New IMAPS Seminars for the Institute
15 May 2010Following the recent SWOT analysis it emerged that there was substantial enthusiasm for an internal seminar scheme. Thus, a new double seminar series has been set up within the institute with the aim of allowing institute members to get to know better what other members within the institute do and what their research interests are.
SSP 'Best in Meeting'
14 May 2010Aberystwyth's Solar System Physics Group awarded prize for best paper in meeting.
Recent Grant Applications
5 February 2010Professor Gennady Mishuris, Professor of Mathematical Modelling appointed within WIMCS initiative, has been recently successful in attracting EU funding in frames of FP7 Programme.
The Learned Society of Wales
30 January 2010Professor Ken Walters FRS, IMAPS Distinguished Research Professor, has accepted an invitation to be one of the Founding Fellows of the “Learned Society of Wales”.
A Fair bit of Science
20 January 2010During the recent science fair held in the Aberystwyth University’s Sports Cage, students from the Institute took part in demonstrating scientific and mathematical principals to over a thousand school children.
Extremes of pressure: a diamond anvil cell for studying high pressure glass
20 December 2009Following a successful application to the Royal Society, a diamond anvil cell, one of the most useful devices in the field of condensed matter physics, has been purchased.
Levitation workshop at German Aerospace
15 December 2009IMAPS staff attend a workshop on levitation at the Institute of Materials Physics in Space at DLR in Cologne.
UK Planetary Forum at Aberystwyth
5 October 2009Alan Wood was recently elected onto the committee of the UK Planetary Forum (UKPF) along with Hugh Mortimer (Chair, RAL) and Julia Cartwright (Manchester).
Director Visits the Large Hadron Collider
5 October 2009Professor Neville Greaves, who has recently been appointed to the Science Board of the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council, has just visited CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
STEREO to give first image of the whole of the Sun
7 February 2011On Sunday 6 February two identical spacecrafts that make up NASA’s STEREO mission will be able to see the whole Sun for the first time, this event will be closely monitored by the Solar System Physics Group led by Dr Andy Breen who study the solar wind and the Sun’s effect on the Earth.
Giant radio telescope goes multi-national – first images from LOFAR
3 February 2011IMAPS' Dr Andy Breen discovers more about our Universe and the birth of stars and galaxies, as a new UK telescope connects for the first time to others across Europe.
WIMCS Cluster Workshop
11 April 2011Representations of Braid and Symmetric Groups
New Approaches
WIMCS Mathematical Physics Cluster Workshop
Aberystwyth, 2nd to 3rd May 2011
For further information see the workshop website