Our very own Roy Maartens along with researchers at the University of Cape Town and the ICG at the University of Portsmouth have been receiving quite a bit of press regarding a recently published  Physics Review Letter:  Antilensing: The Bright Side of Voids From the Science website:

Looks like 2013 is already starting out as a great year for the UWC Astro group. Professor Romeel Davé will be joining us as the newest staff member, taking up the SARChI Chair in Multi-wavelength Astronomy. Although the position will be based at UWC, it is also joint with the  SA Ast

With so many post-docs away home over the Christmas period, the few of us that were left got together to celebrate, Cape Town style. On the 22nd December we enjoyed the sunset on one of the Clifton beaches with a wee picnic. The 24th saw us heading round to Elodie and Nico’s for

At UWC we like to party hard! And so what better way to celebrate the onset of Christmas than with a game of …. lawn bowls!! Check it out: (may take a few moments to load)

Well it was that time again – the UWC annual Physics department Christmas day out.  The day began with a hearty farm house breakfast followed by some slightly strange team building exercises.  Lunch was a sumptuous spit braai  - oooooo yehhhh – and then were was time for r