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Artificial intelligence
New Queen’s scholarship opportunities will explore impact of AI on science and society
5 February, 2021

Thirty funded doctoral scholarships announced by Queen’s University Belfast are set to provide a unique opportunity to explore the challenges of Artificial intelligence (AI) for every area of science and society.

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EuPRAXIA: A revolutionary particle accelerator in Europe
2 February, 2021

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Emeritus Professor Derrick Crothers
15 January, 2021

Professor Stephen Smartt
Professor Smartt announced as the Winner of the Herschel Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society
8 January, 2021

A School of Mathematics and Physics professor has been announced as the winner of a prestigious award from the Royal Astronomical Society.

Athena SWAN 2020 Celebration Event
18 December, 2020

2020 School Maths Competition
2020 QUB Maths Competition for Schools
17 December, 2020

ARC-led Collaboration Confirms Discovery of New Minimoons in Next Decade
25 November, 2020

A global collaboration led by a research fellow from the School of Mathematics and Physics which detected only the second minimoon ever recorded earlier this year has confirmed that many more will be found in the next decade.

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Athena SWAN Silver Award for the School of Mathematics and Physics Renewed
19 October, 2020

The School of Mathematics and Physics are delighted to announce the recent renewal of their Athena SWAN Silver Award until 2025.

Natasha Bailie awarded British Society for the History of Mathematics Undergraduate Essay Prize 2020
19 October, 2020

A student from the School of Mathematics and Physics was awarded first place in the annual British Society for the History of Mathematics Undergraduate Essay Competition this year.

Emily Gribbin awarded Hamilton Prize in Mathematics 2020
19 October, 2020

A student from the School of Mathematics and Physics was awarded the prestigious undergraduate Hamilton Prize in Mathematics this year by the Royal Irish Academy.

Dr Raymond McQuaid awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship from UKRI
16 October, 2020

A lecturer from the School of Mathematics and Physics has been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship as part of a £109 million investment from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

John Bell Day Lecture 2020
16 October, 2020

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Hamilton Lecture 2020: The Cosmic Distance Ladder
5 October, 2020

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Nominees And Winners EPS - 2020 WINNERS
25 September, 2020

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Welcome to our New Undergraduate Students
22 September, 2020

Queen’s Astronomer Part of International Team to Capture Stellar Winds in Unprecedented Detail
21 September, 2020

A team of astronomers from around the world has discovered an explanation for the mesmerising shapes of planetary nebulae.

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Professor H R J Walters PhD CPhys MRIA FInstP
10 September, 2020

Mauro Paternostro
New Head of School for the School of Mathematics and Physics
25 August, 2020

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French scientific magazine, La Recherche - Interview with Dr. Gianluca Sarri
27 July, 2020

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Queen’s PhD student finds a white dwarf star ripped apart by its companion
24 July, 2020

A second year PhD student from Queen’s University Belfast has recently published a paper  on the study of an extremely fast evolving astronomical transient, which turns out to be the first of its kind.  

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Happy Asteroid Day
30 June, 2020

Semsum complete Outstanding KTP Project
Semsum complete ‘Outstanding’ KTP Project
27 May, 2020

Sensum Ltd recently completed their second Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Queen’s University Belfast and was awarded an ‘Outstanding’ classification by Innovate UK.

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Livestream Lessons - Smarttscience.com
13 May, 2020

Professor Stephen Smartt has been giving eight live-streamed lessons every Tuesday at 11AM from 12th May 2020.

Sky at Night
School Astrophysicists Locked down but Looking up
13 May, 2020

Celebrating the 800th episode of the BBC’s, The Sky at Night

DOMINIC GATES
GRADUATE DOMINIC GATES WINS PULITZER PRIZE FOR WORK ON TWO BOEING 737 MAX AIR CRASHES
8 May, 2020

Prof Stephen Smartt
Astronomer at Queen University is 'delighted' by UK science honour
30 April, 2020

Stephen Smartt
Queen’s academic elected Fellow of the Royal Society 2020
30 April, 2020

Science at Queen's
PARENTS’ EVENING WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH 2020, 6.00 – 9.30PM
11 March, 2020

UCAS Applicant Visit Days  at the School of Mathematics and Physics
UCAS Applicant Visit Days at the School of Mathematics and Physics
11 March, 2020

Game changing
‘Game-changing’, powerful plasma accelerator now closer to becoming a reality
27 February, 2020

The conclusion of a major international design study brings a plasma accelerator closer to becoming a reality, having potentially revolutionary implications for scientific research, and medical practices.

Dr Anita Sands
Dr Anita Sands delivered the Mary McAleese Diversity Lecture at Queen’s
13 February, 2020

Global technology and business leader Dr Anita Sands recently delivered the Queen’s Management School Mary McAleese Diversity Lecture, in association with the Chief Executives’ Club at Queen’s.

