[staff-physics-and-astronomy-HL-UHD-UD] Please submit possible projects for the Physics Research Practicum in 2024

[Juan Rojo]

Dear all,

A few weeks ago, you received information (also via Teams) on the 
request of our IoP colleague Antoine Deblais (A.Deblais at uva.nl) to 
submit possible projects for the Physics Research Practicum in 2024.

See below for more information, and also the study guide:

https://studiegids.uva.nl/xmlpages/page/2023-2024/zoek-vak/vak/109642

Last year (January 2023) there we only two VU (LaserLab) projects, both 
from QMLA.

The situation for the next round (January 2024) is not particularly 
better. This is bad for the visibility of our research, specially since 
there are more than 100 students looking for projects, and opens many 
chances to attract students for BSc projects first and eventually for 
the master.

If you have the capability to supervise (via PhDs/PDs, typically), a 2nd 
year Research Practicum, please submit this information to Antoine 
Deblais as soon as possible.

Thanks a lot!

Best,
Juan


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If I'm reaching out to you, it's because you served as the Research 
Practicum contact for your institute last year, and now it's time for me 
to gather topics for the Research Practicum in 2024.

The timeline for 2024 is as follows:

Week 1 (Jan 8-12): Full-time week for group A+B.

Week 2 (Jan 15-19): Full-time week for group C+D.

Week 3 (Jan 22-26): Report writing and preparing oral presentations; a 
two-hour (mandatory) workgroup session on reporting (group A+B: Jan 23, 
group C+D: Jan 25); students should upload a preliminary version of 
their report before the workgroup. By the end of the week, please hand 
in an intermediate version of the report to the supervisor (deadline: 
Jan 30).

Week 4 (Jan 29-Feb 2): Oral presentations in the symposium (Feb. 1st). 
Continue report writing. Receive feedback from the supervisor on the 
intermediate version of the written report. Finalize the written report, 
incorporating the feedback (deadline for submission: Feb 9).



If you could come up with at least the same number of topics as last 
year, it would be fantastic (we need to accommodate ~115 students this 
year!). I attached the topics that you proposed last year (see the 
.xlsx); you can obviously stick to this list.



I kindly ask you to come back to me asap once you have discussed that 
internally.



Best wishes,



Antoine

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Dr. Antoine Deblais

Assistant Professor

Institute of Physics
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 904, Room C4.238
1098XH Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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Prof. Dr. Juan Rojo
Professor of Theoretical Physics
(Hoogleraar Theoretische Natuurkunde)
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU Amsterdam,
De Boelelaan 1081, 1081HV Amsterdam, and
Nikhef Theory Group, Science Park 105,
1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Webpage: http://www.juanrojo.com/
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E-mail: j.rojo at vu.nl
         j.rojo at nikhef.nl
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