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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear All<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please see information below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Audrey<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">
<a href="mailto:studentships@stfc.ac.uk">studentships@stfc.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:studentships@stfc.ac.uk">mailto:studentships@stfc.ac.uk</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> 04 April 2017 13:45<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:studentships@stfc.ac.uk">studentships@stfc.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> 2017 STFC-funded Summer Schools<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Head of Department<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I would be grateful if you could publicise the
<a href="http://www.stfc.ac.uk/funding/studentships/stfc-support-for-short-courses-and-summer-schools/">
STFC-funded summer schools</a> listed below to your PhD students:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Location<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">7th NExT PhD Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Cosener's House, Abingdon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">26 - 29 June<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Advanced Summer School in Solar System Plasmas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Central Lancashire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">28 August - 1 September<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">21 August - 1 September<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/uknpss2017/home">19<sup>th</sup> STFC UK Postgraduate Nuclear Physics</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Queen’s University Belfast<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">21 August – 2 September<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Introduction to Astronomy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Manchester (Jodrell Bank)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">29 August – 1 September<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.stfc.ac.uk/research/particle-physics-and-particle-astrophysics/hep-summer-school/hep-summer-school-2017/">High Energy Physics</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2017/09/stfc-introductory-solar-system-plasma-physics-summer-school/)">Introductory Solar System Plasma Physics</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">10-15 September<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www-star.st-and.ac.uk/samcss/">Monte Carlo Radiation Transfer</a> (see advert below)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">St Andrews<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.sussp.ac.uk/">Scottish Universities Summer Schools in Physics</a> (SUSSP)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Monte Carlo Radiation Transfer Summer School<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">St Andrews<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">August 27 - September 1 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">A summer school on Monte Carlo radiation transfer techniques will be held in St Andrews from 27th August until 1 September 2017. The number
of places is limited with priority given to STFC-funded PhD students and postdocs. Students will be introduced to the basic techniques in Monte Carlo radiation transfer and their applications to scattered light, dust and gas radiative equilibrium, photoionisation,
and NLTE molecular line transfer. There will also be lectures on using Monte Carlo radiation transfer in radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations. Guest lecturers from medical physics will present applications of Monte Carlo techniques for light transport
simulations in photo therapies. Several publicly available Monte Carlo codes will be introduced in detail with the goal that by the end of the school the students will have a toolbox of codes that they can use in their own research projects. The programme
will comprise short introductory lectures to each topic, followed by detailed descriptions of individual codes. Lots of time will be set aside for students to become familiar with using the codes and interacting with the lecturers who developed them. There
will be special sessions on using MCRT codes to post-process numerical hydrodynamics simulations for modelling and interpreting high spatial resolution continuum and line observations from observatories such as ALMA, VLT/SPHERE, VLTI. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Further information on the schedule, location, lectures, registration, and costs (for PhD students and researchers not funded by STFC) are on
the course website:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nina<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On behalf of the Studentships team<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Nina Cox<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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