DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY Professor Bob Warwick Head of Department.

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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY Professor Bob Warwick Head of Department

Department of Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics & Space Science Research at Leicester First sounding rocket experiment – 1961 Development of an internationally competitive research programme in: X-ray Astronomy Involvement in highly successful missions such as: Ariel V, Einstein, EXOSAT, Ginga, ROSAT, Chandra, XMM Parallel Developments in: Radio & Space Plasma Physics, Theoretical Astrophysics The Queen’s Anniversary Prize 1994 “A world-class teaching, research and consultancy programme in astronomy, space and planetary science”

Department of Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics & Space Science Cont. Purpose-built Space Research Centre (SRC) opened in 1998 Second phase of SRC building opened 2002

Department of Physics and Astronomy ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS & SPACE SCIENCE RESEARCH IN THE DEPARTMENT Theoretical Astrophysics Group Radio and Space Plasma Physics Group X-ray and Observational Astronomy Group Space Research Group (Instrumentation, Earth Observation Science, Space Projects)

Department of Physics and Astronomy The Scale of the PPARC Programme at Leicester Academic staff engaged on PPARC programmes  20 New academic posts  7 SRIF2: Computing/Instrumentation  £1.7 million Research staff engaged on PPARC programmes  60 Clerical/Technical Support Staff  PPARC grants  £17.7 million Postgraduate students  30

Department of Physics and Astronomy Major PPARC Research Projects in the Department EPIC instrument on XMM-Newton (ESA PI) XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (ESA PI) HF Radar, SPEAR on Svalbard Host of UKAFF Supercomputer Major role in AstroGrid (e-science) Instruments for Swift, JWST and Bepi-Columbo

The Radio and Space Plasma Physics Group’s new SPEAR (Space Plasma Exploration by Active Radar) facility on Svalbard. Wave-wave interactions stimulated by SPEAR

Beagle 2 Instrument Development in the SRC PLANETARY EXPLORATION Cassini at Saturn BepiColombo at Mercury

Department of Physics and Astronomy A Neutron Star/Black Hole Encounter

Accreting Black-holes in the Nearby Galaxy M101 OPTICAL X-RAY

Subaru /XMM-Newton Deep Field OPTICAL X-RAY