The Kelvin Prize Committee have spent an enjoyable time reading PhD theses submitted during 2020 and nominated by research groups for an award. We were very impressed by the research scholarship and innovation demonstrated across a wide range of physics areas; the School should be proud of these achievements by our PhD students.

The following awards are being made (in alphabetical order by surname):

Kelvin Prize and Medal

Joseph Bayley : Non-Parametric and Machine Learning Techniques for Continuous Gravitational Wave Searches

Une Butaite : Enhanced Optical Tweezing : from hydrodynamic micro-manipulation to optimised optical trapping

Gavin Macauley : Skating on spin ice

Kelvin Prize

Jakub Belin : Optics of Polyhedra: from Invisibility Cloaks to Curved Spaces

Daniel Hatton : High precision quark mass determinations and studies of meson properties using lattice QCD

Andreas Noack : A Comprehensive Embedded System with Ultra-Stable and Capacitive and Optical Readouts for a MEMS Gravimeter

Peter Pauli : Lambda(1520) Measurements at the GlueX Experiment

We will be asking for nominations for PhD theses submitted during 2021 at the end of this year. Please bear this in mind as PhD theses cross your desk during the year.


First published: 9 June 2021

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