The Midlands Physics Alliance is a strategic alliance of the

• School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Birmingham
• School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Nottingham,
• Department of Physics of the University of Warwick.

The aim of the Alliance is to establish a co-ordinated research grouping and a joint Graduate School with the critical mass to compete with the top US and EU Universities. The Alliance is built on current high quality research in each of our departments (all RAE grade 5), and in 2007 has received initial funding from HEFCE of £4 million to develop the graduate school over the next five years.

The Graduate School is now in session, details can be found at http://mpags.nottingham.ac.uk

Details of The Midlands Ultracold Atom Research Centre, an EPSRC funded collaboration between the Universities of Birminghm and Nottingham will be available shortly.

for further details please contact Prof Mike Gunn, headphys@bham.ac.uk, 0121 4144564