Congratulations to my PhD student Jadon Lin for this review paper on lightsails. I hope it will get many more people into this fascinating field. A lot more research needed before we achieve interstellar travel, but the more of us work on it, the sooner it'll happen! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Delighted to see Nature Physics picking up our review of photonic lightsails for interstellar exploration www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thanks @markbuchanan.bsky.social ⚛️

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How is this not bigger news? CDC ordered to Retract research journal articles to purge 'Forbidden Terms', downright Orwellian. 🤮 ground.news/article/cdc-...

"Lightsails could reach other stars, but keeping them in the laser beam is tricky—oscillations can knock them off course. We've shown that by tailoring how light refracts on the sail, relativistic effects can dampen these oscillations by >95%. Congrats Jadon Lin! #physics ⚛️ doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

Congratulations to Liam Van Ravenstein on his first conference presentation at #AIP2024 congress - great talk on Rotational relativistic damping and linear stability analysis of lightsails in front of a packed room, culmination of an outstanding honours project. #physics

Congratulations Jadon Lin for winning first runner up for best talk at our HDR symposium, amazing achievement only 5 months into his PhD on lightsail dynamics.