Postgraduate Conference - Frank Lecture Theatre 14 June 2011| 9:25 | Professor Walther Schwarzacher, Director of Physics Graduate School |
Welcome and Introductory Remarks |
| Chairperson for session: James Sadler | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 09:30 | Chris Hodges | AlGaN/GaN HEMTs Device Degradation: Hot Carrier and Blue Defect-Related Electroluminescence |
| 9:45 | Nicole Killat | Impact Ionisation in GaN-based Transistors |
| 10:00 | Jeerapat Nutariya | Lead Underpotential Deposition on Gold and its Application in Platinum Thin Film Growth |
| 10:15 | James MacFarlane | Sterilization of Microorganisms on Jet Spray Formed Titanium Dioxide Surfaces |
| 10:30 | Tomas Martin | Lowering the Electron Emission Threshold in Diamond using Negative Electron Affinity Lithium-Oxygen Termination |
| 10:45 - 11:15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK: ENDERBY ROOM | ||
| Chairperson for session: J P Hadden | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 11:15 | Kian Momtahan | The effects warm absorbers and the broad iron line around AGN |
| 11:30 | Peter Shadbolt | A Reconfigurable Entangling Circuit on a Photonic Chip |
| 11:45 | Arthur Thijssen | Investigation of the Mode Degeneracy in H1 Photonic Crystal Cavities |
| 12:00 | Damien Bonneau | Manipulation of Quantum States of Light in Lithium Niobate and Silicon |
| 12:15 - 14:00 LUNCH & POSTER SESSION: ENDERBY ROOM (Link to Poster Titles) | ||
| Chairperson for session: Nicole Killat | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 14:00 | Luke Debono | Microscopic Synchronised Swimming |
| 14:15 | Elizabeth Robinson | Balanced Detection for Interferometry with a Noisy Source |
| 14:30 | Tom Haynes | A Positron Annihilation Study Revealing the Fermi Surface of the Weak Ferromagnet Ni3Al |
| 14:45 | Nicholas Wakeham | Large Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductor Li0.9Mo6O17 |
| 15:00 | Bayan Mazidian | Symmetry analysis of Noncentrosymmetric Superconductors LiPdxPt3−xB, MoAl3C2 and α-BiPd |
| 15:15 - 15:45 TEA/COFFEE BREAK: ENDERBY ROOM | ||
| Chairperson for session: Kian Momtaham | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 15:45 | Merlin Fisher-Levine | Charge Collection Distance Measurements in pCVD Diamond |
| 16:00 | Lukasz Kreczko | Results of a Search for Massive Neutral Bosons Decaying via a Top-Antitop Quark Pair |
| 16:15 | Thomas Hampson | Selecting D → Κ π π π Events at LHCb, and Implications for Charge-Parity Violation Measurements |
| 16:30 | Presentation of 2011 Poster Prize | Poster Prize awarded along with Commendations |
| 16:45 | PARTY FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS, SUPERVISORS & STAFF: 3rd floor Common Room | |
All Talks will be in the Frank Lecture Theatre.
Posters, Tea Breaks, Lunch will all be in the Enderby Room. The after Conference party will be held in the Staff Common room on the 3rd floor.
Please note that your posters will need to be removed at the end of session on Tuesday so that the posterboards can be removed.
FAO All 1st year Postgraduate Students: There will be a modest Poster Prize for the best poster displayed.
All Postgraduate Students are expected to attend the conference, in particular 1st year students are required to be at their poster during the lunchtime poster session to answer questions on your posters. All staff are welcome to attend the conference.