Mathematical & Physical Sciences News
10 January 2012: UCL Vice-Provost (Research) responds to minister’s Our Hi-Tech Future speech
Professor David Price, UCL Vice-Provost (Research), comments on the recent speech, Our Hi-Tech Future, by the Minister of State for Universities & Science, the Rt Hon David Willetts: More...
22 December 2011: UCL News review 2011
The past year at UCL has seen a landmark larynx transplant, a lecture from Noam Chomsky, simulated missions to Mars and a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, among many other groundbreaking developments. UCL Communications has created the digital review of the year below: click on the images to discover more. More...
14 December 2011: UCL Research Strategy published
The 2011 UCL Research Strategy calls for a transformation of the understanding of the role of our comprehensive research-intensive university in the 21st century. More...
29 November 2011: Do we need a ‘science of evidence’?
Evidence is key to many topical debates such as global warming, evolution, the search for weapons of mass destruction, DNA profiling, and advances in science and medicine. A new book asks whether, considering the importance of evidence for so many disciplines, a general ‘science of evidence’ is possible – or even desirable. More...
28 October 2011: UCL student experiences life on Mars... in Utah
As part of her MSc in Systems Engineering Management, Angeliki Kapoglou (UCL Space and Climate Physics) spent last spring as a member of an international crew on the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS). More...
26 October 2011: Mars simulation photo wins student competition
10 October 2011: London Science Festival at UCL
5 October 2011: Solar Orbiter and Euclid space missions given go-ahead
23 September 2011: Scientists lay out plans for efficient solar energy harvesting
19 September 2011: UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants available
4 August 2011: UCL wins 10 European Research Council grants
3 August 2011: First observational test of the ‘multiverse’
8 July 2011: UCL at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
27 June 2011: MINOS experiment weighs in on neutrino mystery
21 June 2011: CryoSat-2 satellite redraws Arctic sea-ice map
20 April 2011: Beams of electrons link Saturn with its moon Enceladus
6 April 2011: Watch: When art meets astronomy
2 April 2011: Missing copy of Davy's first book found at UCL
25 March 2011: Professor David Price: The case for research collaboration
2 March 2011: UCL space missions get the go-ahead
23 February 2011: New 'thunder-thighs' dinosaur discovered