Changing night sky
Public to help researchers capture largest ever movie of the changing night sky
6 February, 2020

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast are looking for UK citizens to help contribute to world-leading research on capturing the largest ever movie of the changing night sky.

Detailed images of the Sun
The sun as we've never seen it before - clearest and most detailed images of the Sun revealed
30 January, 2020

The clearest and most detailed images of the Sun have been captured by the largest telescope in the world.

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Interview on BBC Newsline on QUB school experience research experience
16 January, 2020

Winter Graduation Reception 5
School Winter Graduation Reception
13 December, 2019

Maths Competition
Maths Competition 2019
11 December, 2019

60-year-old mystery of Sun’s magnetic waves
Scientist leads international team to crack 60-year-old mystery of Sun’s magnetic waves
9 December, 2019

Royal Statistical Society
Dr Lisa McFetridge has been been nominated and elected to the Council of the RSS

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Dunville Scholarship- Mr Ethan Hawthorne

PhD student, Mr Ethan Hawthorne (Mathematics - Research) has been awarded this year’s Dunville Scholarship.

2019 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards
2019 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards
29 November, 2019

QUB Maths Competition for Schools 2019
QUB Maths Competition for Schools 2019
27 November, 2019

Our Maths competition for years 13-14 pupils will be held on Friday 6 December this year in the Great Hall.

Queen's expert to advise Scottish Government
Queen's expert to advise Scottish Government
8 November, 2019

Queen’s University Belfast academic, Professor Robert Bowman, has been appointed as a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council (SSAC).

QUB Maths Student Andrew Joyce wins Hamilton Day 2019 Prize

EPS Mathematics & Statistics Helpdesk (MASH)

Physics David Bates Prize
Dr Dermot Green awarded 2019 Institute of Physics David Bates Prize
17 October, 2019

gas molecules in comet
New frontier for science as astronomers detect gas molecules in comet from another star
27 September, 2019

An international team of astronomers, including Queen's University Belfast researchers, have made a historic discovery, detecting gas molecules in a comet which has tumbled into our solar system from another star.

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Get-together to say thank you to Dr Ramsbottom

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The call for applications to the 2019 Vice-Chancellor’s Research Prizes has been issued
9 September, 2019

PDC Postdoc Prizes
REWARDING POSTDOCTORAL EXCELLENCE!

BIG CONGRATULATIONS to our Prize-winning Post Docs who outshone all the rest at the National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW) Awards

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International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society in Belfast
5 September, 2019

Dr Lisa McFetridge was the Programme Chair of the International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society which came to Belfast from 2-5 September. 2019

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Well done to Theresa Dodoo who is a Level 3 student in Maths and Finance.

APS PHYSICS
Congratulation to Gabriele De Chiara, CTAMOP, who has been appointed Associate Editor of Phys. Rev.

Teaching Awards
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR GARETH TRIBELLO!! who won the Rising Stars Category at the QUEEN'S

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CONGRATULATIONS TO DR HANNAH MITCHELL!

ULSTER GIFT FUND SCHOLARHSIP 2019-20
ULSTER GIFT FUND SCHOLARHSIP 2019-20
26 August, 2019

Ulster Gift Fund 2019

Queen’s Women Graduates’ Scholarship 2019
Queen’s Women Graduates’ Scholarship 2019

Are you a female first time undergraduate student on a modest income? Have you had a gap of at least 5 years since attending post-primary school? If YES, you may be eligible to receive a Queen’s Women Graduates’ Scholarship to a value of up to £1,000

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QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS 2019-20
26 August, 2019

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST A-LEVEL ENTRANCE SCHOLARSHIPS 2019
26 August, 2019

Are you entering QUB for the first time to undertake a primary degree?

Career Day for PhD students & postdocs, September 24th
Career Day for PhD students and postdocs in the School of Maths & Physics
21 August, 2019

The Career Day for PhD Students and Postdocs which will take place on the 24th of September 2019 at the IRCEP building.

Postdoc Showcase
QUEEN'S POSTDOC SHOWCASE – WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2019
16 August, 2019

The Queen's Postdoc Showcase is a must attend for all QUB postdocs! In 2019, the Postdoc Showcase returns as part of the international strand of National Postdoc Appreciation Week and focuses on wider public engagement with research.

Science Advances
Emergence of a real-space symmetry axis in the magnetoresistance of the one-dimensional conductor
18 July, 2019

The ‘Forbidden Planet’ has been found in the ‘Neptunian Desert’

Girls in Maths 2 May 2019

A thrilling day for young female school students visiting our School for the first edition of "Girls in Maths" at QUB.

