Vacancy for Research Assistant2 August 2012Applications are invited for a three-year Research Assistant position in the Particle Physics Group of the School of Physics (vacancy ref. 17380)
Vacancy for Research Assistants (3 posts)11 July 2012Applications are invited for Research Assistants (three posts) in Integrated Photonic Engineering/Experimental Quantum Information Science and Technology Centre for Quantum Photonics, School of Physics and Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (vacancy ref. 17351)
Skillsets: strategies for success28 June 2012Over 70 Physics students took part in an intensive, three day personal development course - Skillsets: Strategies for Success.
Quantum paper in Physical Review Letters28 June 2012CQP's most recent paper, 'Observation of Quantum Interference as a Function of Berry's Phase in a Complex Hadamard Optical Network', appears in Physical Review Letters.
Seeing at the nanoscale 201212 June 2012Seeing at the nanoscale 2012 is an international meeting where experts across the world will meet to present and discuss groundbreaking results in the fascinating area on Nanoscience.
The transit of Venus as seen from Bristol7 June 2012Bristol astrophysicists Mike Masheder and Alastair Fraser made an early start on Wednesday 6 June to view the end of the transit of Venus across the rising Sun.
Young scientist wins Max Planck Society medal7 June 2012The Max Planck Society honours young scientists and researchers for outstanding scientific achievements in the award of the Otto Hahn medal. Bristol's Martin Gradhand will be awarded this medal at a ceremony in June.
Follow the transit of Venus1 June 2012The transit of Venus will occur for the second time in ten years on 5 and 6 June. We in the UK will be able to see the transit in progress at sunrise on Wednesday 6 June.
Quantum paper appears on the arXiv22 May 2012The Centre for Quantum Photonics paper, 'A quantum delayed choice experiment', appears on the arXiv.
Quantum paper appears on the arXiv.19 May 2012CQP's paper, 'Reconfigurable controlled two-qubit operation on a quantum photonic chip', now appears on the arXiv.
Postgraduate awarded conference paper prize18 May 2012Nicole Killat of the Applied Spectroscopy Group was awarded the Best Student Paper - Honourable Mention Award at CS ManTech conference in Boston, USA.
CMS experiment - 100 scientific results published14 May 2012The CMS collaboration has published its 100th scientific result based upon LHC collision data. Based upon work carried out by a team of collaborators from across the world, an analysis of around 500 trillion proton-proton collisions in 2011 has allowed the world’s best experimental limits to be set on the mass of a Higgs-like particle decaying to pairs of tau leptons.
€3 million to solve the long-distance quantum communication problem25 April 2012A solution to the problem of sending information in single quantum particles over global distances could be a step closer thanks to grants of over €3 million that have been awarded to researchers in the University of Bristol’s Quantum Photonics group.
LHC: Ready to hunt for the Higgs20 April 2012The world’s highest-energy particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, has begun its science run for 2012. In 2012, the accelerator will deliver many more collisions per second, with bunches of around 100 billion protons now colliding every 50ns inside the detectors.
CQP's paper has appeared in the New Journal of Physics.4 April 2012CQP's paper, 'Quantum interference and manipulation of entanglement in silicon wire waveguide quantum circuits', appears as an article in the New Journal of Physics.
Bristol teenagers and the ethics of nanotechnology23 March 2012Teenagers in a Bristol school joined Dr Annela Seddon and a group of Bristol PhD students in a Europe-wide debate about the ethical, social and legal questions associated with nanoscience on Tuesday 20 March.
Soft Matter Conference 201215 March 2012During 15-17 April 2012 we are hosting a special conference to mark the retirement of Professor Bob Evans
IOP poster prize awarded to Bristol student15 March 2012Tom Fenech, a second year PhD student with the Nanophysics and Soft Matter group, University of Bristol has been awarded a commendation and prize for his poster at the recent Institute of Physics (IOP) conference.
The Kurt Hoselitz memorial fund15 March 2012The School of Physics was delighted to welcome members of Professor Kurt Hoselitz's family in a recent visit to the university.
An analysis of the changes in A-level physics and mathematics22 February 2012New undergraduate students arriving to study physics at the University of Bristol from 1975 onwards have all taken the same test of their knowledge and understanding of physics and mathematics. Prof Peter Barham's analysis of these test results since 1975 has been published in Physics Education.
Quantum publication is featured as a story on Phys Org.13 February 2012A CQP publication, 'Fast Path and Polarization Manipulation of Telecom Wavelength Single Photons in Lithium Niobate Waveguide Devices', has been featured as a story on the science and technology news website, Phys Org.
CQP article appears on the arXiv.1 February 2012CQP's article, 'Quantum interference and manipulation of entanglement in silicon wire waveguide quantum circuits', appears on the arXiv.
Quantum article featured in Physical Review Letters31 January 2012Our article, 'Fast Path and Polarization Manipulation of Telecom Wavelength Single Photons in Lithium Niobate Waveguide Devices', has appeared in Physical Review Letters