Congratulations to our very own Natalie Whitehead for winning the best poster award for her work “Theory of Linear Spin Wave Emission from a Bloch Domain Wall” at the Magnetism 2018 in Manchester! Magnetism 2018 (IOP) is the premier conference organised by the UK and Rol magnetism community. It welcomes and encourages participation from Europe […]
Acoustic Metamaterials Meeting (XAM3 2018) at Exeter
Last week we welcomed 65 delegates from the acoustics community for a two -day research workshop at the University of Exeter: The Exeter Acoustic Metamaterials Meeting (XAM3, 16th – 17th April 2018; http://xam3.ex.ac.uk/) was organised by Dr Tim Starkey and sponsored by the EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials and the UK Acoustics Network. The workshop […]
EUOPS won an Optical Society (OSA) Special Program Grant for a PGR led careers development event
We are delighted to announce that the Exeter University Optics&Photonics Society (EUOPS) has been awarded with a Special Program Grant by The Optical Society (OSA). This grant will co-fund a careers development event being organised by the CDT in Metamaterials postgraduate researcher (PGR) Julia De Pineda Gutierrez, director of the organisation committee. The committee members […]
New Publication: Investigating the bioavailability of graphene quantum dots in lung tissues via Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Tanveer Tabish‘s paper Investigating the bioavailability of graphene quantum dots in lung tissues via Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy has recently been published in Interface Focus (Royal Society publishing). Congratulations, Tanveer! Abstract “Biomolecular fractions affect the fate and behaviour of quantum dots (QDs) in living systems but how the interactions between biomolecules and QDs affect the bioavailability […]
Metabuddies: PGR outreach activity with Queen Elizabeth’s School Crediton
In spring 2018 Francis Davies, Elizabeth Martin, and Ned Taylor visited Queen Elizabeth’s School, Crediton as part of the CDT’s Metabuddies program to run physics sessions related to metamaterials with a group of year 12 physics students. They led a few different sessions over the course of March, in which they talked about their research […]
Viva successfully completed!
Very many congratulations to Alba Paniagua Diaz who successfully defended her PhD on Monday 10 April 2018. Her thesis title is “Light in scattering media: active control and the exploration of intensity correlations” and she was examined by Christian Soeller (College for Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences; Univeristy of Exeter) and Tomas Cizmar (School of […]
Flann and University of Exeter research project aims to pave way for 5G communications revolution
Microwave engineering company Flann Microwave is teaming up with the University of Exeter as part of ground-breaking research which could help pave the way for the next generation of 5G mobile communications. Flann is working with PhD researcher Julia De Pineda-Gutiérrez from the Department of Physics and Astronomy on a four-year project which aims to […]
Riddle time!
In need of a break? Try this for a bit of a change: 6 4 2 7 4 2 0 5 8 4 X 6 8 6 4 8 Can you figure out what to replace the X with? Too easy? Got another one? Please email your riddle suggestions to *protected email* The solution to […]
Training and other events in April 2018
Please see below a schedule of what is happening in April 2018 – and what had to be cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. The cancelled meetings for the CDT cohorts and the Programme Manager will be rescheduled in due course. Date Training/Event Cohort Time Venue 04.04.2018 CDT Group Meeting Group 2 13.30 – 14.30 Har […]
New Publication: Plasmon polaritons in cubic lattices of spherical metallic nanoparticles
Charlie-Ray Mann published an article on Plasmon polaritons in cubic lattices of spherical metallic nanoparticles in Physical Review B. In addition, Charlie informed us that his next publication has just been accepted by Nature Comms. We look forward to posting the link to it as soon as it becomes available online. Congratulations, Charlie, well done! Abstract […]