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CDT student Megan Bickle has successfully secured funding for a 3 month policy internship with DEFRA from the UKRI Policy internships scheme, to take place during 2019. The Policy Internships Scheme provides the opportunity for PhD students funded by the research councils of UK Research and Innovation to work for three months in one of...
We are pleased to share the news that CDT student Colin Hardy has been invited to ISTerre, Grenoble to discuss Magnetostrophic Dynamos and recently published results. Read the article about ISTerre.
We are pleased to announce that CDT student Andrew Oates won the John Fox Memorial prize 2018/19. This prize (£2,000) funds one outstanding researcher in the area of engineering fluid mechanics at Leeds to attend an international placement to support their PhD research. Andrew plans to use the funds to attend a month research placement between February-...
Staff and students can now get free online access to the Financial Times, Times Higher Education and extended newspaper archives. The University Library now has a new online subscription to The Financial Times (FT) available to all staff and students. The first time you access the FT website you will need to create an account using your Leeds email address....
Congratulations to our CDT student Colin Hardy, who has just commenced the third year of the CDT programme, on the publication of his first PhD paper on how to determine the geostrophic flow in the Earth's core. Paper details: Colin Hardy, Philip Livermore, Jitse Nisesen, Jiawen Luo, Kuan Li, Determination of the instantaneous geostrophic flow within...
PubhD is a scheme run by CDT Fluid Dynamics PhD students at the University of Leeds to give PhD students a comfortable and friendly atmosphere in which to talk about their research. In a pub. To anyone who is interested. PubhD events now take place at Hyde Park Book Club on the third Wednesday of every month. Each evening...
New challenges paper out in special issue on Atmopsheric Processes Over Complex Terrain 'Current Challenges in Orthographic Flow Dynamics: Turbulent Exchange Due to Low-Level Gravity-Wave Processes' Atmosphere 2018, 9(9), 361; DOI link to read the paper.
Congratulations to fourth year EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) student Thomas Goodfellow who won the prize for best poster at this year’s UK Fluids Conference, held at Manchester, 4-6th September 2018. Thomas’ research considers the instabilities of elevator modes in oscillatory double-diffusive convection, the full poster is available here. Next year’s UK Fluids Conference is being...
Anew research project will use Direct Statistical Simulation to investigate the Sun’s magnetic field. The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an advanced grant of €2.5 million (£2.2m) for one of our CDT supervisors, University of Leeds Professor of Applied Mathematics Steve Tobias to spearhead a new research project, Direct Statistical Simulation of the Sun and Stars (D5S)....
We are pleased to announce that CDT student Jacob van Alwon won the John Fox Memorial prize 2017/18. This prize (£2,000) funds one outstanding researcher in the area of engineering fluid mechanics at Leeds to attend an international placement to support their PhD research. Jacob used the prize to go to the University of Lisbon...