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Some of our students who received awards this year!

Last week, we had our yearly Pizza Party 🍕 for the Theoretical Physics & Mathematics programme! It was a great opportunity for students of all years to chat with and meet other students and members of staff. We also gave out some awards to some of our exceptional students! #MUPhysics

We're all set for tomorrow's @maynoothcao.bsky.social open day. Drop by our stand upstairs in the TSI building where staff and students from @MU-physics will be on hand to answer all your questions about physics at @maynoothuniversity.ie

Very proud of our staff and students representing @mu-physics.bsky.social and volunteering (green t-shirts!) at @eas-meeting.bsky.social #EAS2025 this week

Congratulations to @mu-physics.bsky.social astrophysicists Emma Whelan, Sean Mills, Aparna Unni and Noah Otten who gave talks at the "Accretion Bursts in Protostars: Illuminating the Path of Star Formation" session at @eas-meeting.bsky.social in @ucc.ie

Technicians from @maynoothuniversity.ie and #Mu_physics are attending the All-Ireland Technical Staff Conference at Queens University in Belfast today.

It's the last day of teaching here at #MUPhysics and we're very sad to be saying goodbye to our amazing final year students. We had a great cohort this year and we're wishing them well in their upcoming exams. Here are some highlight from this past year ✨

Join us today in TSI for our Guiding Lights event! A great chance to hear about the career and experiences of our speakers. All are welcome and snacks are free!
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Brian also got to try his hand at a bit of hurling!

We had a great variety of research on display! Here are just some of the projects our students presented.

On Wednesday, Brian paid a visit to the Science Museum here in Maynooth to chat with some of our undergrad, postgrad, and postdoc students about their own research. This was a great opportunity for our students to present their work to a Nobel Prize-winner!

On Tuesday, Brian delivered the 2025 FSE Dean's Lecture, titled "The Universe from Beginning to End", walking the audience through the journey that brought us to our current understanding of the Cosmos and discussing some of the mysteries that still remain 🌌

This week we received a visit from Prof Brian Schmidt, one of the three recipients of the shared 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, for his work on discovering the expansion of the universe through observations of distance supernovae. Here are some highlights from Brian’s visit to Maynooth!

A fantastic turnout this evening for the 2025 FSE Dean's Lecture where Prof Brian Schmidt, Nobel Laureate, is describing the universe from beginning to end. @maynoothuniversity.ie

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