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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Quantum Chromodynamics and the Precision Phenomenology of Heavy Quarks
(2019-04-27)In this thesis we consider the phenomenology of the theory of strong interactions, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), with particular reference to the ongoing experimental program at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN. The current ... -
Convergence of the mirror to a rational elliptic surface
(2018-11-30)The construction introduced by Gross, Hacking and Keel in [28] allows one to construct a mirror family to (S, D) where S is a smooth rational projective surface and D a certain type of Weil divisor supporting an ample or ... -
Mitigating protein aggregation to reduce the toxicity inherent to Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases
(2018-11-24)Protein deposition in the form of amyloid fibrils is the hallmark of more than 40 human pathologies, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Misfolded protein oligomers formed as intermediates ...
