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Athena SWAN Gold Awards Ceremony 2014

25 September 2014

The following members of the Department's Personnel Committee: Professor Val Gibson, (out-going Chair), Prof Chris Ford (incoming Chair), and Mrs Emily Heavens-Ward, Group Administrator for the Microelectronics Group, attended the Athena SWAN 2014 Awards Ceremony to receive the "Gold Award" on behalf of the Department of...

The research of Dr Jacqui Cole and co-workers from the Cavendish highlighted in ACS Newsletter "Noteworthy Chemistry"

18 September 2014

Research carried out by Dr Jacqui Cole and co-workers at the Cavendish Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers in the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and Dalian University of Technology and the Argonne National Laboratory, has been published in the journal Chemical Communications . This work has been highlighted...

Professor Russell Cowburn FRS elected as an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer

12 September 2014

Professor Russell Cowburn FRS has been elected as one of the IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturers for 2015. Each year the IEEE Magnetics Society elects four people to present a plenary style lecture on their area of magnetism to as many audiences as possible across the world. Prof. Cowburn's lecture will be...

Professor Jeremy Baumberg FRS awarded the Royal Society Rumford Medal

5 August 2014

The Royal Society has today announced the full list of the 2014 Royal Society Awards, Medals and Prize Lectures and Professor Jeremy Baumberg FRS, of the Nanophotonics Group of the Cavendish Laboratory, has been awarded The Rumford Medal. The citation reads "for his outstanding creativity in nanophotonics, investigating...

Brain Workout" for Physics Teachers at the Cavendish Laboratory

17 July 2014

Thirty-seven physics teachers attended the three day Rutherford Physics Partnership funded Physics Teachers Cambridge Residential meeting and held alongside the Senior Physics Challenge .

2014 Institute of Physics Awards

1 July 2014

We are pleased to announce that three members of the Department have received prestigious awards from the Institute of Physics . Swan Medal and prize Professor Michael Payne For the development of computational techniques that have revolutionised materials design and facilitated the industrial application of quantum...

Personal Promotions

12 June 2014

Personal Promotions The outcome of the 2014 Senior Academic Promotions round has now been published in the Reporter and I am very happy to offer my congratulations, on behalf of the Department, to our new Professors, Crispin Barnes, Russell Cowburn and Zoran Hadzibabic as well as our newly promoted Readers, Ben Gripaios...

Exposing ‘evil twins’

16 May 2014

Researchers from the Cavendish Laboratory have designed a new type of sensing mechanism, combining a unique twisting property of light with frequency doubling to identify different chiral forms of molecules with extremely high sensitivity, which could be useful in the development of new drugs. The results are published in...

Prof Richard Hills, Emeritus Professor of Radio Astronomy, elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

1 May 2014

We are delighted to report that Professor Richard Hills, Emeritus Professor of Radio Astronomy at the Cavendish Laboratory, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society. The citation notes his work on the development of radio astronomy at millimetre wavelengths and in particular his roles in the James Clerk...

Cavendish awarded Athena Swan Gold award

1 May 2014

I am delighted to announce that the Cavendish Laboratory has been awarded an Athena Swan Gold Award . Our award, along with the other winners, will be published in the Times Higher Education supplement today. We are the first Department in Cambridge to reach this very high standard and, we believe, the first Physics...

Athena SWAN Gold Awards Ceremony 2014

The research of Dr Jacqui Cole and co-workers from the Cavendish highlighted in ACS Newsletter "Noteworthy Chemistry"

Professor Russell Cowburn FRS elected as an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer

Professor Jeremy Baumberg FRS awarded the Royal Society Rumford Medal

Brain Workout" for Physics Teachers at the Cavendish Laboratory

2014 Institute of Physics Awards

Personal Promotions

Exposing ‘evil twins’

Prof Richard Hills, Emeritus Professor of Radio Astronomy, elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

Cavendish awarded Athena Swan Gold award

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