Lancaster Physics

Set your alarms because our very own Professor Jim Wild is due to feature on 'The Sky at Night' this evening at 10pm! 🌑📺

As President of the Royal Astronomical Society, Jim has privileged access to the society’s archives. Join him and Professor Chris Lintott as they learn about the Carrington Event of 1859, when a massive solar storm caused aurorae as far south as the Caribbean.

Discover this and more tonight at 10pm on BBC FOUR, or catch it on BBC iPLAYER.

Congratulations to the Fermilab Muon g-2 collaboration, who were awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2026! ⚛️

Fancy a break from lectures and exam prep? 👨‍🏫
Need a rest from proposal writing or experiments? 🔭

Take some time to de-stress and focus on your well-being with craft activities. Try your hand at origami, colouring or learn how to crochet.
You could even bring your own favourite craft and show others!

We look forward to seeing you there!😊

The Ashton Memorial was transformed into a buzzing hub of discovery for our latest Science Community Day. With a fantastic turnout and high energy from start to finish, this event bridged the gap between complex physics and everyday sustainable technology.

Over 420 visitors explored activities on the ground floor, and over 230 visited our planetarium experience.
Many of these activities focused on the the life cycle of renewable energy, helping children to understand the influence of science on a greener future 🌱.

Thank you to all our staff and students who volunteered on the day to bring the wonders of science to the Lancaster community!

Our very own Gizem Acar Tekin was recently awarded one of five “Ones to Watch” awards as a part of the “Most Inspiring Women in Cyber” awards ceremony, hosted in London 🏆

The awards – which are run jointly by companies IT Security Guru and Eskenzi PR – have been running since 2020, and were instigated to celebrate the contributions of women across the cybersecurity sector, both those with long established careers and those newer to the field. The “One to Watch” category recognises rising leaders whose work is expected to have significant impact on the future of cybersecurity.
Gizem was nominated for the award due to her innovative work on semiconductor device technology for quantum-secure communications, which has directly led to the incorporation of the Lancaster spinout Photarix, with Gizem as CEO.

A massive congratulations on behalf of Lancaster University Physics Department!

Follow this link for the full article: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/physics/about-us/news/lancaster-physicist-wins-most-inspiring-women-in-cyber-award

Happy International Women’s Day! 💖⚛️✨

To celebrate, we have compiled advice from some of our female Lancaster Physics staff for people wanting to go into a Physics related career!

Huge congratulations to Professor Edward Laird and our departmental contributors. Their international team has been awarded major funding of £1.5 million to develop quantum computers in collaboration with Japan! 🎉🎉

The funding has been provided to help them develop quantum-dot technologies, and is jointly led by Dr Masaya Kataoka of the National Physical Laboratory in the UK and Professor Tetsuo Kodera of the Institute of Science in Tokyo.

The full story can be found here: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sci-tech/about-us/news/lancaster-involved-in-uk-japan-partnership-to-advance-quantum-tech

We are absolutely thrilled that some of our fantastic undergraduate students are giving some public lectures as a part of their Teaching, Outreach and Public Engagement (TOPE) module at the 's Secret Cinema!🎉

Come and show them support by registering for their sessions - we're running two evenings (13th March and 18th March, 7pm-9pm), and it would be wonderful to see people there.

You can book your spot by following the link below👇
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/GBEU

Join us at our annual Science Community Day in Williamson Park 🚀🍃

Enjoy a day full of hands-on-science-based fun for the whole family. Activities include LEGO solar cars, dark matter detection, and our interactive planetarium.

Book your place here! https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/104806

Happy Valentine’s Day! 💕

During the final 22 orbits of NASA’s ‘Cassini” mission, the spacecraft flew over Saturn’s near-permanent aurora, tracing a romantic, and definitely very intentional, heart-shaped path.

There are potentially more budget-friendly ways to tell someone you love them though! 💖

Photo credit: Sam Farr