It is time to say good-bye to Ilya Starshynov, who just submitted his PhD thesis on “Quantum and classical correlations of multiply scattered light“, supervised by Dr Jacopo Bertolotti and Dr Janet Anders, and who is about to start a 1.5 year postdoc position with Prof. Daniele Faccio and the Extreme Light group at the […]
Our Oversight Board summer meeting – piloting stronger OB/PGR interactions
The EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials hosted it’s annual summer Oversight Board (OB) meeting on 18 July 2018 in Exeter’s Northcott Theatre. The Management and Oversight Boards came together to discuss latest developments for the current and future CDT, however, this year’s meeting saw a twist to the usual agenda and put the main focus on […]
We proudly present our first XM2 graduates: Alba Paniagua Diaz & Tanveer A Tabish
Time to celebrate! Our very first CDT in Metamaterials graduates, Alba Paniagua Diaz and Tanveer A Tabish, received their graduation certificate. Congratulations to both of them! We are incredibly proud and hope to send them off with the right skill- and mindset to succeed in their futrue careers, and that they will leave us with […]
BIMS @ Exeter: The rise of Bio-Inspired Magnetic Systems
Exeter hosted the Bio-inspired Magnetic Systems (BIMS) workshop from 9 – 11 July 2018, an event set to exchanging the knowledge of experts in the field of magnetic microscale systems, from theory to experiment and applications: http://www.bims2018.co.uk/. We are particularly proud that three of the EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials PGRs (3rd year Joshua Hamilton, […]
Welcome to the XM2 summer students
Curious? Ambitious? Energetic? All good qualities to find in a summer student! We welcome the undergraduates Andy Wild (“Asymmetric Double Square Well on a Circle: The Curious Case of Degenerate States“), Jordan Meadows (“Dirac metamaterials—the quest for new quasiparticles”, and future XM² PGR Conor Price (“2D material liquid crystals“) to work on CDT summer projects […]
Jess Brown @ BBC University Challenge
Our very own XM² PGR Jessica Brown is participating in this year’s BBC University Challenge. She is representing the University of Exeter alongside Danny Lay (captain – Physics), Will Klintworth (History and IR) , and Simon Waitland (Natural Sciences). “It’s been my childhood dream for as long as I can remember!” The popular academic quiz is […]
Training and other events in July & August 2018
Date Training/Event Cohort Time Venue 05.07.2018 Cohort Meeting with Alastair Hibbins Cohort 4 15:00 – 16:00 Physics SCR 12.07.2018 Cohort Meeting with Alastair Hibbins Cohort 2 15:00 – 16:00 Physics SCR 18.07.2018 Oversight Board Meeting Cohorts 2 & 3 11:20 – 15:00 Northcott Theatre Restaurant 19.07.2018 Cohort Meeting with Alastair Hibbins Cohort 3 15:00 – […]
Riddle time!
Take a break – an easy summer breeze riddle for your time in the hammock: Figure out the way the first 14 out of 19 numbers were ordered and add the last five! 8, 18, 11, 15, 5, 4, 14, 9, 19, 1, 7, 17, 6, 16, X, X, X, X, X
Dr Ruth Voisey among the top 50 Women in Engineering 2018
Congratulations to our Oversight Board member Dr Ruth Voisey (Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Dyson), who was announced as one of the top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) by the Sunday Telegraph on 24 June 2018. The WE50 campaign aims to raise awareness of the skills shortage facing the industry and the huge discrepancy between the […]
XM2 thesis submitted by Sathya Seetharaman: Electromagnetic interactions in one-dimensional metamaterials
Sathya Sai Seetharaman is the third XM² PGR to submit his PhD thesis, which is titled “Electromagnetic interactions in one-dimensional metamaterials” (abstract below). He was supervised by Prof Bill Barnes and Dr Ian Hooper and has previously published his work on Electromagnetic interactions in a pair of coupled split-ring resonators in Physical Review B. “The […]