Leicester physicists are involved in 3 Minute Wonder competition. Three Minute Wonder is a UK and Ireland-wide science communication competition that engages the public with researchers being challenged to explain their work in just three minutes. Those taking part work in physics or physics-related fields in academia and industry. The competition is made up of […]
The School of Physics celebrates International Women’s Day International Women’s Day is a day on which the social, cultural, political and economic achievements of women around the world are celebrated. As part of the week long celebrations that took place across our campus, the ‘Leicester Wall of Women’ was sent around the university. Anyone, staff […]
Leicester physicists invited to the home of the UK Ambassador to Italy to discuss the future of Gamma-Ray astrophysics. The School of Physics and Astronomy has a long and proud tradiation of astrophysics research in collaboration with Italian scientists stretching back over many decades. Three of our academics, Professors Paul O’Brien, Jon Lapington and Julian […]
Academic staff and students presented a wide range of work at the 2nd British Planetary Science Conference The 2nd British Planetary Science Conference was held from the 13th-15th of January at the University of Oxford, following from 2017’s inaugural conference in Glasgow. Attendees from the University of Leicester presented their work across 14 talks and […]
A new ground-based measurement site in Uganda, set up by the University of Leicester in partnership with NaFIRRI, will provide a unique dataset of remotely sensed greenhouse gas observations over a period of several months. From the 16th to 22nd of January 2020, Dr Neil Humpage (Earth Observation Science) visited Jinja, Uganda, to set up […]
Dr. Sarah Casewell describes the hunt for the mysterious Planet 9 in this blog post for the National Space Centre, and how a citizen science project called Backyard Worlds lets anyone join the search. Is there a large planet lurking at the fringes of our Solar System awaiting discovery? Ever since Pluto’s discovery in 1930 […]
The last twelve months have been an incredibly busy period for the School of Physics and Astronomy, and we have been collecting all our stories and achievements together into an online news blog. Just before Christmas, the Leicester Physics News Team (LPNT) collated this into our first ever Yearbook. When we pull everything together in this […]
At the beginning of December, members from Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy made their way to San Francisco, USA to present their research at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2019, writes Harneet Sangha. The meeting had over 25,000 attendees, a handful of which were from the University of Leicester. This enormous conference […]
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