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International Day 2024

On Monday this week, the School of Physics and Astronomy celebrated international day! Several members of the group joined the celebrations by wearing national dress and bringing food from around the world. Photo…

Happy birthday Prof Ifor Samuel

Today members of the OSC in Physics and Astronomy celebrated Prof Ifor Samuel’s birthday. One of his gifts was a Nature paper style birthday card. Happy birthday Ifor!

PhD viva – Dr Mina Riahi

Congratulations to Dr Mina Riahi for completing her PhD viva yesterday! Thanks also to her reviewers Dr Janet Lovett and Dr Paloma dos Santos.

A champagne celebration

Yesterday the group celebrated the publication of the new nature paper with a Jeroboam of Champagne!

Peter completes his viva

Congratulations to Dr Peter Brown on completing his PhD viva! We are all very proud of him, especially his supervisors Prof Eli Zysman-Colman and Prof Ifor Samuel. Thanks also to external examiner Prof Ardalan Armin.  

Meeting group alumni

Ifor was pleased to meet former group member Guy Whitworth for dinner in Barcelona.  Guy has been working at ICFO, a leading optics institute, following his PhD in St Andrews and returns to the UK on a fellowship…

Lithuanian Independence Restoration Day

Today the group is celebrating Lithuanian Independence Restoration day with Arvydas and Eglė. Here they are after independently giving talks at group meeting this morning.

Group members sat around a table tasting wine and cheese.

Wine and Cheese

Last Friday some of the members of the OSC got together to taste some excellent wine and cheese.