Departmental News
PhD Studentships for 2010 Mon 16 Nov 2009Details of our new PhD Studentships are now available. read more »
Physics Colloquium - Tuesday 20th October Mon 12 Oct 2009Fingers of Sound for Processing Exotic Materials in Space read more »
Dr. Blondel interviewed by BBC Mon 12 Oct 2009Dr. Philippe Blondel has been interviewed live on BBC Radio Bristol read more »
New PhD opportunity in Silicon Quantum Transport Thu 01 Oct 2009The project, to commence in October 2009 or as soon as possible thereafter, will investigate electronic properties of low-dimensional electrons and holes, both separately and simultaneously generated in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) nanostructures. read more »
Welcome Dr Kei Takashina Fri 18 Sep 2009Dr Kei Takashina jopins us from NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Atsugi, Japan. read more »
Students win ‘Dragon’s Den’ style national enterprise campaign Fri 21 Aug 2009Two students from the University of Bath have won £5,000 and business backing in a national enterprise competition to develop their idea for producing healthy frozen yoghurt. read more »
A Watched Nanopillar Always Bends… Tue 18 Aug 2009UK researchers have solved a rather bendy nanotechnology problem by realising that observation itself, rather than an inherent property, can be at fault. read more »
Outreach: schoolchildren study rocket science Wed 15 Jul 2009Teams of school children from Bath and Wiltshire put their physics skills to the test when they compete to build the best water rocket at the University of Bath. read more »
PhD student Melanie Keogh wins Young Scientists Silver Medal Tue 07 Jul 2009PhD student Melanie Keogh won the Young Scientists Silver Medal for her presentation and paper given at the 3rd Underwater Acoustic Measurements conference in Greece in June 2009 read more »
IOP’s Maxwell Medal and Prize to Dr Skryabin! Wed 01 Jul 2009Dr Dmitry Skryabin, Reader in Physics, has been announced as the recipient of the Maxwell Medal and Prize 2009 by the Institute of Physics. read more »
Laughton, Mathlin, Stone to be awarded University Prizes Mon 29 Jun 2009The Department of Physics is having an exceptional year for the award of University Prizes, with Prizes going to Dr. Frances Laughton, Dr. Gary Mathlin and PhD student Jim Stone. read more »
Exploring the Oceans with Sonar - New book by Bath physicist Thu 21 May 2009Written by Philippe Blondel, the Handbook of Sidescan Sonar describes the most up-to-date methods of mapping the seafloor read more »
MPhys Project leads to Journal Publication Thu 23 Apr 2009Work done for an MPhys final year project in the last three months of 2008 produced new and exciting results which will be published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters. The authors of the paper, ‘Coupling between positron-atom scattering channels above the first inelastic threshold’, are final year MPhys students Nicola Cheesman and Liz Lowry, along with their project supervisor Paul Coleman. read more »
Welcome Lucy D'Arcy-Young Wed 25 Mar 2009The Department is pleased to welcome Lucy D'Arcy-Young into our Administration team, as our Secretary for Undergraduate Programmes read more »
Congratulations Professor Wilding! Fri 20 Mar 2009Congratulations to Nigel Wilding on being promoted to a Personal Chair in Physics read more »
Scientists crack controversial glass mystery Mon 09 Feb 2009More than 2,000 years after the discovery of glass, scientists at the University of Bath, in collaboration with the University of Nottingham and the University of California, have got a step closer to solving the mystery of why it behaves like a solid when its molecular structure looks like a liquid. read more »
Welcome to Dr. Alessandro Narduzzo Wed 07 Jan 2009Dr. Alessandro Narduzzo joined the Department on Monday 5th January as a Teaching Fellow read more »
RAE 2008: Physics at Bath top-rated for research!! Thu 18 Dec 2008The results of the nation-wide research assessment exercise (RAE 2008) are published today, 18th December 2008. The results show that research in Physics at Bath is nationally leading. read more »
Could graphite from pencils replace silicon in microchips? Tue 16 Dec 2008A new research centre studying the properties of the thinnest known conducting material, graphene, has been announced by the Universities of Bath and Exeter. read more »
Ultrasonics on the International Space Station! Tue 18 Nov 2008A major piece of acoustic equipment, developed by Bath Physicists, has been loaded onto the International Space Station read more »
Bath Physics postgraduate wins national prize for PhD Tue 04 Nov 2008Dana Abdulmalik, who performed her PhD research in the Department of Physics from 2004-2007 in Professor Paul Coleman’s positron laboratory, has been awarded a National Excellence Award for her PhD in her home country of Qatar read more »
Electron shuttle developed at the University of Bath Mon 03 Nov 2008A research team of physicists and chemists led by Bath’s Dr Sergey Gordeev has demonstrated a nano-scale mechanical shuttle read more »
Nanoparticle immobilisation using electron-beam induced deposition Mon 20 Oct 2008An important area of nanotechnology is the fabrication of hybrid devices in which one or more nanoparticles play the role of the key functional elements read more »
Visiting Professor appointed in Physics Wed 15 Oct 2008The University of Bath has appointed Jacques Yves Guigné as Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics. Professor Guigné is a Senior Executive and Chief Scientist of PanGeo Subsea Inc. a corporation focused on advancing techniques for seabed mapping. read more »
Jonathan Knight interviewed by Sciencewatch.com Mon 06 Oct 2008Professor Jonathan Knight from the Department of Physics and the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials has been interviewed by Sciencewatch, the Thomson Reuters Service which uses ISI data on scientific publications to track trends in research. read more »
Philippe Blondel listens to whales in British Columbia Wed 01 Oct 2008Philippe Blondel has spent some of the summer listening to Grey whales finding food read more »
New facilities for Physics students Mon 29 Sep 2008As the 2008/2009 academic year gets underway the Department of Physics is opening several new facilities to students. read more »
Be Nice to Particles Day at the Bath SLC Tue 23 Sep 2008Rather than smashing them together in violent collisions, the SLC at Bath is much kinder to particles read more »
Final-year project wins Oldfield Award Tue 16 Sep 2008Melanie Young, who received her M.Phys. degree in Mathematics and Physics at the summer graduation ceremony, has been awarded third prize of the prestigious Oldfield Award at the Annual Conference of the Society of Glass Technology read more »
A big day for Physics Tue 16 Sep 2008A big day for Physics as the LHC circulates its first protons The 10th September saw the first proton beams being injected into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva (see http://www.lhc.ac.uk/). read more »
New book on Animal Social Networks Fri 22 Aug 2008A new book “Exploring Animal Social Networks” co-authored by a Bath academic provides a practical guide to animal social networks for both researchers and students. read more »
New Head for Physics Fri 22 Aug 2008The Department of Physics has a new Head of Department, who is appointed for the next three years. read more »
CPPM Turns 3! Wed 30 Jul 2008The Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials (CPPM) is 3 years old this month! read more »
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