Rosse Medal 2008

Institute of Physics in Ireland

17 April 2008

2008 Rosse Medal

The winner of the 2008 Rosse Medal for graduate research in Physics is John McClure (Queens University Belfast). He receives the Rosse Medal from Dr Hermann Hauser (Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd.) He won the medal for his poster Multiferroic Magnetoelectric Thin Film Composite Materials Studied Using The Magneto-optical Kerr Effect.

Deirdre King (Dublin Institute of Technology), won the second prize with her poster Ultrasound, better with bubbles. Thejesh Bandi (Cork Institute of Technology) won the 3rd prize with his poster Novel Trapping Geometries for Laser-Cooled Atoms. The judges were Professor John Beeby (Honorary Secretary of IOP), Dr. Emily Gleeson (Met Eireann and former winner of the Poster Prize 2002), and Ms Emer Byrne (lecturer at Dublin Institute of Technology). 25 students presented posters at the Spring Weekend.

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