Ucl Faculty Of Mathematical & Physical Sciences

Come to @UCL's Undergraduate Open Days on 28 & 29 June and see where a degree from UCL can take you. Find out more and register here: http://bit.ly/UGOpenDay19-f #UCLOpenDay

Dr Jack Stilgoe (UCL Science & Technology Studies) points out several obstacles to the adoption of robo-taxis and fully autonomous driving. Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, has predicted that both of these technologies will be available next year.

How long does an event or a topic remain in the spotlight? Are big cities more newsworthy than small? Following the 2017 Puebla earthquake, a research team including UCL academics investigated the behaviour of the main media channels in the country, and obtained striking results. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/…/how-does-news-s pread-amongst-popula…

Last week the UCL Observatory welcomed MP for Hendon Dr Matthew Offord for a visit and tour!

Amid reports that some of the Sun’s “anomalies”, or sunspots, are bigger than the Earth itself, Professor Louise Harra (UCL Space & Climate Physics) describes the Sun’s lifecycle, explaining that it has about 5.5 billion years to go.

Congratulations to Angelos Michaelides UCL Chemistry, who yesterday broke the Guinness World Records for “fastest marathon dressed as a scientist (male)”! Read his spotlight and find out how to support his fundraising for WaterAid UK https://www.ucl.ac.uk/…/spotlight-profe ssor-angelos-michael… …

Did you catch new climate change documentary: Climate Change: The Facts on BBC One? Chris Rapely from UCL Earth Sciences served as a science adviser - watch it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00049b1

Have you visited the Research Images as Art / Art Images as Research exhibition in the cloisters? Check out these beautiful contributions from MAPS and make sure to head down to find about more about the images and vote for your favourite!

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the construction of which UCL has had an important role in, opened to the sky for the first time on 1st April 2019, producing high quality images through its wide field corrector lens system.

It's one year ago today that Sir David Attenborough Re-opened the beautiful Kathleen Lonsdale Building, home of UCL Earth Sciences! Certainly a day we will never forget 🌍 Wacth the video of Sir David's amazing talk: https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Player/758 46082

A UCL-YouGov survey shows that “no-deal” is now Leavers’ preferred Brexit outcome. Dr Uta Staiger (UCL European Institute), Professor Christina Pagel (UCL Mathematics) and data scientist Christabel Cooper analyse the implications.

Dr Andrew Pontzen (UCL Physics & Astronomy) explores iron, the most common metal in existence, looking at its ambivalent history and how it is keeping us all alive https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bclbmx

A new ‘biosignature’ to track the remains of ancient life preserved in rocks which change significantly over billions of years has been found by Dr Dominic Papineau (UCL Earth Sciences).

New material to revolutionise electronics & fast-charging battery technology: tiny, individual 2D phosphorene nanoribbons have been made by Dr Chris & Mitch Watts, Dr Tom Miller with colleagues from Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) & University of Bristol

Don't miss the Women@STEMM event, which is embedded in the 2nd Photonic and OptoElectronic Material Conference being held on 11th April 2019 from 11am in Room G06, Roberts Building here at UCL. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-s temm-tickets-59754…

The first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow have been unveiled by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration involving UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory's Dr Ziri Younsi!

What exciting black hole news will be revealed today? Dr Ziri Younsi from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory speaks to BBC Breakfast about the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration and how a virtual Earth-sized telescope was made for imaging black holes #EHTblackhole (from 1h 40mins) https://t.co/cD5Fl3MkCM

Ancient organic matter of biological origin has been tracked in multiple samples of rock spanning over 2,000 million years of Earth’s history, according to UCL researchers. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/…/tracking-record s-oldest-life-forms-…

UCL academics helped to make the BBC documentary “Climate Change - The Facts”. Professor Chris Rapley (UCL Earth Sciences) provided scientific advice & Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography) was interviewed. Watch BBC1 on Thursday 18 April, 9pm #ClimateChangeTheFacts