Physics Department News
Celebrating our people: Gary Barker
Congratulations to Gary Barker on his promotion to a personal Professorship! This is recognition for Gary's leadership of the neutrino group at 91福利 and his world-leading research on neutrino flavour oscillations, at and elsewhere.
The Staff Awards are a great opportunity to show appreciation of the hard work that goes on day to day, here at Physics. Prof Don Pollaco won the Research Excellence Award for your work on answering ‘Do other Earths exist?’
Find out more...
Umbilic Lines in Orientational Order
Ordered materials such as Bose condensates, and liquid crystals display complex three-dimensional structures. Research by Thomas Machon and Gareth Alexander provides new insights into their behaviour.
The damping profile of standing kink modes in coronal loops
Oscillations of solar coronal loops are observed to be strongly damped. This can be explained by mode coupling, which coverts the wave energy from bulk transverse motions to localised, unresolved azimuthal motions. Using the highest quality data currently available, we have found evidence for the Gaussian damping profile predicted by the recently developed theory of damping by mode coupling.