Congratulations to Industrial Physics gradute Jarni Braal on the acheivement of this Irish Research Council award. 

The College of SEFS annual awards celebrate the achievements and success of our students and student-nominated outstanding SEFS staff members. The ceremony took place online this year, on Friday 14^th May via Teams.

The Department of Physics would like to say a huge congratulations to Physics students Chris Whitty and Niall Kennedy on their awards as follows: 

Monday, 19 April: Chris Whitty (PhD student in the research group of A. Ruschhaupt) has received the award for the publication of the year 2020 by the Department of Physics.

The Quercus Talented Students’ Programme is aimed at supporting and promoting excellence in academia, sport, creative and performing arts, active citizenship and innovation/entrepreneurship for both prospective undergraduate/level 8 students and students already registered in UCC. In addition to the scholarships in these areas also offered are three types of Quercus Academic Scholarship.

The annual Tyndall Lecture is an opportunity for young people in schools on the island of Ireland to connect their classwork to modern areas of physics.

Annual presentation contest hosted by the Physics and Astronomy Society involving our undergraduate students and lecturers.  

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD, has today announced 71 grants valued at €53 million to support frontiers research across 12 Higher Education Institutions through Science Foundation Ireland.

This mighty Oak tree depicts the support services currently available to students at University College Cork and provides links to further information about each service.

Heartfelt congratulations to Professor Séamus Davis on yet another fantastic achievement.

Huge congratulations to our Physics students who won awards this year, especially Louise Shanahan who obtained STEM Award: SEFS Graduate of the year 2019. 

Professor Séamus Davis, who holds a joint position as Professor of Quantum Physics at University College Cork (UCC) and Professor of Physics at Oxford University has been awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship.

On the 4th of March at 6.30pm in G05, Western Gateway Building, UCC, three distinguished women in STEM will visit UCC to speak about their experiences and achievements in the world of physics and science. The event is open to all. The confirmed speakers are: 

The  IOPI spring meeting 2020 at University College Cork has been postponed until further notice. 

Retirement reception for Dr Pádraig Mac Cártaigh was held last night in UCC and went off with a hit with some traditional irish music to celebrate! 

Professor Richard Milner, 2020 Bonner Prize Winner, Former UCC Physics Graduate. 

A big thanks is owed to all the exhibitors and visitors who helped make ESLW such a success! 

Make sure to add 'Above and Beyond' to your Culture Night itinerary!

Last week an international project which has been ongoing for 2 years has seen the UCC Campus recognised as part of a global network - The International Gravity Station Network (IGSN).

A unique exhibition which showcases some of the most significant and surprising astronomical breakthroughs over the last century.

Had a great week helping organising Experimental Physics experiments for CTYI. We definitely saw some future physicists in the bunch!

Had another great day exploring the weird and wonderful parts of Physics as part of the Eureka Camps! ️

Huge congratulations to physics postgrad student Stephen Murphy who received the '2019 College of SEFS Student Nominated Teaching Demonstrator Award'!

UCC Astronomy Graduate, Mark Kennedy, current Newton International Fellow at The University of Manchester, was in Chile recently, by chance during the eclipse!!

A fantastic time was had yesterday with the students from Eureka Camps. We hope we both excited and attracted them to exploring more physics in the future!

A big congratulation to PhD graduates Dr. Daniel Carey, Dr. Ludovic Caro and Dr. Shane Duggan!

Superconductors are quantum materials that are perfect transmitters of electricity and electronic information.

One of the world’s leading scientists will give an inaugural public lecture on the emerging second quantum revolution next week (Thursday, 6 June) at University College Cork (UCC).

Big thanks to Loise Shanahan for running the physics portion of CTYI in UCC this year! We love sharing our fascination with light, electricity and magnetism! 

We had a blast with transition year students, from all over Cork last week, building these gummy bear wave machines. This just goes to show that Physics can be fascinating and delicious!

Congrats to Dr. Pádraig Mac Cárthaigh who gave his final lecture today. Nuclear and Particle Physics won't be the same without you!

Big congrats to our own Killian Long for winning the best publication of the year award!

A fantastic seminar given by Micheal O'Gorman and Áine Davis about Careers in Industrial Physics.

FameLab is the world's leading science communication competition. It is designed to inspire, motivate and develop scientists and engineers to actively engage with the public and last night it achieved exactly that. 

Congratulations to our own Professor Frank Peters for his new appointment as leader of the Rockley Photonics R&D centre in Tyndall National Institute!

Monitoring stations have successfully been installed on UCC North Mall campus after calls from researchers for extra stringent monitoring the severity levels for air pollution within Cork City. The new facility is one of the most advanced and best equipped centres of its kind in the country.

UCC scientist honored at SFSB Conference

A conference was held in honour of UCC Physics lecturer Niall O Murchadha at the end of May last.Alll lectures took place on the West Wing of the Quad.