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Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
SUPA Graduate School
Avril MannersDirector, SUPA Graduate School
www.supa.ac.uk
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
Graduate School Strategy
• To continue to seek and develop new possibilities for expanding the Graduate School, improving its quality and promoting it internationally.
• To explore mutually beneficial relationships with the graduate schools of other pools.
• To consider how best to lever the advanced undergraduate physics programmes in Scotland to benefit both postgraduate and undergraduate training.
• To develop a proposal for a framework to operate a multi-institution MSc programme.
• To develop more targeted transferable skills training for postgraduates, where possible leading to recognised credits/certification, eg for teaching via the Higher Education Academy.
• To organise annual discussion fora for students at each SUPA institution to ensure the Graduate School understands student needs.
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Progress against Plan (last AC)
QualityLecturer Handbook with Academic ProceduresStudent ForaFuture-proof the VC rooms
RelationshipsCross-pool Entrepreneurship TrainingShared IT and MSc model
MSc in Nuclear TechnologyIndustrial demandNuclear skills gap / Life extension of facilitiesCPD
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PhD Students 2011/12
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PhD Students by University
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PhD Students by Theme
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PhD 1st Years by University
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PhD 1st Years by Theme
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Induction and Courses
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Enrolments Semester I
Name EDI GLA HW StA STR UWS DUN AB Other TOTAL ThemeGravitational Wave Detection 1 9 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 13 AstronomyAdvanced Statistical Mechanics 11 0 1 4 1 0 1 3 0 21 CMMPComputational Chemistry 11 9 4 12 1 0 0 1 0 38 CMMPInteracting Electron Problem in Solids 8 1 4 34 2 0 0 0 0 49 CMMPLight Matter Interactions: Quantum Optics for Condensed Matter Physicists 1 0 9 4 0 0 1 0 0 15 CMMPExperimental Nanophysics 6 4 26 5 2 0 0 0 0 43 CMMPTheoretical Nanophysics 2 1 20 5 0 0 0 0 0 28 CMMPSolar Power 4 1 4 5 2 1 1 1 0 19 Energy ThemePlasma Physics 1 2 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 12 Nuclear and Plasma PhysicsQuarks and Hadron Spectroscopy 1 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 10 Nuclear and Plasma PhysicsAccelerators 4 7 0 0 7 1 0 0 4 23 Particle PhysicsDetectors 6 7 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 17 Particle PhysicsGroup Theory 9 14 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 28 Particle PhysicsRelativistic Quantum Field Theory 15 9 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 26 Particle PhysicsPhotonic Crystals & Plasmonics 0 1 5 3 0 0 3 0 0 12 PhotonicsSemiconductor Physics and Devices 0 1 1 5 9 0 1 0 0 17 PhotonicsSemiclassical Theory of Atom Light Interactions 0 1 3 0 16 0 3 0 0 23 PhotonicsC++/Object Oriented Programming 14 11 4 2 9 0 1 6 0 47 InterthemeIntroductory Data Analysis 16 8 2 3 3 3 5 1 0 41 InterthemeMaths Primer 9 4 6 7 5 0 3 1 0 35 InterthemeVacuum Technology 0 4 6 7 2 0 0 0 0 19 Interthemetotal enrolments 119 102 96 98 70 9 19 18 5 536 ~Astro - 21, CMMP - 35, NPP - 14, PP - 18, Phot - 46, PaLS - 16 Total - 150
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Enrolments Semester II
Name EDI GLA HW StA STR UWS DUN AB Other TOTAL ThemeAdvanced Cosmology 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 AstronomyAstrobiology and the Search for Life 9 4 0 3 2 0 3 1 0 22 AstronomyAstrophysical Plasmas 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 6 AstronomyGalaxies 4 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 8 AstronomyQuantum Phase Transitions 2 1 6 1 2 0 0 0 0 12 CMMPAdvanced Condensed Matter 6 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 13 CMMPCMDTC - Probes of Condensed Matter 3 5 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 16 CMMPCMDTC - Response Functions 3 1 3 4 0 0 0 1 0 12 CMMPQuantum Field Theory 6 4 4 30 0 0 0 1 0 