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Project selection

Please have a look at the project descriptions below and consult potential supervisors to get more information. If you have an idea for a project yourself, talk to a member of staff and see if it can be turned into a viable project, or if an existing one can be modified to accommodate your interest.

selection form:	Year 3	Year 4
deadlines:	Year 3	Year 4

Once you've decided which projects interest you most, choose your favourite four using the online project selection form by the deadline shown in the table on the overview page. Your selection must include projects from at least three different supervisors. We'll try to accommodate everybody's preferences while keeping the supervision workload balanced between staff. The module co-ordinator's decision on project allocation is final.

The project descriptions linked from the list below specify the topic, supervisor and nature of the project (experimental, computational, theoretical...). All projects are open to all students, but the supervisor can issue guidance as to whether a project is particularly suitable for a speciality or joint or ordinary degrees. The novelty section gives you an estimate of how open-ended a project is. A novel research project will be more challenging but also potentially more rewarding, as you may be the first person to discover a novel bit of science. There is a section about project milestones and deliverables against which your progress will be judged. These are project-specific targets which the supervisor specifies to ensure your project remains on track. The general deadlines for assessed components apply independently of these. The references at the bottom are meant to give you some background and starting points for your own literature research.

Project list

Click the title of a project to view a full project description.

full	jnt.	P	PSP	Astro	exp	instr	data	softw	theor	supervisor	topic
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Adil Mughal	Diffusion in granular columns
X	X	X			X		X			Andrew Evans	Analysis of minerals and pigments
X		X			X		X			Andrew Evans	Biomimetic Photonic Structures
X		X			X		X			Andrew Evans	Conductivity and optical absorption in carbon-based materials
X		X			X		X			Andrew Evans	Measuring strain and colour in diamonds
X	X	X			X		X			Andrew Evans	Spectroscopy of ultrathin metal films
X			X				X		X	Balazs Pinter	Coupling in sunspot dynamics
X	X		X	X			X			Balazs Pinter	Effects of Solar Weather on Earths Magnetosphere
X	X	X	X	X				X	X	Balazs Pinter	Relativistic Doppler Effects
X	X	X	X	X					X	Balazs Pinter	Resolving Relativistic Paradoxes
X	X	X	X	X					X	Balazs Pinter	Solar Atmospheric Effects on Helioseismic Global Oscillations
X			X				X			Balazs Pinter	Torsional Motion of a Sunspot
X	X	X	X	X				X	X	Balazs Pinter	Visual appearance of fast-moving objects
X	X	X	X	X			X		X	Balazs Pinter	Wave Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media
X		X						X	X	Christopher Finlayson	Computational Simulations of Organic Semiconductors
X		X			X		X			Christopher Finlayson	Morphology of Semiconducting Polymers on Substrates
X	X	X			X		X			Christopher Finlayson	Natural Dyes as Solar Cell Sensitizers
X	X	X			X	X				Christopher Finlayson	Optical Properties of Polymer Opal Thin-films
X	X	X			X		X			Christopher Finlayson	Optical Properties of Semiconducting Polymers
X		X			X		X			Christopher Finlayson	Organic thin-film solar cells
X	X	X						X	X	Christopher Finlayson	Simulating Photonic Crystals; periodicity in dielectric multilayers
X	X	X	X	X			X	X		David Langstaff	Analysis of recalescence video data
X	X	X	X	X			X	X		David Langstaff	Analysis of wobbling drop video data
X	X	X	X	X	X	X				David Langstaff	Design, construction and calibration of a low-cost spectrometer
X	X	X			X			X		David Langstaff	Development of control system for heated sample stage
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			David Langstaff	Measurement of response of Microchannel plate to UV radiation
X	X		X	X			X	X		David Langstaff	Tracking a sunspot (Labview Implemtation)
X		X	X	X			X	X		Edwin Flikkema	Applying global optimisation methods to 2-dimensional particle clusters with relevance to foams
X		X	X	X			X	X		Edwin Flikkema	Applying the Covariance Matrix Adaption Evolutionary Strategy method to clusters of particles
X		X	X	X			X	X		Edwin Flikkema	Graph based sampling of fully-coordinated geometries of clusters of network-forming materials
X		X	X	X			X	X		Edwin Flikkema	Molecular Dynamics of hard sphere systems
X	X	X	X	X			X	X		Edwin Flikkema	Molecular Dynamics simulation of supercooled liquids and glasses.
X	X	X	X	X				X	X	Edwin Flikkema	Snakes on a lattice: using Wang-Landau sampling to study a simple polymer model
X		X	X	X				X	X	Edwin Flikkema	Topological interaction in ring-polymer systems: a Monte Carlo simulation study.
X		X	X	X				X	X	Edwin Flikkema	Using Parallel Tempering to study systems at low temperature.
X		X	X	X	X			X		Eleri Pryse	Experimental Tomography
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Eleri Pryse	Experiments and Demonstrations to complement A level Physics studies
X		X	X	X	X		X			Eleri Pryse	Investigations of diffusivity using periodic heating
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Eleri Pryse	Simulation of radio-wave propagation using ultrasound
X	X		X	X			X	X		Eleri Pryse	Solar wind conditions driving geomagnetic activity
X			X				X			Eleri Pryse	Terrestrial signatures of solar variations
X	X	X	X	X				X	X	Eleri Pryse	Tomography - a theoretical study
X			X				X			Huw Morgan	CME events in the low corona as observed by AIA/SDO
