1. Industry Day 19th March 2018 Prof. David Leadley, Head of Department
Warwick Physics
Industry Day 19th March 2018
Prof. David Leadley, Head of Department

2. Department of Physics 70 academic staff 75 research fellows
150 research students
650 undergraduates
20 technical + 20 admin staff
Introduces the people in the dept. and what they might have to offer.

3. Interdisciplinary Activity

4. Undergraduates
Warwick Physics is one of the top UK centres for undergraduate physics, in quality and numbers of students.
Employers name Warwick as a top choice for their graduate recruitment.
Students enter as Physics or Mathematics and Physics, study 3 years for a BSc or 4 years for an MPhys degree. Intake of 200 per year.
Core modules introduce fundamental principles.
Options explore applications in astrophysics, materials, medicine, lasers, geophysics, and many other areas of physics and maths.
Final year students embedded in research group for a major project.
Opportunities for summer research projects and industrial placements.

5. Postgraduates International Dimensions
Warwick Physics recruits > 30 PhDs p.a. plus 1-year MSc by Research.
Individual projects and cohorts in Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT).
A quarter of PhDs have industrial support.
Industrial placements available during course.
PhD programme includes advanced graduate lectures and transferrable skills.
International Dimensions
A third of postgraduates are non-UK
Join multi-national research projects.
Experiments in large facilities across the globe.
All PhDs present work at international conferences.

6. Physics Research Clusters
Condensed Matter Physics
Theoretical Physics
Elementary Particle Physics
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Centre for Fusion, Space & Astrophysics

7. Condensed Matter: Magnetic Resonance
Centre for Magnetic Resonance, 13 NMR magnets, UK National Facility for 850 MHz SS-NMR.
Multinuclear solid-state NMR methodology
Application to materials science, chemistry, life sciences and physics.
Talk to: Prof. Steven Brown
Diamond Science and Technology – extreme properties.
Engineer and exploit the defects.
Deliver diamond enabled solutions e.g. to water quality monitoring and quantum computing.
Very strong links with DeBeers family of companies.
Talk to: Prof. Mark Newton

8. Condensed Matter: Nanoscale Physics
Thin film growth by epitaxy & pulsed laser deposition
Group IV & III-V semiconductors, incl. SiGe, SiC, nitrides, antimonides, magnetic semiconductors, half metals.
2D materials, 1D molecules
Organic and inorganic semiconductors, functional ceramics, molecular electronic systems, nanocarbon, nanotubes.
Surfaces studied by electron, photon and ion scattering techniques (XPS, UPS, HREELS, CAICISS, LEED, ARPES etc.)
Structure measured by x-ray diffraction, electron microscopy
Electrical, magnetic and optical properties studied.
Talk to: Dr Maksym Myronov
Dr Gavin Bell
Dr Neil Wilson

9. Condensed Matter: Microscopy
Electron microscopy, TEM, SEM, FIB-SEM
Optical microscopy
Scanned probe microscopy
Research Technology Platform
Talk to: Dr Richard Beanland Dr Neil Wilson

10. Condensed Matter: Materials
Single crystal growth of exotic materials
Highly correlated electron systems, magnetic and high temperature superconductors, intermetallic heavy fermions, frustrated magnets, topological insulators …
Extensive use of X-ray synchrotrons and neutron sources worldwide.
Talk to: Prof Geetha Balakrishnan
XMaS: UK beamline at the ESRF synchrotron materials analysis facility
Talk to: Dr Tom Hase

11. Condensed Matter: Materials
Non-contact ultrasound for material evaluation and testing
Crystallographic texture determination in metals
Industrial process monitoring
High speed inspection of pipework and railtrack
Talk to: Prof. Steve Dixon
Probing materials, using fs light pulses, THz spectroscopy and pump-probe methods
THz medical imaging and spectroscopy,
Talk to: Dr James Lloyd-Hughes

12. Theoretical Physics Centre for Scientific Computing
Classical and Quantum Physics
Modelling and simulation of materials
Understanding complex biological and chemical systems
Ideas for quantum technology
Joint projects with experiment
Multi-scale, from atoms to turbine blades, nanoseconds to years
Physics is making profound contributions to the understanding of complex biological and chemical systems. The goal is to identify and understand universal aspects of the behaviour of such systems. We are employing techniques drawn from statistical and continuum mechanics to tackle problems involving both tethered and stacked fluid membranes as well as surface and interfacial phenomena in polymer systems.
Centre for Scientific Computing
Talk to: Prof. Julie Staunton
Dr David Quigley

13. Talk to: Prof. Gary Barker
Particle Physics
Massive facilities to study the smallest particles.
Hardware and software developments.
T2K detector has 10,000 photomultiplier tubes.
DUNE detectors will have 10,000 tons of liquid argon.
ATLAS trigger sifts 40 million collisions per second, only a few hundred can be stored.
Talk to: Prof. Gary Barker

14. Centre for Fusion, Space & Astrophysics
Plasma physics research applied to: magnetic and inertial fusion power, solar physics, space weather and astrophysics.
Theory, observation, computing.
Joint work with UK fusion programme, space plasma and solar physics missions.
Research Software Engineers
High Performance Computing
Talk to: Prof. Tony Arber

15. Astrophysics Hunting for Earth-like planets around other stars.
Looking for gravitational wave sources.
Building and operating telescopes.
Machine learning to sift through all the data.
Space debris tracking.
Talk to: Prof. Tom Marsh
Prof. Don Pollacco