Exploring your Future in Physics

14th ‐ 17th March 2019

Physics Department, University of Oxford

Exploring your Future in Physics

www.physics.ox.ac.uk/confs/cuwip2019

Conference for UndergraduateWomen in Physics UK

Welcome to CUWiP UK!Welcome to the fifth UK Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics!In this booklet, you will find information including details of the programme, biographiesof the speakers and panellists, maps of Oxford and safety information.

We are thrilled to have so many talented women joining us in Oxford for this conference,and are proud to present some of the most successful academics and professionals inphysics. We are sure you will enjoy learning from the work they have done and hearingtheir personal stories.

We look forward to meeting you all over the next couple of days, and hope that youappreciate this opportunity to be part of CUWiP!

The CUWiP UK committee

We are very grateful to our sponsors for their generous support of undergraduate womenin physics. Without them we would not have been able to offer this conference.

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Welcome

Contents

Page 5 Timetable: Thursday, Friday

Page 6 Timetable: Saturday

Page 7 Timetable: Sunday

Page 8 Venues

Page 9 Speaker Profiles

Page 11 Panellist Profiles ‐ Academia

Page 15 Panellist Profiles ‐ Careers

Page 18 Emergency Information

Page 20 Organising Committee

Page 21 About CUWiP & Daniela

Page 22 Locations Map

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Timetable: Thursday & FridayThursday 14th March

18:00 ‐ 20:30 Welcome Reception Keble College Bar

Friday 15th March

08:30 ‐ 09:30 Departure from Keble Road; travel to Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

09:45 ‐ 10:00 Introduction to RAL

10:00 ‐ 11:00 Career Panel ‐ National Laboratories

11:00 ‐ 12:00 Lab tours

12:00 ‐ 12:45 Lunch

12:45 ‐ 13:45 Departure and travel to Oxford

14:00 ‐ 14:20 Welcome &Introduction to CUWiP

14:20 ‐ 15:20 Journey through Physics: FromDreaming of Electrons toDreaming of Cultural Change inAcademia

15:20 ‐ 16:00 Refreshments

16:00 ‐ 18:00 Improving your CVEffective assertivenessInsight into TeachingMeet a medical physicist

19:15 ‐ 20:30 Dinner Keble College Hall

20:30 ‐ 20:50 From self heating sweets tothe physics of gin: adventuresof a soft matter physicist

20:30 ‐ 22:00 Social Activities Keble College Bar

Daniela BortolettoMartin Wood Lecture Theatre

Alexandra Olaya‐CastroMartin Wood Lecture Theatre

Martin Wood Lecture TheatreMartin Wood Lecture TheatreMendelssohn RoomSimpkins Lee Room

Anne PawseyKeble College Hall

08:00 ‐ 08:30 Breakfast Keble College Hall

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Timetable: Saturday

Saturday 16th March

09:00 ‐ 10:00 Science, Creativity andStereotypes

Francesca DayMartin Wood Lecture Theatre

10:00 ‐ 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 ‐ 11:30 Developing Identities: The HighSeas of Possibility

Carole KenrickMartin Wood Lecture Theatre

11:30 ‐ 13:00 Visit Oxford Laboratories

13:00 ‐ 14:00 Lunch Keble College Hall

14:00 ‐ 15:00 'Dear NASA...' ‐ A CareerIn Space

15:00 ‐ 15:45 Refreshments

16:00 ‐ 17:30 Careers Panel

19:00 ‐ 20:15 Dinner Keble College Hall

20:30 ‐ 22:00 Cafe Scientifique (Optional) Keble College Bar

Martin Wood Lecture Theatre


Rain IrshadMartin Wood Lecture Theatre

15:45 ‐ 16:00 Group photograph

18:30 ‐ 19:00 Reception Keble College Hall

Clarendon Common Room

Clarendon Common Room

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Timetable: Sunday

Sunday 17th March

09:00 ‐ 10:00 Doing Physics and Havinga Life

Suchitra SebastianMartin Wood Lecture Theatre

10:00 ‐ 10:30 Coffee break Clarendon Common Room

10:30 ‐ 12:00 Academic Panel

12:30 ‐ 13:00

Clarendon Common Room13:00 ‐ 14:00

Fill out post‐conference surveys

Lunch

Daniela BortolettoMartin Wood Lecture Theatre

12:00 ‐ 12:30 Closing remarks


Martin Wood Lecture Theatre

14:00 Farewell!

