New Students Joining in 2021
For all those students joining us this autumn, we are pleased to welcome you to the Department of Physics.
Please visit our welcome page for further information.
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Professorial Promotions
Congratulations to the following Physics staff on their promotion to Professor:
- Emma MacPherson
- Martin Lees
The promotions are in effect from 1 August 2021.
In the Press
Space junk traffic dangers to be tackled by first-of-its-kind research centre in UK
New ways of tackling the threat that space junk in our skies poses are being explored by University of Warwick scientists, as they pioneer new research that could help the UK fulfil its ambition to be…
Century-old mystery of how planets reflect light solved
New research involving an honorary professor in the University of Warwick Department of Physics describes a new way of calculating phase curves, the ‘shape’ the sunlight that is reflected towards us f…
Research Updates
Surprises in the statistics of electronic states of quasi-periodic systems
Quasi-crystals are often alloys of 2-3 metals with a non-periodic arrangement of atoms. Still, they show the highly-peaked diffraction pattern of crystals while also possessing exotic electronic properties such as self-similar electronic spectra and multifractal wave functions usually associated with disordered materials. The level-spacing statistics of energy levels, P(s), with s the difference of adjacent energy levels, is known to be a marker that can distinguish ordered/periodic/metallic from disordered/non-periodic/insulating materials wit…
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