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Nicola Wilkin

Tel:+44 (0) 121 414 4661.
Fax 0121 414 4683.
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Room: 406, Physics East

Research Interests

My research interests are in rapidly rotating Bose Einstein condensates, this is a highly quantum mechanical regime, where the interaction between particles leads to surprising results and links with other condensed matter areas, including the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.

PhD places will be on offer in these research areas, please contact me if you are interested.

Teaching Responsibilites

In third year I teach a course which shows how to disentangle which parts of a physics problem should be performed using pencil and paper and which are the parts where a computer should be used. Then the student are taught how to use a computer effectively using a stimulating set of examples ranging from high energy physics to the propagation of forest-fires.

My course on Phase Transitions in fourth year shows how the idea of scale invariance (a geometric example being a fractal) unifies random walks (Brownian motion), the geometry of making coffee (percolation) and phase transitions such as liquids boiling (and perhaps what happened in the early universe!).

Teaching resources for both courses are available for students on the WebCT site.

In addition I run first year tutorials and pastoral tutorials for third years.

External Responsibilities

I am Treasurer for the Institute of Physics Women in Physics Group, and a Committee member of the Mathematical Physics Group.

         -Anomalous Hydrodynamics
         -Vortex Tunneling
         -Uncondensed and Correlated states
         -Atoms with attractive interactions

- Some selected publications

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