Departmental news

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...

A pair of identical twin brothers with a passion for atom-smashing have both gained PhDs in physics from the University of Warwick. Twenty-six year olds Mark and Leigh Whitehead, originally from Maidstone in Kent, came to the University of Warwick as undergraduate students and both graduated with a first class MPhys in July 2008. The pair stayed on at Warwick to complete PhDs in an area of particle physics which tries to understand the nature of matter in the universe.

They both graduated at a ceremony at Warwick Arts Centre earlier this year. Congratulations!

On Tuesday 6th December the Physics department held a Christmas Lecture for the public. Teachers, school children and individuals interested in physics made up the 160 people who were excited to hear Daniel Scully talk about his research into neutrinos. Addressing a packed lecture theatre, he explained what different neutrino experiments look for, and the results from CERN that caught the headlines around the world. Together they considered the staggering implications if these results were confirmed and exactly why they caused such a sensation.

The talk was very enthusiastically received with 30 peopple queuing to ask Daniel questions at the end.

The feedback from the public was overwhelmingly positive, with Daniel's excellent communication skills and infectous enthusiasm, inspiring the audience. "Terrific" and "superb" were amongst the feedback.

Daniel has been inundated with requests to speak at further events, such as Cafe Scientifique, local schools and amateur astronomy groups.

If you missed Daniel's talk, you can watch it here.

Volker Keinhorst, a PhD student in the microscopy group, will become the first Warwick postgraduate to take up an industrial placement within the Midlands Physics Alliance Graduate School (MPAGS) scheme when he starts work in Banbury with Paintbox UK Ltd at the end of July. The aim of the placement will be to help Paintbox develop their automobile painting process including micro analysis via FIB SEM studies of paint/substrate interfaces.

This placement was made possible through the industrial contacts of the Science City Research Alliance. More information about the MPAGS Industrial Placements is available on-line and any students interested in taking part in this scheme should contact David Leadley.

5-7pm, Thursday 5th May 2011, Physics Lecture Theatre and Science Concourse, Physics Building

This year's postgraduate careers event will be taking place between 5-7pm on Thursday 5th May in the Physic Lecture Theatre and Science Concourse in the Physics Building.

Event Schedule:

17:00 Introduction
17:05 Karen Reid - CGG Vertias
17:15 Dr Andrew Bushell - Met Office
17.25 Dr Asaf Federman - Job Markets

17:35 Break with refreshments

18:00 Ally Caldecote – Careers in Teaching
18:10 Dr Jenny Wooldridge – National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
18:20 Dr Tim Veal – Careers in Academia

18:30 Nibbles and Mingling
19:00 Close

The information booklet for this event will be available shortly on this page.

If you would like to attend or have any query, please email with the subject: Physics-Careers to T.F.Yu@warwick.ac.uk.
You do not need to reply to attend, this it is merely so we can gauge the numbers and have an appropriate amount of refreshments available.

The IOP has just launched its conference fund for PhD students, providing financial support to research student members to attend international conferences and major national meetings.

Up to £250 can be applied for during the course of your PhD.

The newly formed Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) is pleased to announce that it has funding available for staff and students to undertake projects related to the development of innovative learning. £125,000 is available for the academic year 2010/11 in various funding streams.

For more information please visit the links below
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/newsandevents/intnews2/iatl_funding
go.warwick.ac.uk/iatl/funding

Wednesday 3 November 2010 from 10am