Physics Department News
Alumni Newsletter 2009
Please see the link for a message from Head of Department of Physics, Malcolm Cooper http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/2009-10_christmas_newsletter.pdf
Astrophysical Discovery
Astrophysicists find two Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres - only snag is they’re stars not planets. For more information please see the link to the Warwick press release below
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/2_earth-sized_bodies/
Institute of Physics Roy Prize Winner
Dr. Philip King, who was a PhD student in the Surface, Interface & Thin Films Group, has been awarded the 2009 Roy Prize by the Institute of Physics Condensed Matter Division. The Roy prize is awarded annually for the best PhD thesis submitted in any area of condensed matter physics. Philip will be presented with the award on 15th December at the CMMP meeting here in Warwick.
Nature Paper
Andrew Levan has contributed to a Nature paper which has been published this week, reporting the most distant object ever seen in the Universe.
There is a free access podcast trailer which features both Nial Tanvir and Andrew Levan, see link http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/flashfromearlyuniverse/index.html
The original article can be found here http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7268/full/nature08459.html