This research grouping was formed in 2005 to help bring together scientists throughout the University with overlapping research interests in the theory and applications of waves, and to facilitate inter-disciplinary research.
Wave phenomena are hugely important in all areas of science and engineering and at a whole variety of length scales, from the atomic to terrestrial and beyond. Reflecting this ubiquity, recent issues of Nature discuss a range of applications including seismic wave motions, the coupling of wind and ocean waves, refraction and imaging with photonic crystals, probing atomic structure with attosecond pulses, the design of low-loss optical wave guides, travelling waves in the occurrence of epidemics, and surface plasmon subwavelength optics. Three issues of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Physical Sciences in the last year are devoted to topics in this area, discussing "The terahertz gap: the generation of far-infrared radiation and its applications", "Short-wave scattering", and "Nano-optics", all areas in which Reading has significant expertise.
The Steering Committee for Wave Phenomena is currently made up of:
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