The School of Physics and Astronomy warmly congratulates this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics: Jim Peebles, "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology", and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star."

A Queen Mary cosmologist has been announced as a Future Leader Fellow as part of a new government initiative to give leading researchers an opportunity to deliver global impact.

On 3-5 September 2019 Dr Andrei Sapelkin will be running the Researcher Links Workshop 2019 sponsored by the British Council. The workshop title is "Collective dynamics and pair correlations in atomic and colloidal systems across coupling regimes". The workshop will bring together top experts in the field of structure and dynamics in complex many-body systems. The aim of the workshop is to foster links between UK and Russian early carrier scientists (ECS). This workshop is a good opportunity for PhD and ECSs to show off their work, to get to know each other and to start collaborations. Some of the workshop events (mentor sessions, coffee, lunch, dinner) are only opened to the registered participants, but everyone is welcome to come along to the talks and poster sessions.  The workshop programme can be found here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/collective-dynamics-and-pair-correlations-in-atomic-and-colloidal-systems-tickets-63986868446

We will soon be advertising 3 STFC-funded postdoctoral positions in the CRST to start next academic year. One position is in the area of Gauge Theory, Geometry, and Duality. Two positions are in the area of Amplitudes. Further details to follow soon.

ATLAS physicists from the QMUL PPRC group have been participating to the CERN Open Days on September 14 and 15 2019.