The IAC goes back to school
The reception students at Southville Primary School are currently studying the differences between liquids and solids.
News in 2013
Nanopolycrystalline Metals
developed by Dr Sunthar Mahalingam
Accelerating world-class natural science research
Dr Jaap Velthuis of the School of Physics and Dr Joachim Gottsmann of the School of Earth Sciences have received a NERC award to accelerate the impact of their research.
Incomplete Airy beams - a prizewinning paper
Dr James Ring has been awarded the 2013 Graduate School Paper Prize.
Countdown to the galactic census: Europe's billion-star surveyor is ready for launch
On 19 December 2013, Europe’s billion-star surveyor is due to be launched into space where it will embark on its mission to create a highly accurate 3D map of our galaxy.
Creating the next generation of engineers and scientists
The Universities and Science Minister, David Willetts, will provide details of how a £350 million fund will be used to train tomorrow’s engineers and scientists at an event in London today.
What happened when the German physicists came to stay
The fascinating story of what happened eighty years ago when German physicists came to Bristol features in the Autumn edition of Nonesuch magazine.
Food science and the School of Physics
Professor Peter Barham featured in a recent FT Magazine.
School of Physics Newsletter - October 2013
The third School of Physics Newsletter is published today.
Dr John Wilson
Dr John Wilson, retired George Wills Senior Research Fellow in Physics, died on 7 October 2013.
Professor Sir Michael Berry Awards in India and the USA
Congratulations to Professor Sir Michael Berry, who was awarded a Doctor of Science at Hyderabad - and has also been selected to give the Richtmyer Memorial Lecture by the American Association of Physics Teachers
Research Frontiers in Radioactive Waste Management
This meeting will bring together scientists and engineers to showcase R&D in all aspects of managing the UK radioactive waste legacy, including: decommissioning technologies, waste characterisation, treatment, packaging, and disposal; site remediation; and radiation effects.
Professor Evans to be awarded the 2014 European Physical Society Liquid Matter Prize
Professor Bob Evans is to be awarded the 2014 European Physical Society Liquid Matter Prize in July 2014.
Publication in Nature Communications
Direct measurement of osmotic pressure via adaptive confinement of quasi hard disc colloid
PhD student at British Science Festival
Beccie Whittaker was a prizewinner at the British Science Festival in Newcastle.
Well done Ruth
Congratulations to Dr Ruth Oulton who won a prize for her talk at Complex Nano-Photonics Conference titled "Light-matter angular momentum exchange: beyond 'spin' and 'orbital' angular momentum'. Well done Ruth!
Well done Mark
Dr Mark Thompson has been awarded EPSRC early career fellowship on "Silicon Quantum Photonics". Well done Mark.
Bristol nanophysics visits China
Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials (BCFN) staff and students presented their work in China recently.
Dr Derek Parsons
Dr Derek Parsons, retired Lecturer and Departmental Administrator in Physics, died on 22 August 2013.
Physics Bates Prize
Physics Bates Prize
Congratulations Beccie
Science Festival in Newcastle
Congratulation Jorge
Congratulations Jorge
World Economic Forum
Annual Meeting of the New Champions
BBC News
BBC News
BBC Radio interview
BBC Radio interview
Professor Popescu awarded Templeton Frontiers Program Visiting Research Chair at Perimeter Institute
Professor Sandu Popescu has been awarded the Templeton Frontiers Program Visiting Research Chair.
Graduate lectures
Welcome to Nicolas Brunner who is giving a graduate lecture series this week
New postdoc position
Postdoc position available at CQP – please see advert
School of Physics Graduation 2013
Physics graduates of 2013
New PhD students
Welcome to Alex Neville who is starting a PhD at CQP
The great physics bake off
Physics baking enthusiasts hold a first Physics Bake Off!
Computer programming, antigravity, and the Large Hadron Collider
The School of Physics welcomed 11 students for a week's work experience.
Well done Arturs
Arturs Thijssen successfully defends his thesis – Well done Arturs
CQP welcomes Universities and Science minister
CQP welcomes Universities and Science minister
Bristol's School of Physics is a Juno Practitioner
The University of Bristol's School of Physics is delighted to be awarded the status of Juno Practitioner by the Institute of Physics.
Launch of world-leading power electronics research centre
A Centre for Power Electronics that will focus on delivering the underpinning science and engineering behind many low carbon technologies from electric vehicles to renewable energy generation and distribution has been launched thanks to funding of £18 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
CQP Physics welcomes new visitor
Welcome to Ivo Straka who is working with CQP for a couple of weeks from the Palacky University, Czech Republic
Students involved in Access to Affordable Sustainable Energy project
Adam Smith, who will be graduating next week, is now working in a Bristol-based energy development charity.
Paddy Royall and Alex Malins and collaborators publish colloidal cluster paper in Scientific Reports
Dr Paddy Royall, Alex Malins (PhD student in the School of Chemistry) and collaborators recently published a paper in Nature Scientific Reports.
School of Physics student society is the Best!
It's official - we've always known Chaos, the School of Physics' student society, is pretty good. But now this has been confirmed as the University of Bristol Students' Union (UBU) has awarded Chaos the Best Student Society acolade in the recent UBU awards.