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Venues

Keble College is one of the largest colleges in Oxford, with well over 600undergraduate and graduate students. Founded in 1870 to extend access to theuniversity more widely, the college has a continuing commitment toinclusiveness. Combined with its proximity to the physics department, thismakes it the perfect venue for CUWiP! The architecture of Keble is uniqueamong Oxford colleges, and highly distinctive. The red brick chapel isextraordinary and the dining hall is the longest in Oxford.

Most of the activities will be around North Oxford, which is where the PhysicsDepartment is based. Lectures will be held in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre,which is in the Clarendon building ‐ one of the two main buildings of the PhysicsDepartment. The other is the Denys Wilkinson Building, which you will visitwhen touring the labs.

While some teaching is done in the department, a lot is done in the colleges ofthe university. All students belong to a college, and this is often where they live.You will be staying and dining at Keble College, and some of the social activitieswill also take place there.

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Speaker Profiles

Dr Fran DayUniversity of Cambridge

Dr Fran Day is a theoretical physicist at the University of Cambridge and aJunior Research Fellow at Peterhouse. Her research lies on the boundary ofastrophysics and particle physics, using astrophysical data to search for newfundamental particles. Fran completed her DPhil at Oxford, where she alsodiscovered stand‐up comedy. Fran is now a science comedian, performingcomedy about theoretical physics and feminism around the UK.

Professor Alexandra Olaya‐CastroUniversity College London

Professor Alexandra Olaya‐Castro is a theoretical physicist based in theDepartment of Physics and Astronomy at University College London (UCL).Her research interests lie at the interface of Quantum Science and Biology. Sheis known for her work on quantum effects in photosynthesis for which shereceived the 2016 Maxwell Medal and Prize by the IoP. She is also currentlythe Vice‐Dean (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) in the Mathematical andPhysical Sciences at UCL.

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Dr Anne PawseyUniversity of Glasgow

Dr Anne Pawsey is a physicist and science communicator based in Glasgow,who delights in using physics to explore and explain everyday phenomena. As asoft matter physicist she has worked on projects from the sublime, chocolate,to the ridiculous, a sweet which heats up as you eat it, with research into liquidcrystals, microcapsules and lipids in between. Anne also worked as theGraduate School Coordinator for the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance. Forpublic engagement Anne has recently been exploring the physics of gin andbeer in collaboration with distillers and brewers around Scotland.

Speaker Profiles

Ms Carole KenrickScientist in Residence, Gillespie Primary School

As the Scientist in Residence in a primary school, Ms Kenrick's aim is for herpupils to become knowledgeable and passionate about science, understandingboth scientific principles and processes. She set up the Science for Life projectto collaborate with local schools and to share ideas and resources in asupportive environment. Alongside her part‐time role in school, she also worksfor the Ogden Trust (a physics education charity) and does occasionalfreelance science education consultancy, as well as studying for a PhD at theInstitute of Education, University College London.

Dr Suchitra SebastianUniversity of Cambridge

Dr Suchitra Sebastian is a University Reader in Physics at the University ofCambridge. Her research is in the area of quantum materials and theirunconventional properties, particularly the exotic phenomenon ofsuperconductivity. Suchitra is the recipient of awards including a L'Oreal‐UNESCO Fellowship, and has been recognised as a 'next big name' in physics bythe Financial Times and as an outstanding young scientist by the WorldEconomic Forum.

