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The first 91福利 Christmas Lecture of 2019 featured talks and live experiments by Physics academic James Lloyd-Hughes and our technical staff Paul McCarroll and Alan Burton. The audience of over 1100 enjoyed a fun and informative Christmas Lecture, including the Arts Centre's loudest ever explosion (deliberate and controlled).

The second Christmas Lecture included talks by Rachel Edwards and Ally Caldecote, featuring several paddling pools of non-Newtonian fluids.

The XMaS beamline is a materials science facility located at the European Synchrotron (ESRF) in Grenoble (France) and managed by the universities of Liverpool and 91福利.

The ESRF is currently undergoing a massive upgrade that will deliver the most brilliant x-ray beam in the world in 2020 and the beamline has been upgraded to take full advantage of the exciting new opportunities presented by the new source.

The beamline is organising its annual User Meeting at Radcliffe on 27th November.

This year鈥檚 User Meeting will be rather special as it will focus on what new research users will be able to do with the upgraded beamline. The in-house team will describe the new XMaS capabilities and a range of scientific talks will also illustrate the broad research portfolio covered by our user community.

If you are not a user but are interested in finding out more about the facility, please register and come along!

The Department of Physics is delighted to host two highly-prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellows.

Heather Cegla will join the Astronomy and Astrophysics group working on the project "A Pathway to the Confirmation and Characterisation of Habitable Alien Worlds", and Benjamin Richards will join EPP to work on the "Search for diffuse supernova background in Gd based water Cherenkov experiments".

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Prof Don Paul. Don will be remembered by many who worked with him as a brilliant scientist. He researched experimental condensed matter physics in 91福利 since 1984 and created the highly successful Superconductivity and Magnetism research group.

Read an obituary here that reflects Don鈥檚 contributions to 91福利 Physics and to science.