[Academic] FINAL CRY OUT: Call for MSc projects (PH952) RESPOND TILL 10/02/2021

Wed Feb 3 14:57:11 GMT 2021

Dear All,

We are still short on projects. We have 13 students. I have only 13 
projects (from only 10 supervisors) and one commitment for a bespoke 
project. Many thanks to those who contributed.  However, this number of 
projects constitutes zero choice and will look very bad to students.

The teaching committee decided that every experimental PI is expected to 
submit one project, which should be experimental (ideal) or a 
design/computational/data analysis project closely related to an 
experiment (we might be in a position where we need to revert to that 
anyway if the situation in summer is not developing as hoped). For the 
theoreticians: I expect interest in two, max. three,  theoretically 
oriented projects. I assume that the guys are already talking to you. If 
I do not get theoretical project proposals in, I expect that you are 
reacting positively if the students contact you.

I want to release the project booklet end of next week. Otherwise we are 
running into late March with the project selection and students will be 
busy with their final continuous assessment. So please respond till next 
Wednesday (10/2).

If you agree in the meantime a bespoke project with a student, please 
let me know.
Regards

Thorsten

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.

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):

- Second harmonic generation

- laser diodes

- birefringence of fibres

- Michelson interferometer

As special requests, I invite suggestions to, we have,

- project on solar energy, energy conversion, sustainable energy (Mugove 
Maruzane)

- quantum technology and space (Ayush Goyal)

Please supply the project descriptions on the attached template to 
Melanie, <melanie.taylor at strath.ac.uk>, till 13/01/2021

Tentative timeline is

  * 26/2/2021 students indicate project choices
  * 12/3/2021 project allocated
  * 9/6/2021 (TBC): project start in June after decision of first exam board
  * end of July/early August: Project progress workshop (only students
    and project coordinator)
  * 25/8/2021, 12.00 noon: Hand-in deadline for report
  * 30/8-8/9/2021 (or slightly before/after depending on availability of
    examiners and delays in project): Assessment by talk and vivas

Thank you very much for providing project opportunities.

Regards

Thorsten

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