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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> SHENDRUK Tyler <t.shendruk@ed.ac.uk>
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<b>Sent:</b> 13 April 2021 12:00<br>
<b>Subject:</b> 2021 IoP Computational Physics PhD Thesis Prize --- upcoming deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I apologize if this has been cross-posted to you in anyway. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The deadline for the <span style="background:white">2021 IoP Computational Physics PhD Thesis Prize is at the end of the month (30 April). </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lists and any other colleagues who may be interested. Covid has made the last year difficult for many of our graduate students and appropriate candidates may require additional encouragement to apply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Many thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Tyler Shendruk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">To: PhD supervisors, PhD students and External Examiners of PhDs in Computational Physics.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The Committee of the Institute of Physics Computational Group offers an annual thesis prize for the author of the PhD thesis that, in the opinion of the
Committee, contributes most strongly to the advancement of computational physics. Runner-up prizes may also be awarded. Prize winners will be invited to write a feature article in the Computational Physics Group newsletter. <span style="background:white">With
covid impacting some many of our graduate students, this is a particularly excellent year to encourage our students to apply . </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Entry is open to all students from an institution in the UK or Ireland, whose PhD examination has taken place since 1st January 2020 and up to the deadline
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">***Deadline 30th April 2021 approaching ***</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A one page (A4) citation from the PhD supervisor, including confirmation of the date of PhD examination, that the student passed and whether the thesis has also been submitted to another IOP group for a similar
PhD thesis prize<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;background:white">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Candidates are asked to note that if a similar thesis prize is offered by another IOP group (such as the Theory of Condensed Matter group), the Committee
intends to liaise with that group so that both prizes will not be awarded to the same applicant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Entries (PDF documents preferred) and any queries should be submitted by email, with "IOP CPG Thesis Prize" as the subject header, to Tyler Shendruk (<a href="mailto:t.shendruk@ed.ac.uk">t.shendruk@ed.ac.uk</a>).
A few more details and a list of previous awardees can be found at <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iop.org%2Fphysics-community%2Fspecial-interest-groups%2Fcomputational-physics-group%2Fphd-thesis-prize%23gref&data=04%7C01%7Cphysics-hod%40strath.ac.uk%7C132063041e384396058308d8fe6b9ca6%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C637539086160133317%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=VWIQTlHLt3S3hhqushgeF97urbDI5SOoXj7HvyJza%2BA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.iop.org/physics-community/special-interest-groups/computational-physics-group/phd-thesis-prize#gref</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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