News and Events
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CTYI Summer Session 2019
12 Jul 2019
Had a great week helping organising Experimental Physics experiments for CTYI. We definitely saw some future physicists in the bunch!
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Eureka Camps 2019 Part 2
09 Jul 2019
Had another great day exploring the weird and wonderful parts of Physics as part of the Eureka Camps! ️
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2019 College of SEFS Student Nominated Teaching Demonstrator Award
04 Jul 2019
Huge congratulations to physics postgrad student Stephen Murphy who received the '2019 College of SEFS Student Nominated Teaching Demonstrator Award'!
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Eclipse in Chile
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UCC Astronomy Graduate, Mark Kennedy, current Newton International Fellow at The University of Manchester, was in Chile recently, by chance during the eclipse!!
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Eureka Camps 2019
03 Jul 2019
A fantastic time was had yesterday with the students from Eureka Camps. We hope we both excited and attracted them to exploring more physics in the future!
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Graduation!
21 Jun 2019
A big congratulation to PhD graduates Dr. Daniel Carey, Dr. Ludovic Caro and Dr. Shane Duggan!
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Discovery of Field-Induced Pair Density Wave State in Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors
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Superconductors are quantum materials that are perfect transmitters of electricity and electronic information. Although they form the technological basis of solid-state quantum computing, they are also its key limiting factor because conventional superconductors only work at temperatures near -270 C. This has motivated a worldwide race to try to discover higher temperature superconductors. Materials containing CuO2 crystal layers (cuprates) are, at present, the best candidate for highest temperature superconductivity, operating at approximately -120 C. But room temperature superconductivity in these compounds appears to be frustrated by the existence of a competing electronic phase, and focus has recently been on identifying and controlling that mysterious second phase.
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World Leading Scientist to Present Inaugural Lecture at UCC
29 May 2019
One of the world’s leading scientists will give an inaugural public lecture on the emerging second quantum revolution next week (Thursday, 6 June) at University College Cork (UCC).
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CTYI 2019
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Big thanks to Loise Shanahan for running the physics portion of CTYI in UCC this year! We love sharing our fascination with light, electricity and magnetism!
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Gummy Bear Wave Machines
16 Apr 2019
We had a blast with transition year students, from all over Cork last week, building these gummy bear wave machines. This just goes to show that Physics can be fascinating and delicious!
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Dr. Pádraig Mac Cárthaigh Final Lecture
04 Apr 2019
Congrats to Dr. Pádraig Mac Cárthaigh who gave his final lecture today. Nuclear and Particle Physics won't be the same without you!
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Best Publication of the Year Award 2019
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Big congrats to our own Killian Long for winning the best publication of the year award!
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'Careers in Industrial Physics' Seminar Highlights
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A fantastic seminar given by Micheal O'Gorman and Áine Davis about Careers in Industrial Physics.
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FameLab Cork 2019
28 Feb 2019
FameLab is the world's leading science communication competition. It is designed to inspire, motivate and develop scientists and engineers to actively engage with the public and last night it achieved exactly that.
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New Leader for Rockley Photonics R&D Centre
28 Feb 2019
Congratulations to our own Professor Frank Peters for his new appointment as leader of the Rockley Photonics R&D centre in Tyndall National Institute!
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Air pollution responsible for over 1,500 premature deaths in Ireland each year
01 Oct 2018
Monitoring stations have successfully been installed on UCC North Mall campus after calls from researchers for extra stringent monitoring the severity levels for air pollution within Cork City. The new facility is one of the most advanced and best equipped centres of its kind in the country.
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Professor Stephen Fahy recognised for outstanding achievements in Physics
03 Sep 2018
UCC scientist honored at SFSB Conference
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A celebration of the work of Prof. Niall Ó' Murchadha
24 May 2018
A conference was held in honour of UCC Physics lecturer Niall O Murchadha at the end of May last.Alll lectures took place on the West Wing of the Quad.
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