Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics 2021

25 Mar 2021, 16:00 → 27 Mar 2021, 15:00 Europe/London

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The School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southampton is delighted to be hosting the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics UK (CUWiP UK) 2021 on March 25-27, 2021.

The CUWiP UK is aimed at undergraduates in physics and astronomy in the UK who identify as women, and is intended to empower and inspire delegates, giving them the confidence to express themselves and to pursue careers using their physics knowledge and skills. For full details on the background of the CUWiP in the UK, please see the Institute of Physics.

Speakers

Prof. Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell (Visiting Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford)

Prof. Michele Dougherty (Professor of Space Physics and Head of Department of Physics, Imperial College London)

Prof. Penny Endersby (Chief Executive of the Met Office, Visiting Professor at the Univ. of Southampton)

Prof. Rohini Godbole (Professor at the Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Dr. Izzy Jayasinghe (Senior Lecturer and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, and leader of the Applied Biophotonics Group, Univ. of Sheffield)

Prof. Carole Mundell (Professor of Extragalatic Astronomy, Univ. of Bath, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

Workshops

We are planning multiple workshops, including a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon organised by Dr. Jessica Wade, (Research Fellow, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College)

Contact email: cuwip2021@soton.ac.uk