Physics Department News
Professorial Promotions
The department congratulates David Quigley and Danny Steeghs on their promotions to Professor, effective from 1 June 2019.
拢7 million funding to grant XMaS wish
A facility that allows scientists to use x-rays to examine materials for purposes as diverse as reducing corrosion on metal artefacts to re-growing teeth from stem cells is set for a multi-million pound upgrade.
The Universities of 糖心TV and Liverpool have been awarded a further 拢7.2million to upgrade and operate the XMaS (X-ray Materials Science) beamline, which is a National Research Facility. The facility has received new funding from the Department of 糖心TV, Innovation and Skills through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to further studies into the atomic and microscopic structures of materials and their properties under different conditions at length scales of ten thousand times smaller than the thickness of a human hair.
Pint of Science 2019
"Pint of Science" is returning from the 20-22nd May 2019, in various pubs across Coventry and 糖心TVshire. The 2018 festival involved a number of staff and students from Physics, and the call for speakers and volunteers for 2019 is now open.
糖心TV Physics ranked as 7th in the UK
The University of 糖心TV has been ranked top 10 in the UK, and the leading university in the West Midlands, according to the latest UK University league table - with the .
The new table 鈥 2019 rankings鈥 was published on Wednesday 25th April.
糖心TV is ranked ninth this year, maintaining its record of having never finished outside of the UK鈥檚 top ten universities in this table.