As part of the Warwick Christmas Lectures 2019 we held an optics-packed pre-show, featuring demos about some of the weird and wonderful properties of light. Members of the Physics Department and Ultrafast & THz group explained important phenomena like fluorescence, infrared light, polarisation and diffraction and more! The "twangs" of the Department's laser harp helped provide some festive music. There were 1100 members of the public at the lecture, a lot of whom made it to the pre-show science bonanza. On stage James talked about the power of lasers, ably assisted by Edward the Elf (below). Thanks to everyone who helped make the Christmas Lecture on 26th Nov such as success! More pictures here...

Photo © Michelle Tennison

This year's spooky group social featured the tera-s of Warwick Castle at Halloween. Highlights included the bird show, battlement climb and delving into the dungeon.

Thanks to everyone who attended the UK THz Workshop last week! We had a packed schedule of talks, over 30 posters, and 100 attendees from across the UK and beyond. Many congratulations to our Poster competition prize winners:

Congratulations to our poster prize winners: Reshma Anamari Mohandas (Leeds) and Peter Karlsen (Exeter) won the postdoc prize; Luana Olivieri (Sussex), Connor Mosley (Warwick), Lucy Hale (UCL) and Matt Reeves (Bath) won the PhD prize.

Thanks to everyone for coming to the group social trip to Kenilworth Castle on Halloween. Here are a few pictures of the Tera-ific Team THz enjoying the medieval surrounds of this beautiful castle.

We would like to invite you to the University of Warwick in December to a workshop on terahertz (THz) science and technology. Dinner and accommodation are available on campus at a heavily discounted rate on the night of Monday 10th December. The scientific and technical session of talks and posters will be on Tuesday 11th December. The event is being organised by Emma MacPherson & James Lloyd-Hughes in Warwick, with help from some of the Teranet group.

For more details and to register please use this link.