45 CMMPSuperconductivity 11 0 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 24 CMMPLaser Driven Plasma Acceleration 0 3 1 0 5 0 0 0 1 10 NPPNuclear Instrumentation 3 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 10 NPPNuclear Reaction Theory and Nuclear Forces 2 2 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 10 NPPThe Nuclear Fuel Cycle 4 2 0 2 0 4 1 0 1 14 NPPCollider Physics 6 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12 Particle PhysicsDiscussion Classes 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 8 Particle PhysicsFlavour Physics 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 Particle PhysicsLattice QCD 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 Particle PhysicsModern Quantum Field Theory 16 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 20 Particle PhysicsThe Standard Model 11 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 Particle PhysicsOptical Control 0 3 7 2 4 0 4 0 0 20 PhotonicsQuantum Information 2 2 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 11 PhotonicsQuantum Optics 0 5 6 0 3 0 0 0 0 14 PhotonicsUltrafast Photonics 1 0 6 1 9 0 1 0 0 18 PhotonicsMathematical Modelling 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 8 Physics and Life SciencesAdvanced Data Analysis 27 30 3 9 12 1 2 2 1 87 InterthemePython 9 13 5 2 4 0 0 1 0 34 InterthemeShell Scripts 10 8 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 20 Intertheme
total enrolments 160 115 58 68 54 12 12 11 4 494 ~Astro - 21, CMMP - 35, NPP - 14, PP - 18, Phot - 46, PaLS - 16 Total - 150
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SUPA Prize Studentships
Year 2009 2010 2011 2012Number of completed applications
151 208 320 329
Conversion rate 44% 74% 76% 88%
2009 2010 2011 20120
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
Number of completed applications% Conversion rate
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Graduate School Partnerships
• Scottish CM-DTC – £6M 5 year project– 50 studentships
• INSPIRE – KE/PaLS/GS – £1.6M 3 year project – 14 industrial studentships
• IDC in Optics and Photonics – £5M 5 year project– 50 studentships
• CDTs – Application of Next
Generation Accelerators
– Magnetic Resonance• DTP (BBSRC)
– EastBio• Other Pools• University of Aberdeen
RCUK Catalyst award in Public Engagement
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MSc / CPD in Nuclear Technology
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Proceeding with caution
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Post Doctoral and Early Career Researcher Exchanges
• Put out a call via the SUPA mailing list• 12 applications (7PostDocs and 5PhDs)• Reviewed by the GSMC• 7 awards (6PostDocs and 1PhD)• £23940 of £25000 committed to date• 2 joint awards – 1 SINAPSE +1 ERP• Exchange projects – String Theory, MIT; Biomedicine
Acoustic tweezing, Pennsylvania State University; Critical timing fault isolation, DCG Systems California; PET, Cyclotron Research Centre, Liege Belgium; Silica/tantala coatings, Stanford; submm galaxies, Harvard- ‐Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; ZEPLIN instrumentation, Sanford Underground Laboratory
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Meetings, Summer Schools and Distinguished Visitors
• SUSSP67: Quantum Information & Coherence, SUSSP68: Laser-Plasma Interactions and Applications, SUSSP69: LHC Physics
• Intro Biology SS, Solar Energy SS, ADA, Entrepreneurship and Careers
• ATLAS UK Review Meeting, GW Bursts, Young PP Theorists Forum
• Brian Wilson, Ontario Cancer Institute; Dieter Mueller, Ruhr-University Bochum; Ilya Sheikin, CNRS; Joan Centrella, University of Maryland; William Briscoe, George Washington University
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IT Infrastructure
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Video Conferencing
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Expansion of the Graduate School
• Extend the SUPA GS into technical training encompassing other STEM areas
• Enhance the quality and efficiency of generic skills training and employability– GTA Training, Problem Solving, Innovation Academy,
Public Engagement, Industrial Engagement• Expand the Prize Studentship Competition• Extend DTCs (Autumn 2012 / Spring 2013)
– CM-DTC, IDC-Optics and Photonics– PaLS / Biophotonics, Quantum Optics