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Dr Rain IrshadRutherford Appleton Laboratory

Dr Rain Irshad currently leads the Autonomous Systems Group at RAL Spaceand works on large innovation projects and facilities for the Science andTechnology Facilities Council. She has been involved in numerous spacemissions over the past 15 years and has an instrument in Earth orbit and oneon the surface of Mars. Her research also looks at terrestrial applications ofspace technology including robotics for Agritech and land mine detection.

Dr Anne PawseyUniversity of Glasgow

Dr Anne Pawsey is a physicist and science communicator based in Glasgow,who delights in using physics to explore and explain everyday phenomena. As asoft matter physicist she has worked on projects from the sublime, chocolate,to the ridiculous, a sweet which heats up as you eat it, with research into liquidcrystals, microcapsules and lipids in between. Anne also worked as theGraduate School Coordinator for the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance. Forpublic engagement Anne has recently been exploring the physics of gin andbeer in collaboration with distillers and brewers around Scotland.

Marina PetriUniversity of YorkRoyal Society University Research Fellow

Marina is a nuclear physicist who was born in Greece but built her researchcareer across Greece, the UK, the USA and Germany before returning to theUK in 2016 to take up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at theUniversity of York. Marina studies the structure of the atomic nuclei, i.e. howprotons and neutrons arrange themselves and how they interact among eachother to form complex nuclei, which has a decisive impact on everyday life,from the very existence of carbon‐based life on Earth to critical nuclearphysics applications such as carbon dating. Our understanding of nuclearstructure is still elusive and relies on sophisticated experiments that delivercritical observables of atomic nuclei. For example, Marina’s experiments useparticle accelerators that smash nuclei traveling at up to 50% the speed oflight on stationary material to induce nuclear reactions. Typically, fewer thanone in a million reactions will create the nucleus under study and she measuresthe time it lives in a specific state, about a billionth of a second.

Panellist Profiles - Academia

Alexandra RamadanUniversity of OxfordPostdoctoral Research Assistant

Dr Alex Ramadan is a physical chemist working in the Department of Physicsat the University of Oxford. She is passionate about renewable energy and herresearch focus is on developing new materials for cheaper, more efficientphotovoltaics. Currently her work is on 'lead halide perovskites', a new class ofmaterials which are currently touted as the next big development in solarenergy.

Laurel KayeUniversity of OxfordDPhil student

Laurel is a first year DPhil student in astrophysics from New York, with abackground in medicine and chemistry. She did high energy gamma researchfor the Cherenkov Telescope Array in 2015‐2016, then took a circuitousroute through medical school in the States before solidifying her passion inastrophysics and returning to start her DPhil in Oxford. Her current work is onexoplanet detection and characterisation with Suzanne Aigrain's group. Shealso enjoys rowing, painting and creative writing.

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Sarah WilliamsUniversity of CambridgeCollege Lecturer & Fellow

Sarah Williams is a college lecturer and fellow in physics at Murray EdwardsCollege at the University of Cambridge, having previously worked as a physicslecturer at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Her research focuses onsearches for new particles using the ATLAS experiment at the Large HadronCollider at CERN, with a particular focus on searching for particles that couldhelp explain what dark matter is made of.

