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Oxford tops Times Higher Education world ranking for Computer Science for fifth consecutive year
Computer science
26 October 2022
Oxford joins Schmidt Futures’ $148 million global initiative to accelerate use of AI in scientific research
AI and data science Funding MPLS
26 October 2022
The University of Oxford is one of nine leading research universities around the world selected to deliver a new global postdoctoral fellowship programme to drive the innovative use of artificial intelligence across science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research.
Oxford to benefit from STFC theoretical physics funding
Funding Maths Physics
25 October 2022
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) announced this week that they have awarded more than £20 million for UK theoretical physics. The investment will benefit the Particle Theory group in the Department of Physics as well as the Mathematical Physics group in the Mathematical Institute.
Discovery of new ecosystem - ‘The Trapping Zone’ - creating oasis of life in the Maldives
Biology Research Sustainability & the environment
24 October 2022
The Nekton Maldives Mission, involving Oxford marine biologists, has found evidence of a previously undescribed ecosystem - ‘The Trapping Zone’ - that is creating an oasis of life 500 metres down in the depths of the Indian Ocean. The discovery has been hailed as highly significant by the Maldives Government.
Oxford-led study finds disease outbreaks influence the colour of wolves across North America
Biology Research
24 October 2022
New research led by biologists from the University of Oxford, working with partners at Yellowstone National Park and Penn State in the US, may have finally solved why wolves change colour across the North American continent.
From The Conversation: The danger of advanced artificial intelligence controlling its own feedback
AI and data science Engineering Research The Conversation
24 October 2022
'How would an artificial intelligence (AI) decide what to do?', asks Oxford DPhil candidate in Engineering Science, Michael K Cohen, and his co-author Marcus Hutter from the Australian National University, in this article which highlights the potential risks of relying on the 'reinforcement learning' approach in AI research.
MPLS researchers amongst four from Oxford to be awarded £100,000 Philip Leverhulme prizes
Award Climate Engineering Materials science Research Sustainability & the environment
21 October 2022
Four researchers from across the University of Oxford, including two from the Department of Materials and the Department of Engineering Science, have been awarded Philip Leverhulme prizes – the largest number awarded to researchers of any single UK university.
Oxford to host Electric Vehicle Summit on growth, investment and decarbonisation
Chemistry Energy Engineering Innovation and Enterprise MPLS Materials science Physics
20 October 2022
The 2022 Oxford Electric Vehicle Summit will focus on growth and investment, as it returns to Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. The event is in partnership with Oxford City Council, Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University and aims to deliver on decarbonised transport in the UK, and beyond.
Noise in the brain enables us to make extraordinary leaps of imagination. It could transform the power of computers too
Climate Physics The Conversation
20 October 2022
Professor Tim Palmer, Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Physics, discusses how noise can improve the accuracy of climate models, and how noise in the brain is the key to creativity, in an article first published on the Conversation.
Elephant conservation may be undermined by Twitter users who overlook main threats
Biology The Conversation
18 October 2022
An article first published on the Conversation by Amy Dickman, Professor of Wildlife Conservation in the Department of Biology, and colleagues Niall Hammond from Griffith University and Duan Biggs at Northern Arizona University.
MPLS students take up Google PhD Fellowships in Engineering and Statistics
Award Engineering Funding Research Statistics
14 October 2022
MPLS DPhil candidates Liliane Momeni and Sheheryar Zaidi have taken up prestigious Google PhD Fellowships, each worth $60,000, after been selected from a highly competitive field of applicants last year.
Study reveals new insights into how fast-moving glaciers may contribute to sea-level rise
Climate Earth sciences Research
14 October 2022
A new study from researchers at the University of Oxford and Columbia University, USA, has found existing models of sea-level rise, based on our understanding of how Earth’s ice sheets respond to a warming atmosphere, could be incorrect. The team's findings could have significant implications for future predictions of global sea-level rise.
Oxford to collaborate with Digital University Kerala on nanotechnology, AI, sustainability, digital health, and innovation
AI and data science Innovation and Enterprise Materials science Physical sciences underpinning health Research Sustainability & the environment
13 October 2022
The University of Oxford has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a new collaboration with the Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology in India (known as Digital University Kerala or DUK).
Professor Lars Østergaard becomes the new Sherardian Professor of Botany
Biology
13 October 2022
Professor Østergaard joins the Department of Biology in November 2022 from the John Innes Centre, Norwich where he studied comparative reproductive tissue development using both crops and non-cultivated plant species as model systems.
Goldfish show a keen ability to estimate distances
Biology Research
12 October 2022
New research from the Department of Biology demonstrates that goldfish are a model system to investigate spatial navigation, and could help shed light onto how these systems evolved.
Professor JC Séamus Davis awarded the 2023 Oliver E Buckley Prize by the American Physical Society
Award Physics
11 October 2022
The prize recognises outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics and Professor Davis is awarded the prize for his innovative applications of scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy to complex quantum states of matter.
Oxford Earth Sciences graduate selected to run the world’s most remote post office in Antarctica
Earth sciences
11 October 2022
Clare Ballantyne, who graduated from Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences last summer, is one of four women selected from over 6000 people, to form the team responsible for managing the historic site Port Lockroy, on Goudier Island.
James Webb Space Telescope reveals new surprises on galaxy organic molecules near black holes
Physics Research
11 October 2022
Research led by Oxford University is the first of its kind to study tiny dust molecules in the nuclear region of active galaxies using early observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
University of Oxford partners with Novo Nordisk Foundation to offer new research opportunities for talented international postdoctoral scientists
Funding MPLS
11 October 2022
The fellowship programme provides international research and career development opportunities for early-career researchers in the natural, technical and life sciences.
The science of why hawks are one of nature’s deadliest hunters
Biology Maths Research The Conversation
11 October 2022
In an article first published on the Conversation, Graham Taylor, Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Biology, writes about the sophisticated techniques that Swainson's hawks use to deal with the 'confusion effect' posed by large swarms of their prey, the Mexican Free-Tailed Bat.