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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Symmetries, unitarity and positivity of cosmological effective field theories
Cosmology poses unique theoretical challenges at the interface between Quantum Field Theory (QFT) and General Relativity (GR). The time dependence of cosmological spacetimes, upon which quantum fields propagate, spontaneously ... -
Development of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Soft Mechanical Actuators
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCE) are a class of loosely cross-linked rubbers that combine native liquid crystal phases (e.g., orientational order) and conventional elastomeric properties (e.g., rubber elasticity). Due ... -
Research data supporting "Design of a Ni-based Superalloy for Laser Repair Applications using Probabilistic Neural Network Identification"
Design of a novel Ni-based superalloy for additive repair application using neural network optimisation.
