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        <![CDATA[Swansea Physicists's collaboration with CERN]]>
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        <![CDATA[Professor Mike Charlton, Dr Stefan Eriksson, Dr Niels Madsen, Dr Dirk van der Werf, postdoctoral researcher Dr Aled Isaac and student Silvia Napoli
have collaborated on research to help unlock the secrets of the universe.]]>
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        Tue, 07 May 2013 15:08:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[CERN Press Release: ALPHA experimenters present novel investigation of the effect of gravity on antimatter]]>
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        <![CDATA[Geneva, 30 April 2013. The ALPHA collaboration at CERN has published a paper in Nature Communications describing the first direct analysis of how antimatter is affected by gravity.]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/cernpressreleasealphaexperimenterspresentnovelinvestigationoftheeffectofgravityonantimatter.php</link>
    
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        Thu, 02 May 2013 11:09:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Swansea University Professor awarded esteemed Research Merit Award]]>
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        <![CDATA[Professor Gert Aarts, from the Physics Department, in the College of Science at Swansea University, has been awarded the esteemed Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.]]>
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        Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:31:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Swansea physicists organise Edinburgh workshop at the Higgs Centre]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics is holding a workshop on "Strongly interacting dynamics beyond Standard Model and the Higgs boson"]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/swanseaphysicistsorganiseedinburghworkshopatthehiggscentre.php</link>
    
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        Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:54:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Manipulating positrons paper is research highlight]]>
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        <![CDATA[A research paper by physicists from Swansea University has been featured as a ‘Research Highlight’ in the online international journal Physics of Plasmas.]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/manipulatingpositronspaperisresearchhighlight.php</link>
    
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        News article 158737
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        Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:34:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Professor Biagio Lucini’s research on the ‘miracle material’ Graphene]]>
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        <![CDATA[Professor Biagio Lucini, Department of Physics at Swansea University, uses supercomputers to carry out world class research within the field of theoretical particle physics to develop a better understanding of the newly discovered ‘miracle material’ Graphene.]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/professorbiagiolucinisresearchonthemiraclematerialgraphene.php</link>
    
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        News article 158640
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        Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:14:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Professor Mike Charlton and the big bang]]>
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        <![CDATA[Physicist Professor Mike Charlton was a guest speaker at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/professormikecharltonandthebigbang.php</link>
    
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        News article 157140
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        Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:56:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Physicist Professor Lyn Evans announces new project]]>
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        <![CDATA[Western Mail reports that Professor Lyn Evans, Swansea graduate and leader of the LHC project at CERN, is shortly to begin a new project, entitled the Linear Collider Collaboration.

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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/physicistprofessorlynevansannouncesnewproject.php</link>
    
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        News article 157105
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        Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:12:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[UK toasts first term of Science without Borders ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Swansea University Computer Science and Physics student attends reception at Foreign & Commonwealth Office
 
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/uktoastsfirsttermofsciencewithoutborders.php</link>
    
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        News article 150863
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        Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:15:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Swansea University Physics Graduate wins Million Dollar Prize]]>
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        <![CDATA[Prof Lyn Evans, former Project Leader at CERN and a Physics graduate from Swansea University, is one of this year’s winners of the Special Fundamental Physics Prize, which recognizes transformative advances in Physics. The prize comes with three million dollar and is shared by scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/swanseauniversityphysicsgraduatewinsmilliondollarprize.php</link>
    
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        Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:16:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[PhD student wins Welsh Livery Guild I.T. Travel Scholarship]]>
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        <![CDATA[PhD student Wynne Evans has won a Welsh Livery Guild I.T. Travel Scholarship worth £1000. He plans to use this to fund a research visit to the Jefferson Lab in Virginia.]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/phdstudentwinswelshliveryguildittravelscholarship.php</link>
    
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        News article 149308
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        Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:21:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Obituary for Distinguished Swansea Physicist Professor David Olive]]>
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        <![CDATA[Professor David Olive, CBE FRS FLSW]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/obituaryfordistinguishedswanseaphysicistprofessordavidolive.php</link>
    
