Physics Department News

Congratulations to our new cohort of undergraduates on your excellent examination results and gaining a place on the Warwick Physics or Math/Phys course. In preparation for your studies and life on campus there are already things to do that are outlined on the pages for new physics students and Welcome to Warwick.
We look forward to seeing you all on Monday October 5^th for the first day of term.

For information about induction events and other useful information for Postgraduates arriving for the 15/16 Academic Year, please look here.

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.

A team including Warwick authors Geetha Balakrishnan and Monica Ciomaga Hatnean have discovered the existence of an unusual insulating state in the Topological Insulator SmB₆. The unusual state was inferred from observing quantum oscillations in magnetic torque measurements at high magnetic fields, which depended crucially on the high quality single crystals of SmB₆ prepared at Warwick.

The paper "Unconventional Fermi surface in an insulating state" can be read in full in the online journal Science (http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa7974 ).