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At the end of March, Tristan, Amie, Aly and Lucy headed to ISIS for an experiment on WISH. The experiment was on a metal-organic framework that Tristan has been studying as part of his thesis research, investigating the magnetic ground state down to sub-kelvin temperatures. This was particularly exciting for Amie as this was herContinue reading “Group Beamtime on WISH”

Jen had a fantastic time at the European Conference for Neutron Scattering (ECNS) this week, in Garching, Munich! This was Jen’s first time at ECNS and the biggest conference she’s been to with over 500 participants. Jen really enjoyed all the talks and posters in the different sessions, there’s lots of cool science going onContinue reading “Jen Presents at ECNS 2023”

Jen was joined by Lucy this week for one of the first experiments at the ILL following its upgrade shutdown. Jen and Lucy were aiming to measure the last piece of the puzzle for their ZnV2O4 project on D20. After nearly 18 months of upgrades, the ILL had just restarted, but unfortunately, because the reactorContinue reading “First Beamtime after ILL Long Shutdown”

Congratulations to Dr Aly Abdeldaim for his successful PhD viva! Aly’s PhD took us on an exploration of exotic magnetism across the dimensions, from the one-dimensional molybdates to two-dimensional square and three-dimensional diamond MOF frameworks. For this, Aly performed lots of experiments at central facilities and became our group’s expert in inelastic neutron scattering. AlyContinue reading “Dr Aly Abdeldaim Passes his PhD Viva”

This week we took a group trip to Cambridge to attend the 2022 RSC SSCG Christmas Meeting. This was the first time the meeting had been held in person since the pandemic and consisted of two days of very interesting talks and a giant poster session. Lucy gave an invited talk showcasing our work onContinue reading “Group Trip to RSC SSCG Christmas Meeting”

Last week, Jen had the opportunity to attend the school and conference for Analysis of Diffraction Data in Real Space (ADD2022)! The school entails a crash course in techniques that probe local orders, such as pair-distribution function (pdf) analysis and diffuse scattering, with plenary lectures, tutorials and information on how to reduce data. Jen particularlyContinue reading “Jen Presents at ADD2022”

Jen had a very exciting trip to Lund for the ILL/ESS User Meeting last week. This meeting is held biannually and showcases the work going on at the ILL and ESS as well as the wider user community. Jen had the opportunity to present some of her recent work on LiYbO2 using data from theContinue reading “Jen presents at the ILL/ESS User Meeting”

Aly, Jen and Otto have had a great time learning all about crystallography at the PCG Summer school last week! Taking place at the beautiful Cosener’s House in Abingdon, they enjoyed lectures on topics such as phonons, magnetic irreproducible representations and Landau theory. There was also time for lots of socialising, with a fantastic quizContinue reading “Aly, Jen and Otto Attend the PCG 2022 Summer School”

This week was the annual postgraduate research symposium at Birmingham and we had 3 group members presenting! Aly started the day with a great presentation on some of his recent experiments on his Ru-based compounds. Then Tristan delivered a great poster on his synthesis and magnetic characterisation work of MOFs. Jen finished the day byContinue reading “Aly, Jen and Tristan Present at the Birmingham Postgraduate Symposium”

Lucy and Jen attended the biannual conference on highly frustrated magnetism (HFM) this week in Paris! This conference brings together our community for a week, and showcases the latest developments in the frustrated magnetism field. Lucy kicked off the conference with a fantastic presentation on our groups work on the Barlowite family, led by KateContinue reading “Lucy and Jen Attend HFM 2022”