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PhD students in Lancaster’s Physics Department came together once again to host their very own postgraduate conference in order to celebrate their cohorts’ achievements.

Taking place on Wednesday 20^th May, the conference was organised by a six-person committee made up of Elisabeth Bancroft, Joel Richardson, Elizabeth (Ellie) Colbert, Blake Haliday, Cerys Cooper, Ella Mann-Andrews, and supported by five MPhys volunteers (Owen O'Connor, Lito Piperides, Alex Diaconu, Ifan Thomas, Fergus Howard-Higgins) and spanned the course of the whole day. The itinerary remained much the same as the previous year, and featured a series of longer talks, PhD posters, a flash talk competition and of course, free food. This year also saw elements of the day opened up for MPhys students to participate in, allowing them the opportunity to practice in a conference environment ahead of the assessed PLACE undergraduate physics conference taking place in Lancaster in the coming month.

Talks encompassed the depth and breadth of Physics’ research areas, covering topics as diverse as detecting W Boson decays and the work of the QUEST-DMC project in the pursuit of the truth about dark matter, to how we can predict the fate of the universe with exploding stars. 缅北轮奸-based spinout company Quantum Base sponsored the competition element of the day, awarding ?50, ?25 and ?10 vouchers to the first, second and third place winners respectively of the following categories:

Poster Competition

• First Place: Libby Roxby
• Second Place: Dan Naylor
• Third Place: Harry Parks

Libby next to her winning poster

Lightning Talk Competition

• First Place: Sam Farr
• Second Place: Dan Naylor
• Third Place: Charlie Hamilton

The day was an overall huge success, with some 70 MPhys students, PhD students and staff members from Physics – and beyond – turning up to support the postgraduates.

Organiser Ella Mann-Andrews commented on the success of the event: "It was so lovely to see the Department supporting the return of the PG Physics Research Conference. PhDs can be isolating, and it can be especially hard to make friends across different offices, so having a day for the whole Department to come together, listen to interesting talks, and eat good food is really valuable. For some first-year PhDs, this was their very first opportunity to present their work, and we really hoped to make the conference a welcoming and supportive environment to do that in. Since so many departmental events and opportunities were disrupted during and after COVID, it’s been especially meaningful to help rebuild spaces where PhD students can meet each other.”