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Patrick Parkinson

18 May 2017

Patrick spoke at the Manchester Pint of Science event at Terrace NQ. Linking the first photograph to nuclear bombs, the Matrix movie and helicopters that appear not to move, he described the use of picosecond “movie-making” to understand energy processes in photosynthesis and nanolasers.

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Professor Parkinson

Professor Parkinson

I've been promoted to Professor of Applied Physics at Manchester.
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Designing for Awe

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We celebrate the outputs of scientific discovery: the Nature paper, the press release. But we rarely protect the conditions that produce it. What if awe isn't a nice-to-have, but the hidden driver of the research that matters most?
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Welcome: Abbas Dalvi

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A welcome to new PhD student Abbas Dalvi, who joins from an MPhil with Manchester colleague Darren Graham. Abbas will be working on ultrafast optical microscopy techniques to study photonic integrated materials at high spatial and temporal resolution.
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