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The Spring and Summer 2008 newsletters have now been added to the Fusion website - click
to go to the newsletter page and download them in PDF format. Thanks to
Paul Ruffle for his help with that!
Unfortunately we have not been able to upload recent newsletters in html format yet, but hopefully we'll crack that one
soon!
Click
to see a short film about Adam Davison, a PhD student at University
College London, and the work he is doing at the Large Hadron
Collider at CERN, Switzerland, with his supervisor, Jon Butterworth,
and other colleagues in London and Paris. The latest update
(Nr. 4) has just been released.
Click to go to our Merchandise page for more
info on our new T-shirt design.
Click to download Silvia Bergamini's presentation given at the
2008 Science Revision Weekend about the proposed new courses S382 and S383.
Robert Ley has started a "Fusion" network on MyIOP, the new IOP social networking site. Click
and log in using your
IOP username and password, then browse "Networks" - you will find it near the end of the list.
The list is regularly updated, with details of many talks to be given by Jonti Horner, Barrie Jones, John Zarnecki
and other OU lecturers during 2009. Now showing events right through to October!
If OU students wish to progress to Chartered Physicist after they have
completed their degree, they are required to follow a new scheme for
accreditation.
We have been asked to mention these job opportunities in Milton
Keynes and Leicester. |
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Centre for Alternative Technology - Fusion visit
See HERE
for details of this forthcoming visit on Saturday, 11th July
- and for details of how to book.
OU Charter Studentships
To celebrate The Open University’s 40th anniversary the
university is offering a number of research studentships
These studentships provide opportunities for the best national
or international candidates to work alongside leading academics
and research staff on projects that will inspire and shape our
research portfolio.
They will cover all fees for three years plus an annual stipend
and are tenable from 1 October 2009. Suitable candidates should
have or expect to graduate with a minimum 2:1 honours degree.
Projects are available across all faculties and in our research
centres:
- Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
- Centre for Research in Computing
- Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research
- Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology
- International Centre for Comparative Criminological
Research
Closing date: Friday 17 July 2009
To receive an application pack…
0845 366 6034
Email: charterstudentships@open.ac.uk
Quote: RDKM Charter Studentships when you call us or email us
www.openuniversity.co.uk/studentship
INSPIRING LEARNING
2010
Fusion AGM
A date for your diary - the 2010 Fusion AGM will be on Saturday,
23rd January, in London. Details to follow later in the year.
International Conference of Physics Students - 2009
The 2009 ICPS meeting takes place in Split, Croatia from August
10th - 18th.
Full details can be seen here.
Note that the IoP, through
its Nexus group
may be able to provide some assistance to students wishing to
attend the meeting. Please contact the Fusion Secretary
(see the Contact
Us page - use the email address at the foot) for further
information.
Early registration closes on 1st June, and late registration
closes on 28th June.
Fusion Weekend Hits Target
John Ward showing some Fusion members how
the accelerator works.
The 2009 Fusion Weekend, held in Oxford on 24th/25th January,
was a great success. On the Saturday morning, about 20 Fusion
members were taken on a fascinating tour of the Oxford teaching
laboratories by John Ward, Oxford's Head of Laboratory Services;
then after lunch, the eighth Fusion AGM was held, and a new
committee elected. The meeting was attended by the OU's Head
of Physics & Astronomy, Nick Braithwaite, and a motion to
change the name of the society to "Fusion - the Open University
Physics & Astronomy Society", following the demise of the
OU Society for Astronomy & Planetary Science (OUSAPS), was
passed unanimously.
Following the meeting, the OU's Barrie Jones gave a lecture
entitled "Planets & Life Beyond the Solar System". And after
a hearty dinner, participants were ready for the Maria Griffiths
Challenge Quiz, which featured a variety of questions, many
with a physics theme; there was also a song lyrics round, after
which Maria sang the answers to an appreciative audience! Dwyn
Padfield then took up the challenge to pose next year's quiz,
at an as yet undecided location.
Dwyn Padfield throwing the gauntlet (actually a woolly
glove) at Maria Griffiths after the quiz.
Sunday saw a tour of Oxford, which finished up with a visit
to the town's Museum of the History of Science, after lunch
at the Turf Tavern, reputedly the oldest pub in Oxford.
Lunch at the Turf.
Undergraduate Research Opportunities
There are undergraduate research opportunity schemes at
various institutions in the UK and USA which are aimed at giving
undergraduate physics students a taste of research, prior to commencing
a postgraduate degree.
Schemes exist at Trinity
College Dublin, Imperial
College London and Leicester
University
There is also the Space
Telescope Science Institute (STScI) located at Johns
Hopkins University Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland,
USA.
And of course the CERN
Summer Student Program no longer has an age limit ...
Alternatively, try contacting your local university, as there
are often ad-hoc opportunities for research experience. |