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Welcome to the Blackett Laboratory World leading Physics in the heart of London. Slide 2 Department of Physics Blackett Laboratory Imperial College LondonPage 2 9 one-year Masters programmes Shock Physics Optics and Photonics Quantum Fields & Fundamental Forces Physics Theory and Simulation of Materials Controlled Quantum Dynamics Photonics Plastic Electronics Plasmonics and Metamaterials http://www.imperial.ac.uk/physics Outreach to Londons global community fostering of science communication skills from undergraduates to faculty embedding of top-level science with the arts: Royal College of Music joint degree programme, Royal College of Arts projects, artist in residence cultural diversity and championing of women in science and engineering ~ 800 undergraduate, 120 Masters, and 270 PhD students 2009: 34% female intake 33% of undergraduates continue with further studies (mostly PhD) highly trained analytical minds for the financial sector 115 academic staff Student Statistics Slide 3 Academic Research: 120 staff and 220 RAs Astrophysics: Steve Warren + 6 staff Far Infrared/sub-mm, X-ray, Gravitational Lensing, Cosmology, Galactic, Solar, . Condensed Matter Theory: Matthew Faulkes + 9 staff Materials Modelling, Metamaterials, Complexity Science, Nanotechnology, Quantum Phases Experimental Solid State Physics: Lesley Cohen + 15 staff Semiconductor Optoelectronics, Functional Magnetism, Nanotechnology, Molecular Materials and Devices, Quantum Optics, Photovoltaics, Spintronics, Plasmonics, Superconductivity, . High Energy Physics: Jordan Nash + 21 staff Beyond the Standard Model, CMS/LHCb/D0/BaBar, Neutrino Factory, T2K, Dark Matter, Gravitational Waves, Grid Computing, . Photonics: Paul French + 11 staff Fibre and solid state lasers, Sculpted thin films, Data storage, Imaging, Adaptive optics, Nonlinear optics, Plasma Physics: Steve Rose + 7 staff Laser-solid interactions, Particle acceleration, Magnetic Confinement Fusion, Wire array Z-pinch, Astrophysical Jets, Dusty Plasmas, Laser-Plasma theory, . Quantum Optics and Laser Science: Mungshik Kim + 11 staff Attosecond science, Quantum coherence, Quantum Optics, Quantum Information, Atom chips, Trapping and Cold matter, EDM measurement, Non-linear . Space and Atmospheric Physics: Steve Schwartz + 13 staff Heliospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Planetary Physics, Earths Atmosphere and Oceans, Earth Observation, Climate change, Instrumentation, . Theoretical Physics: Jerome Gauntlett + 14 staff Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Gravity/Foundations of QM, String Theory & M-Theory, Cosmology, Page 3 Slide 4 Astrophysics: Milestone in cosmology Seen when the age of the Universe was 770 Myr (6% of current age). Reveals for the first time a cosmos predominantly neutral i.e. reached back to the epoch of cosmic reionisation. Mortlock et al. Nature, June 2011 Discovery of first quasar with redshift >7 Slide 5 Low-voltage ZnO thin-film transistors Anthopoulos and team ADV MATER 2011, Vol:23 ADV FUNC MATER 2011 Experimental Solid State Physics NanoPlasmonics Maier, Pendry and team Nano Lett, 2011, Vol:11 Phys Rev Lett, 2010, Vol:105 Magnetic Monopole Defects Branford team: Nature Physics 2010 Science 2012 Organic Photovoltaics Kim, Nelson and Bradley MACROMOL 44 2011 Slide 6 High Energy Physics: Search for SUSY particles at CERN Most stringent limits in the world on the masses of supersymmetric particles - led by Imperial physicists (Phys.Lett. B 698, 196-218, 2011). Slide 7 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10104 Nature 473, 493496 (26 May 2011) Measuring the shape of the electron Quantum Optics and Laser Science Slide 8 10 m Photonics: Fluorescence lifetime imaging 1 m 3ns 0ns 3.5ns 0ns 2ns 1 mm to read out biomolecular interactions interdisciplinary frontiers Slide 9 Plasma Physics: Laser wakefield driven x-ray source Stefan Kneip et al., Nature Physics, 6 980, 2010 Radiograph of damsel-fly Phase contrast image of same damsel-fly Experimental set-up Image of x- ray beam High imaging resolution demonstrates small source size X-ray beam has: small divergence ultrashort duration (