For Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy
Students and staff from a local primary school were impressed with the outreach activities delivered by members of the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute. On Wednesday the 10th of September, Lecturer Dr Joanne Bibby and PhD student Dominic Bowman entertained staff members and pupils of New Longton All Saints Primary School. The Read More …
An international team of astronomers, including UCLan’s Prof Brad Gibson, has produced new maps of the material between the stars in the Milky Way that should move scientists closer to cracking a stardust puzzle that has vexed them for nearly a century. The maps and an accompanying journal article appear Read More …
International researchers are a step closer to understanding the birth of the solar system. Published in Science (August 1st, 2014), a multi-national research team led by Dr Maria Lugaro of Monash University, including Professor Brad Gibson from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), has investigated the solar system’s prehistoric phase Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …