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| 03/02/12 | Dr. Tim Wilkinson "under the microscope"The University of Cambridge research webpages feature a video by Tim Wilkinson, explaining how his research combining nanotechnology and liquid crystals is helping to develop new generations of 2D and 3D displays.
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| 03/02/12 | Dr. Tim Wilkinson appears in pantomime on BBC Radio 4!A Christmas Eve broadcast on BBC Radio 4, titled "Jack and the Genetically Modified Beanstalk", featured CMMPE's very own Tim Wilkinson! The show featured academic expert guests who helped separate fanatasy from reality in this famous fairy-tale. Listen to the show here! (mp3)
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16/01/11 |
Haider Butt passes PhD, and rejoins CMMPE as a PostDocCongratulations to Haider, who recently passed his PhD viva. He continues to work with his supervisor Tim Wilkinson, and rejoins the group as a postdoctoral researcher, funded by Prof. Gehan Amaratunga.
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| 06/12/12 | COSMOS Lasers presents at Meerkats & Avatars media eventCMMPE researchers, Philip Hands and Damian Gardiner, exhibited the COSMOS liquid crystal laser demonstrator today at a marketing and PR event called Meerkats and Avatars, held at the St John's Innovation Centre, Cambridge. The event was attended by numerous local investers, entreprenuers and media, and marked the first public exhibition of COSMOS Lasers. It is planned that COSMOS Lasers will soon become a spin-out company, based upon the EPSRC-funded COSMOS and COSMOS TT research projects being undertaken at CMMPE. Click here
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08/11/11 |
Dr. Stephen Morris wins Royal Society University Research FellowshipSteve has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship, to conduct research on random laser sources. His funding is for 5 years in the first instance. |
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| 28/10/11 | Dr Oliver Henrich gives invited CMMPE seminarCMMPE welcomed Oliver Henrich (University College London), who gave a seminar entitled "Amorphous Networks and Rheological Response of Blue Phases in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals".
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| 14/10/11 | Prof Gary Gibbons FRS gives invited CMMPE seminarCMMPE welcomed Gary Gibbons (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge), who gave a seminar entitled "Liquid crystals and general relativity".
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| 08/06/11 | Ranjith Rajesekharan wins NanoDTC Associate Student GrantRanjith Rajasekharan has won a competitive NanoDTC Associate Student Grant for the purposes of promoting cross-disciplinary research within the central themes of self-assembling functional nano-materials and nano-devices. He was also appointed as a NanoDTC Associate of the Nano Science & Technology Doctoral Training Centre, Cambridge.
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| 24/05/11 | Katie Atkinson wins "Best Oral Presentation" award at Merck CASE ConferenceKatie Atkinson attended the Merck CASE Conference, held in Southampton earlier this month, where she presented her results from her PhD studies so far to her industrial sponsors. The title of her talk was "Structure-property correlations in bimesogenic liquid crystals for the flexoelectro-optic effect". Congratulations to Katie, who, in reward of her excellent work, was awarded the prize for the best first year oral presentation.
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| 03/05/11 | Haider Butt wins Best Paper Award at SIECPCWhilst attending the Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference (SIECPC) in Riyadh (April 23-26, 2011), Haider Butt was awarded with a trophy for the best paper at the conference. His work titled "Optical waveguides and switches based on periodic arrays of carbon nanotubes" stood out as having the highest overall ranking and also the best paper in the Photonics track. Many congratulations to him.
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| 18/02/11 | CMMPE publication "led the revival in Blue Phase research"The Condensed Matter Journal Club highlight CMMPE's 2005 Nature paper as having "led the revival in Blue Phase research." Journal
club page Liquid
Crystal 'Blue Phases' with a Wide Temperature Range
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| 18/02/11 | Steve Morris interviewed by NatureIn recognition of his academic success and receipt of the BLCS Young Scientist of the Year award 2010, Steve Morris was recently interviewed about his career in an article by Nature magazine. The article is part of their Nature Jobs supplement, and features in Nature 467, p.239, (2010). The Cambridge University Engineering Department have also highlighted the story on their front page.
