Departmental news

Luke Smith, final year PhD student in the Ultrasonic Group was announced as the winner of the György Striker award for best paper from someone under 35 years old, at the 2024 IMEKO World Conference.

Gareth Hart has been awarded an Industrial Fellowship by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 for his PhD project 'Designing a new catalyst to enable the hydrogen economy'.

PhD student Syl Shaw and supervisor Rudo Roemer apply the real-space renormalisation group method to the Chalker–Coddington model of the quantum Hall transition. This approach provides a convenient numerical estimation of the localisation critical exponent, ν. Previous such studies found ν=2.39 which falls considerably short of the current best estimates by transfer matrix (2.593) and exact-diagonalisation studies (2.58). By increasing the amount of data 500 fold they can now measure closer to the critical point and find an improved estimate 2.51. This deviates only 3% from the previous two values and is already better than the 7% accuracy of the classical small-cell renormalisation approach from which their method is adapted.

Areej Aljaghwani, a 2^nd year PhD student from Maksym Myronov’s Semiconductors Research Group was awarded second place in the Phil Buckle Research Communication Competition held during the UK Semiconductors Conference in July 2024.

A group of staff and postgraduate students from the department inspired students and teachers with exciting experiments and interactive games at the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham at the end of June.

Congratulations to our 2024 postgraduate (research) students who have won prizes for their thesis and our second year poster prize winners.

Congratulations to Alina Bendt (third year student in Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics) who has been announced as the winner of the Postgraduates who teach at the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence.Link opens in a new window

Find out about Alina's research.

Martha Turvey (Third year postgraduate student in the Ultrasound Group) has been announced as the winner of the best oral presentation prize at the British Liquid Crystal Society conference in April.

Joe Gillham (2nd year PhD student in Radiation Dense Materials) has been awarded the Best Student poster Prize at the 12th International Conference on the Science of Hard Materials (ICSHM12) in Sri Lanka.Link opens in a new window

The Centre for Doctoral Training in Modelling of Heterogeneous Systems
(HetSys II), led by Professor James Kermode from the School of
Engineering, Dr Livia Bartok-Partay from Chemistry and Professor
Nicholas Hine from Physics, will train a new generation of scientists
in computational modelling. It spans seven departments and three
university research centres forming a national centre of excellence in
computational simulation, providing world class opportunities in the
West Midlands.

Find out more.Link opens in a new window