News & Events
News
UCAS visitors have rare glimpse of activity on the Sun
Monday 15 March 2010
UCAS visitors to Cardiff University School of Physics and Astronomy were treated to an unusual sight of an extra-large solar prominence through the observatory's solar telescope, despite the sun having until very recently shown little or no activity.
Seeing between the lines: first SPIRE spectra
Friday 27 November 2009
Spectacular new results from the SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer on the Herschel Space Observatory have just been released by the European Space Agency (ESA).
Herschel hits the airwaves
Wednesday 11 November 2009
A BBC Radio 4 programme will feature engineers and scientists who worked on the SPIRE instrument onboard the Herschel Space Observatory including Matt Griffin and others from the School.
QUaD data supports "dark matter" theory
Monday 2 November 2009
A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by a Cardiff University scientist.
Making ordered gold strings with coated nanoparticles
Monday 12 October 2009
Researchers have managed to get Gold nanoparticles to associate into highly-ordered structures when coated with ligands formed from mesogens, the rigid part of a liquid-crystal molecule.
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 24/03/2010: Astro Seminar 16:00, N/3.28
David Burgess (Queen Mary University, London)
Conferences at Cardiff
The School has a strong reputation for hosting scientific conferences. conferences page
Recent conferences:
- Constellation School on Numerical Astrophysics and its role in Star Formation Cardiff, 19-23 January 2009
- dot-Astronomy Conference (September 2008)