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| 31/01/11 | CMMPE paper highlighted by the Journal Club for Condensed Matter PhysicsA recent CMMPE publication has been highlighted by the Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics. The organisation publishes a monthly selection of "interesting papers in condensed matter physics by distinguished corrsepondents", and discusses their findings in a public forum. To read the journal club's comments, click here. For a copy of the original paper, click below: Thermodynamically
stable blue phases
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| 20/01/11 | Tim Wilkinson becomes an editor of Applied OpticsTim Wilkinson has recently been asked to become a topical editor for the OSA journal, Applied Optics. His area of editorial specialism covers displays, liquid crystals and reconfigurable photonic materials.
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| 20/01/11 | CMMPE babies!Two CMMPE members are both celebrating new-born babies. Steve Morris and his wife Alison celebrate the arrival of baby Abigail, born in December 2010, whilst Haider Butt and his wife celerate the birth of Aasiya Haider in October 2010.
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| 19/01/11 | PhD viva success!Congratulations to Jon Freeman, Rick Chen. Christoph Bay and Xuesong Hu, who all passed their PhD vivas at the end of 2010. We wish them every sucess for their post-CMMPE futures!
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| 21/10/10 | CMMPE welcomes new students and visiting researchersCMMPE is pleased to announce new members to the research group. Dr. Helen Ou and Shabeena Nosheen join as visiting researchers. Katie Atkinson starts as PhD student under Prof. Harry Coles. Themis Mavrogordatos, Yunuen Montelongo and Ananta Palani all join as PhD students under Dr. Tim Wilkinson. Hopefully the CMMPE social secretary will organise a night out for us all shortly!
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| 20/10/10 | Prof. Harry Coles visits LG Displays, KoreaProf Harry Coles was invited to visit LG Displays in Paju, Korea, after giving an invited talk at IMID. Harry is pictured with his Korean colleagues, standing in front of the world's largest single chip LCD panel working in IPS mode, made by LGD.
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| 21/07/10 | Dr. Tim Wilkinson wins ILCS Mid Career Research Excellence Award 2010The International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS) has awarded CMMPE's Tim Wilkinson with a Mid Career Research Excellence Award. The award, sponsored by LG, is in particular recognition of his contributions to the field of LCOS devices for microdisplays and holography. He was presented with his certificate and prize at the 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference (ILCC), held in July 2010 in Kracow, Poland.
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| 20/07/10 | Dr. Steven Morris wins BLCS Young Scientist Award 2010The British Liquid Crystal Society (BLCS) has awarded CMMPE's Steven Morris with the distinguished Young Scientist Award for 2010. The award was presented to him at the BLCS Annual Meeting, held in March at the University of Hull.
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| 07/06/10 | IET honours CMMPE students, Haider Butt and Joel CarpenterHaider Butt wins an IET Postgraduate Scholarship, the Scholarships Committee has recommended that he receive the IET Postgraduate Scholarship of £2,500. Joel Carpenter wins an IET Postgraduate Scholarship, the Scholarships Committee has recommended that he receive the Hudswell International Research Scholarship of £5,000. Haider and Joel are both studying at CMMPE for a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Tim Wilkinson.
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| 04/05/10 | CMMPE researchers win CamBridgeSens Network GrantA grant of £15,000 has been awarded to CMMPE researchers for their recent proposal for funds to the CamBridgeSens network. The proposal was led by PhD student Ranjith R, and concerns the development of a flat nano 3D vision sensor. He is supported also by his supervisor, Timothy Wilkinson, along with fellow CMMPE members Philip Hands, Christoph Bay, Jon Freeman, Qing Dai, and also Hai Duong from the Department of Materials Science.
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| 04/05/10 | EPSRC awards COSMOS Technology Translation GrantEPSRC recently announced the award of funds to a Cambridge team led by Prof. Harry Coles, for a two-year Technology Translation project, starting December 2010. The grant aims to build upon the excellent research carried out during the COSMOS Basic Technology Grant, which comes to an end in November 2010. Collaborative investiagtors on the grant include Dr. Tim Willkinson (also CMMPE), Prof. Sir Richard Friend (Cavendish Lab) and Professor Ian White (Dept. of Engineering).
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| 16/04/10 | New paper describes theory of stable Blue PhasesResearchers at CMMPE have proposed a theory of liquid crystal Blue Phases, stable over an unusually large temperature range. The paper, published this week in Physical Review Letters, provides a theoretical understanding of previous discoveries (featured in a letter to Nature by CMMPE authors in 2005), and suggests how further stability may be achieved through "molecular engineering". Thermodynamically
stable blue phases
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| 10/03/10 | Wilkinson and Mowatt - Photographers extraordinaire!Dr. Tim Wilkinson has been selected by the International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS) as March 2010 "Artist of the Month", for his photograph of a liquid crystal microlens array. Further details and the image itself can be found here. Dr. Carrie Mowatt also has had some of her recent photography published on an Italian website. The article describes work carried out at CMMPE on blue phase liquid crystals. Click here for the link (NB: in Italian).
