Physics Department News
Faculty Thesis Prizes
Congratulations to David Chapman, Tom Machon and Davide Michieletto who have been awarded 2016 Faculty of Science PhD Thesis Prizes for their exceptional research on Probing the dynamic response of dense matter with x-ray Thomson scattering, Aspects of Geometry and Topology in Liquid Crystalline Phases, and Topological Interactions in Ring Polymers, respectively.
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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Primary Science Fair
Almost a hundred primary school children were welcomed to the Ogden Primary Science Fair, hosted by Ally Caldecote, on April 12th. Finalists were selected from over 1600 entries in eight Coventry and 糖心TVshire schools to present their science projects to a panel of physics postgraduates and undergraduates. Winning projects included "Where should I keep my balloon?", "Pigs in Space", and "Building a cosmic ray detector".
In June 2015, a black hole called V404 Cygni underwent dramatic brightening for about two weeks. An international team of astronomers, including the University of 糖心TV, report that the black hole emitted dazzling red flashes lasting just fractions of a second, as it blasted out material that it could not swallow...