The sight of an asteroid being ripped apart by a dead star and forming a glowing debris ring has been captured in an image for the first time.

Led by Christopher Manser of the University of Warwick’s Astrophysics Group, the researchers investigated the remnants of planetary systems around white dwarf stars...

Congratulations to two postdocs in the Warwick ATLAS group, Dr Tim Martin and Dr Elisabetta Pianori, who have been awarded ATLAS Outstanding achievement awards. The awards were made for "enthusiastic and vigorous dedication to the implementation and commissioning of the complex ATLAS Run-2 trigger menu". More information on the ATLAS group at Warwick can be found here:
 
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/epp/exp/atlas
 
In the photo Elisabetta is third from the left and Tim is second from the right, pictured with other award winners and the Collaboration Board chair, Howard Gordon, on the left, and ATLAS spokesperson, Dave Charlton, on the right.

Two former Warwick Physics graduates have been presented with prestigious Austrian Science Fund (FWF) START awards by the Austrian Science Minister, Harald Mahrer, as part of the Wittgenstein Festival in Vienna.

Ben Lanyon (BSc 2002, MPhil 2006) will work on “Quantum Frequency Conversion for Ion-Trap Quantum Networks” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Innsbruck. Garath Parkinson (MPhys 2003, PhD 2007) has an award for "Unravelling Single-Atom Catalysis: A Surface Science Approach", to be held at the Institute of Applied Physics, TU Vienna.

Only eight of these €1.2M awards are made each year to top young scientists, who can be from any discipline, with the goal of giving the recipients long-term and extensive financial security to build their own research groups over six years.

We warmly welcome some of Professor Jennifer Wren’s research group, who occupy desks on level 3 in MAS. The group is called Warwick FIRE (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/research/thermofluids/warwickfire).