Thursday 13th February saw DIRDI host Fleet Commander Vice-Admiral Andrew Burns CB OBE FDIRDI at our laboratory in Durham. We were honoured to host the Admiral as part of his …
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DIRDI Kicked off the New Year with a Dinner in our “Spiritual Home” at Hatfield College, Durham on 16th January 2025. Senior academics from Durham, and other Universities including Cambridge …
The 11th of December saw DIRDI’s final event of 2024, a special and Inaugural Dinner co-hosted by the Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre (SST-CCW) and The …
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What follows is a blog post by Durham physics undergraduate, Thomas Rudkin. I recently took part in EEOPS-D, a 3-day opportunity to build and explore the use of drones run …
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Later this month, DIRDI will be hosting the first of our series of online webinars entitled ‘Biophotonics: A Marriage of Sciences’. Our speaker will be Professor John Girkin, a distinguished …
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New Invention Institute opens in Durham seeking next Newtons and Edisons A NEW research Institute dedicated to finding and supporting the next Isaac Newtons and future Nobel Prize winners of …
Durham students from across disciplines took part in DIRDI’s very own drone competition at the start of this year’s Easter Term. The weekend Drone competition, known as “EEOPS-D” (Exploring Entrepreneurial …
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Second-year Durham undergraduate and theoretical physicst, Maria Athina Vogiatzi (pictured) recently wrote an article on Acoustic Metamaterials (AMMs). Her work has gone beyond the areas of study covered in her …
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On Wednesday the 16th of February 2022, Head of DIRDI, Daniel Dobrowolski and Director-General, Carl Stephen Patrick Hunter OBE were delighted to be joined by Professor Jacqui Ramagge, Executive Dean …