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EPSRC Reference:	EP/C005260/1
Title:	13th IoP UK Postgraduate School in Nuclear Physics
Principal Investigator:	Stevenson, Dr PD
Other Investigators:	Jenkins, Professor DG
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Department:	Department of Physics
Organisation:	University of Surrey
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	04 February 2005	Ends:	03 June 2006	Value (£):	54,763
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Nuclear Structure
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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The UK is a world leader in research into nuclear physics, with its scientists taking leading roles in performing experiments at facilities around the world. The path to becoming a nuclear physicist lies in taking a PhD in a specialist nuclear physics area after completing a general physics undergraduate degree. To help PhD students in making the transition from undergraduate to specialist nuclear physicist course, a series of summer schools were created, under the aegis of the Institute of Physics, with the intention that they take place every two years. This grant proposal requests funds to finance such a summer school, to take place in September 2005.These summer schools consist of intensive lecture courses given by experts from the UK and abroad, which serve to train the country's nuclear physics PhD students in an efficient way which no single university department could reasonably achieve. As well as this training, the students benefit from the interaction with other researchers in the field, a chance that they do not often get while studying at their host universities. They are also required to give a short talk to everyone present, which is a skill that professional nuclear physicists require, but is not always taught at undergraduate level, and often the students will not have had an opportunity to talk about their specialist research area.This year we have invited a range of speakers who are either renowned experts in their field, or rising stars at the cutting edge of research, and in all cases we know them to be good at communicating and teaching. The lecturers include people who lead research at some of the laboratories in Europe and America at which UK nuclear physics students perform experiments.The results of questionnaires at previous summer schools in this series reveal that this two weeks of intensive training is often the most valuable (and enjoyable!) time that students have during their PhD studies.
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