Official Opening
The
future of physics at Queen's……
Belfast school children
Eloise Murray from St Malachy's Primary and Tyler Mairs from Blythfield
Primary get to grips with some of the equipment in the 'clean room' of the
new £9 million International Research Centre for Experimental Physics at
Queen's University which officially opens on Wednesday (22 June). The room
is used to process materials and fabricate devices using nanotechnology,
piecing together, or removing materials a few atoms at a time. Researchers
working in the room must wear protective clothing to ensure that the
environment remains free from dirt and contaminants which can destroy the
devices.
The Official
Opening of IRCEP took place on Wednesday 22nd June 2005.
Programme
11:30 Official
Opening
12:00 Reception
& Buffet Lunch and tours of the IRCEP Laboratories
14:00
Physics at the Interface International
Symposia
19:00 Banquet (by
invitation)
For more
pictures please visit the
opening gallery
IRCEP Director Prof. Graham addressing audience
Prof. Graham alongside Prof. Gregson FREng (President &
Vice Chancellor of Queen's) and Prof. Sibbett FRS CBE (Wardlow
Professor of Natural Philosophy and Director of Research at the School of
Physics and Astronomy at St Andrews University and
Chief Science Advisor to the Scottish Executive)
Acting Director of IRCEP Prof Lewis with Profs. Gregson
and Sibbett
Profs. Sibbett, Gregson and Graham outside the IRCEP
entrance
Some of the audience at the opening
Representatives of the Queen's Physics Class of '59
Prof. Lewis and guests
Dr Cormican (Managing Director of Andor Technology) and
Professor Emeritus Walmsley
We are grateful
to
for their
sponsorship of this event.
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