MPhys Research Year talks

Thursday 3 March 2011

Our final-year MPhys students have spent a year working in leading international labs all over the world. This is the Research year part of their course at Surrey. Some of our students spent their year in American labs such as the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory (Yale University in New England), and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (University of Notre Dame, Illinois). Other students stayed at home and worked in the UK, in places such as the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, and the Institute of Cancer Research, in London.

Our students talked about topics from isotopes of selenium, to testing MRI scanners with the aid of Lego(TM). Some of their supervisors were there too, to hear their students talk. As usual, the talks were of very high quality, and covered a broad range of physics research. This ranged from medical physics, to nuclear physics and state-of-the-art X-ray detectors. and If past years are anything to go by, some of the work will go on to be published in international scientific journals. For a personal perspective on the talks from a Department academic, please see his blog post.