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| 05/01/10 | Newly published paper makes front cover of Applied OpticsA recent CMMPE publication by Rick Chen and Tim Wilkinson has been selected as the front cover art for the latest edition of the journal Applied Optics. The cover art features images from a point-based computer generated hologram algorithm, which uses a Gaussian interpolation kernel to create a continuous surface representation from discrete input points. The kernel width controls the final appearance of the reconstructed three-dimensional image as shown. For more details, the full paper can be viewed here: Computer
generated hologram from point cloud using graphics processor
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| 23/10/09 | Su Seok Choi passes his PhD viva!Many congratulations to Su Seok, who today successfully passed his PhD viva! Su Seok has spent four years at CMMPE, working on a research project with LG Electronics. His thesis title was, "Electrically Tuneable Photonic Bandgaps in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals".
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| 19/10/09 | Newly published paper makes inside front cover of Advanced MaterialsA recently accepted research article, led by Su Seok Choi, has been accepted for publication by Advanced Materials, and has also been chosen for the inside front cover art for the October 19th edition (and special Cambridge University 800th Anniversary edition) of the journal. The full article reference can be found below: Electrically
tuneable liquid crystal photonic bandgaps
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| 21/08/09 | Harry and Leona get married!On Friday 21st August, Prof. Harry Coles and Leona Hope got married. Many congratulations and best wishes to them both from everyone at CMMPE. Some larger images of the wedding can be seen here: Image 1, Image 2, Image 3, Image 4
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| 18/07/09 | Carrie gets married!Many congratulations to Carrie, who married her partner Jim Mowatt on Saturday 18th July, 2009. Best wishes to them both from everyone at CMMPE! A larger photograph of the couple can be seen here. Odds-on favourite for the next CMMPE group wedding is Damian and Mel, who also recently announced their engagement. Congratulations to the two of them as well!
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| 13/07/09 | New paper accepted for journal publicationCongratulations to PhD student, Rick Chen, and his supervisor, Dr. Tim Wilkinson, who have just had a paper accepted in Applied Optics. The paper describes the latest developments by the group in computer generated holography. Computer
generated hologram with geometric occlusion using GPU-accelerated depth
buffer rasterisation for 3-D display
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| 04/06/09 | Ranjith gets married!Many congratulations to Ranjith, who has recently got married! Ranjith married Sneha Elizabeth in India on 23rd April, 2009. A larger photograph of the couple can be seen here.
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| 27/05/09 | James Chen passes his PhD viva!Congratulations to James Chen, who yesterday successfully passed his PhD oral examination! James has spent four years at CMMPE, completing a PhD on flexoelectric liquid crystal devices over silicon, supervised by Tim Wilkinson. Well done Dr. Chen!
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| 14/05/09 | Dr. Tim Wilkinson is promoted to ReaderMany congratulations to Tim Wilkinson who has just been promoted by the University from Senior Lecturer to Reader. We hope that he will still remember his old friends now he has been elevated to such lofty ranks(!)
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| 01/05/09 | Flynn Castle's paper at SID's "Display Week 2009" symposium highlighted as "notable paper"The April 2009 edition of the SID's publication "Information Display" previews the forthcoming SID symposium, "Display Week 2009". On page 17, it highlights CMMPE research, to be presented by Flynn Castles, as a "notable paper" of interest. The paper describes some of the modelling work from his PhD (supervised by Harry Coles) on the flexoelectro-optic effect, and how it can provide a fast switching mechanism suitable for use in field-sequential, color, full-motion video displays. Fast-Switching
Flexoelectric Display Device with High Contrast
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| 30/04/09 | Carrie Gillespie's award-winning photograph used in Cambridge undergraduate prospectusCongratulations to CMMPE's Dr. Carrie Gillespie, whose photograph of a blue phase liquid crystal optical texture entitled "Beautiful blue phase" has been chosen as the artwork for the 2010 Cambridge Engineering undergraduate admissions prospectus CD. Previously, the same image had also been awarded as a "highly commended" entry in the Department of Engineering's 2008 photography competition. You can read more about CMMPE's research into blue phase LC materials here.
