Our Space Our Future

Posted on 11 January 2022 by Rebecca Williams

Our Space Our Future is a Horizon2020 European funded Project that aims to foster the interest of young students in space-related topics. Who are we? The project consortium consists of 5 countries and 8 partners who all work closely together. Cardiff University is the Coordinator of the project. Wendy Sadler, Senior Lecturer at School of
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Join Our Online Summer Schools!

Posted on 9 July 2020 by Grace Mullally

For the fourth year, Cardiff University School of Physics and Astronomy are running a summer school for AS level students interested in studying Physics at University. This year, the summer school will run from Monday 10th August to Friday 28th August 2020. We are excited to announce that the summer school will take place online
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Kip Thorne’s Romance with the Warped Side of the Universe

Posted on 22 October 2019 by Chris North

On 18th October we welcomed Professor Kip Thorne to Cardiff. He opened our new Gravitational Physics laboratory, and get a public lecture to 450 people, including 100 school students. You can watch Kip’s talk, entitled “My Romance with the Warped Side of the Universe” below.
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Gravitational Waves: Nature’s Biggest Explosions

Posted on 5 September 2017 by Brychan Govier

On 6 September Professor Patrick Sutton from the School of Physics and Astronomy delivers the first in the PSE College Lecture Series. Gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of spacetime — were one of the first major predictions of Einstein’s theory of gravity, and are the last to be directly measured. These waves are
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Ogden Trust School Physicist of the Year Award

Posted on 24 March 2017 by Brychan Govier

Is one of your students the future face of Physics? The Ogden Trust’s School Physicist of the Year Award is open for nominations. If you teach A-level physics at a school or college in Wales, you can nominate your most promising year 12 physics student. Entries are limited to one year 12 student per school, and
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STFC Public Engagement Fellowship: The Dawn of Gravitational Waves

Posted on 21 September 2016 by Chris North

As of August 2016, Dr Chris North has held an STFC Public Engagement Fellowship. The Fellowship, titled “The Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy”, is incredibly timely given the recent results from the LIGO experiment – in which the Gravitational Physics group here in Cardiff were heavily involved. On 14th September 2015 the LIGO experiment made the first ever
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Astronomy at the Hay Festival

Posted on 16 June 2016 by Haley Gomez

Academics from the School were invited to appear at the international renowned Hay Festival this year as part of the Cardiff University series. Professor Sathyaprakash and Dr Patrick Sutton told the audience about the incredible science and personal discoveries behind the detection of gravitational waves in February this year.  This event, chaired by Professor Haley Gomez,
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Inspiring Hong Kong to Reach for the Impossible

Posted on 15 March 2016 by Sarah Roberts

It was once believed that the Sun orbited the Earth and a human walking on the moon was nothing but a daydream. Science and technology have both quenched and further intensified our curiosity about the Universe. We are on an eternal mission to try to explain the “impossible” and explore the boundaries of our knowledge.
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