Prof AM Strydom and all the Departmental Staff welcome you to the Physics Department Website!!
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(For quick browsing please follow the links on the right.)
Here you will find information on studies in Physics and our topics of research, and you will meet members of staff and students who belong to the Department.
Please contact us directly should you wish to obtain information on the study options offered by the Department, or postgraduate study and research opportunities in Physics.
Physics is the branch of science concerned with properties and behavior of matter, objects, and energies. In Physics we try to understand why objects in nature behave as they do, and then attempt to explain and predict behavior during related or different circumstances.
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The Physics Department at the UJ Open Day 2012
As every year, the University of Johannesburg hosted an Open Day on Friday the 11st and Saturday the 12nd of May 2012
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Physics Awards Ceremony
On Friday the 16th of March 2012, the 1st Physics Awards Ceremony was held in the Department to honor the top achievers in the undergraduate Physics courses.
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Seminars in the Department of Physics
Click here to see the schedule of seminars and public lectures given by our postgraduate students, members of staff or researchers visiting the Physics Department. Everybody is invited to attend. |
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The UJ Physics Department in Nature Materials
The Physics Department is very proud to announce that Prof AM Strydom (Head of Department) and his collaborators from the Institute of Solid State Physics (IFP) of the Vienna University of Technology (leaded by Prof Silke Bühler-Paschen) have recently published a paper in the prestigious journal Nature Materials. The title of the paper is “Destruction of the Kondo effect in the cubic heavy-fermion compound Ce3Pd20Si6”.
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Bursaries and Internships
Click here to read more about bursaries and interships opportunities sponsored by the NRF and the DST. The UJ Postgraduate Centre is also a useful font of information about bursaries opportunities. Visit the website of the UJ Postgraduate Centre. |