School of Physics and Astronomy

If you can't attend our open days or evenings in London then our virtual open day on 29 April, is for you.

How did the universe begin -- and how is it expanding? Our visiting academic, Dr Tom Whyntie, shows how cosmologists and particle physicists explore these questions by replicating the heat, energy, and activity of the first few seconds of our universe, from right after the Big Bang.

Queen Mary is organising and hosting the EHPRG51 conference in September this year. This is the annual meeting of the European High Pressure Research Group, which originated in the informal meeting in Harlow in 1963 organised by scientists at Standard Telecommunications Laboratories.

On Wednesday 27 February, ten PhD students from QM competed in the annual Junk the Jargon competition. Junk the Jargon challenges participants to communicate their research topic in an engaging and fun way to a broad audience - in just three minutes.