Jessica BolandUniversity of ManchesterLecturer

Dr Jessica Louise Boland is a Lecturer in functional materials and devices withinthe Photon Science Institute and School of Electronic and ElectricalEngineering at the University of Manchester. She was awarded her DPhil inCondensed Matter Physics from the University of Oxford for her work onterahertz spectroscopy of semiconductor nanowires for device applications in2017. Following on from her DPhil, she was awarded an EPSRC Doctoral prizeto continue this work at the University of Oxford and succeeding in developingnovel nanowire‐based THz devices. She then moved to the University ofRegensburg in Germany, where she was awarded the prestigious Alexandervon Humboldt research fellowship to employ mid‐infrared scanning near‐fieldoptical microscopy to 2D topological insulator thin films and nanostructures. Inthe same year, she was awarded the Institute of Physics Jocelyn Bell Burnellmedal and prize in recognition of her substantial contribution to physics andwork to support and encourage others in the field. In particular, she is apassionate advocate for accessibility in STEM and promotes the use of BritishSign Language in STEM through her SignScience Twitter campaign andwebsite. Her current research is focused on the development of near‐fieldterahertz microscopy for surface‐sensitive characterisation of the electricalconductivity of topological insulators and 2D materials with sub‐picosecondtemporal and nanometre‐spatial resolution. She aims to pave the way for thenext‐generation of nanoscale devices that are faster, smarter and moreenergy‐efficient.


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Karoline van GemstUniversity of BirminghamPhD student

Karoline van Gemst is a first year PhD student in the Geometry andMathematical Physics group at the University of Birmingham. She undertookundergraduate studies in Mathematical Physics at The University of Edinburghand went on to complete an MSc in Pure Mathematics at Imperial CollegeLondon. Despite her focus having now moved towards pure mathematics, herinterests are highly motivated by and connected to physics. Topics of interestinclude mirror symmetry which has roots in string theory, and quantumcohomology, which has intimate connections with integrable systems.

Kristina SmallUniversity of ManchesterPhD Student

Kristina is a second year PhD student working at the University of Manchesterand in collaboration with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, after completingan MPhys in Theoretical Physics at the University of York. Her project involvesexploring the use of very high‐energy electrons in cancer treatment,specifically the way that they damage DNA and so kill cancerous cells. Thiswork is carried out using a combination of computational modelling in Geant4and plasmid irradiation experiments using the CLARA and CLEAR electronaccelerators at Daresbury Laboratory and CERN. Aside from physics, Kristinaspends time watching and taking part in athletics, playing the piano andbaking.

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Lavina SnoekUniversity of OxfordDepartmental Laser Supervisor, Research Engineer

I have always been fascinated by finding out ‘how things work’. Therefore, I decided to followin my father’s footsteps and study Physics in Amsterdam, my hometown. During the studywhich included Astronomy in the first year, a friend and I decided that we liked both physicsand astronomy and didn’t want to choose between the two topics for our degrees, so after 6years of study, including two years of practical work in physics and astronomy researchgroups, we finished with doctorates in each (equivalent to Master’s degrees), the onlystudents to do this! My friend proceeded doing her PhD in Astronomy, but I preferredspanners and screwdrivers to workstations, so I chose a PhD in experimental molecularphysics at the FOM‐Institute in Amsterdam, a government‐funded research laboratory.During my PhD on ‘The Study of Intramolecular Dynamics using Time‐Resolved Spectroscopyand Electron‐Ion Coincidence Techniques’, I worked in an international team of students andpostdocs, gaining experience in working with lasers, vacuum equipment, experiment design,but also in lots of transferable skills such as problem analysis and solving, giving 10‐45 minpresentations, writing articles and a thesis. After my PhD I decided to change field from 'bluesky' laser physics to research where lasers were applied to biological systems. I came to thePhysical & Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory in Oxford as a postdoc, to study theconformational landscape of small biomolecules (e.g. amino acids, small neurotransmitters,sugars) in the gas phase, using IR and UV pump‐probe spectroscopy combined withcomputations. After four years I obtained a 10‐year Royal Society University ResearchFellowship, which allowed me to form my own research group. My interest was now in slightlylarger systems such as small, biologically active peptides like opiates and fragments ofAlzheimer‐related proteins. I also started lecturing and supervising students. Two childrenwere born during this time, and after maternity leave I came back to work four days per week,having found a nice childminder to look after the kids. Although the University has all kinds offamily‐friendly schemes and programmes in place, it ultimately didn’t work out satisfactorily,and I decided to stop with a 'normal’ scientific career. After the last PhD student finished, Itook on freelance work at Oxford University Press as a library researcher for the OxfordEnglish Dictionary. Here I investigated the historical usage and occurrence of scientific wordsfrom diverse fields such as astronomy, biology, chemistry, dentistry, engineering, geology,mathematics, medicine, physics and zoology. Online and library 'detective skills' were requiredfor discovering e.g. the first time use of words, and linguistic skills for reading manuscriptsfrom the 17th Century onwards. Being freelance was an excellent way to combine work andfamily life, and because it was highly enjoyable and satisfying work, I’ve been doing it until July2018. In the meantime I also took on part‐time postdoctoral posts in the Materials andPhysics Departments in Oxford, thoroughly enjoying the freedom of being a sort of‘consultant’ on projects which ranged from designing a gas probe for the synthesis of carbonnanotubes, and improving the thermal conductivity of epoxy resins and coolants for use in F1racing car engines, to helping to design a thin film evaporator for perovskite materials.Recently, when attending a laser safety course in the Physics Department, I found out that theDepartment was recruiting for a Laser Safety Officer. I applied and got the (permanent) job. Ifind it important to try to understand the physics behind the researchers' laser experiments inorder to advise them about the best safety measures/aspects, and for this it really helpshaving had such a wide experience in the physical sciences. I’m working full‐time now withtwo part‐time jobs, something I’m happy to do as my children have just started secondaryschool.


