£1.7m Leverhulme award for Bristol-Durham knot theory collaboration9 April 2014The Leverhulme Trust has awarded a prestigious Research Programme Grant to a collaboration between the Universities of Bristol and Durham for a project titled ‘SPOCK: Scientific Properties of Complex Knots’.
£4.1million funding for new Centre for Doctoral Training in Condensed Matter Physics28 March 2014A new Centre for Doctoral Training in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Bristol and University of Bath has received £4.1million funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), it was announced today by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt. Hon George Osborne MP
How the real world counterpart of Tattoine would have formed7 February 2014Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine would have formed far, far from its current location in the Star Wars universe, a new University of Bristol study into its real world counterparts, observed by the Kepler space telescope, suggests.