Rosse Medal
The award for graduate research
The Institute of Physics in Ireland has commissioned a silver medal, the Rosse Medal, that will be awarded annually at the Spring Weekend Meeting.
Students were invited to submit posters communicating any research area in physics to be considered for inclusion in the Rosse Medal at the Spring Weekend 2008 meeting. The posters were prepared for presentation and communication to a general physics audience. All postgraduates presenting a poster must be registered at an institution based in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland. The Rosse Medal will be awarded to the presenting author of the best poster as determined by the judging panel. The presentation of the medal was made at the conference dinner on Saturday evening.
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.
Background to the Rosse Medal
During the 1840's and starting from virtually first principles, the third Earl of Rosse, Sir William Parsons, designed and implemented the building of the mirrors, tube and mountings for a 72 inch reflecting telescope which was the largest in the world at that time and remained so for three quarters of a century. With this instrument, situated near the middle of Ireland, Lord Rosse was able to study and record details of immensely distant stellar objects and to provide evidence that many of these mysterious nebulae were actually galaxies located far outside our own.
This award was formerly known as the Postgraduate Poster award. Only postgraduates registered at institutions based in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland are eligible for this Award.
^ To the top ^