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Congratulations to Dr Gareth Alexander on his promotion to Associate Professor.

Gareth ’s research is in the theory of soft matter where, amongst other projects, he applies geometry and topology in original ways to understand defects and textures in liquid crystals, and collective behaviour in soft active matter.

The Pettifer Prize for the best overall performance in the first year examinations was awarded to Michal Moravec for 2015-16 by Mary Pettifer and David Leadley, Head of Department.

Today, a picture taken by a camera on a typical smartphone can consist of more than 10 million pixels. This is the reality of modern-day cameras and imaging. The ability of record millions of pixels simultaneously will therefore be expected to be a necessary part of any future imaging technology as a matter of course. And that includes quantum enhanced strategies. Measuring (or estimating) multiple parameters simultaneously, however, is one of the fundamental limitations of quantum mechanics. It is what sets quantum mechanics apart from classical physics. What then is the future of quantum enhanced imaging ?