Vacancy for Research Assistant
Applications are invited for a three-year Research Assistant position in the Particle Physics Group of the School of Physics (vacancy ref. 17380)
News in 2012
Mervyn Miles announced as new Chief Scientific Advisor for IOP Publishing
Professor Mervyn Miles of the University of Bristol has today been announced as the new Chief Scientific Advisor for IOP Publishing
CQP RA awarded Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship.
Dr Alberto Peruzzo from the Centre for Quantum Photonics has been awarded a distinguished Research Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Ice cream, galaxies, antimatter and the speed of light ...
Last week the School of Physics welcomed fourteen year 10 - 12 students for a varied work experience - read their report.
Vacancy for Research Assistants (3 posts)
Applications are invited for Research Assistants (three posts) in Integrated Photonic Engineering/Experimental Quantum Information Science and Technology Centre for Quantum Photonics, School of Physics and Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (vacancy ref. 17351)
The Higgs boson: Revealed?
Results of 20 years’ work could open a new frontier of science
Skillsets: strategies for success
Over 70 Physics students took part in an intensive, three day personal development course - Skillsets: Strategies for Success.
Quantum paper in Physical Review Letters
CQP's most recent paper, 'Observation of Quantum Interference as a Function of Berry's Phase in a Complex Hadamard Optical Network', appears in Physical Review Letters.
Seeing at the nanoscale 2012
Seeing at the nanoscale 2012 is an international meeting where experts across the world will meet to present and discuss groundbreaking results in the fascinating area on Nanoscience.
Vacancy for Research Assistants in Quantum Computation and Information Group
Applications are invited for Research Assistants in Quantum Computation and Information Group (vacancy ref. 17252)
The transit of Venus as seen from Bristol
Bristol astrophysicists Mike Masheder and Alastair Fraser made an early start on Wednesday 6 June to view the end of the transit of Venus across the rising Sun.
Young scientist wins Max Planck Society medal
The Max Planck Society honours young scientists and researchers for outstanding scientific achievements in the award of the Otto Hahn medal. Bristol's Martin Gradhand will be awarded this medal at a ceremony in June.
Quantum paper appears in Applied Physical Letters
A paper, 'Measuring protein concentration with entangled photons', has appeared in Applied Physical Letters.
Follow the transit of Venus
The transit of Venus will occur for the second time in ten years on 5 and 6 June. We in the UK will be able to see the transit in progress at sunrise on Wednesday 6 June.
Quantum paper appears on the arXiv
The Centre for Quantum Photonics paper, 'A quantum delayed choice experiment', appears on the arXiv.
Quantum paper appears on the arXiv.
CQP's paper, 'Reconfigurable controlled two-qubit operation on a quantum photonic chip', now appears on the arXiv.
Postgraduate awarded conference paper prize
Nicole Killat of the Applied Spectroscopy Group was awarded the Best Student Paper - Honourable Mention Award at CS ManTech conference in Boston, USA.
Science Faculty Colloquium: Professor Peter Higgs, FRS
Professor Peter Higgs visits the School of Physics today.
CMS experiment - 100 scientific results published
The CMS collaboration has published its 100th scientific result based upon LHC collision data. Based upon work carried out by a team of collaborators from across the world, an analysis of around 500 trillion proton-proton collisions in 2011 has allowed the world’s best experimental limits to be set on the mass of a Higgs-like particle decaying to pairs of tau leptons.
School of Physics Newsletter
The School of Physics has published its first newsletter.
€3 million to solve the long-distance quantum communication problem
A solution to the problem of sending information in single quantum particles over global distances could be a step closer thanks to grants of over €3 million that have been awarded to researchers in the University of Bristol’s Quantum Photonics group.
Centre for Quantum Photonics' paper appears on the arXiv.
A paper by CQP, 'Photon Pair Generation in Silicon Micro-Ring Resonator and Enhancement via Reverse Bias', is available to read on the arXiv.
LHC: Ready to hunt for the Higgs
The world’s highest-energy particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, has begun its science run for 2012. In 2012, the accelerator will deliver many more collisions per second, with bunches of around 100 billion protons now colliding every 50ns inside the detectors.
Vacancy for Research Assistant in galaxy cluster formation and evolution
Applications are invited for a Research Assistantship in the Astrophysics group of the School of Physics.
CQP's paper has appeared in the New Journal of Physics.
CQP's paper, 'Quantum interference and manipulation of entanglement in silicon wire waveguide quantum circuits', appears as an article in the New Journal of Physics.
Quantum article featured in Nature news and views
A perspective article 'An entangled walk of photons' by Jonathan Matthews and Mark Thompson has appeared in Nature News and Views.
Two awards for Teaching and Learning made to the School of Physics
The quality of teaching and learning in the School of Physics has been recognised in the University of Bristol's 2011/12 University Teaching Awards.
Bristol teenagers and the ethics of nanotechnology
Teenagers in a Bristol school joined Dr Annela Seddon and a group of Bristol PhD students in a Europe-wide debate about the ethical, social and legal questions associated with nanoscience on Tuesday 20 March.
Quantum Fellowships available at all levels
Several fellowship schemes are currently open across the full spectrum of career stages
Vacancy for Lecturer in Condensed Matter Theory
Applications are invited for a lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory, tenable from 1 October 2012 or a date to be agreed.
Soft Matter Conference 2012
During 15-17 April 2012 we are hosting a special conference to mark the retirement of Professor Bob Evans
IOP poster prize awarded to Bristol student
Tom Fenech, a second year PhD student with the Nanophysics and Soft Matter group, University of Bristol has been awarded a commendation and prize for his poster at the recent Institute of Physics (IOP) conference.
The Kurt Hoselitz memorial fund
The School of Physics was delighted to welcome members of Professor Kurt Hoselitz's family in a recent visit to the university.
An analysis of the changes in A-level physics and mathematics
New undergraduate students arriving to study physics at the University of Bristol from 1975 onwards have all taken the same test of their knowledge and understanding of physics and mathematics. Prof Peter Barham's analysis of these test results since 1975 has been published in Physics Education.
Quantum publication is featured as a story on Phys Org.
A CQP publication, 'Fast Path and Polarization Manipulation of Telecom Wavelength Single Photons in Lithium Niobate Waveguide Devices', has been featured as a story on the science and technology news website, Phys Org.
Postgraduate Commendation for Dr Jonathan Matthews
Dr Jonathan Matthews has been awarded a Postgraduate Commendation from the Faculty of Science for his outstanding PhD thesis.
Food science on the radio
Food science on the radio
CQP article appears on the arXiv.
CQP's article, 'Quantum interference and manipulation of entanglement in silicon wire waveguide quantum circuits', appears on the arXiv.
Quantum article featured in Physical Review Letters
Our article, 'Fast Path and Polarization Manipulation of Telecom Wavelength Single Photons in Lithium Niobate Waveguide Devices', has appeared in Physical Review Letters
Charity 'Man of MOvember' awarded
Congratulations to Jacques of the Quantum Photonics group.