We are very pleased to congratulate Greg Brown for winning the WATE PGR, and Tobias Eriksson and Rachel Procter for being commendees.

Winners receive £500 that can be used to further develop their pedagogic practises...

Congratulations to David Chapman, Tom Machon and Davide Michieletto who have been awarded 2016 Faculty of Science PhD Thesis Prizes for their exceptional research on Probing the dynamic response of dense matter with x-ray Thomson scattering, Aspects of Geometry and Topology in Liquid Crystalline Phases, and Topological Interactions in Ring Polymers, respectively.

Three Physics postgraduates have been shortlisted in the WATE, "Postgraduates who Teach" category, in recognition of their invaluable contributions: Greg Brown (1st year lab, planetarium outreach), Tobias Eriksson (2nd year electronics lab), and Rachael Procter (Microprocessors lab & outreach). The final selection for awards will be made at the end of June.

Dr. Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, has been awarded a 1.5 million Euro Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The research project entitled "Evolution of white dwarfs with 3D model atmospheres" will soon recruit...