The UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences is one of the 11 constituent faculties of

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

(UCL). The Faculty, the

UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences The UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences is one of the 11 constituent faculties of University College London (UCL). The Faculty, the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the UCL Faculty of the Built Envirornment (The Bartlett) ...

and the UCL Faculty of the Built Envirornment (The Bartlett) together form the UCL School of the Built Environment, Engineering and Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

Departments

The Faculty currently comprises the following departments: *UCL Department of Chemistry *UCL Department of Earth Sciences *UCL Department of Mathematics **''Chalkdust'' is an online mathematics interest magazine published by Department of Mathematics students starting in 2015 *UCL Department of Natural Sciences *UCL Department of Physics & Astronomy * UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies * UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics (Mullard Space Science Laboratory) *UCL Department of Statistical Science *

London Centre for Nanotechnology The London Centre for Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary research centre in physical and biomedical nanotechnology in London, United Kingdom. It brings together three institutions that are world leaders in nanotechnology, University Colleg ...

- a joint venture between UCL and

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established in 2003 following the award of a £13.65m higher education grant under the Science Research Infrastructure Fund.

Research centres and institutes

The Faculty is closely involved with the following research centres and institutes: *UCL Centre for Materials Research *UCL Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX) - an

inter-disciplinary Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...

virtual centre that seeks to bring together

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

s, physical scientists, computer scientists and

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

s upon the problems posed by complexity in

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

and

biomedicine Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)

. The centre works with 29 departments and Institutes across UCL. It has a MRes/PhD program that requires that its students also belong to at least one of these Departments/Institutes. The centre is based in the Physics Building on the UCL main campus. *Centre for Planetary Science at UCL/Birkbeck *UCL Clinical Operational Research Unit (CORU) - CORU sits within the Department of Mathematics and is a team of researchers dedicated to applying operational research, data analysis and mathematical modelling to problems in health care. *UCL Institute of Origins *UCL Institute for Healthcare Engineering (IHE) - IHE is dedicated to transforming lives through digital and medical technologies and fosters collaboration across UCL areas of expertise. *UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction *The

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Rankings

In the 2013 '' Academic Ranking of World Universities'', UCL is ranked joint 51st to 75th in the world (and joint 12th in Europe) for Natural Sciences and Mathematics. In the 2013 ''

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'', UCL is ranked 38th in the world (and 12th in Europe) for Natural Sciences. In the 2014 ''QS World University Rankings by Subject'', UCL is ranked joint 51st-100th in the world (and joint 12th in Europe) for Chemistry, joint 27th in the world (and 8th in Europe) for Earth & Marine Sciences, joint 51st-100th in the world (and joint 13th in Europe) for Materials Science, joint 36th in the world (and joint 10th in Europe) for Mathematics, 35th in the world (and 13th in Europe) for Physics & Astronomy, and 47th in the world (and 9th in Europe) for Statistics & Operational Research. In the 2013/14 ''

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'', UCL is ranked 51st in the world (and 16th in Europe) for Physical Sciences.

Notable people

* Michael Abraham *

William Ramsay Sir William Ramsay (; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous element ...

* Steven T. Bramwell * M. J. Seaton * Sigurd Zienau *

Andrew Fisher Andrew Fisher (29 August 186222 October 1928) was an Australian politician who served three terms as prime minister of Australia – from 1908 to 1909, from 1910 to 1913, and from 1914 to 1915. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party ...

Paul Davies Paul Charles William Davies (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor in Arizona State University and Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He is affiliated with the Institute ...

* Edwin Power *

Peter Higgs Peter Ware Higgs (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor in the University of Edinburgh,Griggs, Jessica (Summer 2008The Missing Piece ''Edit'' the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine, p. 17 and Nobel Prize ...

Otto Hahn Otto Hahn (; 8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and father of nuclear fission. Hahn and Lise Meitner ...

Charles K. Kao Sir Charles Kao Kuen Charles K. Kao was elected in 1990
as a memb ...

* Andrea Sella * Raman Prinja * Helen Wilson *

Hannah Fry Hannah Fry (born February 1984) is a British mathematician, author, and radio and television presenter. She is Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. She studies the patterns of human behaviour, ...

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