Physics Department News
Award for Andy Inglis
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.
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.
British Vacuum Council's Senior Prize
Chris McConville has been awarded the British Vacuum Council's Senior Prize and the John Yarwood Memorial Medal for 2007. The prize is awarded for 'distinguished contributions to British Scientific research in the fields of vacuum science, surface science or thin films in which vacuum science and engineering play an important role'. The prize winner is invited to deliver the BVC Annual Address.
£3.8 Million Early Xmas present for Warwick and Liverpool Universities
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.ukPeter 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
Promotions
Many congratulations to Val Nakariakov who has been promoted to a full professorship from October 2007, and to Martin Lees, Mark Newton and Rudolf Roemer who have been promoted to Readerships.