been awarded £1.35m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to install a state-of-the-art Focused Ion Beam (FIB) microscope.

Discovery of Gravitational Waves

Mon, 15 Feb 2016 09:10:00 GMT

On Thursday 11th February 2016 at a press conference in Washington DC, scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration reported the first ever direct detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two massive black holes more than one billion light years from the Earth