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Panellist Profiles - Careers

Gemma Wooden

Gemma completed an MPhys in Physics at the University of Oxford and a DPhilin Particle Physics also at the University of Oxford. As part of her DPhil, shespent two years at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, home of the Large HadronCollider (LHC), the world’s highest energy particle accelerator. She continuedthe work of her DPhil as a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, basedat CERN, working towards the discovery of the Higgs boson, which was foundin July 2012.

After her Research Fellowship, Gemma moved to EIP, an IP law firm, where shequalified as a UK and European patent attorney. Her work now includes thedrafting and prosecution of patent applications relating to physics technology.She has particular experience in the fields of display device technology, imageprocessing and artificial intelligence.

Ellie Davies

Ellie is the lead analyst for surface transport at the Committee on ClimateChange (CCC), which provides independent advice to government on climatechange policy. Managing development of a range of models, she deliversevidence to government and industry about the cost effective way todecarbonise the transport sector. Most recently, the Government has askedthe CCC to advise on whether to set a new more ambitious long‐termemissions reduction target, which the CCC will report on in May.

She completed a Masters in Physics at the University of Bath, including a sixmonth placement in particle physics at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Thisplacement led to her completing a DPhil in Particle Physics at OxfordUniversity, working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

After her PhD, Ellie joined the Government Operational Research Service FastStream. Her two roles in the Home Office included a technical role developingbespoke software and a strategic role leading a team in providing analysis forplans to combat drug smuggling, reduce queues at passport control andoptimise usage of public money. To gain a wider range of experience, Elliemoved to HMRC to model the tax gap – analysing the difference between theamount of tax due to HMRC and the amount paid. Ellie graduated the faststream after earning promotion to her current role.

Ellie uses and develops skills from her physics background every day, includingnumber crunching, being able to explain complicated concepts and limitationsof the modelling to non‐technical audiences and using problem solving to findsimple ways to model complex real world situations.

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Ellie Dobson

Ellie Dobson currently heads the R&D efforts at Arundo Analytics, aNorwegian/US based product and services startup who specialise in IOTanalytics for asset heavy industries. Ellie spent most of her early life inNorthumberland planning to be a musician but did a rather unexpected U‐turnat the age of 18, and after a brief foray into teaching ended up reading physicsat Oxford University. She was awarded her PhD in 2009 in particle physics,and spent a few subsequent years hunting Higgses in the ATLAS detector aspart of the LHC project. Looking for a new challenge, she then took a job as afield engineer at MathWorks, the company behind MATLAB, specialising in theproductisation of machine learning and parallel computing. Following that sheworked at Pivotal Software as a senior data scientist, building and deployingpredictive models in industry verticals ranging from formula one to fashionanalytics. In her spare time she likes to do anything that involves beingoutdoors in beautiful Norway and spending time with her partner Erik andyoung daughters.


