Instrumentation from 'Big Physics'

• Christian Killow - Hydroxide catalysis bonding can be used to join any silicate-like material (such as any glass, sapphire etc) to themselves or to metallic materials. Also silicon carbide can be bonded to itself or to other materials possessing an oxide layer through the use of the same technique.
• Professor Jim Hough - gravitational wave detection on ground (GEO 600 and Advanced LIGO) and in space (LISA); ultra stable lasers, ultra sensitive mechanical systems, and investigation of materials of ultra-low mechanical loss.
• Professor Val O'Shea - development of radiation detector systems for applications in high energy physics.
• Professor Sheila Rowan - gravitational wave detection on the ground and in space; ultra sensitive mechanical systems; investigation of materials of ultra-low mechanical loss and construction of mechanically-stable optical systems for interferometric applications.
• Dr Bjoern Seitz - revealing the spin structure of the nucleon and describing the nucleons internal structure in terms of a new class of functions called Generalized Parton Distributions.