News & Events
News
Cardiff Professor becomes President of SPA
Thursday 2nd February 2012
Professor Derek Ward-Thompson has been elected President of the UK Society for Popular Astronomy.
New views of star-birth in the Pillars of Creation
Monday 16th January 2012
The latest Herschel results.
Stargazing goes LIVE in Wales
Monday 16th January 2012
One of the most popular factual BBC series of last year - Stargazing LIVE - returns to our screens this week and, to help mark the celestial celebrations, the Institute of Physics in Wales (IOPW) has bought universities and astronomical societies together again to run a series of stargazing events.
When charges lose rhythm
Wednesday 11th January 2012
Cardiff researchers reveal the physical origin of "exciton decoherence" in nanocrystals.
Events
Talks and Public Lectures
Occasional talks and lectures for a more general audience are given by members of the School - further details can be found here.
Seminars
The School has a number of active Colloquia and Research Seminar series. For a full schedule see the Colloquia and Research Seminars page.
Seminars scheduled for the next seven days include:
- Wednesday 15/02/2012: Colloquium 16:00 , N/3.28
Multimodal neuroimaging of the human brain (in Cardiff)
Prof Krish Singh ( CUBRIC, School of Psychology, Cardiff University ) - Friday 17/02/2012: Gravitational Physics 14:00, Chart Room (N/3.23)
T.B.A.
Leor Barack (Southampton)
Conferences at Cardiff
The School has a strong reputation for hosting scientific conferences. conferences page
Recent conferences:
- BioNanoPhotonics - September 2011
- 9th Amaldi Conference - July 2011.
Alexei Ivanov Memorial Symposium
A symposium was held on 23rd February 2011 to commemorate the life and work of Prof Alexei Ivanov, who sadly passed away in August 2010.