Congratulations to Dr. Dervil Cody

Congratulations to Dr. Dervil Cody who successfully defended her thesis “LOW-TOXICITY DIACETONE ACRYLAMIDE-BASED PHOTOPOLYMER FOR APPLICATIONS IN HOLOGRAPHY”. Dr. Cody’s supervisors are Dr. Emilia Mihaylova and Dr. Izabela Naydenova.

Congratulations to Sanchali Gupta Mukherjee

Congratulations to Sanchali Gupta Mukherjee who successfully defended her doctoral thesis Saturday entitled "In Vitro Cytotoxicity assessment of Silver Nanoparticles: Correlation of Size and Dose Responses". Dr. Frederick Currell, Centre for Plasma Physics, Queens University Belfast, acted as external examiner with Dr. Orla Howe of the School of Biological Sciences, DIT, as internal examiner. Sanchali's supervisors were Dr. Gordon Chambers and Dr Alan Casey.

Ireland for CERN

The Irish physics community in general is currently developing proposals to lobby the Irish Government to subscribe to membership of CERN. The following links are to the Student-led campaign pages for more information.

 See Facebook and IrelandforCERN.

Congratulations to our successful scholars

Congratulations to students of the School of Physics programmes from the 2012-2013 academic year on their receipt of SFI IRCSET (John Gough, Ben Delaney and Keith Wilson) and Irish Cancer Society (Silvin Knight) Research Scholarships. In particular congratulations to Silvin Knight who recently received his award from the ICS. We wish them all success in their research and careers.

The amplituhedron - a re-imagining of Feynman diagrams

Physicists at Oxford have developed a geometric formulation for the calculation of particle scattering amplitudes that does not mathematically require unitarity and locality, two barriers to the unification of quantum theory with gravitation, and which may have far reaching implications in Physics. See the following at Quanta Magazine for more.

Physicists image hydrogen bonds

Physicists in China have imaged hydrogen bonds within 8-hydroxyquinoline on a copper surface using AFM. This represents the first ever such image of this type of bond in the laboratory. For more, see Science Magazine.

Congratulations to Mohesh Moothanchery

Congratulations to Mohesh Moothanchery who today successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Studies of shrinkage in photopolymerisable materials for holographic applications”.

Prof. Peter Macko of the EU Joint Research Centre, Ispra, acted as external examiner with   Dr. Suzanne Martin as internal examiner.

Mohesh’s supervisors were Dr. Izabela Naydenova and Prof. Vincent Toal.

Congratulations to Jennifer Dorney

Congratulations to Jennifer Dorney who successfully defended her PhD thesis on Thursday, May 30th, 2013. The title of her thesis was "Polystyrene: A Potential Standard for Developing In Vitro Cellular Tracking Methods for Nanotoxicology”. The work was carried out in the DIT Nanolab research Centre and was supervised by Dr Gordon Chambers, Prof. Hugh Byrne and Dr. Alan Casey

Jennifer was examined by Prof. Steven Bell Chair of Physical Chemistry, Queen's University of Belfast and her internal examiner was Dr Aaron Mac Raighne of the school of physics, DIT.

Congratulations to Subhash Chandra

Congratulations to Subhash Chandra who successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled 'Towards Plasmonic Solar Concentration', on 30 April 2013. Subhash's main supervisor was Dr John Doran in the School of Physics at DIT, with associated supervisors at Trinity College Dublin (Dr Sarah McCormack) and at Imperial College London (Dr Amanda Chatten).

Congratulations to Viswanath Bavagidda and welcome to Tatsiana Mikulchyk

Congratulations to Viswanath Bavigadda who successfully defended his PhD thesis today December 5th 2012. Viswanath’s research project entitled "A New Versatile Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometer for Vibration Measurements " was carried out in the Centre for Industrial and Engineering Optics and supervised by Prof. Vincent Toal, Dr. Emilia Mihaylova and Dr. Raghavendra Jallapuram. Viswanath’s external examiner was Prof. David Burton, Director of the General Engineering Research Institute at Liverpool John Moores University. The internal examiner was Dr Brian Bowe, Head of Learning Development, Faculty of Engineering, DIT. We also welcome Tatsiana Mikulchyk who has recently joined the Centre for Industrial and Engineering Optics as an IRCSET funded research student.

Congratulations to Antonia Bryan

The School would like to extend its congratulations and best wishes to Antonia Bryan, in the fourth year of DT235 Physics with Medical Physics and Bioengineering, on being selected as a Trainee Physicist in the UK NHS. Antonia's position is with Hull and East Yorkshire Teaching Hospital as a Trainee Clinical Scientist on the NHS Scientist Training Programme 2012.

Congratulations to Laurence Fitzpatrick

Congratulations to Laurence Fitzpatrick of DT227 Year 4 who has been awarded an IRCSET postgraduate scholarship with the Centre for Bio-Nano Interactions in UCD. Laurence took his undergraduate placement in the CBNI in 2011. The School would like to congratulate Laurence on his achievement. See Centre for Bio-Nano Interactions.

Congratulations to Dr. Niall Ó Claonadh

Congratulations to Dr. Niall Ó Claonadh who successfully defended his PhD
thesis on Thursday 22 March 2012. The title of his thesis was "The Safety
Concerns of Nanometals in Food Contact Materials: An Approach for Assessing
Material Safety and Nanotoxicity". The work was carried out in the DIT
Nanolab research Centre and was supervised by Dr Gordon Chambers and
co-supervised by Dr. Alan Casey.

Dr. Ó Claonadh was examined by Dr. Mark Auty from the Food Chemistry and
Technology Department in Teagasc and his internal examiner was Professor
Fiona Lyng of the DIT Radiation and Environmental Science Centre.'

First extra-solar earth like planets discovered

The Kepler space telescope has found two planets approximately 1000 light years from Earth that are similar in size to our planet, and potentially able to support life, even if in their past. See BBC News.