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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear All,<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1F497D">Following on from Thorsten’s email below, please can we remind you to send any project descriptions on the attached template to me by 17<sup>th</sup> January.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1F497D">Many thanks.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1F497D">Kind regards,<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Melanie </span><span style="color:#2F5496"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Melanie Taylor<br>
Department of Physics<br>
University of Strathclyde<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Melanie Taylor
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<b>Sent:</b> 07 December 2022 15:58<br>
<b>To:</b> 'academic@phys.strath.ac.uk' <Academic@phys.strath.ac.uk>; 'research@phys.strath.ac.uk' <research@phys.strath.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Call for MSc projects (PH952) please respond till 17/01/2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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. Expectation is that every academic is supplying a project either directly or via a research assistant.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">Please supply the project descriptions on the attached template to Melanie, e<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-mail:
<a href="mailto:melanie.taylor@strath.ac.uk">melanie.taylor@strath.ac.uk</a></span> till
<b>17/01/2023</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">You can agree with a student on a bespoke project till then and even later, but any project which is in the project booklet must then be distributed centrally.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;vertical-align:middle">Tentative timeline is<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">·</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> 07/03/2023: students hand in project selection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">·</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> 22/05/2023: project start, literature review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">·</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> 05/06/2023: start of supervised work after
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">progression decision of the first PGT board<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">24/07/2023 (TBC): progress review workshop, 8 min talk (formative, only students and project coordinator)</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">16/08/2023: report due<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span> <span lang="EN-US">
23/08-01/09/2023: vivas and talks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Overall, the arrangement to start with a literature review already end of May gives the students a few more days on the project and more flexibility end of August to deal with extensions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Thank you very much for providing project opportunities.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Thorsten Ackemann Dr. rer. nat. FInstP FOSA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
John Anderson Building, 107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow, G4 0NG<br>
Tel: 0141 548 3362 | E-mail: <a href="mailto:melanie.taylor@strath.ac.uk">melanie.taylor@strath.ac.uk</a>
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