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I’m glad the message finally came through and want to urge everyone to offer projects. </div>
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It’s a great opportunity to enhance the visibility of our research and last year we really didn’t offer sufficient projects at the VU.</div>
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<b>From: </b>_list_senior-staff-physics-and-astronomy-bounces <senior-staff-physics-and-astronomy-bounces@listserver.vu.nl> on behalf of Beta NAT Secretariaat <natsecr.beta@vu.nl><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 10 March 2026 at 15:05<br>
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<b>Subject: </b>[staff-physics-and-astronomy-HL-UHD-UD] VERY URGENT!!! First-year projects: include your project from last year?<br>
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<p class="WordSection1">Dear Amsterdam-based Physicist or Astronomer,</p>
<p class="WordSection1"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span><b>tl;dr:</b> Please submit your proposals for 1st year projects in June at the following link:</p>
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<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0dlEPOf8wkgaq2y" data-outlook-id="058be5cb-46be-4331-af6b-43d2ed51bf2f" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0dlEPOf8wkgaq2y</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Deadline: <b><s>March 9th eob</s> March 13 eob</b></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Joshua, Clara</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i><u>More information</u></i></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The UvA/VU Physics and Astronomy BSc program wants to
<b>make your experimental research activities more visible</b> in its program. You can help out! Help is much appreciated because we need to cater to 100+ students. Please make time and capacity available in your research lab to supervise groups of students
(3-5 students per group) in the month of June. </span></p>
<p class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">We use a survey form to collect your project data, among which:</span></p>
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<li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" role="presentation">Your name/email</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" role="presentation">Optional: intended (PhD/PD) supervisor name/email</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" role="presentation">Project Title</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" role="presentation">Project Description</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" role="presentation"># students per team </span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" role="presentation"># teams that you could host</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" role="presentation">Optional: upload a
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;" role="presentation">scientific (non-review) article</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" role="presentation"> that students use to prepare. We will need one later if you don’t provide
it now.</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" role="presentation">An indication of when the students should be in the lab (e.g. due to your absence for traveling etc).</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">Please keep in mind: The first-year students like freedom but also need more structure than you may realize. For the project, include: </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">(1) Expected working hours/days (usually 10-17h, total 80 hours lab time from June 2-20, work from home possible, etc) </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">(2) Project goal. Can be: explore open ended question, calibrate sample/machine, extract feature from data, etc. (more details below)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">(3) Supervision strategy: introductory meeting, periodic meetings, group meeting attendance, etc.</span></p>
<p class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;"><i>Project submission form:</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: blue;"><u><a href="https://uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0dlEPOf8wkgaq2y" data-outlook-id="165ca298-4e77-4ddf-ae70-b5aa0370c72e" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0dlEPOf8wkgaq2y</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">We use the same form as for Research Project. <b>The deadline for submission is March 9 eob</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i><u>Even more background and practical information:</u></i></span></p>
<p class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The students need to work about
<b>two weeks fulltime</b> in the lab total, to be distributed over the first three weeks of June. They will spend the remaining time on training on how to perform teamwork, Github use, poster presentation and video communication. Training on teamwork will be
provided by others. It is NOT needed to keep the entire team busy with lab work - they need to also read literature, make a poster, animation, do data analysis: dividing labor is a skill they need to learn as well.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">In our course, which will run in the month of June ‘24, we aim to train students in (1) the scientific skill of “ownership” (2) team work (3) scientific group attitude (4) poster presentation and (5) animation.
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Example animations from last year: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue;"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI0ymz1NAeSZ90UjZz_7EjM43v4whHfaD" target="_blank" data-outlook-id="ebb6ae3f-5819-4ae8-ac00-9678638fa855" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI0ymz1NAeSZ90UjZz_7EjM43v4whHfaD</a></u></span></p>
<p class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">There is considerable flexibility as to what the students should do. Students can:</span></p>
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<li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" role="presentation">Get confronted with a simple experiment and let them describe/rationalize observations.</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" role="presentation">Repeat experiment from a PhD student/postdoc at slightly different settings</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" role="presentation">Perform data analysis on a (new) data set with (new) code and perform some systematic study</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" role="presentation">Build a necessary component in a slightly different way</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;" role="presentation">Prepare a sample in a different way (if sample prep is reasonably involved)</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: yellow;" role="presentation">NEW: we also allow projects with more emphasis on data analysis. The students could do mostly coding/numerical work, but there should be a substantial lab experience
included.</span></li></ul>
<p class="WordSection1" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In all these tasks, the idea is to
<b>spark creativity, curiosity, ownership</b>. The project is best designed to have a fixed 1-3 day experimental part in the beginning to get going with the activity with something that you know will work. After this initial phase, the students are requested
to come up with a research question by themselves, guided by the supervisor. <b>
For examples of projects</b>, please see here:</span></p>
<p class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: blue;"><u><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5bltupdeidn2t84fjqfgl/Project_description_examples_appendices.pdf?rlkey=obegmktxgg9zpexk5jktpsrgp&dl=0" data-outlook-id="aaef53e1-9f61-4184-9913-c1f164fbfc36" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5bltupdeidn2t84fjqfgl/Project_description_examples_appendices.pdf?rlkey=obegmktxgg9zpexk5jktpsrgp&dl=0</a></u></span></p>
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<li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" role="presentation">Studying research literature (in April/May, before starting the project), </span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" role="presentation">Performing some (basic) experiment hosted by a research group in early June</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" role="presentation">Presenting the research work in a poster and short video in the last week of June (please save the Thursday if you would like to attend
the poster session).</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">If this sounds familiar: another approach to expose students to research is via the second year BSc “Research Practicum”, in which students get to interact for one week with a scientist and work on a suitable project.
<b>Our course comes before the “Research Practicum”</b> and you are encouraged to participate in both (with the same topic), as the learning goals for both courses differ substantially, and the same students will not be assigned to the same project. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Note: we have probed the students' interests in research topics with a new updated version of a booklet with very brief topic descriptions. We have grouped the research activities per topic and will so be able to use these preferences
to build the teams. Please find the 2026 booklet here:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;"><u><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o26cgp3y7gxydpup2vzoz/First-Year-Booklet-2026.pdf?rlkey=y4wfhspgstf2ieugy1ilrwqe5&dl=0" data-outlook-id="040cf758-11ba-4b4a-8bc0-35da864bd936" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o26cgp3y7gxydpup2vzoz/First-Year-Booklet-2026.pdf?rlkey=y4wfhspgstf2ieugy1ilrwqe5&dl=0</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Send us your feedback on Booklet if you have any. </span>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">We will make sure that your project gets assigned to students who have indicated interest in the topic of your project.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Any further questions can be sent to:</span></p>
<p class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="mailto:j.a.dijksman@uva.nl" data-outlook-id="008607df-4c54-40f1-ab66-24781e362a41" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">j.a.dijksman@uva.nl</a></u></span></p>
<p class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="mailto:c.nellist@uva.nl" data-outlook-id="2174d33d-6c35-4682-9690-026e75ce7c0e" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">c.nellist@uva.nl</a></u></span></p>
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