School of Physics and Earth Sciences

Prof Biplab Sanyal, Head of Materials Theory, Uppsalla University, Sweden, on his visit to the Materials Modeling Group, TU-K, in June 2022
Team from the Institute of Physics (IOP) in the UK visits TU-K to explore weather, climate change and sustainable energy collaborations.
Wildlife conservation lecture and tour at the Tsavo west National Park
Demonstrations in the physics research laboratory
A field session during radio astronomy training hosted by the Department of Physics and Space Science
MOU meeting on MSc in Medical Physics with Kenyatta Hospital
Water sampling at Mzima Springs of the Tsavo National Park
Management of solid waste particularly marine litter at Ecoworld Kilifi County

Dr. Omuombo conducts geological field work at newly discovered site of human origins

Dr. Christine Omuombo from the Department of Geoscience and Environment conducts geological field work at newly discovered site of human origins

Dr. Christine Omuombo based at the School of Physics and Earth Sciences recently participated in a summer field excavation at several prehistoric sites in the Ngobit and Gatarakwa region, west of Mt. Kenya. Since 2021, Dr. Omuombo, a lecturer of Geology at the Department of Geoscience and Environment has been involved

TUK In NASA’s Planetary Defence Test

nnasa What has always been science fiction is eventuallly becoming a reality. NASA has sent out a space mission to hit an asteroid and deflect it away from coming close to the earth. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is a NASA planetary defence-driven mission aimed at testing asteroid deflection through impact.

The mission will target the Didymos binary system composed of the 780 m Didymos asteroid and the much smaller Dimorphos (160 m) moon, orbiting around the primary in 11.9 hours. The probe itself will impact the smaller of the two asteroids heads-on. The impact is expected to alter the orbit of Dimorphos, changing its orbital period by several minutes and proving the efficiency of the kinetic impactor technique.

East African School on Density Functional Theory and Applications using the SIESTA code

11th – 15th October 2021- Technical University of Kenya , School of Physics and Earth Sciences, Nairobi, Kenya - The school aims at introducing ab initio calculations and molecular dynamics simulation to researchers and postgraduate students of different disciplines, using the SIESTA code.

DARA Big Data Workshop, July 12th – 16th 2021 at T-UK

The Technical University of Kenya ( TU Kenya), Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy (DARA Big Data), the Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) and Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA) are hosting an intensive data science event entitled “Big Data Kenya”.

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Dr. Omuombo conducts geological field work at newly discovered site of human origins

TUK In NASA’s Planetary Defence Test

East African School on Density Functional Theory and Applications using the SIESTA code

DARA Big Data Workshop, July 12th – 16th 2021 at T-UK

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