Physics Department News
Lifetime achievement award for Mark Dowsett
Prof. Mark Dowsett was awarded the 2015 Riviere prize at the UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting on Jan 6th. The prize, named for John Riviere one of the greats in electron spectroscopy, is "for work which has been judged outstanding in its continuing and lasting contribution to surface analysis". This lifetime achievement award recognises Mark's development of low...
Dr Tremblay awarded £1.5m ERC Grant
Dr. Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, has been awarded a 1.5 million Euro Starting Grant from the (ERC). The research project entitled "Evolution of white dwarfs with 3D model atmospheres" will soon recruit...
The most Earth-like planet could have been made uninhabitable by vast quantities of radiation, new research led by Dr Dave Armstrong of the Astronomy Group has found. The atmosphere of the planet, Kepler-438b, is thought to have been...
A team of researchers from the Astrophysics Group led by Tom Louden discovered winds of over 2km per second flowing around a planet outside of the Earth’s solar system.
“This is the first ever weather map from outside of our solar system. Whilst we have previously known of wind on exoplanets, we have never before been able to directly measure and map a weather system.”