[Postgrad] FW: 2017 STFC-funded Summer Schools

[Audrey McKinnon]

Dear All

Please see information below.

Kind regards
Audrey
From: studentships at stfc.ac.uk<mailto:studentships at stfc.ac.uk> [mailto:studentships at stfc.ac.uk]
Sent: 04 April 2017 13:45
To: studentships at stfc.ac.uk<mailto:studentships at stfc.ac.uk>
Subject: 2017 STFC-funded Summer Schools

Dear Head of Department

I would be grateful if you could publicise the STFC-funded summer schools<http://www.stfc.ac.uk/funding/studentships/stfc-support-for-short-courses-and-summer-schools/> listed below to your PhD students:
School

Location

Dates

7th NExT PhD Workshop

Cosener's House, Abingdon

26 - 29 June

Advanced Summer School in Solar System Plasmas

University of Central Lancashire

28 August  - 1 September

BUSSTEPP

University College London

21 August - 1 September

19th STFC UK Postgraduate Nuclear Physics<https://sites.google.com/site/uknpss2017/home>

Queen’s University Belfast

21 August – 2 September

Introduction to Astronomy

Manchester (Jodrell Bank)

29 August – 1 September

High Energy Physics<http://www.stfc.ac.uk/research/particle-physics-and-particle-astrophysics/hep-summer-school/hep-summer-school-2017/>

Lancaster

3 -15 September

Introductory Solar System Plasma Physics<https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2017/09/stfc-introductory-solar-system-plasma-physics-summer-school/)>

Jury’s Inn, Newcastle

10-15 September

Monte Carlo Radiation Transfer<http://www-star.st-and.ac.uk/samcss/> (see advert below)

St Andrews

27 August  - 1 September

Scottish Universities Summer Schools in Physics<http://www.sussp.ac.uk/> (SUSSP)

St Andrews

23 July - 5 August


Monte Carlo Radiation Transfer Summer School
St Andrews
August 27 - September 1 2017

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.

Further information on the schedule, location, lectures, registration, and costs (for PhD students and researchers not funded by STFC) are on the course website:

http://www-star.st-and.ac.uk/samcss/

Many thanks
Nina
On behalf of the Studentships team

Nina Cox
Mon-Thurs 8:30-3pm
Education, Training & Careers
Science & Technology Facilities Council
Polaris House
North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1SZ
Tel: 01793 442017
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