Sarwat Howe

Sarwat is a Commercialisation Associate at Cambridge Enterprise, where sheworks in the Technology Transfer team (Physical Sciences). Prior to joiningCambridge Enterprise, Sarwat worked in innovation consulting: firstly as anAssociate at Cambridge Innovation Consulting, then as a Senior Analyst atOakland Innovation. She also has experience working in industry ‐ she was aDevice Fabrication Engineer at Hewlett‐Packard Laboratories, developingnext‐generation displays. Sarwat has an MSci in Chemistry from the Universityof Bristol and an MRes in Photonic Systems Development from the Universityof Cambridge, where she is about to complete her PhD in optoelectronicdevices.

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Eleanor Chalkley

Dr Eleanor Chalkley is a Senior Manufacturing Engineer at the University ofStrathclyde’s Advanced Forging Research Centre. She completed a PhD inadvanced optical coatings for gravitational wave detectors at the University ofGlasgow and has enjoyed an exciting career applying her passion for precisionmeasurement and optics to topics including photolithography, robotic opticalpolishing and non‐contact temperature measurement. At the AdvancedForging Research Centre, Dr Chalkley is focused on improving the practice oftemperature measurement in extreme industrial environments. processing andartificial intelligence.

Katie Atkinson

Katie studied at the University of Cambridge, graduating with an MSci inExperimental and Theoretical Physics and a PhD on flexoelectricity in liquidcrystal materials for display devices. Upon graduation, Katie remained atCambridge to undertake a short postdoctoral position working on polymers forcoronary stents in the Materials Science Department.

Katie then moved into industry and worked for Jaguar Land Rover in theDepartment of Materials Engineering, where she qualified as a CharteredEngineer. Her first role involved managing sheet aluminium and extrusionsacross all programmes. She then moved into the Product Integration andQuality team and helped improve the processes for materials selection acrossthe business.

Whilst working in industry, Katie developed an interest in IP law. She completedthe Graduate Diploma in Law, Legal Practice Course and then authored aMasters degree in Law (LLM) on the legal implications of autonomous carswhilst at Jaguar Land Rover. She is now working as a trainee solicitor at Allen &Overy and hopes to combine her interests in law and technology in the futureupon qualification.

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Emergency Information

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Safety Information for Newcomers

Welcome to the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford.

The Department consists of sixsub‐departments located on two sites:

East Site:Clarendon LaboratoryParks RoadOxford, OX1 3PUTel. 01865 272200

West Site:Denys Wilkinson BuildingKeble RoadOxford, OX1 3RHTel. 01865 273333

Emergencies:‐ Fire, Ambulance, Police:

Tel. 999‐ University Security Service:

Tel. (01865) (2)89999

If you discover a fire, raise the alarm bybreaking the glass in any of the red "FIRE" callpoints and leave the building. Go to theassembly point for your building.

Emergency services: 999Non‐emergency Police: 111University Security Services: 01865 289999Keble College Lodge: 01865 272727

CUWiP Committee contact:Physics department reception: 01865 272200Taxi company: Royal Cars: 01865 777333

A1 Taxis: 01865 248000

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EMERGENCY EVACUATION WARNINGAlarm will sound continuously (fire) or intermittently (other emergencies).

EVACUATION PROCEDURE‐ Leave the building and proceed to the assembly point.‐ Do not stop to collect personal belongings.‐ Close all doors behind you.‐ Use the nearest available exit.‐ Do not use lifts.‐ Do not re‐enter the building until authorised to do so.

