Love Physics — Love Your Career
March 2, 2018
Guest post by Chris Jones, Senior Careers Adviser (Faculty of Science and Engineering) This Valentine’s Day, the Careers and Employability Service and the School of Physics joined forces with the Institute of Physics and PhysSoc to present an informal showcase of opportunities for students to help them develop their career whilst at university. We all …
Staff and student interviews: Chris Morley
February 21, 2018
Over the past few months we’ve been adding a steady stream of interviews with staff and students on our Youtube channel, UoN Physics. The latest addition is an interview with former undergraduate and current PhD student Chris Morley. Chris will be a familiar face to anyone who comes to one of the interview days that makes …
The Art of Physics — Guest Post by Noah Harwicke
January 4, 2018
The following is a post from Noah Hardwicke that I really, really should have uploaded long before now. (Sorry, Noah). The Christmas and New Year holiday, combined with the traditional (at least for me) start-of-year illness, slowed me down. Noah highlights the key importance of creativity in physics, and describes how mathematics and physics can …
Update: Physics Doesn’t Suck as Much
December 29, 2017
Almost by definition, university education requires students to push themselves (or be gently nudged) out of their comfort zones — that’s where the the real learning happens. As the year draws to an end, we’re delighted to feature a guest post by first-year Physics student and regular UoN Physics social media contributor Hannah Coleman, giving her …
What can I do with my physics degree? Reflections on our first Careers Week
December 18, 2017
As we’ve reached the end of a very busy Autumn term, we reflect back on some of the changes we’ve made this term. One new development was the introduction of a Physics Final Year Careers Week in November — a week of career-focused activities to help Physics students learn more about their career opportunities, increase …
100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion
December 4, 2017
In my latest Sixty Symbols video with Brady Haran, I discuss a big bang. Despite the fact I’m an astronomer, I’m not talking about THE Big Bang, but rather the largest explosion made by human beings before the development of the atomic bomb. It was an accident, it happened 100 years ago this week, and …
Decisions, decisions…
November 2, 2017
We’re now well into the UCAS application “season”. Our regular Wednesday visit days will start later this month and, over the course of ten weeks or so, we’ll be welcoming hundreds of students (and their accompanying parents/visitors) to the School of Physics and Astronomy to spend an afternoon with us. A key part of the …
A summer Down Under chasing gravitational waves
November 1, 2017
Guest post from former Nottingham undergraduate (MSci Physics 2017) and now first-year PhD student Lizzie Elmer, who went to Australia for a summer research experience and ended up playing an important role in one of the most exciting recent discoveries in physics! Finding an internship At the beginning of 2016, I was trying to decide …
Nottingham physics YouTube videos: October 2017
October 30, 2017
Nottingham physicists have been busy in October! Here are some of the Youtube videos we’ve appeared in, in collaboration with filmmaker Brady Haran and his YouTube channels Sixty Symbols, Numberphile, and Deep Sky Videos. Sixty Symbols Dr. Becky Smethurst discusses quantum entanglement and the Upside Down: Prof Philip Moriarty measures the speed of light …
Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2017
October 6, 2017
We’re pleased to be hosting two events in honour of Ada Lovelace Day: an annual international event celebrating achievements of women in science, technology, engineering, and math. (We’ve spoken previously about Nottingham native Ada Lovelace and her contributions to computer science here). Admission free, all are welcome! Where can a physics degree take you? In …
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