Departmental news

"The 66^th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting took place from June 26 to July 1 2016 on the beautiful island of Lindau, Germany, where 29 Nobel laureates, 400 young scientists and many other distinguished guests were welcomed." says Edo Carnio.

Each year, the Computational Physics Group awards a Thesis Prize to the author of the PhD thesis that, in the opinion of the Committee, contributes most strongly to the advancement of computational physics. This year, a Warwick graduate was chosen as runner-up.

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...

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.