University of Lancashire
The Jeremiah Horrocks Institute (JHI) is the University of Lancashire's centre for research and teaching in Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy. Named after the pioneering seventeenth-century astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks, the Institute has become an internationally recognised centre for astrophysics, space science, mathematical sciences and physics.
Established as the Centre for Astrophysics in 1993, the Institute was renamed the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute in 2004 and expanded in 2012 to encompass Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy.
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Investigating solar activity, space weather and the interaction between the Sun and Earth.
Research into star formation, stellar evolution, asteroseismology and exoplanets.
Exploring galaxies, quasars, dark matter, cosmology and the large-scale structure of the Universe.
Research in algebra, geometry, applied mathematics, computational mathematics and mathematical modelling.
Theoretical and experimental physics including magnetism, quantum materials, nanophysics and surface science.
High-performance computing, simulations and data-intensive scientific research.
JHI offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes in Mathematics, Physics, Astophysics and Astronomy.
The Institute is internationally known for its Astronomy by Distance Learning programme, which has attracted students from around the world.
Researchers publish more than one hundred peer-reviewed papers each year and contribute to major international scientific collaborations. JHI maintains long-standing links with organisations including NASA and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs.