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News 2011-12
Biennial McCrea Lecture - 9th December 2011
The School of Physics, along with the Royal Irish Academy, will host the biennial McCrea lecture in the Schroedinger Lecture Theatre, Fitzgerald Building at 6pm on Friday, 9th December 2011. The talk, entitled "The Strange Discovery of Viktor Hess - One Hundred Years of Cosmic Ray Studies", will be delivered by Prof. Luke Drury of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and President of the Royal Irish Academy.
Free admission but booking is required via: http://www.ria.ie/events/events-listing/royal-irish-academy-biennial-mccrea-lecture-2011.aspx
2nd December: Postgraduate Student presented with International Society of Automation Award
Congratulations to Pietro Zucca of the solar group who has just been given an award from the International Society of Automation for his work on setting up the radio spectrometers at the Rosse Solar-Terrestrial Observatory! Pietro is supported by an Innovation Academy Studentship and supervised by Prof. Peter Gallagher and by Prof. Linda Doyle, Director of CTVR.
16th November 2011: School of Physics Professor awarded SFI 2011 'Researcher of the Year'
Professor Jonathan Coleman has been announced as Science Foundation Ireland's Researcher of the Year for 2011. Professor Coleman was presented with the award by the Minister for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock T.D, at the recent SFI Science Summit held in Athlone on Monday 14th November 2011.
Minister Sherlock said “It is an extraordinary feat to be responsible for the development of the toughest materials known to man, but this is a feat that Jonathan has achieved. His work has been published in prestigious international journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, and Advanced Materials, as well as featuring in New Scientist, the New York Times and on CNN. Within the last year, Jonathan has been recognised as one of the top 100 material scientists of the last decade – the only Irish representative and one of the youngest on the list.”
SFI Press Release:
http://www.sfi.ie/news-events/press-releases/minister-sherlock-announces-sfi-researcher-of-the-year/
College Communications Webpage:
http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/news.php?headerID=2174&vs_date=2011-11-15
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