FIRST AIDThe department has a team of trained first aiders. If you feel unwell or are injured, please call a first aider forassistance (first aider lists may be found by first aid boxes or on safety noticeboards). First aid assistanceout of hours is available from the University Security Service, Tel. 89999.

MOBILITYIf you require help in descending stairs in an emergency, please ensure that you make your need known toyour host. EvacChairs, to be operated by trained staff, are available in the Denys Wilkinson Building, MartinWood Complex (part of the Clarendon Laboratory) and Robert Hooke Building.

In order to make your time in the Department as safe as possible, please:‐ Follow safety rules for areas you visit in the department.‐ Note the location of your nearest: emergency exit, telephone, fire alarm call point, fire

extinguisher, first aid box.‐ Report all incidents and accidents‐ Call the emergency services if needed‐ Observe the No Smoking policy in and around our buildings‐ Only eat and drink in designated areas‐ Understand and obey all warning signs. Typical warning signs displayed in areas where special

hazards exist include:

Do not:‐ Touch or interfere with any equipment that you are not authorised to use.‐ Bring alcohol or drugs (other than prescribed medications) on site.‐ Enter any laboratory or other hazardous area you are not authorised to be in without permission.

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Organising Committee

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Daniela Bortoletto

Jo Ashbourn

Kathryn Boast

Lara Bonney

Maeve Dai

Sue Geddes

Sam Henry

Judith Hillier

Sarah Littlejohn

Suhas Mahesh

Sneha Ramshanker

Dafni Roumba

Sabrina Sterzl

Aprajita Verma

Anuradha Vibhakar

Yingjie Wei

Heather Williams

Sarah Williams

Tian Zhang

Aleksandra Ziolkowska

The committee is alsograteful for help from:

Grzegorz AgacinskiEloise BrownLeonardo BuizzaAlexandra RollingsKimberley Savill

Professor Daniela Bortoletto is an experimental particle physicist.When she isn't organising CUWiP UK, she works on the ATLASexperiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland.Daniela was a member of the team that made the momentousdiscovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. The LHC has now restartedoperations and reached energies of 13 TeV, providing a wealth ofnew, high energy data. She is using this data to study the propertiesof the Higgs Boson, including its possible couplings to dark matterparticles, as well as searching for higher mass Higgs‐like particles.In addition, Daniela is participating in the upgrade of the ATLASinner tracking system that will be needed by 2022 when thecollision rate of the LHC will increase by a factor of five above thevalue for which the experiment was originally designed.

Professor Bortoletto joined the Physics Department of theUniversity of Oxford in 2013. Before this she was the E. M. PurcellDistinguished Professor of Physics at Purdue University. It wasduring her time as a professor in the USA that Daniela became involved with CUWiP. Not long afterher appointment in Oxford, she began planning the first CUWiP UK, and has masterminded all four ofthe conferences here. Although it is always a lot of work, the success of the conferences is testamentto Daniela's talent, enthusiasm and commitment to women in physics.

About CUWiP...

About Daniela...

In 2006, the University of Southern California hosted the first ever Conference for UndergraduateWomen in Physics. The grassroots effort that created this CUWiP grew quickly and within just a fewyears, there were six such conferences being hosted simultaneously. In 2012, the American PhysicalSociety became the institutional home for the conferences, which by then were being held atlocations all over the USA.

In 2015, CUWiP made its way across the Atlantic and Oxford University was proud to host the firstever CUWiP UK. One hundred undergraduate physicists visited Oxford from around the UK andIreland for a mixture of talks, workshops and lab visits over the course of three days. The conferencewas such a success that it was repeated in 2016, 2017 and 2018, and Oxford Physics are thrilled tobe welcoming you to CUWiP UK 2019! The UK conference is run by Professor Daniela Bortoletto. Sheis helped by a team of physicists drawn from among Oxford's undergraduates, graduates and beyond.Many of these are involved with Oxford's Women in Physics Society, for whom the conference is thehighlight of the year!

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