Dept News
Celebrating our people: Prof. Don Pollacco
The Staff Awards are a great opportunity to show appreciation of the hard work that goes on day to day, here at Physics. Prof Don Pollaco won the Research Excellence Award for your work on answering ‘Do other Earths exist?’
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Umbilic Lines in Orientational Order
Ordered materials such as Bose condensates, and liquid crystals display complex three-dimensional structures. Research by Thomas Machon and Gareth Alexander provides new insights into their behaviour.
The damping profile of standing kink modes in coronal loops
Oscillations of solar coronal loops are observed to be strongly damped. This can be explained by mode coupling, which coverts the wave energy from bulk transverse motions to localised, unresolved azimuthal motions. Using the highest quality data currently available, we have found evidence for the Gaussian damping profile predicted by the recently developed theory of damping by mode coupling.
Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence
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.