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For the TALMO Website click here Dermot’s talk can be accessed here (apologies for the poor sound and video quality in places… this is not representative of the lightboard, but reflects poor recording from the live workshop): The talk was based on Dermot’s experience of online mathematics teaching via lightboard delivery, part funded by the QUB Engineering…

Lockdown, childcare, 3 continents and research Since 12 March 2020 we have been working from home, and currently our group members are dispersed over 3 continents. Our research activities have been heavily impacted by COVID lockdown restrictions in the UK, especially and Brian (senior postdoc) and me (Dermot, PI) who had to assume significant additional…

Project title: Many-body theory of antimatter interactions with molecules/ condensed matter (click the link for project description). Applications should be submitted via the portal at https://web.am.qub.ac.uk/wp/ctamop/postgrad/

David, Dermot and Gleb have published a paper and computer code in the 50th anniversary special edition of Computer Physics Communication. The code solves the Hartree-Fock equations in a B-spline basis for atoms and arbitrary central potentials (relevant for finite particle approximations to the electron gas). The paper can be accessed here.

Dermot returned to his former school Belfast Royal Academy (and to his old classroom!), to talk to a selection of 5th and 6th year students about his research in antimatter-matter interactions and his career path in physics. He was accompanied by PhD student Hannah McAleese, who discussed her research in quantum information theory. We hope…

Jaroslav Hofierka joins the group as a PhD student. Jaroslav obtained a BSc in Physics and Masters degrees in Theoretical physics at the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Jaroslav will be putting his diverse expertise in theoretical physics to use developing ab initio methods for positron-molecule interactions, as well as more general computational methodologies for…

Dr Charlie Rawlins joins the group as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow funded by the ANTI-ATOM ERC grant. Charlie graduate BSc in nanotechnology and his PhD (2019) in theoretical physics from Curtin University, Perth, Australia. His PhD in the theoretical physics group of Igor Bray, Alisher Kadyrov and Dmitri Fursa concerned calculations of positron and positronium scattering on…

The Bates Prize is awarded biennially to an early-career researcher (within the first 12 years of a research career) for outstanding research in quantum, atomic and molecular, or plasma physics to commemorate Sir David Bates FRS, a towering figure of atomic and molecular physics. Dermot received the 2019 Bates Prize chiefly for his development of many-body-theory and computational…

The International Conference on Quantum Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.

Dermot gave a talk on many-body theory of positronium interactions with noble-gas atoms. Conference website: http://posmol2019.ipb.ac.rs/ Conference photo: