Physics Department News

David Timms died on Friday 21st September aged 42, after a battle with cancer.  David came to Warwick as an undergraduate in 1982 and went on to a PhD and post doctoral work in Malcolm Cooper's Compton scattering group.  Since his move to Portsmouth University in 1990 he has retained his Warwick connection working with Malcolm Cooper and Jon Duffy at ESRF and Spring-9.  At Portsmouth he became a Reader in the School of Environmental and Earth Sciences and was distinguished for his radiation physics research at the Chernobyl site, not to mention his prowess as a deep sea fisherman.  He will be sadly missed.

 

Malcolm Cooper

Congratulations to Andy Inglis (CFSA) who won a prize for the best
poster at the STFC Advanced Summer School on Solar Physics in St Andrews. Andy
is a 2nd year PhD student working with Prof Valery Nakariakov on coronal
seismology.

It may still be six months to Christmas but Warwick and Liverpool universities have just received a £3.8 million pound XMaS present from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). However on this occasion XMaS doesn’t stand for Christmas but for “X-ray Magnetic Scattering”. The money will further wide-ranging research not only on materials such as magnets, superconductors and tomorrow’s electronic devices but it will also be used to study the corrosion of museum artefacts, the development of fuel cells and even the decay of teeth. The research is carried out on the “XMaS” beamline facility based at the giant synchrotron in Grenoble. XMaS was designed and constructed over a decade ago and is run by Malcolm Cooper of the University of Warwick and Chris Lucas of the University of Liverpool. Five years ago Malcolm and Chris celebrated a £3.4 million pound grant to run the facility up to autumn 2007 and now they are celebrating again with its future assured until 2012.  Since 1991 this project, which is vital to the research of over a dozen groups of UK scientists, has received £12.3 Million in funding which is one of the largest streams of support from EPSRC for a single project.  

For further information please contact:        Professor Malcolm J. Cooper,
Head of Physics

University of Warwick   Tel: 02476523379

Email m.j.cooper@warwick.ac.uk

 Dr Chris Lucas, Dept of Physics,University of Liverpool. Tel:  01517943361Email: clucas@liverpool.ac.uk 

Peter Dunn, Press and Media Relations Manager

University of Warwick 02476 523708  mobile  07767 655860 p.j.dunn@warwick.ac.uk

 

                                                            Kate Spark, Media Relations Manager

University of Liverpool 0151 794 2247

PR52 PJD  12th June 2007                  kate.spark@liv.ac.uk