Surrey Physics students win IOP/EPSRC funding to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureates Conference
Tuesday 6 May 2008
Tao Wang and Argyrios Georgiadis, both students in the Soft Matter Physics Group at the University of Surrey, are two out of 19 students to have won funding from the Institute of Physics and the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (IOP/EPSRC) to attend the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates (dedicated to Physics), which will be held in Lindau, Germany.
Tao Wang and Argyrios Georgiadis, both students in the Soft Matter Physics Group at the University of Surrey, are two out of 19 students to have won funding from the Institute of Physics and the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (IOP/EPSRC) to attend the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates (dedicated to Physics), which will be held in Lindau, Germany.
Each year, since 1951, 20 to 25 Nobel Prize Winners accept the invitation to this unique meeting on Lake Constance. Some 500 young students come from all over the world to listen to the Laureates’ lectures and to engage in discussions with them.
All costs will be paid for the Surrey student to attend this prestigious conference. Surrey is in a group of only ten UK universities which will be represented by IOP/EPSRC-funded students at this meeting. Professor Joseph Keddie, the students’ PhD supervisors said: "Attending this high-profile meeting will be a life-changing event for these two students. They will be mixing with the world's scientific elite. I expect that they will return invigorated for further research and brimming with new ideas for inter-disciplinary soft matter research."
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