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Professor H R J Walters PhD CPhys MRIA FInstP
10 September, 2020
New Head of School for the School of Mathematics and Physics
25 August, 2020
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.
Happy Asteroid Day
30 June, 2020
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.
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.
School Astrophysicists Locked down but Looking up
13 May, 2020
Celebrating the 800th episode of the BBC’s, The Sky at Night
Queen’s academic elected Fellow of the Royal Society 2020
30 April, 2020
PARENTS’ EVENING WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH 2020, 6.00 – 9.30PM
11 March, 2020
‘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 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.
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.
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.
School Winter Graduation Reception
13 December, 2019
Maths Competition 2019
11 December, 2019
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
29 November, 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
8 November, 2019
Queen’s University Belfast academic, Professor Robert Bowman, has been appointed as a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council (SSAC).
Dr Dermot Green awarded 2019 Institute of Physics David Bates Prize
17 October, 2019
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.
REWARDING POSTDOCTORAL EXCELLENCE!
BIG CONGRATULATIONS to our Prize-winning Post Docs who outshone all the rest at the National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW) Awards
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
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Career Opportunities
1 April, 2019
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S RESEARCH PRIZE FOR CTAMOP ACADEMIC DERMOT GREEN
18 December, 2018
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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).
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.
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.
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.
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
‘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.
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
School Research Fellow reveals secret of blue binaries
Kuiper Belt breakthrough | 7 April, 2017
Kuiper Belt breakthrough published in Nature Astronomy
CTAMOP Researchers secure funding success
30 January, 2017
Grants to bring in over £1.7 million over next five years
2017 winner of the RAS Winton Capital award
23 January, 2017
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Cosimo Inserra wins prestigious prize
Hamilton Prize 2016
7 November, 2016
Queen’s CNM team in nanocircuitry breakthrough
21 December, 2016
Nature Communications paper paves way for shape-shifting nanoscale electronic devices
Professor Bill Graham on "In Our Time"
18 October, 2016
Congratulations to all our graduates!
8 July, 2016
awarded to Physics student Shannon Matthews
25 May, 2016
School's involvement in NI Science Festival a hit
27 April, 2016