Asteroid
Astrophysicists from Queen’s identify mysterious self-destructing asteroid
28 March, 2019

An international team of astronomers, including scientists from Queen’s University Belfast, have identified an asteroid that is spinning itself into oblivion.

Oumuamua
Wandering interstellar worlds like ‘Oumuamua may help form planets- new Queen's research finds
8 April, 2019

A new research paper suggests that abundant interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua may help new star systems to form planets quickly.

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Career Opportunities
1 April, 2019

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EPSRC Grant Awarded - Dr Gabriele De Chiara, CTAMOP

Professor Stephen Smartt
Queen’s astrophysics expert honoured with a Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal

Super Earth
Queen’s collaboration discovers a ‘super-Earth’ planet that has likely undergone a giant collision

Queen’s receives £4 million to train next generation of experts in data storage
Queen’s receives £4 million to train next generation of experts in data storage

Dermot Green being awarded the 2018 Queen’s University Belfast Vice-Chancellor’s Research Prize
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S RESEARCH PRIZE FOR CTAMOP ACADEMIC DERMOT GREEN
18 December, 2018

Thermodynamic Irreversibility does arise from Quantum Dynamics
Thermodynamic irreversibility does arise from quantum dynamics
18 October, 2018

An international collaboration led by the Quantum Technology group at Queen's University (QTeQ) has made an important breakthrough in quantum thermodynamics.

CTAMOP research fellow Ricardo Puebla publishes article in Nature Quantum Information
28 September, 2018

Dr Kane Esien winning Best Poster Prize at 2018 International Conference on Magnetism in San Francisco, July 2018
DR KANE ESIEN WINS BEST POSTER PRIZE AT 2018 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MAGNETISM IN SAN FRANCISCO
25 July, 2018

Dr Kane Esien won Best Poster Prize at the 2018 International Conference on Magnetism held in San Francisco 15-20 July 2018

CTAMOP ACADEMIC PUBLISHES AN AUTHORITATIVE REVIEW PAPER
25 June, 2018

CTAMOP Academic, Dr. Gabriele De Chiara has published an authoritative review paper in the journal Reports on Progress in Physics.

CTAMOP POST-DOC AWARDED THE SPRINGER PRIZE
25 June, 2018

Congratulations to CTAMOP Post-doc, Ricardo Puebla, who has been awarded a Springer Prize for his PhD thesis.

New Journal of Physics: 2017 Reviewer Award awarded to CTAMOP Academic
5 June, 2018

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QUB Student Union Education Awards. Congratulations Dr Brian McMaster!
24 April, 2018

Next Generation Telescope
EUROPEAN SOLAR TELESCOPE WILL HELP US TO CRACK MYSTERIES OF SUN – QUEEN’S SCIENTIST
20 April, 2018

Queen’s University graduate receives prestigious Institute of Physics Prize
17 April, 2018

Dr Clare Scullion has been awarded the prestigious Culham Thesis Prize by the Institute of Physics.

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International Women's Day 2018
8 March, 2018

8 March 2018

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QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY SCIENTISTS OBSERVE LARGEST SOLAR FLARE IN 12 YEARS
9 March, 2018

Share The sun’s largest solar flare in more than 12 years – and the eighth largest since modern records began in 1996 – has been captured in high detail by a team of researchers from Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Sheffield.

QUEEN’S RESEARCH SHOWS HOW AN ALIEN OBSERVER MIGHT DETECT EARTH
8 September, 2017

A group of scientists from Queen’s University Belfast and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have looked at how an alien observer might be able to detect Earth using our own methods.

QUEEN’S ASTRONOMER AND INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS MAKE MAJOR EXOPLANET DISCOVERY
14 September, 2017

An astronomer at Queen’s University Belfast, working with a team of international researchers, has detected titanium oxide in an exoplanet atmosphere for the first time, revealing incredible information about WASP-19b.

QUEEN’S SCIENTIST DISCOVERS THAT NEUTRON STAR SMASH-UP IS SOURCE OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVE
16 October, 2017

A Queen’s University Belfast scientist has led an international team to a historic and ground-breaking discovery, proving that a burst of gravitational waves detected in August came from a smash up of two neutron stars.

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY ASTRONOMERS CAPTURE FIRST VISITING OBJECT FROM OUTSIDE OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
27 October, 2017

A Queen’s University Belfast scientist is leading an international team in studying a new visitor to our solar system - the first known comet or asteroid to visit us from another star.

MONSTER PLANET DISCOVERY CHALLENGES FORMATION THEORY
31 October, 2017

A giant planet – the existence of which was previously thought extremely unlikely – has been discovered by an international collaboration of astronomers, including Queen’s University Belfast researchers.

QUEEN’S ASTRONOMER LEADS INTERNATIONAL TEAM TO GROUND-BREAKING FIERY EXPLOSION IN A DISTANT GALAXY
13 November, 2017

Astronomers at Queen’s University Belfast have discovered a new type of fiery explosion in a distant galaxy.

