Congratulations to XM² PGR Milo Baraclough (3rd year) who published his first paper ‘Investigation of the coupling between tunable split-ring resonators‘ in Physical Review B. This paper examines how the coupling between a passive and an active Split ring resonator changes as the active ring is tuned through the frequency of the passive ring: https://bit.ly/2JeXYbC. […]
Author: Anja Roeding
“Seven brief lessons on Physics” – a translation into Urdu
XM2 PGR Zahid Hussain (3rd year) has committed a substantial amount of energy and time towards the translation of Carlo Rovelli’s book “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics” into Urdu, the national language of Pakistan. Three chapters have so far been published online: http://www.laaltain.com/khob-sorat-tareen-nazria/ http://www.laaltain.com/roshani-k-zarat/ http://www.laaltain.com/kainat-ki-sakht/ “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics” was originally published in Italian […]
New Publication: Probing Raman Scattering for Particle Tracking: a novel spectrocscopic analysis method
XM² PGR Ben Hogan (4th year) recently published his work on ‘Probing Raman Scattering for Particle Tracking: a novel spectrocscopic analysis method‘ as the cover story in Micrcoscopy and Analysis (Sep/Oct 2018): https://lnkd.in/dmsEkyd The article presents a summary of the current achievements of the team’s ongoing investigations using Raman spectroscopy to characterise and track particles […]
XM2 PGR social – food, fight and pub quiz winners!
Peter Inzani and Jess Brown are currently leading on the XM² PGR social events organisation. They have recently coordinated a welcome celebration to the new cohort with all other CDT PGRs at Mill on the Exe. Their summary of the evening: “There was a delicious buffet and a pub quiz. After 6 rounds of trivia, […]
Sam Shelley & Tim Spicer passed their vivas! Congratulations!
Very many contragulations to both Sam Shelley and Tim Spicer who have recently passed their respective viva with minor corrections. Well done both! Sam will continue to contribute his expertise at the University of Exeter as a postdoc. His work on “The Control of Fluid Flow Using Metamaterials Concepts” (supervised by Roy Sambles (FRS), […]
Training and other events: October 2018 to January 2019
Please find below a table of all upcoming XM² training and other events from October 2018 until January 2019 as far as planning currently allows. Yet to be confirmed for 1st year PGRs: progression & monitoring – introduction to CDT assessments and PGR progression (Prof C D Wright) – likely to be held in November/December […]
Riddle time!
A famous scientist was found murdered in her lab in the chemistry department! Before she died, she was able to smeer a few numbers with her blood on the wall: Scotland yard believes this might be a clue to find her murderer(s)! Strong suspects are some of her colleagues who were unable to provide an […]
Chris King passed his viva with no corrections!
It is our pleasure to announce that EPSRC CDT PGR Chris King passed his viva with no corrections. He was examined by Dr Dave Phillips (UoE) and Prof Stephen Barnett (University of Glasgow). An outstanding result! Very many congratulations to Chris, that’s truly exceptional. Chris’ PhD thesis work “Designing non-scattering graded-index media” was supervised by […]
Poster prize winner Joaquin Faneca @ Photonex Europe
EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials PGR Joaquin Faneca (now in his 3rd year) won the technical poster prize at the Photonex Europe conference in October 2018, a key event for photonics that brings the whole supply chain together under one roof: supplier companies, consultants, industrial users, researchers, science groups and innovative new-comers. Congratulations to Joaquin for […]
Jess Brown @ Soap Box Science 2018
Jess Brown only started her PhD in 2017, but has been an incredibly engaged researcher with strong committment to sharing her passion and experiences beyond her immediate research project right from the start. She joined the XM² Student Advisory Group to represent her cohort together with her peer Emily Glover, and represented Exeter on the […]