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Huw Morgan	The Effect of the Earths Atmosphere on Solar Radiation
X	X	X	X	X			X		X	Huw Morgan	The structure of CMEs in the corona: comparing a flux rope density model with observations
X	X	X	X	X			X	X		Huw Morgan	What's hot and what's not: a multi-wavelength study of the Sun
X	X	X							X	John Gough	Measurement without interaction
X	X	X	X	X					X	John Gough	The Hanbury-Brown-Twiss Effect
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Manuel Grande	Atmospheric loss at Earth, Venus and Mars
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Manuel Grande	Correlation between x ray solar flares and geomagnetic storms
X	X	X	X	X			X	X		Manuel Grande	Investigation of Ion populations in the magnetosphere of Saturn, using Cassini data
X	X	X	X	X			X	X		Manuel Grande	Investigations of near Earth Space using Bryant Plots derived from Cluster Spacecraft data
X	X	X	X	X		X		X		Manuel Grande	Xray fluorescence of the Moon, and other Near Earth Objects
X			X	X	X		X			Mario Bisi	Investigating gamma- and X-ray emmiters using data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope, Swift, and INTEGRAL
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Martin Wilding	Analysis of angular reflection of highly elastic balls with varying static, kinetic, and rolling coefficients of friction.
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Martin Wilding	Analysis of ice debris cover using spectrometry
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Martin Wilding	Characterisation of Resonant Waveforms in Carbon Fiber Composite
X		X	X		X		X			Martin Wilding	Core-segregation mechanisms
X		X			X				X	Martin Wilding	Demonstration of sonoluminescence
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Martin Wilding	Electromagnetically induced transparency: A classical analogue using coupled RLC circuits
X	X	X	X	X			X		X	Martin Wilding	Hard sphere molecular dynamics simulations
X		X			X		X			Martin Wilding	High temperature superconductivity
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Martin Wilding	Modes of a drum revisited: Can you hear the shape of a drum?
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Martin Wilding	Oscillating chemical reactions
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Martin Wilding	Precision polishing of prototype mirror components for the EELT telescope
X	X	X	X	X			X		X	Martin Wilding	Simulation of the 2D Ising magnet
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Martin Wilding	The effect of the size of CdS quantum dots on their photoluminescence properties
X		X			X		X			Martin Wilding	Two-dimensional flow in granular media
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Martin Wilding	White light emission form SiO2 nano-particles
X	X	X	X	X	X				X	Rudi Winter	Bubble raft model of mechanical stress in granular crystalline materials
X		X	X	X	X		X			Rudi Winter	Controlling film deposition via viscosity
X		X	X	X	X		X			Rudi Winter	Making, characterising and testing thin oxide films
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Rudi Winter	Mud, glorious mud - sedimentation dynamics
X	X	X	X	X	X			X		Rudi Winter	Static light scattering
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Rudi Winter	X-ray diffraction monitoring of piezo-electric action
X		X	X	X	X		X			Rudi Winter	X-ray scattering studies of sol-gel derived bone replacement materials
X	X	X						X	X	Simon Cox	Action at a distance: shear-induced creep in foams
X		X			X				X	Simon Cox	Driving pressures in discrete microfluidics
X		X	X	X	X	X				Stephen David Fearn	Robotic Solar Telescopes
X		X	X	X	X			X		Tony Cook	3D Passive Structured Light for Planetary Landers
X		X	X	X	X			X		Tony Cook	Applications of Robotic Telescopes
X		X	X	X	X		X			Tony Cook	Cardigan Bay Wave Height Measuremnets Using a Telescope
X		X	X	X	X		X			Tony Cook	Cosmic Ray Detections with CCD Cameras
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Tony Cook	Low Resolution AstronomicalTemporal Spectra
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Tony Cook	Luminescence by Banging or Splitting Rocks
X		X	X	X	X		X			Tony Cook	Lunar Impact Flash Observations
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Tony Cook	Orbit Determination of Asteroids and Comets
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Tony Cook	Thermal Wave Microspcopy
X		X	X	X	X		X			Tony Cook	Transient Lunar Phenomenon Detection Techniques
X	X	X			X		X			Tudur Davies	Falling objects in ordered liquid foams
X			X	X			X	X		Xing Li	Coronal hole jets
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Xing Li	Dynamics of solar filaments/prominences
X			X				X		X	Xing Li	Ion heating at collisionless shocks in the solar wind
X			X	X			X	X		Xing Li	Minor ions in the fast and slow solar wind
X			X						X	Xing Li	Parametric instability of Alfven waves
X			X	X			X			Xing Li	Streamer waves
X			X	X				X	X	Xing Li	Test particle simulation: the impact of a kinetic Alfven wave on ions
	X		X	X			X	X		Xing Li	Twisting a magnetic tube: filament eruption and coronal mass ejections
X	X	X	X	X				X	X	Youra Taroyan	A Numerical Test for the RTV Scaling Laws
X	X	X	X	X	X		X			Youra Taroyan	Absolute and Convective Instabilities
X	X	X	X	X			X	X		Youra Taroyan	Density Diagnostics in the Solar Corona
X			X				X	X		Youra Taroyan	Dynamics of the solar transition region
X	X	X	X	X				X	X	Youra Taroyan	Flows and Acoustic Waves in Magnetic Tubes
X	X	X	X	X				X	X	Youra Taroyan	Vertical Propagation of Acoustic Waves in a Stratified Atmosphere

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