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Jeremy Baumberg awarded the 2017 IOP Michael Faraday Medal and Prize

3 July 2017

We are delighted to announce that Professor Jeremy J Baumberg FRS has been awarded the 2017 IOP Michael Faraday Medal and Prize "For his investigations of many ingenious nanostructures supporting novel and precisely engineered plasmonic phenomena relevant to single molecule and atom dynamics, Raman spectroscopies and...

Akshay Rao awarded the 2017 IOP Henry Mosely Award and Prize

3 July 2017

We are delighted to announce that Dr Akshay Rao, an EPSRC Early Career Fellow and Winton Advanced Fellow in the Optoelectronics Group has been awarded the 2017 IOP Henry Moseley Award and Prize. "For groundbreaking studies in the electronic properties of organic semiconductors, particularly the roles of electron spin in...

Rotating molecules create a brighter future

31 March 2017

Discovery of a new group of materials paves the way for a new generation of high-efficiency lighting A team, from the University of Cambridge, the University of East Anglia and the University of Eastern Finland, have developed a new type of material that uses rotatable molecules to emit light faster than has ever been...

Prof Val Gibson to receive a Royal Society Athena Accolade

17 October 2016

Professor Valerie Gibson is to receive a Royal Society award for her activities to increase and advance women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). She is among four individuals and two organisations recognised by the inaugural Royal Society Athena Prize , which celebrates individuals or organisations who...

Dr Jacqui Cole awarded a Tier 1 data science project by the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility for "data-driven materials discovery for solar-powered windows".

10 October 2016

Dr Jacqui Cole has been awarded a Tier 1 ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP) by the Argonnne Leadership Computing Facility (ACF) for her work on "Data--Driven Molecular Engineering of Solar--Powered Windows". Materials discovery of better performing light-absorbing dye molecules will be enabled via a synergistic computational...

Cavendish alumni win the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics

4 October 2016

We are delighted to announce that three of our alumni shared in the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics. Prof. David J. Thouless moved from the Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Department in Cambridge to take up a lectureship in the Solid State Theory group (the early incarnation of the current Theory of Condensed...

#iamaphysicist day was celebrated by CiW

21 July 2016

The Cavendish Inspiring Women (CiW) team supported the IOP's #iamaphysicist campaign on 26th May 2016.

Prof Val Gibson appointed as Chair of the IOP Juno Team

21 July 2016

Professor Val Gibson, Head of the HEP Group at the Cavendish Laboratory and a Equality & Diversity Champion in the School of Physical Sciences, has been appointed as Chair of the IOP Juno Team.

Ulrich Schneider awarded the Rudolf-Kaiser Prize 2015

21 July 2016

Ulrich Schneider has been awarded the Rudolf-Kaiser-Prize 2015 in recognition of his important scientific contributions to the study of non-equilibrium dynamics in many-body quantum systems, the experimental realization of negative absolute temperatures and interferometric studies of the quantum geometry of synthetic...

Collapsing energy bands to explore their geometric structure

31 May 2016

The geometry and topology of electronic states in solids plays a central role in a wide range of modern condensed-matter systems including graphene or topological insulators. However, experimentally accessing this information has proven to be challenging, especially when the bands are not well-isolated from one another. As...

Jeremy Baumberg awarded the 2017 IOP Michael Faraday Medal and Prize

Akshay Rao awarded the 2017 IOP Henry Mosely Award and Prize

Rotating molecules create a brighter future

Prof Val Gibson to receive a Royal Society Athena Accolade

Dr Jacqui Cole awarded a Tier 1 data science project by the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility for "data-driven materials discovery for solar-powered windows".

Cavendish alumni win the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics

#iamaphysicist day was celebrated by CiW

Prof Val Gibson appointed as Chair of the IOP Juno Team

Ulrich Schneider awarded the Rudolf-Kaiser Prize 2015

Collapsing energy bands to explore their geometric structure

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