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Big Data – getting to the heart of the Information Revolution

2 June 2015

Big data has captured the world’s attention, with talk of a new Industrial Revolution based on information, and of data being one of the 21st century’s most valuable commodities. Today, we commence a month-long focus on research that uses, produces and interrogates huge datasets. - See more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/...

Cause of galactic death: strangulation

14 May 2015

Galaxies are broadly divided into star forming (gas rich) and quiescent (gas poor). The mechanism responsible for shutting down star formation in galaxies and transforming them into quiescent and passive galaxies has been unclear so far. Dr. Yingjie Peng and Prof. Roberto Maiolino have led a study published in Nature in...

Professor Sir Sam Edwards CBE FRS

13 May 2015

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, Cavendish Professor Emeritus of Physics and a Fellow of Gonville & Caius College. He died on 7 May 2015 , aged 87. An undergraduate of Gonville and Caius College, Sam carried out his PhD under Julian Schwinger at Harvard University on the...

Cavendish PhD Student, Hannah Evans, rowed in historic Newton Women's Boat Race 2015

13 April 2015

A Cavendish PhD student, Hannah Evans in the High Energy Physics Group, was a member of the Cambridge crew who rowed in this year's first ever women’s boat race ( link to article in the Cambridge News ) on the Thames course at the weekend.

Cavendish Laboratory researchers detect hints of an Earth-size planet in the Alpha Centauri star system

30 March 2015

Brice-Oliver Demory (Cavendish Laboratory) leads a team that believe they may have found two Earth-like planets in the Alpha Centauri star system, 4.3 light years away from our own. http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07528

ERC Consolidator grants awarded to Dr Ferguson and Dr Keyser

19 March 2015

ERC Consolidator grants awarded to Dr Ferguson and Dr Keyser The European Research Council (ERC) have announced the award of prestigious 5 year Consolidator Grants to Dr Andrew Ferguson in ME and Dr Ulrich Keyser in BSS. Dr Ferguson’s project, “Quantum magnonics in insulators”, will build on recent progress in spintronics...

Professor Mark Thomson elected as co-spokesperson of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE)

18 March 2015

Professor Mark Thomson has been elected as co-spokesperson of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF). DUNE/LBNF will be the largest particle physics project ever undertaken in the US. It involves firing an intense neutrino beam from Fermilab, near Chicago, to the DUNE...

Firing up the proton smasher

19 February 2015

The Large Hadron Collider is being brought back to life, ready for Run II of the “world’s greatest physics experiment”. Cambridge physicists are among the army who keep it alive - See more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/firing-up-the-proton-smasher#stha...

Planck reveals first stars were born late

6 February 2015

New maps from the Planck satellite have uncovered the ‘polarised’ light from the early Universe across the entire sky, and reveal that the first stars formed much later than previously thought. The imaging is based on data from the Planck satellite, and was developed by the Planck collaboration, which includes the...

Galactic ‘hailstorm’ in the early Universe

20 January 2015

A group of scientists led by Claudia Cicone (PhD student at Cavendish) and Prof. Roberto Maiolino (Cavendish), have discovered an extremely powerful outflow of gas in a very distant galaxy, at redshift 6.42, close to the epoch of formation of the first galaxies, when the age of the universe was “only” 860 million years (i...

Big Data – getting to the heart of the Information Revolution

Cause of galactic death: strangulation

Professor Sir Sam Edwards CBE FRS

Cavendish PhD Student, Hannah Evans, rowed in historic Newton Women's Boat Race 2015

Cavendish Laboratory researchers detect hints of an Earth-size planet in the Alpha Centauri star system

ERC Consolidator grants awarded to Dr Ferguson and Dr Keyser

Professor Mark Thomson elected as co-spokesperson of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE)

Firing up the proton smasher

Planck reveals first stars were born late

Galactic ‘hailstorm’ in the early Universe

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