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        News article 149306
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    <pubDate>
        Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:45:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[BBC Wales reports on Large Hadron Collider exhibition in the Senedd]]>
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        News article 148773
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        Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Large Hadron Collider on Tour coverage on BBC Radio Wales]]>
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        News article 148772
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        Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Major international Physics Conference a great success]]>
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        News article 147816
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        Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[One million UK jobs depend on physics]]>
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        News article 147817
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        Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Cern, Hadron a Higgs Boson / Cern, Hadron and Higgs Boson]]>
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        Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Postdoctoral position in Theoretical Particle Physics]]>
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        Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Schools Christmas Lectures 2012]]>
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        Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[From Newton to Turing: Physics and the Computational Constraint]]>
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    <description>
        <![CDATA[Professor S Barry Cooper, Leeds University]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/fromnewtontoturingphysicsandthecomputationalconstraint.php</link>
    
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        Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Swansea University’s Physics Department contributes to National Eisteddfod]]>
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        Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[CERN project student achieves first class results]]>
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        <![CDATA[A Swansea University Physics student who was chosen to work on a project at the groundbreaking European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva has achieved first class results despite suffering a chronic health condition.]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/cernprojectstudentachievesfirstclassresults.php</link>
    
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        Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Prof Higgs will talk about the Higgs boson]]>
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        Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[The Higgs Boson, the Big Bang, the Universe and Everything]]>
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        <![CDATA[What did the Universe look like right after the Big Bang? How do quarks and gluons behave inside neutron stars? Where does mass come from? What will be revealed next about the Higgs boson and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)?]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/thehiggsbosonthebigbangtheuniverseandeverything.php</link>
    
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        Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[BBC Radio Wales interviews Dr Dirk van der Werf]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/bbcradiowalesinterviewsdrdirkvanderwerf.php</link>
    
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        Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Physics Seminar]]>
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        <![CDATA[Professor William D Phillips Nobel Laureate will give a talk on "Atoms in Optical Lattices:  An Intersection of Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics"
 

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        Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Employability Workshops 12-15th June]]>
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    <description>
        <![CDATA[FREE workshops that are designed to improve your skills in job application and interview.]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/employabilityworkshops12-15thjune.php</link>
    
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        Mon, 28 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Physics Number One in Wales]]>
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        News article 134296
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        Thu, 10 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Jamie Nemeth 2011 SURF as Art postgraduate winner]]>
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    <description>
        <![CDATA[The competition invites images from all over the University that are inspired by research or inspire research]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/jamienemeth2011surfasartpostgraduatewinner.php</link>
    
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        Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Swansea physicists groundbreaking research receives international news coverage]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Swansea Physics team working as part of the ALPHA experiment at CERN, have achieved international interest after making a significant breakthrough in anti-matter research]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/swanseaphysicistsgroundbreakingresearchreceivesinternationalnewscoverage.php</link>
    
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        Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[CERN experiment makes spectroscopic measurement of antihydrogen]]>
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        <![CDATA[Geneva, 7 March 2012. In a paper published online today by the journal Nature, the ALPHA collaboration at CERN* reports an important milestone on the way to measuring the properties of antimatter atoms]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/cernexperimentmakesspectroscopicmeasurementofantihydrogen.php</link>
    
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        Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Swansea antimatter trappers march on]]>
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        <![CDATA[The leading science journal Nature Physics has today (Sunday, 5 June 2011, 18.00hrs) reported a further breakthrough in antimatter trapping]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/swanseaantimattertrappersmarchon.php</link>
    
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        Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Momentum Feb 2012]]>
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        <![CDATA[The February issue of the University’s research magazine, Momentum, is now available.]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/momentumfeb2012.php</link>
    
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        Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Swansea physicist organizes six-week research programme in Seattle]]>
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        <![CDATA[During March-April 2012 a six-week programme on Gauge Field Dynamics In and Out of Equilibrium will take place at the Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT) in Seattle (WA, USA)]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/swanseaphysicistorganizessix-weekresearchprogrammeinseattle.php</link>
    
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        Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT
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        <![CDATA[Swansea Physicists past and present honoured]]>
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        <![CDATA[Two Heads of Department of Physics, past and present, Professors Mike Charlton and Graham Shore, have both been made Inaugural Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales]]>
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    <link>http://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics/news/swanseaphysicistspastandpresenthonoured.php</link>
    
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        Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT
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