Department of Physics, University of Warwick

Staff & Student News

New Undergraduates for October 2018

Welcome to Warwick Physics! We hope that all our new students are settling in and enjoying activities in Welcome Week.

Please also read our pages for new students which have links to more information about getting started.

Feature News

Hundreds of Brownies become budding physicists at University of Warwick

Staff and research students from the University of Warwick’s physics department welcomed hundreds of Brownies to campus at the weekend (13 and 14 October).

The seven to ten-year-olds, from across Coventry, Warwickshire, and Solihull, spent the weekend learning all about physical sciences. The girls also received a special badge designed by nine-year-old Coventry Brownie, Gracie-May Kelly.

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Events

Mon 22 Oct '18

3pm: Peter Wyper (Durham): MHD simulations of Coronal Hole Bright Points and Jets

Thu 25 Oct '18

1pm: Theory Seminar: John Biggins (Cambridge), Large strain elasticity: geometry, instability and brains

Thu 01 Nov '18

1pm: Theory Seminar: Shigeyuki Komura (Tokyo), A three-sphere microswimmer in a structured fluid

Research Updates

Touching proteins with virtual bare hands: how to visualize protein-drug complexes and their dynamics in virtual reality

The ability to precisely visualize the atomic geometry of the interactions between a drug and its protein target in structural models is critical in predicting the correct modifications in previously identified inhibitors to create more effective next generation drugs. Here we present a freely available software pipeline for visualising protein structures through virtual reality (VR) on regular customer hardware, such as the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift.

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