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University College London
Vrijeme pridruživanja: veljača 2013.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. UCL has 7 fully-funded Doctoral studentships available for 2020/21 entry. Each studentship provides 4 years fees, 4 years stipend, and a research training support grant for research within the EPSRC remit. Deadline - 5pm, March 18. For more details visit

  2. A series of earthquakes have hit Turkey, Peru and Papua New Guinea, with Turkey suffering five in a week. Bill McGuire, Emeritus Professor at is in the discussing the 'Ring of Fire' in the basin of the Pacific - full story at

  3. Professor Giorgio Savini () Director of the UCL Observatory comments on the 'dark satellites' proposed by to limit project impact on astronomical research

  4. The new show looks at the disasters caused by a huge solar flare - but could this happen in real life? and of appear in this article, looking at the possibilities of such an event. Read now at

  5. Prof Chris Rapley of appeared in the discussing temperature records for 2019, which show it as the second hottest year on record - which he describes as 'one of humanities greatest follies'. Read the full story at

  6. Were the dinosaurs killed by an asteroid, or by volcanic eruptions? A new paper co-authored by of shows that volcanoes did not have an effect on the dinosaur's extinction as had been suggested. Read the full story in the -

  7. Physics staff and students - are you familiar with the welfare and wellbeing support available to you? Come along to the Haldane room from 2pm, this Friday 24 January, to hear from , eat cake, and meet the Therapy dogs! Register at

  8. The Doctoral School have opened their 'Research Images as Art / Art Images as Research' competition - a chance to display research images with an aesthetic appeal. Deadline for entries is Sunday 8th March 2020 - for more information visit

  9. The have announced their award winners for their bicentenary year in 2020. All three of their 'Named Lectures' will be given by UCL MAPS academics - , and Prof. Sarah Matthews. For the full story, visit

  10. The first 2020 episode of Hypot-enthuse, the MAPS Faculty podcast, is now available, with host Laura Hewison talking to about his work looking at the ethics around AI and self-driving cars. Visit for the full episode.

  11. Today's Lunch Hour Lecture features Francisco Diego with his talk "Think Universe! Science and the accidental story of Humanity in Paradise". You can register to attend via or watch the recording in a few weeks via Youtube

  12. Recently, publishing released a memoir of the late Robin Clark, former Head of Chemistry and Dean of Science at UCL, where his career spanned 60 years. This memoir is also available to access online via

  13. Are you thinking about in a career in research within academia? If so, come along to our panel event with a variety of science researchers/research support staff on Monday 13 January. Full details and registration -

  14. By analysing ancient fossil coral skeletons from the Drake Passage, a team involving Dr David Wilson has found that wind conditions influence ocean circulation and carbon dioxide release into the atmosphere around Antarctica

  15. We celebrate the final day of with the detection of water vapour in the atmosphere of a super-Earth with habitable temperatures - K2-18b. This story gained worldwide coverage in September. To read the full story, visit See you in 2020!

  16. The penultimate day of brings a collage of images from the re-opening of the 4th floor - the event included a speech from the Provost, a display of maths-related artworks, and a ribbon cutting ceremony. Come back tomorrow for the final day!

  17. Day 22 of brings us another clip of the UCL Lunch Hour Lectures – this time, Dr Jack Stilgoe asks ‘If self-driving cars are the answer, what’s the question?’ You can watch the whole lecture on the UCL Minds Youtube channel

  18. UCL is full of hard-working academics – even the Dean of the MAPS faculty is still publishing papers, and is co-author of a paper in this edition of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. You can read the article (on the UCL network) at

  19. As we close for the holidays, we bring you day 20 of , and the UCL Statistics Incubator on ‘Growth and division in mathematics and medicine’ - a collaborative workshop held in November. To read about the event visit photo credit

  20. Day 19 of brings us the work of UCL Sci Con - a student run Natural Sciences society that hold a number of events throughout the year. For more information on their work, visit .

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