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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">Dear All,
<br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">I am
looking for propositions for the MSc projects this year, please.
This year interest seems to be quite distributed covering all
groups of the department but there is still a dominant need for
experimental projects in the
solid-state/nanoscience/optics/laser areas.<br>
</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">Guidance
to the students is that current planning is based on delivery of
on-campus experience, including experimental ones, if the
situation allows in summer. So please propose a corresponding
project but consider a bit how it could be adapted to a (old)
data analysis/computational/literature-based project if things
do not go the way we want them to go. One option to ease the
pressure on space in research labs is also to use the space and
the equipment of the 3rd year labs to supply practical
experience within the relatively wide area available on level 4.
So if you are willing to supervise one of the 3rd year
experiments starting from the scripts and going to more open
ended investigations from that, please indicate that to Melanie
with a list of the experiments you would feel confident to
supervise. This can be either instead of a project description
or as a second option in addition to a proposed one (I will
equalize the load):</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">- Second
harmonic generation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">- laser
diodes</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">-
birefringence of fibres</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">-
Michelson interferometer<br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle"><br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">As special
requests, I invite suggestions to, we have, <br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">- project
on solar energy, energy conversion, sustainable energy (Mugove
Maruzane)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">- quantum
technology and space (Ayush Goyal)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle"><br>
</p>
<o:p></o:p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">Please
supply the project descriptions on the attached template to
Melanie,
<a href="mailto:melanie.mcinanny@strath.ac.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true">melanie.mcinanny@strath.ac.uk</a>, till
13/01/2021</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">Tentative
timeline is</p>
<br>
<ul id="yui_3_17_2_1_1607967429375_204">
<li>26/2/2021
students
indicate
project
choices</li>
<li>12/3/2021
project
allocated</li>
<li>9/6/2021
(TBC):
project start in June after decision of first exam board</li>
<li>end of
July/early August: Project progress workshop (only students
and project
coordinator)</li>
<li>25/8/2021,
12.00
noon: Hand-in deadline for report</li>
<li>30/8-8/9/2021
(or
slightly before/after
depending on availability of examiners and delays in project):
Assessment
by talk and vivas</li>
</ul>
<br>
Thank you very much for providing project opportunities.<o:p></o:p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thorsten<o:p></o:p></p>
<pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>*******************************************<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Thorsten Ackemann Dr. rer. nat. FInstP FOSA<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Professor of Nonlinear Photonics<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Department of Physics<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>University of Strathclyde<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>107 Rottenrow East<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Glasgow G4 0NG<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Scotland, UK<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Office: John Anderson Building, JA 8.21<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Tel.: +44-(0)141-548 3079<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Email: <a href="mailto:thorsten.ackemann@strath.ac.uk" moz-do-not-send="true">thorsten.ackemann@strath.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>webpage: <a href="http://photonics.phys.strath.ac.uk/thorsten-ackemann/" moz-do-not-send="true">http://photonics.phys.strath.ac.uk/thorsten-ackemann/</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>The Department is a partner in SUPA, the Scottish Universities Physics<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Alliance.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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