The Rumford Medal 2018 is awarded to Professor Ian Walmsley FRS for pioneering work in the quantum control of light and matter on ultrashort timescales, especially the invention and application of new techniques for characterization of quantum and classical light fields.
Professor Walmsley will be awarded a medal of silver gilt, accompanied by a gift of £2,000 at the Royal Society's Anniversary Day in November 2018.
Congratulations Ian!
Prof John Chalker has been awarded the 2018 Dirac Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for:
'his pioneering, deep, and distinctive contributions to condensed-matter theory, particularly in the quantum Hall effect, and to geometrically frustrated magnets.’
You can read more here
Congratulations to Dieter Jaksch who has been awarded the 2018 Thomas Young Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for 'his contributions to theoretical proposals enabling the study of non-equilibrium quantum many-body dynamics with unprecedented microscopic control in ultra-cold atoms, and establishing them as a quantum technologies platform.'
You can see more at http://www.iop.org/about/awards/page_71751.html
Many congratulations to John Chalker who has been awarded the 2018 Dirac Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for 'his pioneering, deep, and distinctive contributions to condensed-matter theory, particularly in the quantum Hall effect, and to geometrically frustrated magnets.’
You can see more at http://www.iop.org/about/awards/page_71751.html
Michele Cappellari, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and Research Fellow of the Royal Society, was awarded the "Luigi Tartufari" International Prize for Astronomy 2018 by the Lincei Academy.
Pyramidal magneto-optical trap
Oxford Physics researchers have designed a compact magneto-optical trap with identical mirrors and mounts, making it easier to manufacture and fit inside a standard size vacuum tube.
Vortices are beautiful structures that are encountered in nature at all length-scales, from the nanometer to the billions of light years. In a paper appearing today in Nature Materials, the Oxide electronics group at the University of Oxford and their collaborators at University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) and the Diamond Light Source (UK) describe how they used a synchrotron-based microscopy technique to image an unprecedented form of magnetic vortices in thin films of hematite (α-Fe2O3, a form of ordinary rust).
Our latest newsletter puts a spotlight on Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd, one of our successful spin-out companies that commercialise Oxford Physics research. The company was founded in 2016 by Professor Achilles Kapanidis and student Mr Bo Jing.
Physics Newsletter Spring 2018
Our latest Department newsletter is now available to download in PDF format here (the file may not display correctly with Firefox/Chrome pdf viewers -- in this case save a file and open it with e.g. Acrobat reader or Preview).
Have a look at the wide range of work that we do in front-line research, teaching, public outreach and school education.
A novel technology using spectroscopy to capture multiple two-dimensional spectral images from a single capture with higher light throughput. The 3D laser spectrometer design is built upon the concept from an emerging field of compressed sensing to make it possible to retrieve 3D spectral information from a screen/camera. In contrast to ordinary spectrometers, the 3D spectrometer uses a wide slit instead of a narrow slit, thus producing a higher throughput of the light and yield higher signal-to-noise ratio.
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