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'The price is right' for undergraduate project

In a tremendous final-year project, two Durham undergraduates apply data-analysis techniques taught as part of their Physics degree to another real world data set - house prices.
Digits and Deviation - Benfords Law

Durham quasar physicist Vicky takes Silver Medal in parliamentary scientific research competition

Durham quasar physicist Vicky takes Silver Medal in parliamentary scientific research competition. Victoria Fawcett, a postgraduate research student at Durham University has won Silver for the excellence of her physics research in a national competition, receiving a £750 prize and a medal.
Photograph of Vicky Fawcett

The annual Gareth Roberts lecture returned on Wednesday 9 March with Dame Sue Ion - watch online

The Honorary President of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear (NSAN) and member of the ONR Independent Advisory Panel, Dame Sue Ion, delivered this year's annual Gareth Roberts Lecture on Wednesday 9 March at 4.30pm.
Gareth Roberts Lecture 2022 (image montage of Sue Ion with power station cooling towers and wind turbines)

New simulations shed light on origins of Saturn’s rings and icy Moons 

A new series of supercomputer simulations has offered an answer to the mystery of the origins of Saturn’s rings - one that involves a massive collision in the recent history of the 4.5 billion year old Solar System.
A simulation of an impact between two icy moons in orbit around Saturn, ejecting debris that could evolve into the planet's iconic and remarkably young rings

The Grubb Parsons Lecture 2025: 'ICECUBE: The Under-the-Ice Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica' - opening a new window on the Universe from the South Pole

19 February 2025 - 19 February 2025
4:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Prof Francis Halzen, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the Principle Investigator of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Grubb Parsons 2025 picture

CfAI Seminar with Jay Stephen (ATC)

26 February 2025 - 26 February 2025
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
WEDNESDAY 26 FEBRUARY - Speaker is Jay Stephen (ATC). This seminar is titled 'ELT sky-subtraction working-group on airglow characterisation and sky-subtraction'.
Mosaic of instrumentation images

The Gareth Roberts Lecture 2025: AI in Science with a perspective from medical ultrasound imaging

5 March 2025 - 5 March 2025
4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies are transforming many areas of basic and applied science, in many cases quite quickly.
Gareth Roberts poster image

CfAI Seminar with Dmitry Morozov (University of Glasgow)

12 March 2025 - 12 March 2025
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH - Speaker is Dmitry Morozov (University of Glasgow). Title is TBC.
Mosaic of instrumentation images