Physics Department News
Research Open Evening, Wednesday 27th November
The department is hosting a research open evening on Wednesday the 27th of November from 4.30-6.30 pm on the Science Concourse outside the Physics Lecture Theatre. Research groups will be informally presenting their research, with refreshments provided. If you want to find out more about the research that flourishes within the department please come along. The event is open to all. If you have any questions please ask Neil Wilson (Neil.Wilson@warwick.ac.uk
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New Earth-sized exoplanet that ‘shouldn’t exist’ baffles astronomers
Astronomers have for the first time weighed an Earth-sized planet orbiting another star. Although measuring the radius of exoplanets is relatively straightforward, measuring the planet's mass - and therefore its density, a clue to its composition - is more difficult. The results from two independent teams published in Nature (30 October 2013), one of which a number of UK astronomers, confirm Kepler-78b as the first known Earth-sized exoplanet with an Earth-like density...
Physics students received Giving to Warwick Prizes
Simon Pocock and Mohammad Che Rozenan were amongst the 2012-2013 recipients of the Giving to Warwick Prizes, for the Excellent 2nd Year Academic Performance category. Giving to Warwick Prizes are available thanks to the generous donations from Warwick's alumni and friends.
Warwick ATLAS physicists congratulate Higgs and Englert on their Nobel Prize
On 8th October, the Nobel prize for Physics was awarded to Higgs and Englert for "the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider"...