Our four year undergraduate degrees follow a broad and exciting curriculum, including a comprehensive range of courses and laboratories in physics and astrophysics.

Our research areas are astronomy and astrophysics, physics of the upper atmosphere, fluid dynamics, and atomic and molecular collision physics.

We are an active department with friendly staff in Ireland's university town Maynooth, and provide an informal and welcoming atmosphere to our students.

Watch out for the Institute of Physics in Ireland stand at the Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.

Our Leaving Cert. Science Practicals are again starting in January 2012.

On 2 March 2012 Dr. Frank Weinmann (Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques, Germany) will give a seminar entitled: High-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Simulations and Applications.

We participate in many outreach activities, including Science Week and Open Days. Our Schools Programme provides Leaving Cert. practicals for many schools in Ireland.