Midlands Physics Alliance Graduate School
The Midlands Physics Alliance is a strategic alliance of the
- School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Birmingham
- School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Nottingham,
- Department of Physics of the University of Warwick.
The aim of the Alliance is to establish a co-ordinated research grouping and a joint Graduate School with the critical mass to compete with the top US and EU Universities. The Alliance is built on current high quality research in each of our departments (all RAE grade 5), and in 2007 has received initial funding from HEFCE of £4 million to develop the graduate school over the next five years.
www.mpags.ac.uk
The Midlands Physics Alliance Graduate School (MPAGS) provides a step change in the graduate experience for the 250-plus research students in our three departments, by offering a stimulating and thorough set of taught modules, initially covering the EPSRC area of our research. Teaching is provided via the Access Grid, enabling course sharing across the Alliance. This is complemented by bringing students together for thematic workshops and summer schools, as well as generic training to supplement the institutional courses.
MPAGS Timetable |
N.B. Warwick students should look here for details of modules available.
Contact:
Dr David Leadley
MPAGS Director
Priyanka Mishra (right) is one of two PhD students at the Warwick University Physics department to be awarded an MPAGS prize studentship.
Starting in October 2008, Priyanka will be working under the supervision of Dr Neil Wilson (left) in the Warwick Microscopy group, working on a project titled "Charge Transport in Transparent Carbon Electrodes". This project will study charge transport in systems composed of the one-dimensional allotrope carbon nanotubes and of the two-dimensional graphene, motivated in both cases by their application as thin film transparent electrodes for devices such as organic photovoltaics. This will use scanned probe microscopy to study charge transport within these film with the aim of understanding and optimising the interfaces within them, and between the carbon-based electrodes and organic semiconductors.
The 2nd MPAGs prize studentship for 2008 has been awarded to Pabitra Kumar Biswas, who will be working in the Warwick Superconductivity and Magnestism group.
