Physics Department News

The Peter Carpenter Memorial Graduate Student Travel Fund was established to support graduate students working in the discipline for which Peter Carpenter was noted. Peter extracted much pleasure from his research and attendance at international conferences and the fund seeks to assist graduate students in gaining a similar experience.
The School of Engineering therefore invites bids to the fund from eligible candidates from all academic departments (please see guidelines for further details)

The winners of the recent Science Snaps competition were announced at a prize-giving ceremony at Millennium Point today. Congratulations to Dr Dean Keeble and Tung Fai Yu from the Department of Physics who were two of the six winners. The event also marked the exhibition launch of the winning images as part of the British Festival of Science.

See the following link for more information and to view the images http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/newsandevents/intnews2/science_snaps_winners

 

The Department of Physics has won the Athena SWAN silver award. This was presented to Sandra Beaufoy and Malcolm Cooper at an awards ceremony at the Royal Society on Thursday the 16th September. The Department of Chemistry also recieved a silver award and the University a Bronze award. There is only one science department in the country that recieved an Athena SWAN gold (University of York, Department of Chemistry). 

Athena SWAN awards recognise and celebrate good practice on recruiting, retaining and promoting women in science, engineering and technology in higher education. For more information please see the attached press release http://www.athenaswan.org.uk/html/athena-swan/news/?news_id=686

The Graduate School wishes to draw your attention to the funding opportunities available for UK students to study at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the United States.