Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics Facilities
21st Century Resources
High-specification facilities support teaching, learning and research both on and off campus.
- New undergraduate physics laboratory with dark room facilities and space for project work.
- Our Bayfordbury observatory has 8 fully automated optical telescopes, a 5-metre radio telescope and a 3-dish radio interferometer, all dedicated to undergraduate teaching.
- Bayfordbury also hosts our atmospheric physics station comprising a LIDAR system, Solar polarimeters, a Solar photometer and a colour all-sky camera.
- The School hosts the Science Learning Centre East of England at this site. Equipped with laboratories, a TV studio, lecture theatre and a planetarium, the centre is regularly used by students, as well as for educational visits and to run courses for teachers and technicians.
On the College Lane campus world-class facilities help students to progress their learning and present coursework professionally. These include the University’s technology-rich, 24/7 Learning Resources Centres and groundbreaking e-learning environment studynet, plus private study areas and 10 well-equipped computer suites.
- The Schools of Physics, Astronomy Mathematics, and Engineering and Technology, jointly operate a Scanning Electron Microscope which is available for consultancy work for other University of Hertfordshire Schools.
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