Each year a small number of vacation projects are available to our students. For more information on the scheme please visit Vacation Projects in Physics

The CFSA is applies in February for scholarships directed at 3rd year undergraduates at Warwick who are pursuing a 4-year Physics or Maths-Physics degree. Those who may be interested in pursuing a PhD in plasma physics (fusion, solar physics, space physics) after their degree are particularly encouraged to apply.

Projects for Summer 2012

• Dynamics of solar prominences
  Anthony Shaw working with Dr. Claire Foullon (Warwick URSS, Physics)
• Instabilities in Solar Coronal Mass Ejections
  Stephanie Yardley working with Dr. Claire Foullon (RAS, Warwick URSS)
• Laser profile optimisation for shock ignition fusion power
  David Jenkins working with Prof. Tony Arber
• Structure in Warm Dense Matter
  John Ross working with Dr. Dirk Gericke
  

Projects for Summer 2009

• A virtual plasma wave laboratory
  working with Dr. Erwin Verwichte
• A systematic analysis of transverse loop oscillations in the corona of the Sun
  working with Dr. Erwin Verwichte

Projects for Summer 2008

• Including Quantum Mechanics into a Classical Description of Strongly Correlated Plasmas
  Matthew Pusey working with Dr. Dirk Gericke (Physics)
• Simulations and Phase Transitions in Fusion like Plasmas
  John Wallbank working with Dr. Dirk Gericke (Warwick URSS)

Projects for Summer 2007

• Toroidicity-induced Alfven waves in Fusion Plasmas
  Nicholas Darvell working with Dr. Erwin Verwichte (Warwick URSS)
• Development of a new Detection Technique in the Solar Corona
  Matthew Broome working with Dr. Tom Van Doorsselaere (Warwick URSS, Nuffield)
• Ionization of Atoms in Gases and Plasmas by Beam Ions
  Peter Hill working with Dr. Dirk Gericke (Warwick URSS)
• Composition of Dense Plasmas in Giant Gas Planets
  Tom Hampson working with Dr. Dirk Gericke (Physics)