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| 28/04/09 | CMMPE bistable displays research highlighted on SPIE newsroom pagesThe SPIE Newsroom pages (23rd April, 2009) feature an article highlighting recent CMMPE research. The research, carried out by Dr. Damian Gardiner, Dr. Stephen Morris and Prof. Harry Coles, demonstrates how novel smectic-A materials can be used for low power consumption, high efficiency, multi-stable smart windows/glazing. The news report is in response to a recent publication on the same subject, published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. High-efficiency
multistable switchable glazing using smectic A liquid crystals
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| 20/04/09 | CMMPE LC lasers research highlighted in Nature Photonics & Dept. of Engineering websiteThe April 2009 edition of Nature Photonics features an "out of the lab" news article focussing upon liquid crystal lasers research. It highlights CMPPE's research on simultaneous red, green & blue polychromatic liquid crystal laser arrays, and represents the 2nd occasion that Nature Photonics has highlighted CMMPE's LC lasers research. Furthermore, the Cambridge University Engineering Department's website front-page currently features a news article highlighting the same research. These news articles are in addition to the recent article in Laser Focus World (see CMMPE news item 09/01/09), which also highlights the same work. A
new twist to tuning lasers, Nature Photonics (April 2009),
Volume 3 No 4 pp177-236 Polychromatic
liquid crystal laser arrays towards display applications This research is part of the COSMOS project; an EPSRC-funded basic technology grant.
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| 08/04/09 | Damian Gardiner wins British Liquid Crystal Society poster prize at annual meetingSeveral CMMPE group members recently attended the annual meeting of the British Liquid Crystal Society (BLCS), held at HP Labs in Bristol (6-8 April, 2009). Congratulations to Damian, who surprised and defied his critics when he was awarded a prize for the best overall poster, with his presentation on hybrid electroluminescent / PDLC displays. To view all the posters presented by CMMPE members, please see the CMMPE posters page, located under the publications pages.
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| 24/03/09 | CMMPE CamTools site goes liveA new CamTools resources site has been set-up for all members of CMMPE. From here, users will be able to share files, data and other useful common resources. All group members should already be able to access this using their Raven login (please contact Phil Hands in the event of problems accessing the site). Note that currently only senior group members (postdocs, lecturers and professors) have maintainance (ie: uploading) privelidges, whilst students have read-only access. Examples of resources uploaded so far include, journal and conference publication database, group seminar files, health and safety documentation, chemical database, lab equipment instructions, software, house-style templates, CMMPE discussion forum, group photos, meeting minutes, and many more. Please use the CamTools forum to suggest new ways to use the CMMPE CamTools pages.
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| 24/03/09 | New papers accepted for journal publicationOptics Letters have recently accepted a paper by Ranjith R., Haider Butt and Tim Wilkinson for publication (details below). Also, the group have had a number of SPIE publications over the winter, details of which can be found on the CMMPE publications pages. Optical
Phase Modulation using a Hybrid Carbon Nanotube-Liquid Crystal Nano
Photonic Device
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| 29/01/09 | Ranjith Rajasekharran Unnithan wins CamBridgeSens innovation competition awardCongratulations to CMMPE PhD student, Ranjith R., who is an award winner in the CamBridgeSens Innovation Competition. His joint research proposal with three other Engineering students titled "A Road to Chemical Nano-Diodes (CNDs) and Biochemical Nano-Photo Diodes (BNPDs)" has won him and his co-authors funding for future research.
