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
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.
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
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...
The world as seen through a spinning window
The speed of light is a constant only in space. When light travels through glass, movement of the glass drags the light with it too. Spinning a window as fast as you can is predicted to rotate slightly the image of the world behind it.
Tweezers with a Twist
Richard Bowman, a graduate student in the Optics Group along with his supervisor, Professor Miles Padgett have contributed the cover story to the latest edition of Nature Photonics.
International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Sonja Franke-Arnold and Miles Padgett of the Optics Group give guest lectures at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
Entangled tangles of darkness
Writing in Physics Review Letters, Jacqui Romero of the Optics Group working with her collaborators in Strathclyde and Bristol has shown that knotted lines of darkness embedded optical fields are themselves non-locally entangled.
Dr Peter Sneddon named best teacher in College
At the inaugural PET awards organised by the students representative council, Dr Peter Sneddon was named the best teacher in the College of Science and Engineering
iPad tweezers
As covered by New Scientist, Wired and many other outlets, Richard Bowman of the Optics Groups has just published the use of an Apple iPad to control an optical tweezers.
Glasgow University Astrophysicist honoured by the Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) has announced the election of 45 new Fellows for 2011, to add to its 1500-strong Fellowship of experts in the sciences, arts, humanities, the professions, industry and commerce. Among those elected is Dr Martin Hendry from the School of Physics and Astronomy.
Prof. Hough elected Fellow of the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation
Prof. Jim Hough was recently honoured for his "outstanding contributions in gravitational wave research" (to quote the official citation) by his election to become one of the inaugural fellows of the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation.
The light keeps twisting
Professors Miles Padgett and Stephen Barnett (Strathclyde) have been jointly awarded a £2.5M Programme grant under one of the UK's most prestigious award schemes.
Glasgow Solar Physicist is named RAS 2011 Harold Jeffreys Lecturer
(January 2011) Dr Lyndsay Fletcher, a Reader in Solar Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy, has been named by the Royal Astronomical Society as the 2011 Harold Jeffreys Lecturer