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April 2026
Queen Mary theoretical physicists awarded £1.4 million for research in Amplitudes, Strings and Duality
Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy
29 April 2026Researchers in the Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences and the Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary have been awarded £1.4 million from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to fund the four-year ... [more]
March 2026
QMUL joins the Einstein Telescope collaboration
Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation
21 March 2026QMUL has joined the Einstein Telescope (ET) collaboration with a new ET Research Unit supported by School of Mathematical Sciences and the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences. ET is a European project, driven by an international collaboration, for an innovative gravitational-wave observatory. It will be part of a third-generation ... [more]
February 2026
Queen Mary to host Amplitudes 2026
Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy
7 February 2026The Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy at the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences is delighted to announce that Queen Mary University of London will host Amplitudes 2026, the international conference on scattering amplitudes, from 29 June to 3 July 2026. Amplitudes is an annual international conference series focused on scattering amplitudes in ... [more]
Claudia Garetto receives Suffrage Science Award for Maths and Computing
Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation
5 February 2026Many congratultons to Claudia Garetto who has been awarded the 2026 Suffrage Science Award for Maths and Computing, a prestigious peer-to-peer award recognising outstanding women in science for both research excellence and their commitment to inspiring others. The Suffrage Science Awards are unique in their format and ethos: each recipient nominates ... [more]
January 2026
Masanori Hanada's work wins an Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan
Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation
24 January 2026Congratulations to Masanori Hanada: his paper "Creating and probing the Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev model with ultracold gases: Towards experimental studies of quantum gravity", published in the Journal "Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics" won an Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan. Only five papers have been selected ... [more]