News
On this page we highlight a number of recent news stories from the School of Physics and Astronomy. Major news items are also published on the University's news pages.
Please send new stories to ian.maclaren@glasgow.ac.uk
Physicist on "Coast" on the BBC
Dr Johannes Courtial from the School of Physics & Astronomy recently appeared as an expert in an episode of the BBC programme "Coast"...
Launch Day of the EPSRC National Facility for Aberration Corrected STEM
To mark the launch of the new EPSRC National Facility for Aberration Corrected STEM provided by SuperSTEM and funded by EPSRC, SuperSTEM held an opening ceremony with inauguration lectures and a poster and discussion session on Wednesday 11 January 2012
Professor John Brown is awarded the 2012 Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal.
Professor John Brown, 10th Astronomer Royal for Scotland and former Regius Chair of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow is awarded the 2012 Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal.
40kg Mirror Hangs From Four Glass Fibres
The search for gravitational waves relies on measuring the minute motion of massive mirrors. This requires the mirrors to be isolated from everyday vibrations and hence they are hung by systems of controlled wires - a bit like a puppet!
Glasgow Particle Physicists Star on Newsnight
Newsnight Scotland recently covered the work of the Glasgow experimental particle physicists at CERN, hunting for the Higgs boson....
University of Glasgow part of the new EPSRC National Facility for Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
EPSRC has chosen the SuperSTEM consortium, consisting of the Universities of Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford and led by the University of Leeds, as successful bidder for the £4.5M EPSRC National Facility for Scanning Transmission Electron-Microscopy...
US Honour for Prof Miles Padgett
Professor Miles Padgett has been elected to fellowship of the Optical Society of America (OSA) ...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Group on a trip to the Sun
The European Space Agency has selected the Solar Orbiter Mission as one of its next two missions to fly...
Innovative renewables technology firm NGenTec working with the Kelvin Nanocharacterisation Centre
Dr Damien McGrouther is working with NGenTec on the selection of rotor materials for on- and off-shore wind energy production
University of Glasgow blazes a trail for women in physics
The School of Physics and Astronomy has been officially recognised by the Institute of Physics (IOP) for efforts made to reduce gender inequality
Graduate student wins conference prize
Jacqui Romero of the Optics Group, was invited to speak at the prestigious meeting of the Rank Prize Fund on "Optical Implementation of Quantum Information", where she was awarded the prize for the best student talk.
Poster Prize Success for Robert Beacham
Robert Beacham, a PhD student in the Materials and Condensed Matter Physics research group, was awarded a prize for one of the best three student posters at the recent EMAG 2011 conference in Birmingham...
Conference Poster Prize Success
Nuclear Physics PhD Student Rachel Montgomery picked up a Best Poster Prize for her poster "Multianode Photomultiplier Tube Studies for Imaging Applications"....
Entanglement's next dimension
The spooky link between distant objects is the hallmark of Quantum Physics, where measurement at one location gives instantaneous knowledge about another...
Giles Hammond appointed a member of the Young Academy of Scotland
Giles Hammond has been appointed as a member of the new Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland. The academy comprises 68 members from academic institutions and industry throughout Scotland.
iStore App places the microworld at your fingertips
Controlling the position of cells and other micron sized objects with your own fingers tips is now something we can all do at home...