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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Low-dimensional electron transport and surface acoustic waves in GaAs and ZnO heterostructures
(2019-01-26)A surface acoustic wave (SAW) is a combination of a mechanical wave and a potential wave propagating on the surface of a piezoelectric substrate at the speed of sound. Such waves are widely applied in not only the communication ... -
Coastal meltwater plume detection and its response to melting variations around the Greenland Ice Sheet
(University of Cambridge, 2015-10-26)Meltwater runoff is an important component of the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet and is usually assessed using climate-mass balance models. In-situ measurements of runoff from the outlets are rare, and remote ... -
The development and application of IceLake, an accurate and computationally efficient model of supraglacial lake evolution in the ablation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet
(University of Cambridge, 2018-10-24)The supraglacial hydrological system of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) delivers ~60% of total mass loss from the ice sheet to the ocean (van den Broeke et al., 2016), making a thorough understanding crucial for sea level ...
