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According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the department is the 9th best physics department in the world and best in Europe. [4] It is ranked 2nd place in the UK by Grade Point Average according to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in 2021, being only behind the University of Sheffield. [5]
Institute for Astronomy (IfA) – One of the UK's major centres of astronomical research, specialising in survey astronomy, cosmology, active galaxies and the formation of stars and planets. Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (ICMCS) Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics (IPNP)
The School of Physics and Astronomy is internationally recognized for its research in its priority areas, [10] [11] including: Astrophysics: Study of star and galaxy formation, exoplanets, and cosmology. Photonics: Exploration of light–matter interactions, laser physics, and photonics-based devices.
The Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI) is an astronomy and astrophysics research institute in Merseyside, UK. Formed in 1992, it stood on the Twelve Quays site in Birkenhead from 1998 until June 2013 when it relocated to the Liverpool Science Park in Liverpool .
The Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics. Astronomy within the department dates back to 1975. [16] The scope of activity has grown substantially since then and it is now one of the largest astronomy groups in Europe. [17] The Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics building, designed by Studio Daniel Libeskind, opened in November 2016. [18]
The Institute of Astronomy, concentrating on theoretical astrophysics and optical, infrared and X-ray observations. The Cavendish Astrophysics Group, concentrating on radio and submillimetre observations and instrumentation, observational cosmology and all aspects of astronomical interferometry, and operating the Mullard Radio Astronomy ...
The primary aim of the rankings is to inform potential undergraduate applicants about UK universities based on a range of criteria, including entry standards, student satisfaction, staff/student ratio, academic services and facilities expenditure per student, research quality, proportion of Firsts and 2:1s, completion rates and student ...
The Solar Physics Observatory, which started in Cambridge in 1912. The building was partly demolished in 2008 to make way for the Kavli Institute for Cosmology. The Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, which was created by Fred Hoyle in 1967. Its building is the main departmental site (the Hoyle Building), with a lecture theatre added in 1999 ...