University of Cape Town

Institute University of Cape Town Rondebosch, 7701 Cape Town, South Africa +27 21 650 3326 +27 21 650 3342 andrew.hamilton@uct.ac.za

Research and Teaching The University of Cape Town (UCT), located in Cape Town, is South Africa's oldest university. Founded in 1829, the unversity now has approximately 25,000 students enrolled in its six faculties; Commerce, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, Law, and Science. The UCT Department of Physics has 17 academic staff with research groups in experimental and theoretical particle physics, nuclear physics, applied physics, nanosciences, and physics education. The experimental partical physics group participates in the ATLAS and ALICE experiments at CERN as part of the SA-CERN consortium. The teaching program in the Department of Phyiscs includes a three year Bachelors degree, a four year Honours Bachelors degree, Masters, and Doctoral degree programs. The department graduates approximately 15-20 Bachelors degrees per year and has approximately 40 post-graduate students.

Outreach The outreach program in the UCT Department of Physics includes running the International Masterclass and "Phenomenal Physics" days for high school learners, as well as participating in the Science Faculty "Science Day", and the UCT "Open Day".

Links and Downloads University of Cape Town Department of Physics experimental partical physics group SA-CERN