Physics Department News

Professor Tom Marsh and Dr Danny Steeghs have just had a paper accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal entitled 'The expanding bipolar shell of the helium nova V445 Puppis'. This article concerns an explosive event caused by fusion of helium on the surface of a white dwarf in a binary star system. State of the art adaptive optics imaging was used to resolve the outflow from this event as it expands. The scale of the image covers less than a thousandths of a degree.

Congratulations to David Quigley on winning an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship. David , who is already at Warwick working on the Science City project, will join the Department of Physics from October 2009 in the Theory and Computational Physics group. David’s office is PS012 in Physical Sciences.

Please see the following link for more information on the Fellowship http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/H00341X/1

Professor Robin Ball was awarded the 2009 Rayleigh medal.  Please see the following link for more information http://www.iop.org/activity/awards/Subject_Awards/The_Rayleigh_Medal_and_Prize/page_35472.html

On behalf of the Itanium Solutions Alliance, it was yesterday announced that the University of Warwick has been selected as a finalist in the Computationally Intensive Applications category of the 2009 Itanium Innovation Awards.  

The entry from Rudolf A Roemer and coauthors,

"On Large Scale Diagonalization Techniques for the Anderson Model of Localization", O. Schenk, M. Bollhöfer, R. A. Römer, SIAM J. Sci. Comp. 28, 963-983 (2006); selected with additions for SIAM Reviews 50, 91-112 (2008).

received high marks from a panel of prestigious judges for its innovation and positive impact. There was strong competition this year from  number of high-profile organizations on a global basis, so being selected is a category finalist is indeed a significant achievement.

There will be a formal announcement posted to the Itanium Solutions Alliance website and distributed via a press release in the next day or two. This should gain additional visibility for our University and Physics's achievements, culminating with the announcement of the category winners at a formal recognition event in San Francisco in September.