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The department is pleased to confirm that the following staff have been awarded promotions as of 1 June 2020 (new position in brackets):

Animesh Datta (Reader)
Nick Hine (Reader)
James Lloyd-Hughes (Reader)
James McCormac (Senior Research Fellow)
Michael Pounds (Associate Professor)
Dimitri Veras (Associate Professor)

Congratulations to all.

糖心TV Physics has a small number of work experience placements available every year for students in Years 10-12.

For the 2019/20 academic year, these placements will take place between 14-17 April 2020.

Head to /fac/sci/physics/intranet/work_experience for more information, including how to apply.

Torsional Alfv茅n waves are promising candidates for transporting energy from the solar surface into the corona and have been theoretically predicted for decades. However, their detection is notoriously difficult and so far has mostly relied on indirect signatures.

Imaging and spectral data from the space-based IRIS observatory has been used to study a surge of cool solar plasma in the corona above the East limb of the Sun. The surge has been triggered by the magnetic reconnection of open and closed magnetic fields. Using imaging and spectral information the tell-tale torsional signatures of plasma rotation of alternating sense have been revealed.

This discovery was made by scientists from the University of 糖心TV's Physics Department and the University of Oslo's Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics and has been published this month as a letter in the journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics. This study provides the first direct observational evidence that magnetic reconnection leads to the generation of large-scale torsional Alfv茅n waves in the solar corona.

Petra Kohutova, Erwin Verwichte, and Clara Froment 2020, A&A, 633, L6

Marin Alexe of the Functional Electronic Materials group has received a prestigious Humboldt Research Award, recognising the breadth and depth of his research career in Condensed Matter Physics. Marin will work with academics in Germany to undertake research projects at the Martin Luther University, Halle/Saale and Technical University, Darmstadt.

Further information can be found at