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Success for MPLS staff in Oxford University Student Union teaching awards

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Four MPLS staff, including three in the Department of Computer Science, have won awards in the yearly student-led Teaching Awards run by OUSU. They are:

Best Support Staff: Maureen York (Computer Science)

Outstanding Graduate Supervisor: Laura Herz (Physics)

Most Acclaimed Lecturer: Ian Horrocks (Computer Science)

Outstanding Tutor: Andrew Kerr (Computer Science)

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Michael Wooldridge Wins 2021 Outstanding Educator Award

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Professor Wooldridge has received this award, given by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), for outstanding global leadership in AI education and public awareness.

From The Conversation: Mars InSight: why we’ll be listening to the landing of the Perseverance rover

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Ben Fernando (Departments of Earth Sciences and Physics) writes about using the Insight mission to detect seismic signals during the landing of Perseverance - the first time that anyone has tried using a spacecraft on the surface of another planet to detect another spacecraft arriving.

Science Blog: From rust to riches? Computing goes green...or is that brown?

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Professor Paolo Radaelli from Oxford’s Department of Physics, working with Diamond Light Source, has been leading research into silicon alternatives and his group’s surprising findings are published in Nature on 4th February.

Science Blog: Listening for a space craft to land on Mars

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University physicists believe that, for the first time, they might be able to ‘hear’ a spacecraft land on Mars, when Perseverance arrives at Earth’s ‘near’ neighbour in about a month’s time around 18 February.

Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics: exciting science awaits

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Oxford’s Department of Physics is playing a key role in three of the seven quantum projects supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Jocelyn Bell Burnell receives highest accolade from Royal Astronomical Society

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s highest honour, the Gold Medal 2021. The medal recognises her extraordinary achievements and has been awarded not only for her personal research but also for her contributions to the field of astronomy generally.

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From The Conversation: Mars InSight: why we’ll be listening to the landing of the Perseverance rover

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Ben Fernando (Departments of Earth Sciences and Physics) writes about using the Insight mission to detect seismic signals during the landing of Perseverance - the first time that anyone has tried using a spacecraft on the surface of another planet to detect another spacecraft arriving.

Science Blog: From rust to riches? Computing goes green...or is that brown?

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Professor Paolo Radaelli from Oxford’s Department of Physics, working with Diamond Light Source, has been leading research into silicon alternatives and his group’s surprising findings are published in Nature on 4th February.

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University physicists believe that, for the first time, they might be able to ‘hear’ a spacecraft land on Mars, when Perseverance arrives at Earth’s ‘near’ neighbour in about a month’s time around 18 February.

Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics: exciting science awaits

Funding Physics Research

Oxford’s Department of Physics is playing a key role in three of the seven quantum projects supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Jocelyn Bell Burnell receives highest accolade from Royal Astronomical Society

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s highest honour, the Gold Medal 2021. The medal recognises her extraordinary achievements and has been awarded not only for her personal research but also for her contributions to the field of astronomy generally.