Undergraduate Vacation Research Summer 2009
Posted on 20 August 2009
Our undergraduates are encouraged to gain physics research experience during the summer vacation.
This year, a record number are joining our research groups in York, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, The Nuffield Foundation, the British Council, the Department of Physics and directly by the research groups.
Some of our students also travel abroad and this year placements have been found at CERN and Hokkaido University in Japan. Below is a list of the students partaking in the Undergraduate Vacation Research Programme 2009:
| Student |
Project |
Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Ayres |
Calibration techniques for TACTIC nuclear physics detector |
Dr A M Laird |
| Jack Baldwin |
Atomistic spin model of Heat-Assisted Magnetisation Reversal |
Dr Y Hancock |
| Joe Barker |
Theoretical models of laser-induced ultrafast magnetisation processes |
Prof R Chantrell |
| Daniel Bate |
Controlling Exchange Bias in ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic core/shell nanoparticles |
Prof R Chantrell |
| Chris Bowman |
Lab development for Fusion MSc |
Dr N C Woolsey |
| Ruth Bradley |
Remote sensing of Giant Magnetoresistance |
Dr S M Thompson |
| Alex Crick |
Growth of polar Fe oxides by Molecular Beam Epitaxy |
Dr V Lazarov |
| Cara Edwards |
Solar and Astronomical Spectroscopy | Dr C J Barton |
| Matthew Ellis |
Lab development for Fusion MSc |
Dr N C Woolsey |
| Jenny Foreman |
Calibration techniques for TACTIC nuclear physics detector |
Dr A M Laird |
| Jenefried Gay |
Models of spin torque in magnetic nanostructures |
Prof R Chantrell |
| George Goodwin |
Scanning Probe Microscopy for the 3rd year Lab |
Prof J Yuan |
| Thomas Hayward |
Software development for remote Tokamak Control Room |
Dr R G L Vann |
| Stacey Hockin |
Time-dependent quantum dynamics of interacting electrons in nanostructures |
Prof R W Godby |
| Mark Laughton |
1st year teaching lab developments |
Prof M A Bentley |
| Thomas Martin |
Remote sensing of Giant Magnetoresistance using infra-red emission |
Dr S M Thompson |
| Adam Nichols |
Studies in plasma temperature profiles around magnetic islands in tokamak |
Dr K Gibson |
| Neil Sherman |
Picosecond Heat-Assisted Magnetisation Reversal |
Dr J Wu |
| Martin Wilkinson |
Electron Microscopy of Nanomaterials |
Prof J Yuan |