The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has brought together the county’s most promising young scientists to celebrate their abilities and achievements in physics at a special awards evening. It is the fifth time UCLan has hosted the Lancashire Schools’ Physicist of the Year Awards event which is sponsored by the Read More …
JHI Mathematician in Royal Line-Up at IMA@50.
Danielle Bewsher, one of the mathematics staff in the JHI, attended the IMA@50 event at the Royal Society on Wednesday 14th May to help celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA). The event collected together a series of presentations highlighting the work of the Read More …
ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTED IN NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY!
Our recent Nano Letters article was mentioned alongside another beautiful paper on molecular quasicrystals in the Research Highlights editorial of the journal Nature Nanotechnology. You can read about our paper below. The other paper uses a molecule (ferrocenecarboxylic acid) that agglomerates in pentagonal clusters on a gold surface. This kind Read More …
New Memorial to Jeremiah Horrocks.
On 6th April 2014 a memorial service was held in Much Hoole parish Church to commemorate the life of Jeremiah Horrocks. The service was taken by the Right Reverend Julian Henderson, Bishop of Blackburn, who blessed a new weather-vane on the church tower, depicting the 2012 transit of Venus. The Read More …
FIRST OBSERVATION OF TEMPLATED QUASICRYSTALLINE MOLECULAR ORDERING
Our latest publication (in Nano Letters) describes the first observations of molecular layers on a quasicrystal that are induced to show quasicrystalline ordering. The quality of ordering is astonishing, with every molecule situated in a location consistent with the underlying quasicrystal. Once again, those workhorse molecules, carbon-60 and pentacene, are Read More …
Interplanetary dust ring discovered near Venus
Researchers at the Open University and the University of Central Lancashire have confirmed the existence of a circumsolar dust ring which encircles the Sun and closely follows the orbit of Venus. The discovery is reported in the journal Science on 22nd November 2013, and makes use of observations from NASA’s Read More …
Young intern success for Kirsty
Kirsty Brocklehurst, from Lancaster Girl’s Grammer School, was named winner of the Young Researchers Scheme at the University of Central Lancashire for her intern work at the University over the summer. She was awareded this honour at the intern poster exhibition, where interns presented the results from their summer research Read More …
UCLan astronomers help map the three-dimensional structure of the Milky Way’s central bulge
A team of astronomers, including Victor Debattista, who leads UCLan’s Galaxy Dynamics Group, has shown that the bulge of the Milky Way has an X-shape. While these types of bulges have been seen in other galaxies before, the presence of such a bulge has only recently been confirmed in the Read More …
JHI CARD by Nicky Agius – A Dyson’s Dream: Dust in Early Type Galaxies
Leading the first of the PhD student talks, Nicky Agius, a final year student gave a CARD on dust in Early type galaxies. She discussed the various instrumentation and telescopes currently available in two consortia, H-Atlas and GAMA, which she has used to probe the effect of dust. Nicky gave Read More …
JHI CARD by Joanne Bibby – Wolf Rayet stars and their role as Supernova Progenitors
This week’s CARD was given by another member of staff, Joanne Bibby, who has been teaching and running outreach at UCLan for the last year, after a stint at the American Museum of National History in New York. Joanne’s research focusses strongly on large surveys of massive stars in nearby, Read More …