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Professor David Thouless 1934-2019

9 April 2019

The Department is very sorry to announce the death of Professor David Thouless FRS, who passed away on 6th April 2019 David Thouless moved from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in Cambridge to take up a lectureship in the Solid State Theory group (the early incarnation of the current TCM group...

£1M UKRI grant to develop "Cambridge Centre for Circular Economy Approaches to Plastic Waste"

17 January 2019

A new £1M grant from UK Research and Innovation has just been awarded to develop the 'Cambridge Centre for Circular Economy Approaches to Plastic Waste ', with the aim to facilitate inter disciplinary projects to tackle the challenge of plastic waste. The 18-month project involves partners from many University of Cambridge...

BASF / Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship in Data-Driven Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials awarded to Cambridge Researcher, Jacqui Cole

17 October 2018

The Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded Jacqui Cole a 5-year Fellowship under their Research Chair and Senior Research Fellowship scheme. This is only the second time that a Fellowship under this award scheme for senior-researchers has been bestowed on a Cambridge researcher. These coveted research Fellowships are...

Machine learning auto-generates databases for magnetic materials discovery

6 July 2018

Data science heralds a next-generation approach to materials discovery. Databases of materials and property information can be mined with artificial intelligence to target new materials that are tailored to a specific device application. Success in discovery is nonetheless predicated on having appropriate materials...

Cambridge Nanoscience Success at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition

6 July 2018

The Prof Baumberg's Nanophotonics Group exhibited "Mind the (nano) gap" at this years' Royal Society Summer Exhibition and received significant press coverage:- http://nanogap.nanodtc.cam.ac.uk/ https://twitter.com/NanoDTC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLqOXN0OKv4 Mail on Sunday Web article link The Times Web article...

The Nano Scientist, his love for colour and clocks and dancing atoms

6 July 2018

Prof Jeremy Baumberg is interviewed for the "This Cambridge Life" series .

University of Cambridge film on the impact of the Cavendish Laboratory over the past 140 years, and the work and legacy of sound engineer Ray Dolby

16 March 2018

This film looks at the impact of the innovations and ideas that have come out of Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory over the past 140 years, and the work and legacy of sound engineer Ray Dolby, who did his PhD at the Cavendish and whose pioneering research changed the way the world listens. The Dolby family have...

Former Cavendish Researcher, Prof Michelle Simmons of UNSW, named 2018 Australian of the Year

25 January 2018

Professor Michelle Simmons , a Quantum Physicist and a former Research Fellow of the Cavendish Laboratory, has been named Australian of the Year :

Earliest galaxies in the Universe’s history spun like the Milky Way

12 January 2018

Artist impression of rotation in a galaxy in the early Universe, credit: Institute of Astronomy, Amanda Smith. Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have formed in the Universe. These ‘newborns’ – observed as they appeared nearly...

Rachael Padman awarded the Gay Times "Barbara Burford Honour" for STEMM

22 November 2017

Professor David Thouless 1934-2019

£1M UKRI grant to develop "Cambridge Centre for Circular Economy Approaches to Plastic Waste"

BASF / Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship in Data-Driven Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials awarded to Cambridge Researcher, Jacqui Cole

Machine learning auto-generates databases for magnetic materials discovery

Cambridge Nanoscience Success at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition

The Nano Scientist, his love for colour and clocks and dancing atoms

University of Cambridge film on the impact of the Cavendish Laboratory over the past 140 years, and the work and legacy of sound engineer Ray Dolby

Former Cavendish Researcher, Prof Michelle Simmons of UNSW, named 2018 Australian of the Year

Earliest galaxies in the Universe’s history spun like the Milky Way

Rachael Padman awarded the Gay Times "Barbara Burford Honour" for STEMM

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