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| 29/01/09 | Tim Wilkinson's hybrid LC nanotube research highlighted in several magazines and news articlesA hybrid technology combining liquid crystal over silicon (LCOS) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) being developed at CMMPE by Tim Wilkinson, has recently been highlighted in the news by EuroPhotonics Magazine, Advanced Imaging Magazine (co-written with Rik Chen) and Business Weekly. The story has also been published as a front-page leading article on the Cambridge University Engineering Department webpages, and has even been published in the Cambridge Evening News. The articles can be viewed here: The
future is 3D liquid crystals,
EuroPhotonics (August 2008). More information on CMMPE's research into holography and hybrid LC carbon nanotube devices can be found here. The original publication in Advanced Materials upon which the articles are based can also be found below: Sparse
multiwall carbon nanotube electrode arrays for liquid-crystal photonic
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| 09/01/09 | CMMPE liquid crystal lasers research highlighted in Laser Focus WorldIn their January 2009 edition, the international scientific magazine, Laser Focus World, published an article highlighting recent research carried out by members of CMMPE on polychromatic liquid crystal laser arrays. It details how this technology shows promise for use in developing low-cost, high-performance laser displays. Click here for the Laser focus World article. Alternatively, the original publication in Optics Express (October 2008) is detailed below: Polychromatic
liquid crystal laser arrays towards display applications
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| 06/01/09 | CMMPE research papers accepted for publicationThe Journals Soft Matter and Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells have accepted for publication two recent research papers submitted by members of CMMPE: High-efficiency
multistable switchable glazing using smectic A liquid crystals The
switching properties of chiral nematic liquid crystals using electrically
commanded surfaces
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| 18/12/08 | Cambridge Engineering Dept. rated best engineering research in the UK by RAE 2008The results to the 2008 national Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) have been announced, and place Cambridge University Engineering Department as the highest performing General Engineering department in the UK. 90% of its research is stated to be either "internationally excellent" or "world-leading", and far surpasses its nearest rivals. For the full story, see here. Or to see the RAE results directly, see here.
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| 11/11/08 | CMMPE welcomes new PhD students and RACMMPE welcomes the arrival of four new people to the research group. Kanghee (James) Won, Jiahui Lu and Qing Dai all start as PhD students, and are under the supervision of Dr. Tim Wilkinson. Also, Dr. Pohling Neo rejoins the group as a Research Associate, after successfully completing her PhD.
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| 11/11/08 | Dr. Philip Hands awarded College Research Associate positionCongratulations to Dr. Philip Hands, who from 1st January 2009 has been awarded a College Research Associate (CRA) position for 3 years at Jesus College.
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| 30/10/08 | CMMPE research paper publishedThe Journal Optics Express today published a research paper recently submitted by members of CMMPE: Polychromatic
liquid crystal laser arrays towards display applications
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| 08/10/08 | CMMPE Autumn seminar series timetable announcedThe Autumn timetable of group seminars has been announced. This gives group members the opportunity to share and engage in the research going on within the group, as well as giving valuable presentation experience. Seminars will take place in the CAPE building seminar room, on Fridays at 2pm.
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| 30/09/08 | CMMPE research at LC2CAM conference highlighted by Nature PhotonicsThe latest edition of Nature Photonics (Oct. 2008, Vol.2, Iss.10) features a "News and Views" article, which summarises the recent LC2CAM conference (Boulder, USA, August 2008); an international workshop on "Light-Controlled Liquid Crystalline Complex Adaptive Materials". The article highlights CMMPE work that was presented by Harry Coles and Philip Hands at this meeting. Click above to download a pdf of the article.
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| 26/09/08 | CMMPE presents its research to International Visiting CommitteeAn international visiting committe comprising of leading scientists and prestigious representatives from funding bodies and investors visited the Engineering Department today. They attended oral and poster presentations from the division, including presentations and demonstrations by CMMPE group members. Click below to download copies of these posters: Poster
1 (CMMPE overview)
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| 24/07/08 | Dr. Sonja Findeisen-Tandel wins the Department of Engineering photography competition!Congratulations to Sonja, whose image "Blue Spikes" has been awarded first prize in the Department of Engineering photography competition, sponsored by Microsoft. For a full list of other finalists, including CMMPE's Carrie Gillespie, Tim Wilkinson and Sonja's other photographs, click here.
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| 14/07/08 | Dr. Tim Wilkinson wins Pilkington Prize for teaching excellence!The Pilkington Prizes are awarded each year by the University of Cambirdge to academic or academic-related staff who have distinguished themselves in teaching. Congratulations to Tim for winning this award, who "has a natural gift for teaching and delivers his courses with clarity and with humour." Click above link for full story.
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| 01/07/08 | CMMPE welcomes new membersCMMPE welcomes the arrival of three new postdoctoral research associates to the group. Dr. Sonja Findeisen-Tandel and Dr. Catherine Dobson join the COSMOS project, and Dr. Qasim Malik joins CHIRALASE.
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| 19/06/08 | COSMOS Research Showcase EventThe COSMOS Research Showcase Event took place today. It was widely attended by academics, insdustrial representatives and the EPSRC, and has received generous positive feedback. Congratulations and thank you to all CMMPE members for their efforts in helping to make this event such a sucess.
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