A team of researchers from the Astrophysics Group led by Tom Louden discovered winds of over 2km per second flowing around a planet outside of the Earth’s solar system.

“This is the first ever weather map from outside of our solar system. Whilst we have previously known of wind on exoplanets, we have never before been able to directly measure and map a weather system.”

For information about induction events and other useful information for Postgraduates arriving for the 15/16 Academic Year, please look here.

Edoardo Carnio, 1st year PhD student in the theory group with Prof. Roemer, has been selected to receive the Alumni prize 2015 of Freiburg University, Germany.

Ersilia Leonardis, who succesfully defended her PhD in the CFSA, supervised by Sandra Chapman, has been awarded the Vincenzo Ferraro Thesis Prize for her PhD work. The prize was awarded following the careful evaluation of a qualified and esteemed commission. It is in honor of Prof Vincenzo Ferraro, an eminent Italian Astrophysicist who discovered the “Ferraro-Rosenbluth” sheath amongst many other discoveries. The prize supports and promotes studies of magneto hydrodynamics applied to astrophysics by giving an award every year to the best MSc or PhD thesis within the area of magneto hydrodynamics of space or laboratory plasma.

One of our postgrad EngD students, Rob Hughes recently won the IOPs Three Minute Wonder West Midlands regional heat competition.

http://www.iop.org/activity/3-minute-wonder/page_60438.html,

Last month he was also a runner up in the Association of Engineering Doctorates (AengDs) Engineering Research Writer of the Year award competition.

http://www.aengd.org.uk/news/news-releases/2013-engineering-research-writers-year-announced/

Congratulations to Rebecca White who has won the student poster prize at the National Astronomy Meeting in St Andrews for her poster entitled First Observation of a Transverse Vertical Oscillation during the Formation of a Hot Post-flare Loop...