Tuesday, 15 December 2020
A shared common concern for climate change brought small groups of dedicated researchers together to form the recently renamed He Kaupapa Hononga: Otago’s Climate Change Research Network.
Monday, 16 November 2020
Dr Harald Schwefel and Dr Romain Meyrand from Otago's Physics department and their international collaborators have been awarded 2020 Marsden funding.
Monday, 2 November 2020
The Dodd Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Techologies was recently refunded as a Centre of Research Excellence $36.75M.
Friday, 30 October 2020
Securing a US patent is no easy task, but a pair of University of Otago physicists have done just that with their world-first quantum radio technology.
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Professor Craig Rodger has recently received just over NZ$15 million for a five-year research project to develop space-weather prediction and risk mitigation measures for New Zealand's energy infrastructure.
Thursday, 17 September 2020
Professor Niels Kjærgaard delivers his Inaugural Professorial Lecture (IPL) titled 'Lasers & Gentlemen - an Atomic Viking in New Zealand'
Monday, 14 September 2020
Professor Pat Langhorne was farewelled by postgraduate students and past and present staff colleagues.
Friday, 11 September 2020
Professor Craig Rodger recently lead a successful proposal to MBIE for $15M.
Friday, 14 August 2020
Professor Pat Langhorne officially retired from the University of Otago on 8 August 2020.
Friday, 14 August 2020
Emily will study towards a PhD in Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
Thre 400 level students will give their pro
Wednesday, 5 August 2020
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Thursday, 30 July 2020
Dr Amita Deb's optical antenna research reported in the NZ Hearld.
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Mylre Thayer retires this week, after 45 years with the Department of Physics.
Monday, 24 February 2020
Assoc Prof Sandro Wimberger is from the Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Informatiche, Università di Parma.
Thursday, 20 February 2020
In a first for quantum physics, University of Otago researchers have “held” individual atoms in place and observed previously unseen complex atomic interactions.
Monday, 17 February 2020
Prof Jens Niemeyer is from the Faculty of Physics, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany.
Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Prof Murray Holland is from the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Monday, 10 February 2020
Dr Dmitry Strekalov is a Senior Research Scientist in the Jet Propulsion Lab at Caltech.
Friday, 31 January 2020
Prof Gerd Leuchs is the visiting Julius von Haast Fellow from Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light. Erlangen.