1. Neil Spooner - SheffieldUKNF 23-04/09 Physics and Astronomy High Impact, World Leading Science in STFC priority areas ATLASDark Matter Neutrino physics T2K in Japan

2. Neil Spooner - SheffieldUKNF 23-04/09 Vital Statistics People Astronomy: 6 academics, 4 PDRAs, 9 PGs Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics: 9 (11) academics, 15 PDRAs, 15 PGs, technicians Particle Theory and Cosmology: 3 (2 in Maths) academics... Funding Astronomy: standard grants Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics: HEP rolling grant (£4-10M); HMO; EPSRC; industry STFC areas comprise ~50% of the department Teaching Big contribution including all year tutors Quality RAE: 4th = in Russell group physics Student satisfaction: =1st in Russell group physics

3. Neil Spooner - SheffieldUKNF 23-04/09 Astronomy Highlights Astrocam

4. Neil Spooner - SheffieldUKNF 23-04/09 High Energy Physics Highlights

5. Neil Spooner - SheffieldUKNF 23-04/09 Particle Astrophysics Highlights Dark Matter highest publication rate on dark matter

6. Neil Spooner - SheffieldUKNF 23-04/09 Particle Theory Highlights

7. Neil Spooner - SheffieldUKNF 23-04/09 Unique facilities: Boulby £3.2M JIF award to the Department - opened by Lord Sainsbury in April 2003 From Dark Matter to Underground Science SKY climate change project Radio nuclide detection

8. Neil Spooner - SheffieldUKNF 23-04/09 Astronomy Facilities

9. Neil Spooner - SheffieldUKNF 23-04/09 Unique facilities: Neutron Beam

10. Neil Spooner - SheffieldUKNF 23-04/09 Knowledge Exchange: Security From Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics to Anti-terrorism Fixed Portals US government recent contracts totaling $1.15B for next generation radiation portals Worldwide 16,000 installations by 2010 Vast majority still use 3 He detectors STFC can make a much bigger impact if coordinated properly Sheffield project funded by HMO, EPSRC, Corus Ltd. to develop efficent anti-terrorist neutron detectors Biggest terrorist threat is a nuclear device - very difficult to detect - needs new technology

11. Neil Spooner - SheffieldUKNF 23-04/09 Future Strategy Income Diversity Government funding (HMO) Expanding nuclear security activity; group is leading member of Government Advisory Body RNREV Focus STFC activity on Priority Areas EU funding (FP7,8): ILIAS, LAGUNA, EURECA.... Higgs and SUSY: ATLAS, ATLAS upgrade Neutrino Physics: T2K, T2K upgrade Industry funding: KTPs (Sheffield leads) More Interdisciplinary activity RCUK: EPSRC/NERC - e.g. climate change Regional: Yorkshire Forward.... Dark Matter and Gravitational Waves Building blocks of the Universe, extreme environments

12. Neil Spooner - SheffieldUKNF 23-04/09 Future Strategy LIGO, SKA, JWST, ATLAS, E-ELT,

13. Neil Spooner - SheffieldUKNF 23-04/09 Issues Please don’t damage the Top Soil! The light bulb was not invented by deciding to invest in the candle industry balance between facilities and science/exploitation Curiosity driven fundamental science at Universities top soil Serendipitous Development Products and life branches leaves top-down targets do not you don’t produce more trees by fertilizing the leaves

14. University links Interdisciplinary Centre for Security and Crime Detection Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering - Prof. N. Allinson [low energy x-ray and photon detection technology] Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering - T. Dodd [pattern recognition technology] Department of Computer Sciences - S. Maddock [3D computer graphics and imaging technology] Department of Physics and Astronomy - Prof. Neil Spooner [particle detection technology] New Business Research Fellow coordination links to industry and outside organisations interdisciplinary links