Two of our new Lecturers, Dr. Changxu Liu and Dr. Rupam Das, presented introductory talks on 30th March to showcase their research to the wider CMRI and stimulate exciting new collaborations. Dr Rupam Das previously worked as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Glasgow before joining us at the CMRI. Rupam’s research is multidisciplinary […]
Category: Training and Events
PGR Presentations Conference
On 2nd and 3rd October, our CDT PGRs held a two-day conference of CDT PGR presentations at Manor House Hotel, Okehampton, following last year’s successful PGR Presentation Conference at Escot House, Ottery St Mary. The conference involved a mix of presentations and team-building activities to help cohort-bonding and to welcome in the first years. As […]
Training and other events: October 2022 to January 2023
Please find below a table of all upcoming CDT in Metamaterials training and other events from October 2022 to January 2023, as far as planning currently allows and subject to change. PGRs, please highlight any CDT in Metamaterials-training related absence times to your supervisors. In regards to annual leave or other absence time planning: all […]
Summer Student Project 2022
Final year PGR James Capers was awarded a summer student bursary, covering a small stipend and project fees to allow him to host an undergraduate student for 10 weeks to complete a summer research project on ‘New Methods for Designing Elastic Metamaterials’, which took place July-September 2022. In a competitive process, the PGRs had to […]
CDT Summer Conference and Summer Ball 2022
Final year PGRs Hannah Barnard and Dean Patient organised this year’s Summer PGR Conference and the accompanying Summer Ball, both events taking place on 10th June. Hannah comments on the experience of running these events and the motivation behind them: As a result of COVID over the last year or two, the social interaction amongst […]
Training and other events: April 2021 to July 2021
Please find below a table of all upcoming XM² training and other events from April 2021 to July 2021, as far as planning currently allows and subject to change. PGRs, please highlight any XM²-training related absence times to your supervisors. In regards to annual leave or other absence time planning: all confirmed events have been […]
Training and other events: January 2021 to March 2021
Please find below a table of all upcoming XM² training and other events from January 2021 to March 2021, as far as planning currently allows and subject to change. PGRs, please highlight any XM²-training related absence times to your supervisors. In regards to annual leave or other absence time planning: all confirmed events have been […]
Training and other events: September 2020 to December 2020
Please find below a table of all upcoming XM² training and other events from September 2020 to December 2020. Please note due to the current lockdown situation, dates and location are subject to change. All Beyond a PhD and Colloquia will take place online. Induction is scheduled to take place in week beginning 21st September […]
XM2 Minerva Prize Colloquium Winner Announcement
We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s inaugural Minerva Prize Colloquium is Louisa Brotherson, a PhD student at University of Liverpool. She will be giving a talk on “Absolute acoustic sensor calibration for quantifying lab-generated earthquake sources”, delivered via Zoom on Friday 2nd October 2020. Congratulations Louisa! The Minerva Prize is […]
Summer Student Projects 2020
This summer, two of our PGRs- second year Conor Price and third year Iago Rodriguez Diez– 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 […]