Pioneering research on sustainable energy

5 February 2010

Cutting-edge research being carried out at the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI), University of Surrey, aims to capture solar energy directly from space and transmit the energy to Earth using lasers.

Dr Stephen Sweeney of the ATI and Department of Physics is leading the project at Surrey working closely with EADS Astrium. The aim of the research is to use infrared lasers as a means of beaming solar energy from a satellite system to Earth.

Congratulations to Alex Samuels

28 September 2009

Congratulations to Alex Samuels, one of our graduates this year, on reaching the finals for the 2009 SET (Science Engineering & Technology) awards.

University of Surrey experts part of research team awarded £430k grant for pioneering nanotechnology research

14 July 2009

A team of researchers from the University of Surrey and two other institutions have been awarded a grant of around £430,000 to develop ultra-small-scale silicon structures for 'spintronic' semiconductors. 

Surrey students win poster competition

18 June 2009

Three university students have been named as winners of the 2009 Further Mathematics Network student poster competition. Robert Carthy and Mohamad Azhar Hassan, both first year mathematics undergraduates at the University of Surrey, won a prize with their poster about the Zeta function. Julian Mak, a fourth year mathematics undergraduate at the University of Durham, also won a prize with his poster entitled "In search of the shape of the universe".