School of the Physical Sciences
About this community
The School of the Physical Sciences is one of six Schools making up the academic work of the University. It covers Astronomy, Chemistry, Earth Science, Geography, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Mathematics and Physics. The School’s aim is to contribute to our understanding of the physical world through excellence in observational, theoretical and experimental science and to extend quantitative, qualitative and combined methodologies to address problems in the fields of biology, technology, medicine, social science and the humanities. In pursuit of these goals, the School coordinates objectives in research, teaching, and infrastructure.
Find out more about the School of the Physical Sciences at http://www.physsci.cam.ac.uk/.
Sub-communities within this community
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Cambridge eScience Centre (CeSC)
Part of the Centre for Scientific Computing; aims to coordinate and maintain CamGrid, to enable new scientific advances by using novel computing paradigms, and to develop new generic Grid-based tools -
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)
Carries out research of world-class excellence in a broad range of subjects across applied mathematics and theoretical physics -
Department of Earth Sciences
Research across the whole spectrum of the Earth Sciences, including the areas of Geophysics, Geochemistry, Mineral Sciences, Petrology, Palaeontology, Vulcanism, Marine Sciences, and Palaeoceanography -
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
Includes research in the field of biomedical materials, in parallel with historically strong activities in the development of structural materials and processes, and of device materials
Recent Submissions
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The Natural Environment and local perceptions of poverty, well-being and justice in a Mexican fishing community. Gaps and bridges between local perceptions and national metrics
(2019-10-03)Although the ‘right to enjoy a healthy environment’ is granted by the Mexican Law of Social Development, the environmental dimension is missing in the current national measures of multidimensional poverty. This doctoral ... -
Discovery and Characterisation of Gravitationally Lensed Quasars in Wide-field Surveys
(2019-10-25)The coincident alignment of two galaxies on the sky can create the rare cosmic phenomenon of strong gravitational lensing, in which light from the more distant galaxy is bent around the foreground galaxy to create multiple, ...