ALIEN OBJECT ‘OUMUAMUA WAS A NATURAL BODY VISITING FROM ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM'
ASTROPHYSICS | 15 December, 2017

Scientists at Queen’s have led worldwide investigations into a mysterious object that passed close to Earth after arriving from deep interstellar space.

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY SCIENTIST UNLOCKS GAMMA RAY BURST SECRETS
19 January, 2018

QUEEN'S SCIENTIST WILL TEST THE LIMITS OF QUANTUM THEORY
16 January, 2018

A scientist from Queen's University is working with researchers at two other UK universities to test one of the fundamental laws of physics as part of a major Europe-wide project awarded more than £3m in funding.

`OUMUAMUA HAD A VIOLENT PAST AND HAS BEEN TUMBLING AROUND FOR BILLIONS OF YEARS
12 February, 2018

The first ever interstellar visitor to our solar system has had a violent past which is causing it to tumble around chaotically, a Queen’s University Belfast scientist has discovered.

The sun
QUEEN’S SCIENTISTS CRACK 70-YEAR-OLD MYSTERY OF HOW MAGNETIC WAVES HEAT THE SUN
5 March, 2018

Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast have led an international team to the ground-breaking discovery that magnetic waves crashing through the Sun may be key to heating its atmosphere and propelling the solar wind.

Queen's Scientists join International Team in discovery that could improve HDTV
31 January, 2018

Queen's Researchers Honoured By Royal Astronomical Society
Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Awards | 19 January, 2018

Two Queen’s University Belfast researchers are set to receive prestigious awards from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).

Dermot Green at a blackboard
EPSRC Fellow Dr Dermot Green receives International recognition for his work on theory of antimatter
27 November, 2017

Back-to-back(!) Physical Review Letters and an International Prize.

The John Bell Day Lecture 2017
6 November, 2017

The Royal Irish Academy and The Chief Executives' Club at Queen's present a lecture by Professor Antonio Acín, Group Leader, Quantum Information Theory, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona. Monday 6 November.

Eclipse Outreach Event Team Members posing
QUEEN'S ASTRONOMERS ENGAGE IN ECLIPSE EXPERIMENTATION AND SCIENTIFIC OUTREACH
SOLAR ECLIPSE | 25 October, 2017

Two astronomers from the Astrophysics Research Centre at Queen’s observed the recent solar eclipse from a research base in Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains.

Marco Borghesi
APS 2017 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research Recipient
13 September, 2017

Professor Marco Borghesi honoured for pioneering use of proton radiography.

A scratch in a car's paint
School researchers' discovery could lead to scratch-proof paint
12 September, 2017

Stretchy miracle material could be used to create highly resistant smart devices and scratch-proof paint for cars.

Asteroids named after Queen's astronomers
Asteroids at QUB | 24 April, 2017

International recognition and a piece of real estate

De Chiara, Sarri
‘Outstanding Reviewer’ awards for School researchers
10 March, 2017

CTAMOP and CPP researchers recognised for contribution to reviewing process

Both Mathematics and Physics get 100% for overall student satisfaction
9 May, 2017

Best ever student rating for MSci Degrees.

2x1
Head of School awarded prestigious Chair
9 May, 2017

Award facilitates work on new data storage technologies

Further Reviewing Success for School Staff
Dr Ioannis Kourakis | 11 April, 2017

Recognition for School researcher's reviews

Professor Jorge Kohanoff goes ‘Behind the Science’
3 May, 2017

NVTV interview with ASC Director of Research

Image: Joy Pollard
School Research Fellow reveals secret of blue binaries
Kuiper Belt breakthrough | 7 April, 2017

Kuiper Belt breakthrough published in Nature Astronomy

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CTAMOP Researchers secure funding success
30 January, 2017

Grants to bring in over £1.7 million over next five years

Cosimo Inserra posing in front of a brick wall
2017 winner of the RAS Winton Capital award
23 January, 2017

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Cosimo Inserra wins prestigious prize

Hamilton Prize winner 2017 Thomas Mellon posing with presenters
Hamilton Prize 2016
7 November, 2016

Purple flashes of dramatic horizontal lightning
Queen’s CNM team in nanocircuitry breakthrough
21 December, 2016

Nature Communications paper paves way for shape-shifting nanoscale electronic devices

Bill Graham and CPP lab montages
Professor Bill Graham on "In Our Time"
18 October, 2016

Graduate posing with the Vice-Chancellor Summer 2016
Congratulations to all our graduates!
8 July, 2016

Seagate Bursary Recipient receiving her award
awarded to Physics student Shannon Matthews
25 May, 2016

School's involvement in NI Science Festival a hit
27 April, 2016

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