*Photo Credit: Skellig Coast Dark Sky Festival*

The annual festival took place from 27th to 30th March 2025 along the Skellig Coast, Valentia Island, Co. Kerry.

Submissions for oral and poster presentations are now open for this year's Photonics Ireland Conference 2025 which will be held in Cork. 

Another 'Astronomy on Tap' event is happening this Tuesday, 25th March 2025 @ 7pm in the Franciscan Well. 

"Empowered Voices: Women in Politics, Stem, and Advocacy"

This Saturday March 8th for International Women’s Day @ 1pm CET/ 12pm GMT organised by the Gender Equality Working Group of the EST, you can join current Physics masters student Lee Whitaker along with other panellists who will explore both progress and existing issues affecting women in our society today.

The annual Ireland Spring Conference event organised by Institute of Physics (IOP) will be held in Galway on 28th February and 1st March 2025. 

The European Astronomical Society Annual General Meeting is set to take place from 23-27 June 2025 in University College Cork. 

UCC Physics are delighted to host the Tyndall lecture for schools again this year. This years speaker is Dr Clara Nellist. Please find out more about Clara here: Dr Clara Nellist – Particle Physicist and Science Communicator. 

This 'Astronomy on Tap' event happening next Tuesday, 21st January 2025 will contain public talks about astronomy from Cork professional astrophysicists. 

A multidisciplinary group of academics and industry experts from around Europe are to meet in UCC this week and there are still a couple of places available for UCC researchers to attend the upcoming two-day symposium on ‘ Innovative measurement techniques for trace gases and radicals ’. 

The School of Physics would like to congratulate Luke O'Sullivan, 2nd year Physics student on winning the John A. Delaney Memorial Prize of 2024. 

Calling Physics staff, students, alumni, and friends of UCC Physics to a Celebration of 175 years of Physics at University College Cork on Friday, 29 November 2024 from 1pm.  

The Pint of Science Festival 2024 took place from 13-15th May with events held throughout Ireland. 

On Wednesday, 27 March at 5pm, Professor Alix McCollam, School of Physics, UCC will be the next one to take part in the SEFS Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series 2024. 

The annual IOP Spring Conference is back in 2024 and takes place in the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin on Saturday, 6th April 2024. 

The Tyndall Lecture for Schools event is back and will be held in UCC on Thursday 22nd February 2024.

From the 12th February to 16th February 2024, the School of Physics welcomed transition year students from across schools in Munster to join the Physics transition year programme 2024. 

As part of the Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series 2024 by the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science, join Professor Bertram Bitsch from School of Physics on 15th February @ 5pm.  

The UCC Astrophysics Journal Club is back next Monday, 15th January 2024.

Éamon Keating (second year Physics student) won the Inaugural Classical Mechanics Video of the Year Award for his video on the Coriolis Force.

Following the launch of UCC Futures, the following posts are being advertised: 

• Lecturer (3 permanent full-time posts) in Quantum and Photonics: Theory, Materials, Technology and their synergy
• Senior Lecturer (2 permanent full-time posts) in Quantum and Photonics: Theory, Materials, Technology and their synergy

*Photo credit: https://www.spaceweek.ie/ 

Space Week 2023 kicks off today, 4th October 2023 and runs right through to the 10th October. 

The School of Physics would like to congratulate the Undergraduate students who won the John A. Delaney Memorial prize in 2021, 2022 & 2023. 

Ireland’s native star names and night sky folklore explored in public lecture

Zodiac signs may be the modern go-to for astrological reference, but centuries ago Ireland had its own native understanding of the heavens – a tradition that will be explored in a fascinating public lecture at University College Cork.

Massive Black Holes in the First Billion Years / 29 April - 3 May 2024 / The Trident Hotel, Kinsale, Co. Cork Ireland

INAM 2023 will be hosted by School of Physics, UCC on August 24th & 25th. 

International Summer School on Extreme Nonlinear Optics in Solids
- Dedicated to the memory of Stephan W. Koch –

Date: 13th - 19th August 2023, University College Cork 

The International Summer School will will honor the remarkable legacy of the late Stephan W Koch whose contribution to semiconductor optics and many-body physics has been immense.   

We are pleased to announce a Town Hall information event for UCC Futures - Quantum & Photonics. The purpose of the meeting is to communicate the concept of the Quantum & Photonics theme, and together look for ways to connect to research and education across the whole University. 

On 22/03/2023, an event was held in UCC to celebrate the work of Professor Séamus Davis (Quantum Physics) who is the first irish winner of the prestigious Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize.

Back online this year the Institute of Physics 'Tyndall Lecture for Schools' event 2022 is taking place on Wednesday 23rd March via Teams @ 2.30pm.

Held in UCC this summer! Find out full details here. 

IOP Ireland is excited to announce that the 2022 Spring Meeting will go ahead on Saturday March 12^th in Cork.

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.  

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

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: 

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!

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! ️

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!

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!

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.