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Community physics: mutual engagement between physicists and young people not in education, employment or learning on Springboard programme.
Dermot had the pleasure to be part of a 3-day scheme that brought together about 20 young people (15-21 year olds) not in education, employment or training who are part of an inclusive and cross community Springboard/Belong programme for mutual engagement with a small number of physicists. As well as jumping into the numerous activities…
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Dermot inducted into the Young Academy of Ireland at the Royal Irish Academy
On Tuesday 25th April Dermot was inducted into the new Young Academy of Ireland at the beautiful Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, as one of the first 40 members from across society representing academia, the arts, business and finance, policy experts etc. Dermot found the founding members, all leaders in their own rights, mightily impressive,…
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Dermot hosts NI Science Festival keynote speaker, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock at a sold-out MAC theatre in Belfast.
Dermot, as Chair of IOP Ireland, had the great pleasure of hosting and introducing renowned space scientist and professional science communicator and broadcaster Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock for her keynote talk at the 2023 Northern Ireland Science Festival to a sold out MAC theatre Belfast. Dermot was accompanied on stage for the introduction by his 5-year…
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Dermot selected as a first member of the Young Academy of Ireland
From the Royal Irish Academy website https://www.ria.ie/young-academy-ireland: The YAI consists of forty members (23 women; 17 men) from Ireland and Northern Ireland including researchers, academics, scientists, innovators, clinicians, economists, and professionals who have each made a significant contribution to their field and beyond their individual disciplines. Members represent a multi-disciplinary platform from the Life Sciences, Physical, Engineering,…
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Dermot joins CCEA Subject Advisory Panel in Physics
Dermot has joined the CCEA (Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment) Northern Ireland subject advisory panel for Physics. The advisory group provides advice and guidance to CCEA on subject areas. This includes specification content and, following accreditation, implementation of specifications, which in turn supports the validity and rigour of specified qualifications; and consideration of…
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Institute of Physics Ireland Seminar at QUB by Sinead Griffin
Dermot was delighted to host Dr Sinead Griffin (Berkeley) at QUB, where she gave an Institute of Physics Ireland Seminar.
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All Things Great and Small: Institute of Physics Ireland annual meeting 2023
The 2023 Institute of Physics Ireland Spring Meeting, the annual meeting that brings together physicists in all fields from across the island of Ireland, was held in Armagh on Sat 11 March 2023. As chair of IOPI, Dermot led the organisation for the programme of scientific talks: we were lucky enough to have three trailblazing…
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Andrew and Dermot’s paper on positron cooling in small molecules published in PRL!
We performed Monte Carlo simulations of positrons cooling in N2 and CF4 gases, which are used ubiquitously as buffer gases in the leading positron “Surko” traps. We highlighted the possible importance of positron-positron interactions as a mechanism to rapidly Maxwellianize the positron distribution during the cooling dynamics, and the role of multiple vibrational (de)excitations in…
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Congratulations to Brian, who was awarded the 2022 QUB Postdoctoral Development Centre Research Prize!
Dr Brian Cunningham, Research Fellow in our group, was awarded the 2022 QUB Postdoctoral Development Centre Research Prize, for his role in developing our EXCITON+ code and positron-binding work [Nature 606, 688 (2022)], on which Brian was joint-first author. Brian was presented with a plaque. Photo coming soon!
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Our positron-binding work featured by The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/science/space/2022/06/25/antimatter-mystery-solved-by-physicists-at-queens-university-belfast-and-trinity-college/