Congratulations to fourth-year PGR James Capers, who has just had his paper ‘Designing Disordered Multi-Functional Metamaterials using the Discrete Dipole Approximation’ accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics. James explains the significance of the paper’s findings: Being able to manipulate radiation in any desired way is key to sensing, stealth, power transfer and next-generation […]
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 […]
CDT PGRs at Sidmouth Science Festival
Sidmouth Science Festival is an event held every year in Sidmouth that aims to engage with public and inform them how STEM relates to the things we do every day. It aims specially to educate younger members of the public and inspire them to take up a career in STEM themselves. This year the festival […]
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 […]
Welcome to our new cohort for 2022!
Our four new students finished the last of their induction sessions last week, rounding the first week off with an away day at Raceworld Exeter with their fellow CDT PGRs. Our new students are: 2022 XM² cohort Research Group Project Supervisor 1 Supervisor 2 Ben Scott Electromagnetic and Acoustic Materials (EMAG) Self-actuating surfaces for tunable […]
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 […]
PGRs present at META 2022
There was a strong CDT presence at META 2022 in Torremolinos, Spain 19th-22nd July, with eleven of our PGRs presenting posters and two PGRs who contributed talks. META is one of the largest international conferences in the field of metamaterials and nanophotonics and was well attended by CDT students. James Capers and Iago Rodríguez Díez […]
PGRs present at Complex Nanophotonics Science Camp
Three of our PGRs- final year PGRs Joe Shields and Dean Patient, and third year PGR James Capers– presented at the Complex Nanophotonics Science Camp, which was held on August 2nd-5th 2022 at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park. The Science Camp brings together 60 early-career scientists in the field of photonics but also science writers […]
Graduation Celebration Summer 2022
This year we celebrated not only our Summer 2022 graduates, but our 2020 and 2021 graduates as well, who were finally able to attend an in-person ceremony. We held post-graduation celebrations in Physics SCR, attended by their fellow PGRs and supervisors. These graduates have gone on to a variety of destinations, including both academia (two […]
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 […]