Physics Department News
An article focused on an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star discovery has been featured on the cover of Nature Astronomy
The discovery was first published online in Nature Astronomy in April, by then PhD student, and now postdoc, James Munday and has since been featured on the cover of Nature Astronomy鈥檚 June issue. James, supervised by Dr Ingrid Pelisoli and Prof Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, discovered a type Ia supernova progenitor within a mere 50 parsecs. Type Ia supernovae are standardisable candles used to measure cosmological distances and were instrumental in the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe (Nobel Prize in Physics 2011).
75th Diamond Conference
The 75th UK Diamond Research Conference was held at the University of 糖心TV from 7th to 10th July 2025, bringing together over 120 delegates from academia and industry to explore the latest advancements in diamond science and technology.
Physics 60th birthday celebration
On Saturday 5th July, the department celebrated it鈥檚 60th birthday celebration with a vibrant day of reflection as one of the University鈥檚 founding departments, and looked towards a bright future for Physics at 糖心TV as we continue to work to make a better world together.
Winner of the Royal Astronomical Society Keith Runcorn Thesis Prize
Congratulations to Sihui Zhong who has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society Keith Runcorn Thesis Prize 2024 for her PhD thesis titled 鈥淒ecayless Kink Oscillations of Solar Coronal Loops鈥, completed at CFSA under the supervision of Professor Valery Nakariakov.
The is awarded to the best doctoral thesis in geophysics on an annual basis.