Congratulations to fourth year PGRs Francis Davies and Ned Taylor, third year PGR Shane Davies and second year PGR Conor Price, who have co-authored a paper with Dr. Steven Hepplestone. The paper, titled ‘The Fundamental Mechanism Behind Colossal Permittivity in Oxides‘, determines the mechanism responsible for colossal permittivity exhibited by various oxides to be that of […]
Author: Kelyn Clare Luther
Prof. Roy Sambles opens the new Institute of Physics building
On 4th October, Prof. Roy Sambles opened the new Institute of Physics(IOP) building in Kings Cross. Although it was first part-occupied in October 2018, it was on Friday October 4th 2019 that the four most recent past presidents, in chronological order – Professor Sir Peter Knight, Dame Frances Saunders, Professor Roy Sambles and Dame Julia Higgins, […]
Jess Brown at Acoustofluidics Forum
On 16th and 17th October, third year PGR Jess Brown attended Acoustofluidics Forum. She reports on her experience of the event: This 2-day meeting of the Acoustofluidics Special Interest Group in the UK Fluidic Network took place at Cardiff University, hosted by Dr Chris Yang and his research group (MUSL) – this is the […]
CDT Film Evening: Catch Me If You Can
The theme for this month’s film social was Nostalgic 00’s. 30 PGRs gathered to watch the poll winner, Catch Me If You Can, suitably refreshed by pizza!
Joseph Beadle submits his thesis!
Congratulations to CDT PGR Joseph Beadle, who submitted his thesis last week. Joseph was supervised by Prof. J. R. Sambles and Prof. A.P. Hibbins, and his PhD project was entitled: ‘An exploration of acoustic metasurfaces’. The aim was to experimentally explore the effect that structuring surfaces had on the near-field acoustic surface waves. The project […]
New Publication: Controlling collective rotational patterns of magnetic rotors
Congratulations to CDT alumnus Dr.Joshua Hamilton, whose paper Controlling collective rotational patterns of magnetic rotors has recently been published in Nature Communications. Josh works as a postdoctoral research fellow in TEAM-A at University of Exeter. A summary of the paper is below: Combining experiments, simulations, and theoretical arguments Josh Hamilton and his collaborator Daiki Matsunaga have […]
Summer Student Projects 2019
This summer, three of our then-third year PGRs (Pablo Martinez Pancorbo, Ned Taylor and Elizabeth Martin) were awarded summer student bursaries, covering a small stipend and project fees to allow them to host an undergraduate student for 10 weeks to complete a summer research project. In a competitive process, the PGRs had to put forward […]
Julia de Pineda Gutierrez wins best student paper at IEE Radio and Antenna days of the Indian Ocean Conference
Fourth year PGR Julia de Pineda Gutierrez discusses the two conferences she recently attended and their successful outcomes: Last month, I attended two conferences, where I had the chance to present my latest research. Between the 16th and the 21st of September I took part in the 13th International congress on Artificial Materials for novel […]
Emanuele Gemo presenting his recent research at EPCOS
Fourth year PGR Emanuele Gemo discusses his experience of presenting at this year’s E\PCOS conference. The E\PCOS (European symposium on Phase-Change and Ovonic Science) started in 2001 as a workshop on the emerging field of phase-change material science and applications. Since then, it has been hold each year in various locations in Europe, and evolved […]
Ioannis Leontis in conferences at Washington DC
Third year PGR and vice-president of EUOPS (Exeter University Optics and Photonics Society) Ioannis Leontis discusses his experience of two conferences he was recently invited to: In September 2019, as vice-president of EUOPS (Exeter University Optics and Photonics Society), I was invited to participate in two OSA (Optical Society of America) conferences in Washington DC. The […]