General information
- Seminars take place on Wednesdays (14:00-15:10) and Fridays (13:50 - 15:00) in Glyndwr Lecture Room B
- Seminars are preceded by an informal 10 minute "pre-seminar" background/introduction for the benefit of PhD students and non-experts
(13:50 - 14:00 on Fridays and 14:00 - 14:10 on Wednesdays)
- No seminars are held on days marked as ‘UCAS Day’
or ‘Faculty meeting’.
Information for speakers
Finding the Department:
The Physics
Department is located on floors 4−6 of
Vivian Tower (building
11.2 on the campus map) on Singleton Campus. The Physics Reception is on the 6th floor, Room 610.
We will send you some information by e-mail shortly before you
arrive with contact numbers, any additional information about
accommodation (if necessary), etc.
Additional maps and information
may be
found here.
Travelling to Swansea
Air
Swansea’s nearest airport is
Cardiff. A short bus
service connects the terminal to Rhoose Cardiff International Airport
railway station, from which trains to Bridgend and Cardiff Central
(with connections to Swansea) depart on an hourly basis (see
here
for more information).
Bristol Airport is
further away; this airport is a short coach journey away from Bristol Temple
Meads railway station.
London
Heathrow is the most connected
airport. The Heathrow
Express can take you to London Paddington, and then on to Swansea
by national rail (see below). Alternatively,
the National Express
operates a coach service that runs directly to Swansea. The journey
takes around 4 hours, with departures every 2 hours.
Rail
Swansea is connected by an hourly
service to London Paddington, with the shortest train journey taking
around 3 hours overall. Swansea railway station is a 5−10
minute taxi ride away from Singleton Campus. Train schedules are
available from
National Rail
Enquiries.
Road
We recommend visitors arriving by car who are unfamiliar with Swansea study
the
map.
Swansea is just off westmost stretch of
the M4 motorway. Going west-bound, exit at junction 42a and follow the
A483 (Fabian Way). Follow the signs for Swansea city centre (and the
university) on to the A4067 (Quay Parade, then Victoria Road, then
Oystermouth Road), past the Swansea Museum. Continue for another 2
miles along the seafront. The Singleton Campus main entrance is on the
right, at a traffic-light controlled junction just before a green
foot-bridge.
Post-code for sat-nav: SA2 8PP.
If you have a reserved parking space, take the right-hand lane
before the entrance barrier. Turn right past the security building,
and visitor parking is the first on the right after the zebra
crossing. Note that this is a Pay-and-Display car park. Off-campus parking is available at the recreation ground located a
few hundred metres east of the campus, at a cost of £2 per
day. It is not directly accessible going west-bound, so turn right at
the nearby traffic lights into Brynmill Lane and turn around at the
mini-roundabout.