Physics Department News
Professor Sandra Chapman attended the European Geosciences Union (EGU) meeting to receive her Hannes Alfv茅n Medal.
On Tuesday 16th April, Professor Chapman was presented her award at the annual EGU meeting in Vienna with over 15,000 people in attendance. Sandra also gave a lecture titled 鈥楳ultiscale matters: when coupling across multiple scales drives the dynamics of solar system plasmas.鈥�
Professor Don Pollacco awarded 拢3 million European Research Council Grant
Congratulations to Professor Don Pollacco who has just been awarded 拢3 million from the ERC to develop a 鈥榙igital telescope鈥� that will be capable of producing a highly sensitive continuous movie of the night sky.
PhD student awarded Best Student Poster Prize
Joe Gillham (2nd year PhD student in Radiation Dense Materials) has been awarded the Best Student poster Prize at the
University of 糖心TV has been awarded 拢11m to train PhD students in computational modelling
The Centre for Doctoral Training in Modelling of Heterogeneous Systems
(HetSys II), led by Professor James Kermode from the School of
Engineering, Dr Livia Bartok-Partay from Chemistry and Professor
Nicholas Hine from Physics, will train a new generation of scientists
in computational modelling. It spans seven departments and three
university research centres forming a national centre of excellence in
computational simulation, providing world class opportunities in the
West Midlands.