Tim Molteno presented the prestigious Steve Rawlings Lecture, on “The Transient Array Radio Telescope, at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory postgraduate conference 2024.Tim is known for his innovative […]

Congratulations to Blair Blakie and Hannah Kasenich for their divisional awards 2024! Outstanding Researcher Professor Blair Blakie, Department of Physics Professor Blair Blakie is a globally recognised leader in theoretical […]

Congratulations to Otago Physics awardees of the 2024 Marsden round: Professor Niels Kjaergaard and Dr Matthew Chilcott, Physics, $941,000, Modifying the transmission of light through quantum-controlled light scattering Associate Professor […]

Petra Fisher, Physics BSc (Hons) student at Otago, is one of four Woolf Fisher Trust scholarship awardees for New Zealand in 2025. The prestigious scholarship will fund Petra’s doctoral research […]

Sir Michael Berry, distinguished British physicist, renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to the field of quantum mechanics and wave phenomena has visited New Zealand as a James and Jean Davis […]

An extremely large “G5” geomagnetic storm occurred on Saturday 11 May 2024, leading to widespread aurora seen all over the country and all over the globe. Extreme space weather can […]

Associate Professor Allison Jaynes University of Iowa All planetary and smaller bodies in our solar system are embedded in a sea of plasma, like boulders in a terrestrial ocean. Their […]

Dr Maxime Grandin Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space (FORESAIL) Department of Physics University of Helsinki Finland A fascinating natural phenomenon, auroral […]

Despite public perception, the Antarctic ozone hole has been remarkably massive and long-lived over the past years, and University of Otago researchers believe there are factors beyond CFCs that are […]