Next Physics Colloquium Event 12th December: "Mathematics, Physics, Biology and the 2nd law of Thermodynamics"
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
News in 2022
Next Physics Colloquium Event 5th December: "The SKA precursor telescope MeerKAT: New results from a next-generation radio telescope"
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
NASA’s space telescope reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before
The largest telescope in space, also known as JWST, has just scored another first: a molecular and chemical profile of a distant world’s skies.
Quantum Matter Seminar 25th November: "High-Tc superconductivity in strongly overdoped cuprates"
This seminar is on the topic of high-Tc superconductivity in extremely overdoped (p 0.4) cuprates synthesised with high-pressure oxygenation. It will be presented Prof. Andrea Gauzzi (IMPMC, Sorbonne University).
Next Physics Colloquium Event 21st November: "From Randomness to the Arrow of Time"
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
Quantum Matter Seminar 18th November: "Superspintronics for next-generation information and quantum technologies"
This seminar on the topic of superconducting spintronics will be presented by Dr Niladri Banerjee (Department of Physics, Loughborough University)
Next Physics Colloquium Event 7th November: ‘Hints of a new force of nature by the LHCb experiment at CERN’
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
Hard Condensed Matter Seminar 28th October: "Electron localization in the organic quantum spin liquid κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu2(CN)3”
This seminar on the topic of electron localisation will be presented by Matija Čulo (Institute of Physics, Bijenička cesta 46, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia).
'Supporting Quantum Inclusion & Diversity (SQuID)' event to take place from 7-8 December
This two-day event is aimed at encouraging all students from underrepresented groups (LGBTQ+, racially minoritised students, students with disabilities, neurodiverse, female and non-binary students) to consider continuing their quantum technology studies at the PhD level.
Dr Thomas Purves wins doctoral prize for thesis
Each faculty is allocated an award, with Purves as the prize winner for the Faculty of Science.
Hard Condensed Matter Seminar October 21st: "Is high-temperature superconductivity in hydrogen-based compounds possible at low pressures?”
This seminar on the topic of superconductivity will be presented by Ion Errea (University of the Basque Country, Spain).
Materials and Devices Newsletter October 2022
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Next Physics Colloquium Event: October 24th, presented by Prof. Dave Phillips (University of Exeter)
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
Materials and Devices Newsletter August 2022
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PhD student wins prize at Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity conference
Sam Cross was awarded prize poster at the Vancouver conference
Undergraduate Student Tackles Environmental Challenges at the European Scientific Institute
3rd year Physics Undergraduate Poppy Silk has just taken part in the I.FAST CBI (I.FAST - Innovation Fostering in Accelerator Science and Technology, CBI - Challenge Based Innovation)
EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow Jake Ayres awarded fellowship to carry out research into 'strange metal' regimes
EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow Jake Ayres has been awarded an Early Career Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to undertake research within the School of Physics into the “strange metal” regimes of certain inorganic and organic high temperature superconductors.
Materials & Devices Newsletter June 2022
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West Country family gives £7.7m to create physics PhDs in perpetuity
A West Country family will fund a new generation of gifted physicists, after leaving the University of Bristol nearly £8million in their wills.
Climate Day of Action Event
A series of talks and discussion about sustainable research in the School of Physics to mark the Climate Day of Action
2022 Institute of Physics, Superconductivity Group Thesis Prize awarded to Jake Ayres
We congratulate Jake Ayres, who was awarded the prize for their thesis, 'Correlated Electron Systems Under Extreme Conditions'.
Bristol set to supercharge growth of next generation zero carbon emission technology
Power transformers currently the size of shipping containers delivering energy to homes and businesses across the UK could be shrunk to the size of a suitcase, thanks to a pioneering process which deploys a new supercharged material with unprecedented levels of efficiency.
Bristol set to supercharge growth of next generation zero carbon emission technology
Power transformers currently the size of shipping containers delivering energy to homes and businesses across the UK could be shrunk to the size of a suitcase, thanks to a pioneering process which deploys a new supercharged material with unprecedented levels of efficiency.
Materials & Devices Newsletter April 2022
First Materials and Devices newsletter - April 2022
Research group investigates the superconducting energy gap structure in a range of unconventional superconductors
The group, led by Prof. Antony Carrington, probed the energy gap in order to gain insight into electron pairing within these superconducting compounds.