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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A Multi-Archive Reconstruction of Holocene Summer and Winter Monsoon Variability in NW South Asia
This thesis investigates the paleoclimate of the Indus River Basin and surrounding areas of northwest (NW) South Asia over the last 12,000 years, covering a critical period of human history. The region’s climate is ... -
Discrete and free subgroups of SL₂
In this thesis, we study finitely generated subgroups of the matrix group SL₂ (over various locally compact fields) which are both discrete and free. We first examine the existing literature on two- and three-generated ... -
Motion in a scalar field
Light scalar fields emerge as a generic prediction in physics beyond the Standard Model. For example, they arise as new degrees of freedom in modified gravity, as Kaluza-Klein modes from extra compactified dimensions, and ...
