Physics Department News

Physics Theory Group welcomes Prof. Dr. Arunava Chakrabarti from Kelyani University in West Bengal, India, who joins us for 4 weeks as part of a Royal Society funded UK-India research exchange programme. Prof. Chakrabarti is an expert in mesoscopic physics as well as theory and modeling of quasi-periodic structures. He will present some of his recent work on Monday, June 8^th as part of the Centre for Scientific Computing’s CSC@Lunch seminar series. During his stay, Prof. Chakrabarti will be housed in the CSC’s room PS011 as guest of Dr. Roemer.

Please find the recent colloquium talk given by Eric Dooryhee (Institut Néel, CNRS Grenoble), entitled 'Crystallography in Art and Archaeology' downloadable as a PDF file here 

Starting around the middle of next month there will be major alteration work being carried out on the 4th floor in what is now Jon Duffy's area. The work is to accommodate new equipment for Chris McConville. Jon will be moving to 420 and 420A which will be made into 2 rooms.

As this major work is being carried out it has been decided that as part of the Estates Physics re-wiring scheme, the southern half of the 4th floor will be completely re-wired. The rooms affected are from 422 around to 443. The work is anticipated to be completed by July 31st. The rooms affected must be cleared as much as possible. Offices must be emptied of all belongings and furniture. It is understood that some research equipment may be impossible to move, this must be protected as much as possible. I will discuss in due course with the occupants of each room where they will be re-located to trying to minimise disruption to work.

Apologies for the inconvenience but I am afraid this work has to be carried out. Thanks, Bob Bridgland

"Ian Hughes' and Julie Staunton's paper 'Onset of magnetic order in strongly-correlated systems from ab initio electronic structure calculations: application to transition metal oxides' has been chosen by the Editorial Board and publishing team of the New Journal of Physics to be part of a special collection: the NJP Best of 2008. The Best of 2008 website, the list of selected articles and the pdf of the magazine can be found at:

http://herald.iop.org/NJPBestof2008/m338/crk/142938/link/2433

The work was carried out with colleagues at STFC Daresbury, MPI Halle and Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle. Ian was awarded his PhD last year."