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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Tyler Shendruk <t.shendruk@ed.ac.uk>
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<b>Sent:</b> 06 December 2022 15:52<br>
<b>Subject:</b> IoP Computational Physics PhD Thesis Prize<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Dear Colleagues,
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<p><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">I’d be most grateful if you would forward the announcement below regarding the
<b>2023 IoP Computational Physics PhD Thesis Prize</b> to your departmental postgraduate and academic staff mailing lists and any other colleagues who may be interested. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Many thanks in advance,
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<p><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Tyler Shendruk</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">IOP Computational Physics Group Annual PhD Thesis Prize 2023</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">To: PhD supervisors, PhD students and External Examiners of PhDs in the area of Computational Physics.
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<p><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">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. A brief description of the 2022 awardees can be found on the
<a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcompphysics.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cphysics-hod%40strath.ac.uk%7C66eff36c25bd43aff28708dad7a22c08%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C638059388766557382%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UwXHyCeEWfvX0iaqk0i%2BlJp6ZD6oJr0qBr8h9rDTqso%3D&reserved=0" title="https://compphysics.org/">
IOP-CPG blog</a>. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Prize winners will be invited to write a feature article in the Computational Physics Group newsletter.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Applications for the 2023 prize are encouraged across the entire spectrum of computational physics. Entry is open to all students
from an institution in the UK or Ireland, whose PhD examination has taken place since 1st January 2022 and up to the deadline for submissions.
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<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;background:white">A four page (A4) summary from the student of the key research findings contained in the thesis
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that the student passed and whether the thesis has also been submitted to another IOP group for a similar PhD thesis prize
</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;background:white">A one page (A4) confidential report from the external examiner of the PhD thesis
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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.
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<p><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">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" title="mailto:t.shendruk@ed.ac.uk">t.shendruk@ed.ac.uk</a>). A few more details can be found on the
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IOP page</a> and you can read about this year's winner at the <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcompphysics.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cphysics-hod%40strath.ac.uk%7C66eff36c25bd43aff28708dad7a22c08%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C638059388766557382%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UwXHyCeEWfvX0iaqk0i%2BlJp6ZD6oJr0qBr8h9rDTqso%3D&reserved=0" title="https://compphysics.org/">
IOP-CPG blog</a>. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">On behalf of the IOP Computational Physics Group Committee
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