Physics Department News
Dr Claire Foullon awarded 5 Year STFC Advanced Fellowship
Dr Claire Foullon, Centre for Fusion, Space & Astrophysics, Department of Physics, has won a 5-year STFC Advanced Fellowship.
The fellowship will fund Dr Foullon’s research into “Flow-Driven Instabilities of the Sun-Earth System”. One good example of this phenomenon is observed in .
As part of the fellowship, she will lay out some ground works in preparation for , due to be launched in 2017 if approved.
Dr Foullon is the first researcher at Warwick to be offered an STFC Advanced Fellowship. Of those applying this year in the UK, only 6.3% were successful.
Feuding helium dwarfs exposed by eclipse
Professor Tom Marsh has been involved in research which has discovered only the second ever eclipsing close white dwarf pair to be found, of which just over 50 close double white dwarfs have been found. Please see the link to the press release for more information
Massive explosion helps Warwick researcher spot Universe’s most distant object
An international team of UK and US astronomers have spotted the most distant explosion, and possibly the most distant object, ever seen in the Universe. Dr Andrew Levan in the Astronomy and Astrophysics group was amongst those who saw the explosion. Please see the below press release for more information
Whitehall Presentations
Nano-Silcon group members Evan Parker and David Williams have been invited to do two presentations at the Government's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in Whitehall next week:
(i) A new perspective on the science of climate change
(ii) New directions in mitigation (with new emphasis on solar energy and geo-engineering)
DECC's Chief Scientific Advisor, Director General and Government Ministers (likely) will be present along with specialists from that Department.