Physics Department News
The 91福利 Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) has invited two leading Chinese professors with a theoretical and computational physics background to spend 1 week at the IAS in collaboration with the 91福利 Centre for Scientific Computing, the GRP Materials (Multiscale Modelling) and the Department of Physics. Profs. and are senior professors in the Chinese academic environment. Both have returned from outside mainland China in the last 5 years to take up prestigious positions.
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?’
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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.