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JHI physicist Dr Karen Syres has chaired an international Summer School on nanoScience@Surfaces which was held in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, 1-4th August 2016. JHI Physics PhD student Zoe Henderson was awarded third place in the poster competition at the event. JHI physicist Dr Karen Syres Read More …
In a huge effort to pin down one of the most important and controversial measurements in modern astrophysics, that of the rate by which stars form in the universe, members of a large international consortia have shown that this is now possible due to the theoretical models of astrophysicist Dr Read More …
A new online tool to visualize how galaxies appear at different wavelengths and orientations has been developed by members of the JHI Extragalactic Research Group (Victor Debattista, Giovanni Natale and Cristina Popescu) in collaboration with an undergraduate student from the computing department (Aaron Cunliffe). The website titled “UCLAN’s Multiwavelength Galaxy Read More …
UCLan hosted Ogden Trust Lancashire Schools’ Physicist of the Year Awards Some of the county’s most talented young scientists came together at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) to celebrate their abilities and achievements in physics at a special awards evening. It was the seventh time UCLan has hosted the Read More …
Recent work of a collaboration of Physicists, including UCLan’s Dr. Paul Freeman, has been published in the Nature journal. Stripe phases are a form of complex matter involving coupled spin and charge order. They are observed in certain copper oxide superconductors, as well as in nickelates and manganites. Some theoreticians Read More …
The JHI is pleased to announce it’s involved with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope UK Consortium. The LSST will be an exciting facility that will make possible a wide range of studies. Here at UCLan within the JHI we are coordinating the UK effort at using LSST to understand the Read More …
The JHI observed the transit of Mercury on the 9th of May 2016. An event which won’t occur again until 2019. JHI members including Dr Daniel Brown, and the general public got to witness the transit of Mercury. streamed to a monitor and outside of Maudland Building. A good number Read More …
Some of the North West’s top budding physicists were put to the test in a regional competition hosted by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and sponsored by the Institute of Physics (IOP). The second IOP North West Undergraduate Physics Challenge was hosted by the UCLan and Royal Institute (RI) Read More …
Dr. Juntai Shen (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences) was awarded a prestigious Newton Advanced Fellowship for his collaborative work with Dr. Victor Debattista (the UK partner at UCLan) entitled “Disentangling the Formation of the Milky Way’s Bulge”. The Fellowship is jointly funded by the Royal Society, the Academy Read More …
Astronomy fans in Preston are celebrating after the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) unveiled a new £200,000 telescope. The highly specialised 0.7m diametre mirror Altitude-Azimuth reflecting telescope has taken pride of place at the University’s Alston Observatory. It is the largest telescope of its kind at a university in the Read More …