Epsrc Centre For Doctoral Training In Metamaterials - Xm2

Congratulations to Professor Roy Sambles (FRS) who hasbeen made an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP) for his contributions in pure and applied physics, as a ambassador for physics through outreach and a President of the IOP.
You can read the news on the IOP website here: http://www.iop.org/news/18/august/page_71 876.html

Congratulations to XM² PGRs Ben Ash, Chris King, Eric Burgos Parra and Lauren Barr, who submitted their thesis this week. We wish them all the best going forward.
If you wish to read more about XM² thesis submissions and more news, visit our blog: http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/xm2news/

Exeter PGRs went stargazing! Members of XM², the Exeter Optics and Photonics Society (EUOPS) and Exeter Astrophysicists PGRs set up the telescope and camped out on Dartmoor. Clear skies and a warm night made for perfect conditions, with several planets on view. The night culminated with the moon rise, outshining the stars around.
Thanks to EUOPS Henry Fernández Pizarro who organised the event and Elizabeth Martin for the photos.

XM² PGRs Lit Up the RAMM! On Sat 21st, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum hosted researchers and artists who aimed to inspired about 150 visitors with interactive experiements and demonstrations. One mother commented, “It’s been eye-opening & fun! We will continue to explore colour & light throughout the school holidays. Thanks for inspiring us”
... Read about the experiments put on here: http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/xm2news/ramm201 8/
Also a huge thanks to XM² Lauren Barr, who coordinated the event.
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Congratulations to XM² PGR Ilya Starshynov who has submitted his thesis, 'Quantum and classical correlations of multiply scattered light'. Ilya is working on more publications to add to his collection and is heading to 1.5 year postdoc position with Prof. Daniele Faccio and the Extreme Light group at the University of Glasgow.
Read more about Ilya's research here: https://bit.ly/2JUPzZA

Last week we welcomed our Oversight Board (OB) for our annual summer meeting. However, this year the OB and PGRs took part in indvidual 1-to-1s / 2-to-1s sessions to help practice networking with senior academics and industry leaders and learn more about their careers. This was followed by a more traditional poster session where the 2nd year PGRs showed off their current work.
Read more abou the event here: https://bit.ly/2LKruXb

Earlier this month, three of the EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials PGRs (3rd year Joshua Hamilton, 2nd year Elizabeth Martin, and 1st year Peter Inzani) organised a workshop alongside Prof Feodor Ogrin. The Bio-inspired Magnetic Systems (BIMS) workshop ran from 9 – 11 July 2018, covering the field of magnetic microscale systems.
Read more about the event here: https://bit.ly/2LBLXRj

We've welcomed several new XM² Summer Students. Andy Wild, Jordan Meadows and Conor Price will be working alongside XM² PGRs Tom Collier, Charlie-Ray Mann, and Ben Hogan, who wrote success summer project proposals earlier this year. They join Aleksandra Pac who is working alongside Lizzie Martin.
Find out more about their projects here: https://bit.ly/2O2Lwxq

Congratulations to Alba Paniagua Diaz and Tanveer A Tabish who graduated this week as our first CDT in Metamaterials graduates.
Read about their experiences here: https://bit.ly/2Lyd7oC

One of our PGRs is appearing on the first episode of the new series of University Challenge tonight on BBC2 at 8.30pm - tune in to find out how the Exeter University team fare against Warwick University!

Last year, Chris King published this paper on permittivity profiles.
"Permittivity profiles are designed to be one-way reflectionless and perfectly absorbing for all angles of incidence, with the potential to be used as coatings for objects."
Read it here: http://iopscience.iop.org/art…/10.1088/ 2040-8986/aa7783/meta

Congratulations to Oversight Board member Dr Ruth Voisey (Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Dyson), who the Sunday Telegraph announced as one of the top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50). The theme of this year's awards were Returners or Transferrers. Find out more here: https://bit.ly/2KBqiJa

Congratulations to Sathya Seetharaman who has submitted his thesis: Electromagnetic interactions in one-dimensional metamaterials
Read more about his research here: https://bit.ly/2tWz4qV
Sathya is the third XM2 student to submit.

Coming soon... Lighting up RAMM (Royal Albert Memorial Museum)
EUOPS put on a day of light based activities including crafts and experiments, sponsored by CDT in Metamaterials.

Last Friday our second year PhD students went to Gooch and Housego, a photonics company in Torquay.
They had a enjoyable day, learning about the different components made by the company, then heading down to the factory floor. There they saw a variety of activities, including the construction of fused fibres and components headed for space.

Congratulations to Charlie-Ray Mann on his new paper, published in Nature Communications:
“Here we predict the emergence of type-I and type-II massless Dirac polaritons in honeycomb metasurfaces. Embedding the metasurface inside a cavity enables one to tune their fundamental properties in a way that is impossible to achieve in graphene.”
Read more about it here: https://rdcu.be/TH6W

If you enjoyed reading about Miguel's glide symmetry paper (that we discuessed in February), learn more in his following paper: "Here we extend the nice properties of glide symmetry (very linear dispersions) to coplanar waveguide technology, whose dispersion can be massively improved for both radiation and propagation when carefully designing its geometry."
Read the full paper here: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5 000222

Joseph Beadle has joined the CDT's Student Advisory Group to represent the 2015 cohort. He takes over from Henry Fernández who is focussing on his research and his role as EUOPS President. If you would like to know more about SAG and how it helps run the CDT visit: https://bit.ly/2IKgE5R