The School’s annual Poster Day was held on Friday, 19 September 2025. The event was held in the SCMB Podium with 33 posters on display and 100+ staff and students attending the event. The School also held its annual Student Publication Award, which received excellent submissions this year, with separate presentations made for Mathematics and Physics. All participating students deserve congratulations for presenting their work in this year’s Poster Day.
Thanks also to Phani Kumari Paritala (HDR Liaison Officer), and SMP staff Sabrina Monaghan and Murray Kane for organising the day.
Poster Day Winners
- First Time Presenter Mathematics – Simon Thomas, “Sieves and almost primes” Advisor: Dr Adrian Dudek
- First Time Presenter Physics – Charlotte Thomson, “Superfluidity with penetrable obstacles” Advisor: Professor Matthew Davis
- Returning Presenter (Maths/Physics) – Scot Devlin, “UMa3/U1 - the smallest known galaxy?” Advisor: Associate Professor Holger Baumgardt
Left to Right: Tara Kemp, Scot Devlin, A/Prof Holger Baumgardt, Prof Joseph Grotowski, Charlotte Thomson, Maarten Christenhusz, Phani Kumari Paritala, Dr Carla Verdi, Simon Thomas
Student Publication Award Winners
- Mathematics - Christian Kennedy, Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli, "Six-dimensional N = (2, 0) conformal superspace”, Journal of High Energy Physics: Theoretical Physics, Vol. 2024, Article number 215 (2025).
- Physics - Maarten Christenhusz, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Tyler Neely, Matthew Reeves, “Emergent universal drag law in a model of superflow”, Physical Review Letters, 135 (2025).
Student Publication Award Honourable Mentions
- Mathematics - Tara Kemp, “Latin squares with five disjoint subsquares”, Journal of Combinatorial Designs, Vol. 33, Issue 2 (Feb 2025).
- Physics - Ryan Camilleri, (DES collaboration), “The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: an updated measurement of the Hubble constant using the inverse distance ladder” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 537 (2025).
