4th year XM² PGRs Carlota Ruiz de Galarreta and Joseph Beadle won the poster prizes at two different conferences: Carlota attended the European Phase-Change and Ovonic Symposium (E\PCOS 2018) which brings together the phase change community together to discuss the latest technology achievements and their possible new application areas (figure 1); Joseph won the […]
Category: Activities & achievements
XM2 PGR away day
Building community is one of the main challenges in any bigger entity. Where many work under a shared framework there’s a lot of potential to exploit. However, getting building bridges and communication channels isn’t always easy, in particular when areas of expertise aren’t closely related in the first instance. The CDT in Metamaterials is no […]
XM2 thesis submitted by Tom Graham: Underwater Acoustic Waves on Structured and Unstructured Plates
Very many congratulations to the EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials PGR Tom Graham who recently submitted his PhD thesis titled “Underwater Acoustic Waves on Structured and Unstructured Plates”. Tom was supervised by Professor Roy Sambles (FRS), Professor Alastair Hibbins and Dr Simon Horsley. He worked closely with Thales and undertook several research visits to Templecombe and […]
4 XM2 vivas successfully completed!
Very many congratulations to the EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials PGRs who completed their vivas (all with only minor corrections) in September 2018: Ilya Starshynov “Quantum and classical correlations of multiply scattered light; supervisors: Dr Jacopo Bertolotti, Dr Janet Anders; Erick Burgos “Time resolved and time average of magnetic nano-structure”; supervisors: Prof Rob Hicken, Prof Feodor Ogrin; […]
XM2 thesis submitted by Sam Shelley: The Control of Fluid Flow Using Metamaterials Concepts
Very many congratulations to Sam Shelley, EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials PGR, who recently submitted his PhD thesis titled “The Control of Fluid Flow Using Metamaterials Concepts”. Sam was supervised by Roy Sambles (FRS), Alastair Hibbins and Simon Horsley, and previously published his work on Fluid Mobility over Corrugated Surfaces in the Stokes Regime and on […]
XM2 thesis submitted by Timothy Spicer: Excitation of picosecond magnetization dynamics by spin transfer torque
Very many congratulations to the EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials PGR Tim Spicer, who has recently submitted his PhD thesis on “Excitation of picosecond magnetization dynamics by spin transfer torque“. Tim was supervised by Rob Hicken and Volodymyr Kruglyak. Tim is currently working on 3 more papers to publish his results in addition to his article […]
XM2 thesis submitted by Lauren Barr: Giving Metamaterials a Hand – Electromagnetic interactions in chiral metamaterials
Very many congratulations to the EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials PGR Lauren Barr for submitting her PhD thesis on “Giving Metamaterials a Hand – Electromagnetic interactions in chiral metamaterials”, supervised by Prof. Euan Hendry and Prof. Alastair Hibbins. (The thesis title is a play-on-words, as the term chiral comes from the Greek word for hand, and […]
Honorary Fellow of IOP – Highest honour awarded to Prof Roy Sambles
Professor Roy Sambles (FRS) has been made an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP) for his contributions in pure and applied physics, and as a superb ambassador for physics through outreach and an outstanding President of the IOP. He has made significant contributions to our understanding of the melting process, spin waves in metals, […]
Stargazing on Dartmoor
The recent nice weather spell in England’s Southwest allowed our the CDT in Metamaterials PGRs and Exeter University Optical Society (EUOPS) members to finally set out with telescopes and binoculars on the long-planned camping trip to the nearby National Park, Dartmoor, for a stargazing night. They teamed up with non-CDT colleagues to use this amazing […]
XM2 thesis submitted by Chris King: Designing non-scattering graded-index media
Very many congratulations to Chris King for submitting his PhD thesis on “Designing non-scattering graded-index media”, supervised by Dr Simon Horsley and Dr Tom Philbin. Chris joined the CDT in 2014, following his Masters degree in Mathematics at the University of Oxford. As Student Advisory Group (SAG) chair (2015/16 & 2016/17) he successfully linked the […]