Postdeadline paper prize at Group IV Photonics conference
Dr Mark Thompson has won the Nature Photonics prize for the best postdeadline paper at this year's IEEE Group IV Photonics conference.
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CQP in Applied Physics Letters
CQP's paper, 'Operating quantum waveguide circuits with superconducting single-photon detectors', with our collaborators, has appeared in Applied Physics Letters.
Quantum Communications Hub Launch
Members of the Centre for Quantum Photonics attended the Quantum Communications Hub launch event at the Ron Cooke Hub building at the University of York on 4th June.
Leaders of the Quantum Technologies revolution come to Bristol for BQIT:16
From the 6 - 8th April 2016, 200 academics and industry leaders headed to Bristol for the annual Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop (BQIT) 2016.
Materials science research celebrated at student conference
Interface Analysis Centre PhD student Jolene Cook wins award at a recent conference held in Bristol.
Adventures in Japan – Reactor Cores and Dragon Eggs
In October 2018 a team from the University of Bristol, led by RAIN researchers Professor Tom Scott and Dr Yannick Verbelen with Dr Chris Hutson and PhD student Dean Connor ventured to Japan, flying first to Osaka for a visit to collaboration partners at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute (KURRI).
Could ‘Iron Man’ style suit be the answer to the world’s biggest nuclear challenge?
If wearable technologies are the future, a radioactive-busting robotic suit could represent yet one more dramatic step into the beyond.
MScR in Global Environmental Challenges
Bristol physicists fly drone over Old Trafford to research landmine clearance
University of Bristol physicists researching how drones can be used to speed up landmine clearance flew a drone over Old Trafford on Monday 4th April 2016 – UN International Day for Mine Awareness – to demonstrate how large, football pitch-sized areas can be mapped quickly.
Bristol physicists get knotted at Orkney International Science Festival
On a Monday evening in early September, Bristol theorists Keith Alexander and Professor Mark Dennis explained to a packed audience how knots appear in physical science. Topics covered, from knotted whirlpools of water to topological quantum field theory, highlighted Bristol research on knotted optical vortices and tangled protein configurations.